The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
KRUMBEIN TELLS
OF C.. p. ADVANCE
In n. Y. DISTRICT


jectives of the working class. The
open class role Of the capitalist
state, nationally, as well as locally,
has made this easier the result
being that these workers whom we
have led in the struggle for their
day to day needs, have responded in
ever larger numbers to our political
campaigns. This can be seen by
the fact that 100000 responded to
our last May Day campaign and
demonstration; $4,000, a vast ma
jority Of whom were young work
ers, to our National Youth Day
demonstration; almost 100000 to
our two big anti-war, anti-fascist
actions Of August LIST and 4th, as
well as large numbers to our anti
Nazi, Free Thaehnan and the
Scottsboro-Herndon campaign, etc.
Progress Among Negroes
Great theological inroads have
been made among the Negro masses,
using the approach of the Scots
boro case, and developing this into
the general campaign of struggle
for Negro rights. Organizationally
we have not yet succeeded to any
great degree in winning the Negro
masses, which now remains one Of
our biggest tasks.
Our Party and sympathetic mass
organizations are continuously
growing and, with proper work on
our part, will grow with an even
faster tempo. Whereas our Party
in the New York district a year ago
had 1000 members, it now counts
over 1000 within its ranks. This is
not only important because it shows
a rs per cent increase, but is es-
pecially important because, as a re-
suit of concentration in basic in
dustries and shop work, the growth
Of the Party reflects to a consider
able extent inroads into the basic
industries and shops We are now
striving to make Communist fort
resses out of 1873 factories in our
district where our shop nuclei exist.
A year ago we had only 40 shop
nuclei. Forty-five of these nuclei
issue shop bulletins, with a total cir
culation larger than the circulation
Of our Daily Worker nationally.
Y. c. L. Activities
The Young Communist League
which up to a few years ago was ex-
tremely sectarian and isolated from
the young workers in this district,
has increased its membership in the
last year from 1000 to 1000. 1t is
still far too small indeed, but never
theless with proper attention by our
2" as well as the YCL itself,
we will be able to build the YCL
- an organization larger than the
7arty itself.
The sympathetic mass organiza-
tons, trade unions, fraternal organ
izations, anti-war, anti-fascist or
CARNATIONS, clubs, veterans organi-
cations, organizations of profession
ais, intellectuals, artists, ETC., have
grown apace, to the point where at
present they incorporate fully 1885,
900 members within their ranks.
A big problem still confronts us
in regards to the masses in these Or
CARNATIONS. They have been won
on one or another issue due to the
general rehabilitation existing
among the masses. Our big task is
to revolutionize these workers, to
make them understand the class
content of their struggles and Or
CARNATIONS, winning the most ad-
vanced into the ranks of the Party,
and raising the political level gen.
orally so that these masses will en-
gage in all phases of the revolu-
tionary class struggle.
Calls for Daily" Aid
The circulation of our press has
likewise increased, but at a slower
tempo than most of our other work.
The Daily Worker now has cir
culation in New York City of 10000,
with 10000 to 10000 on Saturdays
With the launching of the New York
Daily Worker on October 7th, which
will be able to give adequate space
to the life, struggles and aspirations
of the New York workers, we should
be able to build the circulation of
the paper into one of a mass char
acter. Our objective being to double
the circulation within month after
the issuance of the New York Daily
Worker, and then increasing it to
$4,000 within six months. With such
a circulation of the Daily Worker,
we will be a much greater factor in
the labor movement of New York.
With no signs of economic re-
covery, it must be clear to all that
the bosses and their government,
as well as their agents within the
ranks of the working class, will
make new attacks against the al
ready miserable conditions of the
masses. The masses will resist, as
we saw in the heroic textile strike.
With this perspective, it is clear
that our tasks become even greater.
To fulfill these tasks the building
of our Party becomes ever more i'm
portant. We must intensity our
| efforts in the current election cam
paign, bringing our program before
wider and wider sections of toilers.
We must build our Party to 10000
dues paying members by the time
the next anniversary of Lenin's
death, January 1st, comes around.
This is a relatively easy task if
every Party member will personally
approach his shop mate, his fell
low member in his mass organiza-
ton, his friends and neighbors,
talking to them, supplying them
with literature and finally asking
him or her to become member of
the Party.
Anti-F ascist Congress