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   U.S. AGRICULTURE AND TASKS OF THE PARTY   373

experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union both before and after the October Revolution and the rich heritage of theoretical teachings left by Comrade Lenin.

     ORGANIZATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

   1. Every District Executive Committee to select at once an Agrarian Director, who shall, with DEC approval, draw in other comrades into a working committee. Preferably, but not necessarily, the Agrarian Director to be a farm wage worker or poor farmer but the committee in any case not to contain farmers exclusively. It is not the purpose, in selecting comrades to devote considerable time to agricultural work, to take those now occupied in working with the industrial proletariat, but to draw in new elements.
   (a) Selection by Section Committees and by Units when located in isolated towns in farming territory, of Agricultural Organizer, responsible for carrying out work in such territory.
   2. A persistent drive must be started to bring agricultural wage workers into the Party, the weight of work being placed to organize regular nuclei on highly capitalistic farms, in all this not neglecting the highly important work of bringing poor farmers into the Party.
   3. The Party fraction in the T.U.U.L. should at once propose the following tasks:
   (a) Formulation of a program of general demands for all agricultural wage workers in the name of the new Industrial Union; special programs for specially responsive or accessible categories of farm workers, the suggested categories: Dairy, Truck Gardening, Fruits and, in the South, Cotton and Tobacco.
   (b) The advance of initial organization material to enable the new Industrial Union to begin functioning.
   (c) Pressing upon local groups of the TUUL to obtain contacts and build organizations of the new Industrial Union.
   (d) Seeing that the revolutionary unions and industrial leagues of the TUUL admit by free transfer members of poor farmers' organizations who come into industry, and also to establish a bond of cultural and defense activities with poor farmers, most particularly in the South.
   4. The Party fraction in the American Negro Labor Congress should influence that organization to give attention to the Negro farming masses, assist in bringing Negro farm wage workers into the new Industrial Union, establish contacts and build the United Farmers' Educational League among poor Negro farmers. The