The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Recruit Into the Party the
Best Strikers and PicketerS
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY. U. S. A.

EAh11, u y. A.
THE Central Committee calls upon all
Party organizations and every Party
member to carry through an intensified
recruiting drive to last from Oct. l to
Nov T.
The Central Committee desires to place
before the Party membership in all seri-
business the following two facts: % A growing and
widening radicalization of the masses, as shown
BY the recent strike struggle and in the present
textile strike, in which observe an increasing
urge of the more advanced workers toward cur
Party and (2) sIackening in the growth of our
Party membership. This is an impossible situation.
1t is contradiction which is explained chiefly by
the sackening of the recruiting efforts Of Party
organizations and of our membership. It is eX-
planned also by the prevailing incorrect methods
of Party recruiting.
The present recruiting drive aims to bring about
radical turn in the habits and methods Of re-
cruiting new members into the Party
-he growing rehabilitation Of the masses is
fact What is even more important is the widening
response Of the masses to Communist Party slo-
CANS and methods of struggle. This expresses it
self particularly in the widened mass response of
our Partys struggle for the united front These
are undeniable facts.
The meaning Of these facts is that there exists
ship. The recent mass struggles, in which
Communists and the Party have played and
are playing an organizing and leading role have not
only served to raise the class consciousness of large
numbers Of workers, but have also brought forward
from out Of the ranks of the striking masses con-
siderable numbers of new, active, militant work
jng-class leaders These are candidates for our
Party. These are the workers who need the Party
and whom the Party needs in its ranks. On every
picket ne in every flying squadron there are large
numbers OF candidates for the Party. There are
candidates for our Party among the leading ele
ments in the Negro liberation struggles, among the
active workers in the unemployed movement,
among the farmer miiitants and in the anti-war
movement.
All that has to be done is to approach them
with the Communist program, with the Bolshevik
conception of d working class Party and its role
In the class struggle. All that needs to be done
is to systematically work with these advanced
workers with the view of bringing them into the
Party. We must also utilize the election campaign
for this purpose
The Central Committee proposes to concentrate
in this recruiting drive for bringing these working
class militant5 into the Communist Party In order
to achieve this aim, We must adopt the correct
methods of recruiting. The fundamental principle
of correct methods Of recruiting is personal recruit
ing. Every Party member has many working class
frten1s in the shop in the union, and other mass
organizations, ana among his neighbors. Party
members must make it their first task to recruit
into the Party from among their shopmates their
comrades on the picket line, their co-members in
the union, etc. Not ell of these friends are ma
ture i'll the same degree for Party membership
at once. 1t is the task of our Party membership
in carrying on personal recruiting to concentrate
on the more advanced and more mature clements
at the same time developing recruiting activity and
propaganda for our Party among the less advanced
p1o TJ,fc bo
recruiting in the present drive for new members.
The chief responsibility for seeing to it that
every Party member engages in systematic personal
recruiting lies upon the Party nucleus Every Party
nucleus in preparing for the recruiting drive will
take Up the question Of how best to organize this
campaign. The Party units will discuss collectively
on the basis Of reports from each Party member in
the unit the prospects and candidates for Party
membership. The Party unit will supervise and
direct this recruiting in the course of the present
drive. The Central Committee is convinced that