COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT FIFTEEN MILLION CRUZEIROS - BAHIA STATE PLAN

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INFORMATION REPORT
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Communist Campaign to Collect Fifteen
Million Cruzeiros - Bahia State Plan
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
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Set out below is a translation of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) plan
for the State of Bahia in connection with the campaign to raise fifteen
million oruzeiros. This plan is almost the same as that for each state in
the countryp the only difference being in the amount of the quota and the
names of localities within the state. This document not only throws
considerable light on the methods of the Party in carrying out this important
fund-raising drive but also provides current information on many other points
of interest concerning the party,
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON
State Plan for khia
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A. The principal objective of the campaign on behalf of the popular press
is the reappearance of the Party new.paper.J the following are specific
objectives in the State of Sahiar
1. Re-equip 2 Momenta by purchasing a press and an additional linotype.
2. Increase the circulation of Pro l? ., yvsa Qps se
O eraria, Damocracia Popular an _ mho by "- o ing e
present sales oreach.
3. Strengthen the financial work of the Party in the following way.i
a. Regularize the collection of monthly dues,
b. Broaden the high-level circles and create circles on a bass
level in the proportion of at least three "friends" for each
member.
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c. Improve the connections between finance groups and create
connections where they do not exist.
d. Organize finances on the lower levels, by insuring the
regular collection of monthly dues and the creation of a circle
of friends (see a. and b.).
Organize during the campaign a permanent means of financial
assistance, by installing the "Sociedade de Ajuda a Imprensa
Popular" (Society for Aid to the Popular Press - SAIP), with a
thousand members distributed throughout the capital and the
principal cities of the state.
5. Pay all the debts of the publications listed in 2. above, and
collect all debts owed by distributors of 0 Mom.ento.
6. Raise the sum of Cr4 961,000 for the State Committee for the
following purposes.
a. To re-equip the press offices directly oonneoted with the
State committee.
b, To guarantee the functioning, maintenance, and security
of the state committee,
as To hel in the following two oonstruota.on tasks of the
state Committees
(1) To recruit students
(2) To furnish funds for the functioning of the Cadre
'School and of the courses.
II. Duration of the Campaign
A. The phase of preparation - July and August 1953.
B. The phase of execution - September through November 1953.
III. Quotas
A. In the State of Bahia the campaign will be launched with an announced
quota of one million cruzeiros, to be distributed as followat
1.
Amount to be turned over to the State Committee
Cr$ 300,000
2.
Normal expenses of the State Committee during the
three months of the campaign (see line 6., b. of 1)
300,000
3.
Payment of the debts of the enterprises (see line
5. of I)
Lei, 000
L.
Extraordinary receipts of the State Committee
planned during the functioning of the campaign
courses, re-equipping, etc. (see lines 6., as and c. Of
320,000
I)
Total Cr* 961,000
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B. The quotas to be raised for the State Committee will be divided into
four groups as follower
GROUP A
1.- Salvador 500,000.00
2;- Ilheus 100,000.00
3.- Itabuna 100, C OSO.00
14 - Fairs. 35,000.00
5 - Joazeiro 35,000.00
6 - Conquista 30,000.00
7 - Cachoeira 20,000.00
TOTAL Cr$ 820,000.00
GROUP - C
1 - Jequie 7,000.00
2 - Ipira 6,000.00
3 - Itaberaba 5,000.00
4 - Bonf im 14, 000.00
5 - Itambe 1,000.00
6 - Itatiuba 2,000.00
7 - Brumado 1,000.00
8 - Cacule 500.00
9 - Serrinha 500.00
1 - Alagoinhas 10,000.00
2.- Santo Amaro 10,000.00
3 - Catu 10,000.00
4 - Canavieirae 10,000.00
5 - Nazare 10,000.00
6 - Itapetinga 10,000.00
7 - Paramirim 8,000.00
8 - Jacobina 8,000.00
9 - Irara 81000,00
TOTAL Cr$ 81,000.00
GROUP - D
1 - Base n,1
2 - Base n.2
3 - Base n.3
4 - Base n.4
5 - Base n.5
6 - Base n.6
10,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
3,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
TOTAL Cr$ 27,000.00
TOTAL Cr,$ 30,000.00
1. The above quotas are to be raised and turned over to the State
Committee, by remittance methods to be arranged later.
