The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Party Lite
Increased Action
In Rural Districts
Urged in Letter


THE following letter has
L been sent to all the units
in the countryside by District
Nine, in order to activize the
Party members in the rural
districts. We are printing
this as an example to other
districts, as first tep in activizing
our farm membership:
Comrades:
1t is time that every Party mem
Der becomes an active Bolshevik.
We can no longer be passive and
watch events and opportunities go
by. The Communist movement will
not grow and the revolution will not
come with watchful waiting. Action
is the key to success.
You and the farmers around YOU
are in distress. The crying need is
for effectiv. struggle for feed relief
and for other relief. There can be
and will be no effective struggle I'M
less all Party members in the coun-
tryside will actively engage in or
ganizing and leading the struggle.
ITO the massesl" was Lenin's
slogan.
You must visit your nom Commu-
mist neighbors. Talk to them of the
feed and relief situation. Call to-
gether small house groups. Develop
these into local mass meetings.
Write % the District Office of the
Party or the state office of the
U.FL. for specific advice and assist
ance. Do something! Don't be dead
timber. Prepare for the State Re-
lief Conference.
When you go to your farmer
neighbors take along the Farmers
National Weekly and the Program
OF the U.F.L. How many of your
unit members read the Farmers Ma
tional Weekly regularly? How many
OF you have studied the Program of
the U-FL. so that you can explain
it to other farmers? It is only by
informing yourselves, through the
Weekly and otherwise, that you will
be able to educate your neighbors.
The Weekly has had subscrip-
ton drive and has started another
drive. Have each one of your unit
members made a serious effort to
get at least one subscription? Has
your unit made an effort to get ad-
verttSements for the Farmers Ma
tional Weekly, and greetings?
What have you done or what are
you doing to build the U.FL.?
Wherever there is a Party unit in
the countryside there must be a
local of the U.FL. or an active OPP
position group in some one of the
cid line farm organizations.
The District ONCE is getting out a
leaf1et in the name of the Party on
the feed relief situation. This leaf
let must secure wide circulation
among farmers. Send funds for the
printing ct once. And inform the
District Office on how many you can
distribute. This .equireS immediate
action. The leaflet will be a means
of bringing to the farmers the in
dependent role of the Communist
Party in the struggle for relief for
the farmers and in our struggle
against the Farmer Labor Party.
In many localities there will be
school and township elections in
the spring. The Party, locally,
must put forth its candidates and
its program in these local Elections
as means Of bringing Communism
and the Communist Party to the
farmers. Develop house to house
mass campaign with literature and
speakers.
Make your problems and your
difficulties known, and the District
will do the utmost to give you assist
ance in your elections and in your
other activities.
Once again we repatriation |!
This letter must be read at the next
and the next and the next unit
meeting; discussed and acted upon !;
and the activities reported regularly
to the District Office
District Buro District g.
Minnesota.
A New Members Impression
! AS a reader of the Daily" for a
n little over year I'd like to give
you some of my impressions.
At first 1 used to go to demonstra-
lions announced in the Daily"
/ These demonstrations taught me
that the working class is the most
potent of our society.
One month later I made applica-
! ton for membership in the C.P.
4 U.S.A At the time was a little
surprised, if not little disillusioned.
expected too much, believe. 1t
didn't take long to find out that
half of the members of my unit were
not longtime revolutionists, but raw
elements of the working class like
myself. My establishment vanished
completely and reading Party litera-
ture became my favorite pastime.
Also I feel that the slogan on to
a mass Communist Party is nearing
its fulfillment. Everywhere I have
contact with people 1 find that new
people take interest in our strug-
giles, people who find common
ground with Communists on its I'M
compromising struggle against War
and Fascism. Others join our UNI
employed organization, ready to
fight for higher relief and jobs. But
/ as sad. we are on our way to a
lmass Communist Party. Il. H.