The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Party Life
Worker in Small City
Wants One Organization
For All Purposes

W anus ONG Organization
For All Purposes
THE recent textile strike
l brings to US the import
ance of the small towns as
places to reach important
strata of workers. In the
small towns and small indus
trial cities we have the need
Of organizations that will cover the
needs Of the unemployed, defense,
relief and cultural work.
We would like TO have an organ
ization that would take in all the
functions. except that of the Party,
Young Communist League and
trade unions. We are all native
born here, so that the language
problem doesn't exist. Our organ
ization would base itself first on the
fight for unemployment and social
insurance and the struggles of the
unemployed It will have a de-
Tense committee that will have the
functions of the I. L. D. In time
of strikes, it will organize solidar-
ity and relief for the strikers; it
will organize a woman's auxiliary
as soon as practical; it will conduct
an open forum; it will conduct
classes in trade unionisn, history
Of the working class, and political
economy; it will have something
doing almost all the time, without
the confusion of a dozen names
and dozens of membership cards
AS for utilization, we can affiliate
as the situation warrants. We in
tend soon to affiliate with the Ma
tional Unemployment Council and
the International Labor Defense.
AS soon as our influence warrants,
we will ask for seats on the Central
Labor Union as fraternal delegates.
We are calling our organization the
Workers Protective Association.
l believe that the Organization
Commission of the Central Com
nittee should appoint a committee
to study the organizationa1 prob
lens of the small towns and cities,
N, S., Section Organizer,
Sec, u, Dist. Philadelphia).
Editors Note
YOUR intentions are good, COM
rades; but you should ask your
selves-Do you believe that through
building one organization that will
become everything, can you solve
your problemsp
If you ask yourselves-Do we
reach the majority of the toiling
masses in our town, or are the ma
jority of the workers of Lancaster
organized under our influence, then
you will come to the conclusion that
this is not the case You
know that the majority of the
workers are not yet ready to join
the Party, yet many may be inter-
ested in assisting the victims of
reaction and would like to organize
themselves into a branch of the
International Labor Defense.
We cannot build one organization
that one day will fight for relief
for the unemployed, the next day
will take over the tasks of the I. l..
D., still on another day take up the
struggles against war and fascism,
etc.
An Unemployment Council has
its own program and proper func-
ton, and so has an I. l.. D. branch.
What is the main task for the
Party in Lancaster?
l, To build the Party in the fac
tories (shop units.
2. To penetrate the American
Federation of Labor locals; lead the
struggle for workers democracy, for
rank and file leadership; to build
the opposition against the bureau
Gratis with the aim of Transforming
these unions, that are under the
control of the bureaucrats, into in
struments of serving the interests
of the working class.
2. To organize the masses of I'M
employed into the Unemployment
Council of Lancaster for the pur-
pose of winning the demands for
the unemployed; of strengthening
the struggle for the Workers Bill,
etc.
3. To build strong International
Labor Defense Branch. In this
connection you have a vasS field
As for building other organiza-
tons, it would be sufficient If you
wound take the initiative in build
ing, for example, a committee of
the American League Against War
and Fascisnl composed of represen-
tatives of the various working class
organizations (the Party, the A. F
| 0f 7, unions the r. n etc Ts