2. Each municipality will establish its own quota around which it
will make its propaganda. This quota will represent the total
of the following amounts (the municipality of Alagoinhas is
used here as an example)$
as Quota to be turned over to the State Committee in accordance
with the above figures.
b. Amount to be used to pay debts of the enterprises (Problemas
Voz 0 eraria, Classe 0 eraria, Democracia Popular, and 0
Women o .
c. The sum necessary to meet extraordinary expenses of the
Municipal Committee (contests., propaganda, newspapers, etc.).
For examples
(1) Quota to be turned over to the State
Committee -
(2) Payment of the debts of the enter-
prises:
Problemas. Cr; 150.00
Voz Operaria 250.00
C~ asee eraria 180.00
0 Momento 210.00
Cr4 10,000
Total 1,090
(3) Expenses of the Municipal Committee
during the three months of the campaign 3.,000
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(!) Extraordinary expenses of the Municipal
Committee during the three months of
the campaign (contests, newspapers, etc.) 1,500
Total Cr.$ 15,590
d. Thus Alagoir has will be able to adopt the
quota of Cry 18,0009
3. It is the immediate reponsibility of the municipal secretariat
during the three months of the campaign to remit weekly to the
State Committee, using the address arranged (or, in case that
is not possible, by sending to 0 Momento), at least 80A of the
amount which is being collected, as s collected.
4. The Municipal Committees should proceed in the same manner in
relation to the cells, in such a way that all the committees have
their own quotas, The quotas should be processed in accordance
with percentages established for the immediately superior Party
echelon.
5. Within each group and each echelon, where there is one, there
should be established an individual quota for each member active
in the campaign,
a. Monthly dues for three months,
b. Contributions of friends for a period of three months,
c. Extraordinary quotas (checks and cash).
In the totals of the quotas to be raised by the municipalities
are included the normal quotas, which, as soon as the campaign
is terminated, should be re-established after a necessary
readjustment.
7. The Municipal Committees of the Party should not assign quotas
to the organizations of the Communist Youth, since it has its
own parallel organization. It receives quotas directly from
the National Committee of the Communist Youth, to be turned
over to the National Committee of tke Party.
8. The Municipal Finance Committees or treasurers should remit
their municipal plans for the campaign by 15 August to the State
Finance Committee. Such plans may be formulated along the
general lines of the State Plan for the campaign; however, besides
specific local aspects they should. consist of at least the
following:
a. Quota to be raised (in accordance with the State Plan).
b. Normal expenses of the State Committee during the three
months of the campaign.
c. The amount destined to the payment of debts of the
publications.
d. Extraordinary receipts planned for the operruion of the
campaign and the announced quota for thy, municipality,
9. In the cells the quotas will be established in accordance with
the above outline, provided, however, that the debts of the
publications may be paid with their own quotas.
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IV. Organization
A. Legal Fronts
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1. The campaign will be directed throughout the state by a large
legal commission, this commission to be composed of prominent
personalities and strengthened politically by Party members.
The state pro-popular press commission will include representatives
of the democratic press and of the assistance movement.
2. The minimum number of members of this commission will be ten,
including a president, secretary-general, director of
propaganda, director of initiative, and treasurer.
3. In each municipality a municipal pro-popular press commission
should be organized and should be large, public, and legal,
composed of at least seven members, with the same posts as in
the state commission.
!. In small local districts and working places the practical tasks
of the campaign should be accomplished by legal pro-popular press
commissions made up of from three to seven persons. These
commissions will be controlled by the cells of the Party, and each
will be made up of one or two members, sympathizers, and persons
from the masses. Such commissions will endeavor to organize new
legal pro-popular press commissions, which.will remain under the
control of the commissions which formed them. Those persons in
liaison between the cells and the commissions will be presented C
to the commissions as emissaries of the municipal pro-popular
press commission. These commissions, after the campaign, will be
transformed into permanent segments of the movement of aid to
the popular press and will constitute the nuclei of the SHIP.
