The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Party Life
Using ''Party Life"
Negro Organizations
Must Be Penetrated

EROM now on we must use
1 the columns of the Daily
Worker more for the purpose
of organizing the papers cir
culation campaign, in bring
ing forward the results and
experiences through which
the campaign will be stimulated.
This is true not only in regard to
the Daily Worker campaign. but in
all other organizational activities.
We have the Party Life column. We
must ask ourselves: Are we utilizing
this column, or others at our dis
posal to raise the organizational
problems. to make this column the
guide Of the daily organizational ac-
Invites, to bring forward the ex-
periences on recruiting, on the life
of the shop nuclei, fractions etc?
Here we have, besides the Party
Organizer, a powerful instrument at
our disposal which we do not utilize.
How many of the Section Organ
izers, Organization Secretaries, unit
organizers, etc. are writing for this
column, are getting others to write
for it? Very few. Most of the ma
terial has to be prepared in the
Center on the basis of reports and
letters of individual Party members.
This must be changed,
Into the Negro Organizations
The comrades here have spoken
about the necessity of making a
turn in our Negro work, of learn
ing from our experiences in the
trade union work. on how to con-
meet ourselves with the organized
masses While the influence of the
Party is increasing among the Ne
gro masses. yet organizationally
they are still detached from us. In
the United States there are five
million of the Negro population or
gsnized in fraternal organizations.
ten million in churches. The prob
lem of how to penetrate these or
CARNATIONS is of the utmost politi-
cal Importance. It is not only
political, but also an organizational
problem
United front conferences do not
give results, and cannot give re-
suits If their decisions are not
brought down into the branches of
these organizations. But in order
for decisions to go down, there must
be somebody down below to fight
for these decisions, and mobilize the
masses around these decisions.
Therefore, if we want to mobilize
the organized Negro masses, we
must have forces inside these or
CARNATIONS.
The street units; those that are
composed of Negro workers because
of the territory the units where
the percentage of Negro members
is high, must see to it that these
comrades join, or reioin the Negro
organizations. At the Y, c. L..
Bureau meeting one Of the young
comrades Zone of the young Negro
comrades) reported that he left
one of these organizations when
he came into the Y. G. L.. think
ing it was correct and that his
other friends are inclined to leave
in order to be able to join the
Y. c. L.
We must stop this. On the con-
trary We must see that Party mem
bers are sent into these organiza-
tons. 1t means that the units
while working in the neighborhood.
at the same time shall act as Party
Fractions inside these organizations
which have headquarters in the
same neighborhood. Along these
lines we will connect ourselves or
ganizationally with large Negro
masses, we will succeed in building
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights into a real mass organiza-
ton on the basis of affiliation. The
problem will be solved by going into
these organizations, working among
these masses from within.
From speech of Comrade F.
Brown at the last Central Com
mittee Plenum.)