The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Party Life
Local %, I.L.G.W.U.
Fraction Reports
On Party Recruiting

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WITH the beginning Of the re-
" cruiting drive, the Party frac-
ton in Local %, I. L. G. w. u, in
line with the decisions of the Cen
trail Committee, planned out its work
of how to recruit new members into
the Party and strengthen the frsc-
ton. A plan Of work was discussed
and adopted at fraction meeting.
TO what extent was this plan
carried out9 And what is the
response of the comrades in carry
ing out this plan? The following
will answer these questions.
An open fraction meeting was
held Nov II. Only Is non-Party
workers we're brought to this meet
ing, and only three joined the Party
at that meeting. This meeting
showed that no effort was made
on the part of the majority of
the comrades to bring non-Party
workers with them, nor to work suf-
ficiently among them to convince
them to join our ranks.
Through the fraction proper to
date only eight applications were
turned in to the District, and we
believe that not many more came
in through the sections. The re-
cruiting drive was on the order Of
business again at the fraction meet
ing held Dec. 5, the silence of the
comrades was very convincing that
very little was done. The report
from the shop units in dress shops
shows very little progress as far as
recruiting dresSmakers. GA report
from one dress unit is quite inter-
esting. They made up their quota
by recruiting six professionals into
the shop unit, but not dressmakers)
There is no dispute that the Party
has a large following among the
members of Local %. and with very
little effort we can increase our
shop units already in existence and
build new ones.
The question then Is why such
laxity on the part of the comrades.
We have 200 members in the frac-
ton, and the results are definitely
out of proportion to the strength of
the fraction.
This report is not written in a
sense Of pessimism. The facts are
stated with the purpose of bringing
them to the attention of the COM
rades, and with the assurance that
knowing the facts the comrades will
get on the job and rectify this i'm
permissible situation
The following things are required
from the comrades:
al To begin energetically the re-
cruiting of new members.
b. To report at once their ac-
tivities in recruiting new members.
c) To report in what shops
there are one, two or more COM
rades, so that we can get them
together and lay basis for new
units.
d. The Buros in the existing
shop units to start an immediate
drive in their shops to increase
the membership of their units.
Shop Unit Asks Help from Section
The Cleveland District asks that
the following letter from a shop
unit to its section and district be
printed in this column.
Section II.
Mckinney Shop Unit after thor
oughly discussing the activities of
the section in our shop has decided
to send this resolution to the Dis
trict, insisting.
THAT Section II Immediately
assign a street unit to concentrate
on the shop by:
a. Selling Daily Workers.
b, Distributing shop bulletin.
C. Visiting contacts and getting
contacts from the shop.
2-Insisting upon better relations
between section and unit.
We expect that the District will
take proper steps to see to it that
our request is carried through by
the section according to this letter
MCKINNEY SHOP UNIT.