These legal commissions of the basic level may be connected
directly with the state or municipal pro-popular press commission.
B. Political Direction and Operations of the Campaign
1. The political direction and effective responsibility for the
achievement of victory in the campaign rests from top to bottom
with the secretariats of the Party operating through the
financial committees and treasurers.
2. The partisan fraction in the legal pro-popular press commissions
will be attended and controlled by persons named by the
secretariat. Preference should be given to members of finance
committees.
3. In Salvador, the capital, there will be a single command; that is,
the state group will assume the direction of the campaign in
Salvador and an the state. In the capital, one pro-popular
press commission will suffice. The members of this commission
will remain under the control and direction of the secretariat,
operating through the State Finance Committee,
In the municipalities, command will be effected by means of the
attendance of the secretariats at meetings of the pro-popular
press commissions, through the intermediary of the Municipal
Finance Committees or treasurers.
V. Propaganda
A. The central purpose of all propaganda concerning the campaign should
be the reappearance of the newspapers of the people?
1. The campaign shoul d be launched simultaneously n all
mu nioipal.ities in which there already are organized municipal
campaign commissions. The announcement of the pin will be
made on 15 August, and it will commenoe on I September.
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2. On 1 September the Prestes' document will be published in a
special edition of U Momento in support of the campaign.
There must be solid daily propaganda in the press, on the
radio and over loudspeakers., wherever they may be. 0 Momento
should publish in every issue a column dedicated to the
campaign.
14. State propaganda should march parallel with. local propaganda.
The t t
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os n ena ,ve propagand4 should be made in each
municipality,, as well as in each groups commission, or place
of work, by means of handbills, slogans painted on walla,
letters, posters, banners, stamps, postal cards, stickers
for match boxes, lectures, and visits. propaganda should
cover a whole area within a predetermined time.
0 Memento should interview prominent personalities.
In order that the propaganda and contests of the campaign
may be kept alive, it is necessary that the municipal
commissions send regularly, at least once a week, information
and data to the :,tats- commission. The pre-arranged address
should be used for this or also the address of 0 M
Local commissions will act in an identical manner in re
eoati=
to municipal, commissions.
7. The state commission will receive posters or pennants, as
well as propaganda, from the national commission, and will
distribute them to the municipal commissions, which in turn
will distribute them to the neighborhoods and working places.
8. Each pro-popular press commission should organize a propaganda
unit. In municipalities these units should be made up of
from one to three persons. Thus, there should be a radio or
lyoud-speaker bureau, press bureau, and propaganda bureaus
of other types. These propaganda units will be charged with the
sending of information to the propaganda bureau, of the next
highest group or else directly to 0 Momento.
VI. A. To maintain the unity of the campaign the state commission will
utilize the following materials of the National Commission.
1, Automobile raffle - each ticket will cost Cr4 20.. 3,000
tickets will be distributed in groups A and B.
2. Coins made of bronze, silver, and gold, with likenesses of
the great Stalin. The state commission will send them to the
municipal commissions, upon request, at cost price.
3. Bronze medallions with a likeness of Stalin alto will be
distributed as above.
14. Album of the life of Prestes. The state commission will furnish
copies of the album at cost price in deluxe ed:Ltions. These may
be sold at prices to be set on the basis of rivalries.
5. Checks. These checks will be printed in the values of 1, 2, 5,
10, 20, 50, 100, and 500 cruzeiros, with slogans referring to
the democratic press., the defense of peace, public liberties,
and national independence. These checks will be distributed
in sets, and each municipality will receive checks in the amount
of a third of its financial quota.
6. Proms s and the Works of Stalin. These are considered to be
means of raising move -for thth cee mpaign, because of their
theoretical importance. These materials will be sold during the
campaign in "tied packages", with paper wrappers or special
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display cards alluding to the campaign.
