The Potters Herald

Communist Party
Launch Campaign

New York (LPA) — With the Wallace-for-President campaign over, the Communist party launched this week a campaign to recruit members into the CP itself. While more and more trade unions are moving against Communist influence within their ranks, the Soviet-guided party has announced that it will concentrate upon adding 5000 industrial workers to its membership.

Instructions have been sent to leading Communists throughout the country to get the membership drive underway at once, the Daily Worker, official CP organ, revealed last week.

"Of course new difficulties exist and redbaiting has infected some workers," the Daily Worker conceded. "But," it added, "today's intensified attacks upon the workers are multiplying the numbers of those whose own experience is teaching them that our party program is correct, and is arousing their response to our call to struggle."

"No attacks," the DW claims "can prevent the growth of our party, if we work correctly."

The party's goal, it says, is "to curb and defeat the Wall Street warmongers and pro-fascists." Industrial workers are beginning to understand, the CP asserts, that "capitalism is bankrupt and less able to meet their demands with anything but violence."

Simultaneously with the drive for increased membership will go the reconstruction of the net-work of Communist-led "fronts," the DW makes clear. "Millions of workers not yet ready to join our party can be organized to join in united front actions and to work with Communists in defense of their most immediate interests," the official Communist daily hopes.