1. The method for reorganizing the Party in the Sections of the
Communist Party has been tersely put by stating “turn the face of
the Party to mass work.”
In the mass work are to be found the political problems which are
facing the workers. There will be found the material which will
make possible the “all-sided political exposures” which are a
necessary prerequisite to good Party-Mass work.
2. In order to accomplish a reorientation of the party in Whatcom
County, it is necessary that Party Units be organized in the most
natural manner possible at the present time.
This can be done by neighborhood groupings, consequently it
will be the policy here to organize the Party on the basis
of geographical position. But this will not do away with the
orientation to other forms of organization, that is the shop unit,
and fractions.
3. The Unit meetings should be at regular times at regular places
for the present until the units are closer knit together. But for
this policy to be a success, the meetings must be kept secret.
Loose talk about unit meetings in the presence of other persons
must stop.
4. Each week the Section Committee will discuss the most important
political problem before the Section and will issue material which
will serve to bring written discussion before the membership and
point out the Party line on each question.
5. At each Unit meeting some leading comrade should lead the
discussion--that is, bring the report from the Section, open up
the subject similar to what was done in the Section Buro.
6. The discussion in the Unit should be organized in such manner
that each member of the Unit will participate, raising such
problems as suggest themselves to him.
7. The Unit organizer should sum up the discussion at the close.
(This is not ironclad. It may sometimes be better for the comrade
from the Section Buro or Section Committee to make the summary.
The main thing is that a summary is made in which the Party
Line is again made clear. This will fix the Party line in each
comrade’s mind so as to last.
“The Communist’s ideal should be a tribune of the people, able
to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no
matter where it takes place, no matter what stratum of class of
the people it affects. He must explain the historical role of the
Proletariat” (Lenin).