7. Special Sunday editions of Voz 0 eraria should be printed, as well
as special editions of Tribune D_o ul. At least nine such editions
should be published during the three months of the campaign.
8. Autograph books. The state commission will furnish upon request books
autographed by Party leaders and writers.
9, The state commission will distribute materials to the municipalities
on its own initiative, The municipal commissions should do the same
with respect to commissions in neighborhoods and working places.
Methods of Work
A. The campaign on behalf of the popular press should be made into a great
campaign of the masses. ,very form of financing should be used, always
keeping in view the participation of the broadest masses of our people.
The masses should be brought to feel and understand the decisive role
of the popular press and the struggles'for their most keenly felt
grievances, in the struggles for peace, democratic liberties, and national
independence,
1. In order to broaden the maximum number of activities of the
campaign it is necessary to win over all of the Party for the
campaign, above anything else. Each Party unit should plan and
discuss the details of its activity during the three months of
the campaign in order than
as No member may be left without an individual quota and specific
tasks during the three months of the campaign, and
b. Every circle member, sympathizer, contributor, or "organized
friend" must become an activist of the campaign and have hie
own individual quota and tasks for the three months.
2. The campaign should constitute a true best of the combining
of legal and illegal work. All of the Party should be thrown into
the work of finances of the masses.
3. The commission should try to concentrate its efforts throughout
the state as foll
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ows,
n descending order of importances
lot - Salvador
2nd - Iiheus, Italbuna, 'eira
3rd - Juazeiro, Gor4,uista, Oaohoeira, Alagoinh"s, and Santo Amaro
The five following devices should merit partioular attention in
the planning of activities during the campaigns visits, individual
quotas, contests, internal bulletins, and the convincing of present
circle members to augment their contributions
All
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of this has
the purpose not only of broadening the membership of the Party
in the higher levels but also of organizing commissions of
assistance to the popular press and raising the greatest number
of persons to participate in an organized and effective manner,
5. Visits. All the groups, legal commissions, and Party units should
organize plans for visits, without any restriction. All echelons
should form teams of visitors and get up lists of people to be
visited. Each team should be specially equipped to explain the
purposes for which the money is needed, in order to transform
the person visited into a permanent contributor, These visits,
principally on the higher levels, are the means of raising the
greatest sum of money.
6. Individual Quotas. These are of great importance for the success
of the campaign. Let no active member be without an individual
quota.
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7. Contests. Everything should be based on contests contests
between commissions; contests between members; contests to see
who can collect his quota first, who can triple his quota, who
can sell the most newspapers, wAo can place the most posters;
which commission can hold the most lectures in factories or
lecture halls, etc. All contests should offer prizes, wnioh should
be awarded promptly. (A suggestions the two or three lowest-
placed in the contest might pay for the prize of the first-placed
winner.)
5. Internal Bulletins. In any place where there is a contest -
and this should be in all eeckovs of the Party and pro-popular
press commissions - a bulletin of one half or one typewritten
page or manuscript should be printed with the partial results of
the campaign. These bulletins should take the place of - or
supplement the work of - democratic newspapers in stimulating
interest in the contests. They should publish facts of interest
for the sector to which they are destined and should be weekly
or semi-monthly. They should publish results of contests, the
position of the group they represent In relation to other
groups, give small notices about the campaign, and transmit
political orders.
9. Increasing the Contributions. Each group, without losing sight
of its activities with respect to the masses, should study
the situation of all of its contributors individually, examining the
possibilities of asking for an increase jai the contributions.
Initially it will ue enough for the collector to make the appeal.
Later, pairs may be organized to argue with the most difficult
oases. The campaign should be taken advantage of to gain
new contributors and to organize this work, which should proceed
systematically after the campaign.
10. Meetings and debates - one of the most diversified types, having
in view the raising of means for the campaigns
a. Explanations of the purpose and need for such funds; a person
politically capable of conducting such a discussion should
be present.
b. Lectures and conferences about any subject, followed by an
appeal by the lecturer or proprietor of the house for
contributions toward the campaign.
c. Lectures and discussions followed by dances, cocktails, or
other entertainment with paid admissions or not; always
terminating, however, with an appeal.
d. In all these cases try to take advantage of persons who have
visited the USSR or the popular democracies.
