The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
PARTY LIFE
Comrade Suggests Methods
Of Recruiting for Party
Knowledge Of Psychology and Selling Viii Help
Yin Workers to Communist Side

How to recruit members for the
Party is the burning question OF the
hour. II is a race between fascism
and Communism. The question is
which will come first ana it is up
to us to see that Communism comes
first. And we can learn some les
sons from the enemy, how they re-
cruit their members.
They are master statesmen and
students of psychology and play
upon the weaknesses and noble de-
Sires of humanity for their own
selfish ends. Psychology can be
used if properly understood, to win
recruits for Communism and the
Communist Party.
We can take that emotion of nate
which the capitalist class instills in
The minds of the American workers
against foreign Communists, etc, to
divert it instead against the CAPT.
talist system, against war, against
oppression.
We can take that emotion of love
which is played upon by the social
reforrners, the capitalist tools, the
preachers and Socialist misleaders
who formulate policy of class
collaboration with the capitalist
government and boss class, and
sublimate it instead into the chan
nels of class solidarity and love of
our fellow workmen. regardless Of
color, creed or religion
The necessary requirements for
building the Communist Party are
the following:
1. One must be class conscious.
Daily Worker conscious as well as
Party conscious. One must be a
salesman in the sense that you
must paint a rosy picture of Com
munist Society, as we'll as the inn
mediate gains the Communist Party
is fighting for. You must also paint
a dark picture of what will happen
if the Communist Party does not
increase its membership faster than
the reactionary forces and fascists
increase theirs.
2. That you protect your class
and economic interest by belonging
to the Party. You will improve
your social life as you come in con-
tact with the finest class of people
imaginable as we'll as help to pro-
tect the rights of freedom of speech,
press and assemblage. You can
fight oppression, discrimination and
postpone capitalist war through
joining the only workers party, the
Communist Party So if you don't
want war, if you want freedom, Sc
curity, happiness and the things
that make life worth while, join
the Communist Party,
Now the above remarks are an
example of what I say to the peo-
pie whom 1 try to recruit into the
Party. We have good thing to
sell There is big field for it.
People are miserable, unemployed
and looking for way out of their
misery. 1t is up to us to show them
a way out and at the same time
recruit them into the Party.
Anybody who has those three
qualifications, namely, class con-
seriousness, Daily Worker conscious
ness and Party consciousness, can
recruit at least 100 members a year
of whether he or she Is
a member of the Party or mass or
ganizations. They all can contact
members for the Party,
sign them up and invite them to
attend Party meetings and learn all
about what Communism stands for.
There was debate some time
ago on the subject of Fascism vs..
Communism between Hathaway and
Dennis. Dennis said that fascism
will come first because they will
play upon the weakness of human
nature. The middle class psychol-
ogy of these people, their knowl-
edge of human nature and the art
of salesmanship will sell that idea
to the people.
We can use some of these very
same tools to win over the people
to Communism if we only exert
ourselves and whornever we meet
not only try to win them over to
the idea of Communism, but get
them to join our Party, mass or
CARNATIONS and come to our lee
lures and social affairs.
Always carry dozen application
blanks with you both for the Party
and Y. G. l..
I manage to get at least 25 re-
cruits for the Party and Y. c. L.
every month, and this is how I DO
it: I always carry the Daily Worker
with me and I try to get into
conversation with every stranger I
meet and either talk about current
events, such as the danger of war,
or ask him whether he ever reads
the Daily Worker. I then proceed
to explain what the Daily Worker
stands for and how the government
uses it's armed forces to crush the
workers organizations. l finally