The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Party Life
Party Unit Reviews
Shortcomings And
Maps Future Work

Shortcomings And
Maps Future Work
OUR unit, last year, which
" was Unit 5, Section l,
District 2, in reviewing its
work has come to the conclu-
sion that the basic shortcom-
ings of the unit are:
1. The unit had not estab-
lished itself as leader on the block
Of concentration.
2, The unit had not done suffi-
cient recruiting.
3. The unit had failed to carry
on real organizational work among
the unemployed.
Today when analyzing our work
for the past six months, we must
admit that we have not yet com
pletely overcome these shortcom-
ings. In the first point, while the
Communists have increased their
prestige and individual members of
this unit are known in the neigh
borhood, the unit, as a unit of the
Communist Party, is virtually I'M
known. On recruiting, we have in
this period brought fifteen members
into the Party.
WHERE we were weakest in our
W work in the past, we have made
the most progress today. Here we
refer to the work among the unem-
ployed. The Tompkins Square Lo-
cal, due largely to the work of this
unit, has today a stable member
ship.
IN the Daily Worker, we have OBJ
v tanned thirty-five subscriptions.
We raised almost 5000 during the
financial drive, and up until the
end of November our daily sales
we're good. Since this time, how
ever, our work has failed
Our work during the election
campaign was particularly good. We
distributed and sold a large amount
of both agitational and theoretical
literature; we held as many as
three open air meetings a week, and
did some canvassing. During the
election period our sales of the
Daily Worker reached the peak of
twenty-five daily. Our main short
comings in this campaign were.
/. We did not issue either leaflet
or a street paper; 2. We did not
carry on regular, systematic can
wasting.
In the struggle against war and
fascism, we held weekly street
meetings for the release of Ernst
Thaelmann and We participated in
the building of branch of the
American League.
In preparation for the National
Congress for Social and Unemploy-
ment Insurance, we held mass
meeting to support the Congress,
and in this campaign we issued one
of the two leaflets that we got out
the whole six months.
Our unit, we feel, has done we'll
in an important phase of Commu-
mist work-the training of csdres.
The division of the unit is possible
only because we have developed
new members able to fill the duties
of unit functionaries.
IN the basis of our past work and
v in order that the units may be
better able to carry out their tasks
as leaders of the working class, we
propose the following plan of work
for the next three months, from
Feb. to April 30:
/. The immediate establishment
of functioning groups in the units.
2. To have regular reports from
comrades active in trade unions
and mass organizations
8. To approach all clubs, social
and political, in our territory for
action on H. R. 1927.
4. To build mass organization
for the protection of the foreign
born.
5. To cooperate with the Young
G m m n S League toward
strengthening the youth section OF
the Tompkins Square Local of the
Unemployment Council
s. To build the women's aux
iliary Of the local,
7. Each unit is to issue at least
one leaf1et each month.
8. The units together are to Is
sue a street paper each month
9. The units are to have social
ist competition on recruiting, the
quota to be ten new members, as
signed to a unit.
10. The units to have Socialist
competition on the Daily Worker
sales, the quota for each unit to b.
fifteen regular readers.