11. Conduct a planned campaign, group by group. A week of collection
of money from door to door; a week of collection from commercial
houses; commando teams for the sales of checks and coins; popular
and classic music spectacles; tables in the streets; collection
shacks; picnics; theatrical spectacles, and commando teams for the
sale of 0 Momento, Voz 0 eraria, Problemas9 and Tribuna a Do 5u1.
12. If necessary, in order to collect and surpass the quotas in the
final days of the campaign, "sacrifice rallies" should be held,
for the collection of jewels and objects of value.
13. During the three months of the campaign hold a "campaign for one
day of salary" for all members of the Party and activists of the
campaign.
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114, Organize collection posts at all headquarters of newspaper enter.
prises, and commissions.
15. Incite the creative initiative of the masses in all manners. The
Party and all of our press should orient its propaganda toward
making known the objectives of the campaign and the role of the
democratic press.
Viii. Contests
A. Inter-municipal
1. Based on surpassing the quotas. This calculation will be made
on the basis of the sums received in relation to the quota of
the campaign published weekly in 0 Nomento. The municipalities
will be divided into four groups, anomie winner within each group
will receive a prize, offered by the state commission,
a. Group A - prizes a 16 mmo movie projector with screen.
be Group B - prizes a mimeograph machine of medium size.
Group C - prizes a small-size mimeograph machine.
d. Group D - prizes a "reoo.reoo", or a homemade duplicating
machine, along with a resistance box, a tube of ink, and
a ream of printing paper.
Notes A necessary and indispensable condition before
receiving the prize is ~une collection of the total
quota.
2. Within each municipality there should be a weekly contest among
a group of commissions on the basis of surpassing their quota.
3. Within each commission or group should be established an
individual contest based on a simple plan. We suggest as a plan
of corresponding prizes for basic groups, the followings
as Quota collected - diploma and bronze scroll
be Quota doubled - diploma and silver scroll
c. Quota quintupled - diploma and gold scroll
d. wuota decupled or more - diploma and a special prize.
4. These prizes will be indicated for the "campaign for 1953" and will
be offered by state and municipal commissions. The State Finance
Committee will furnish upon request distinctive scrolls, at cost
price, and will furnish the diplomas at no cost.
5. Other prizes will be awarded to members who raise or collect certain
contributions as followss
a. Cr, 10,000 - a copper medal
be Cr, 20,000 - a silver medal
c. Cr3 50,000 - a gold medal
Notes This prize will be called "Imprensa Popular" and
will be offered by the National Commission.
6. Besides these contests the municipal commissions and basic
commissions should hold their own contests, such as for who can
collect his quota first.
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PPrroblemass Voz Operaria, Classe Operaria, and Democracia Popular
will offer a reward to all distributors who pay their debts dur g
the course of the campaign. The value of the reward will be
proportionate to the debt of the distributor and to the
respective quota. There will be a special reward to all distributors
who, besides paying their debts, send a deposit corresponding to
three months issues of the publications.
8. 0 Momento, besides weekly prizes offered to its sellers and agents,
will o er prizes for new or renewed subscriptions.
a.
For ten subscriptions - prize: a year's subscription to
Problemas and another to Voz Operaria.
b.
For twenty-five subscriptions - prize:
the Works of Stalin.
the three volumes of
c.
For fifty subscriptions - prize: one "Worker's Library",
including twenty-five books.
9. Prizes for sales of The Life of Prestes - to be called the Luiz
Carlos Prestes' prize.
a. Fifteen albums - prize: one deluxe album on The Life of Prestes.
b. Thirty albums - prizes one medal with a likeness of Prestes.
as Fifty albums - prize: one medal with a likeness of Stalin.
Absolute caution with the security of this plan is indispensable; that
is, in transporting and guarding it.
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