The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Party Lite
party Organizer"
Helps Solve Many
Burning Problems
By REBECCA GRECzT

! The December issue Of the Party
l Organizer" should be read by
every Party worker. At all times
the Party Organizer" is valuable
in guiding the work of the leading
committees in districts and sections,
of unit bureaus, fractions in mass
organizations. 1t is especially use
full in supplementing the personal
direction of the higher to the lower
] bodies, Of the leading committees
to the Party membership, individu-
ally and collectively. It helps to
develop the initiative of the basic
Party organization-the units, to
make them more self-reliant in the
organizational application and exc
cution Of the Party policies. Provid-
ing a medium for the exchange of
experiences of the Party in the vari-
GUS districts and sections, industries,
spheres of mass work, the Party
Organizer" contains several articles
on the recruiting drive which dis
cuSs the present status of the drive,
and methods of overcoming some
of its weaknesses. The editorial by
F. Brown discusses the direct re-
sponsibility of the leading commit
tees in supervising the drive and
give concrete directives on the next
steps. Concrete experiences, par
ticularly on building the Party in
the course of mass work, are dealt
with in the articles by the organi-
cation secretaries of the Pittsburgh
and Cleveland concentration dis
tricts Especially significant are the
experiences in the Pittsburgh dis
trict coal fields, where definite sue
cesses are being won in building the
left wing in the miners union, and
where our comrades are learning
that to carry on mass work with
out at the same time building the
Party and the Y. G. L., developing
a solid Communist core among the
masses, is ike building a house on
sand-it is in constant danger of
collapse.
How the Party can grow in the
course of struggle is described also
in an instructive article on the or
ganization of a shop nucleus dur
ing shipyard strike in Staten
Island, New York, where personal
contact and the leadership our
Party gave these workers in their
fight, brought militant workers into
our ranks.
To strengthen the recruiting drive
Throughout the Party, our comrades
should acquaint themselves, through
the Party Organizer" with these
experiences in recruiting, in build
ing shop nuclei. The new offensive
and antilabor drive of monopoly
capital now planned against the
masses with the full cooperation of
the Roosevelt administration, de-
mands of us that no time shall
be lost in establishing closer bonds
with the masses in the factories, the
trade unions, the unemployed and
other organizations of toilers. This
demands that we intensity all our
efforts to build the Party so that
we may lead the masses effectively
in the struggle against fascism and
war, for unity of the working class
in the struggle against the capitalist
offensive.
The agit-prop section of the
Party Organizer" new feature,
makes the publication doubly valu-
able as a guide in the execution of
our tasks. There has been evident
throughout the Party certain ne
glect of agit-prop work. Especially
in this field of our activity we are
confronted with lack of forces and
weakness in cardres due, in part,
to a lack of understanding, and an
underestimation of the role of agita-
ton and propaganda in the revolu-
tionary movement.
Yet, especially today, the neces-
sity of deepening the class con-
seriousness of the workers and rails
ing it to higher political levels, at
the same time strengthening the
ranks of our Party ideologically so
that we may be better equipped to
lead the masses. makes imperative
a broadening and intensiflcation OF
all our agitation and propaganda
activities.
The agit-prop section in the
Party Organizer" will aid to clarity
the meaning of agit-prop work, will
bring forward effective methods of
mass agitation, of Party and work
ing class revolutionary political ed
uca&ion. 1t will undoubtedly help to
give agit-prop work its proper place
in our activities and campaigns, and
assist in developing agt-prop cadres
organically connected with the mass
work of our Party.
Hence the Importance of the arti-
Gle by v. j. Jerome on the Plan
of PREPARATION of the National Agit-
Prop Conference. 1t discusses the
agenda of the conference, raises the
Questions of developing mass agita-
ton, inner Party education and gen
eral workers education, the role of
our press and literature, etc. 1t thus
lays the basis for much needed
discussion in the districts, sections,
and units which will lead to a
strengthening of agit-prop work all
along the line,
There is an excellent article on
shop papers in a concentration Sec
ton in the New York District, giving
fine analysis of the role of the
paper, the character of its contents,
the relation of political to economic