"Party Building In The Northwest" - 1938 Party Organizer Pamphlet - Issued by Central Committee, Communist Party, USA
"PARTY BUILDING IN THE NORTHWEST by Louis Sass, Organization Secretary, Northwest District In the Northwest the objective political conditions for the building of a mass Communist Party are extremely favorable. The struggle against reaction in Washington and Oregon has attracted large sections of the population to the progressive movement. The Washington Commonwealth Federation is broadening out more and more to include organizations and people holding various views on some political questions, but united on the immediate objective of defeating reaction and preserving and extending the much-curtailed democratic rights of the people. Labor rackateering, complete lack of democracy in unions dominated by the notorious Dave Beck, have created a genuine desire on the part of the majority of the members of the A.F.L. to do away with these practices and unite with the C.I.O. to represent a solid labor front against the lumber barons and Chamber of Commerce. The growth of the...