The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 10

PAE eee re SERA NNR EE A EOT R NE MRE ANP EO ED NR RENN AD, a eee meee i, Sareea tne RE aR aig Semen mn ate rn eer mE A tens nin $n ne steno Party Functions of Nucleus Members By OSSIP PIATNITSKY. (Continued from last Saturday) Several,nucleus, members should be entrusted with keeping up a connection with the mucleus of the Young Communist League. . If there is none in the factory, they should proceed to establish such a nucleus. Party members appointed for this work should work jointly with the youth nucleus among the young work- ers according to a plan drawn up by their party committee, paying special attention to the young workers of mil- itary age. This work is of the utmost import- ance, factories and works are the best ground for work among army recruits as they provide an opportunity to es- tablish close contact with these yéung men for the time when they will be already in the army, One the nucleus members ‘should concentrate on the co-op- erative question which plays a fairly important role in the life of the work- er. He should find out to what co- operatives the workers belong, he should collect information concerning these co-operatives and alsd get into touch with the Communist fractions of the administrative bodies of these co-operatives. One or more comrades should work among workers who have not yet lost touch with their villages. Thru them relations could be estab- lished with the agricultural laborers and poorest peasants. They can also be the means of supplying the latter with literature. Relations established in this man- ner ‘could be handed over thru the proper party organs to the party or- ganizations working in the district where relations with the agricultural laborers and poorest peasants must be maintained. ‘ g In many factories foreign ‘work- * ers, not knowing the local lang- uage, or workers belonging to the na- nal minorities of that country play important role;~The~nucleus bu- Mau should appoint several comrades with a knowledge of the languages of these workers for work among then. The local committee will prob- ably be able to procure literature in the desired language and agitators and propagandists for these workers. In America, France and Czecho-Slo- vakia, such workers: play a very im- portant role in the labor movement. 1 One nucleus member. should * keep in touch with former work- ers of the respective factory now un- employed. ‘He should help them to organize, agitate among them, provide them with literature, ete. 11. One or several nucleus members should be entrusted with work among men and women factory work- ers belonging to various sporting, choral and musical organizations. The said comrade should collect material concerning these working class organ- izations and get into touch thru the nucleus bureau and the local leading party organ with the Communist mem- bers of the administrative bodies of sporting, choral and musical organiza- tions and societies. ¢ 12. One or more comrades should take up the work in connection with the protection of labor and vari- ous forms of social insurance. 13. Comrades should be allotted to tasks of distributing literature, collecting correspondence for the party press and for the factory news- paper of the nucleus. Several com- rades will also be required for the printing and editing of the paper. 1 4 The same applies to the organ- * ization of political education circles and of circles for the study of Leninism. 3 15 A couple of nucleus members * will also Have to be spared for International Red Aid work—collec- tion of information about arrested per- sons, etc. Ph satus canes : : It is a matter of coursé ‘that’ all nu- cleus members take part in all agita- tional catmpaigtis; in the’ recruiting of néw members; ete;;but all’ the same every nucleus member ‘must ‘¢oncen- trate his or her attention especially on the work which the bureau assigns to them. It would be preferable to distribute the work in such a way that every member should have only one kind of work to do. But if circumstances de- mand, and when it is useful, several kinds of Work may be assigned to one person. : ANY more kinds of work could be enumerated which nucleus members could perform. With a ra- tional distribution of party duties all party members will have definite work to do, and this will bring them jato contact with the factory workers. In this way the factory nucleus will not be isolated from the workers, it will be easy to draw the best elements among them into the party and finally it will be possible to agitate system- atically in the works and factories against the social democrats and other opportunist “labor” parties. : carrying out party duties the party members ‘will be drawn into party life and will become active members, This, of course, will be achieved only if the nucleus bureau itself is active, if it will give instructions and indt cate how the work is to be carried out and if it will supervise the execution of the tasks given to the respective members of the nucleus. The nucleus bureati should receive reports from the various comrades on their party work already carried out, or in the course of achievement. _ The most important of these re- ports should be also placed before the general meetings of the party nu- cleus. The nucleus bureau has to pre- pare the agenda for the nucleus meet- ings very carefully. It must secure reporters on the questions on the agenda and must prepare its own pro- posals in regard to these questions. The nucleus bureau has to carry out promptly all decisions of the nucleus, of a sugar factory in Central Bo- for if these decisions remain on paper the interest of the members in the nucleus, meetings will lag. \N the other hand, nuclei and those in charge of them (the bureau) will work well and systematically if the district or town leading organ of the party. keeps proper control over its work and provides the nuclei bu- reaus with the necessary information and directions. j Not to give skeptics occasion to say that my statement cogcerning the pos- sibilities connected with the distribu- tion of work among nucleus members and with making them participators in party work is exaggerated, I will give a few quotations from the central organ of the Czecho-Slovakian Com- munist Party, Rude Pravo, of Febru- ary 5, 1925. The letter from the nu- hemia contains the following state- ment: bape the party decided to organ- ize nuclei in the factories, | selected three comrades to whom | Gave a general outline of the tasks of the nucleus during dinner. We decided that everyone of us four would have to bring one comrade in the next three days. And thus we were eight. Our factory employs 150 workers, 32 of whom are already members of the nucleus. But this did not satisfy us, and we therefore decided that by the end of January every nucleus member was to se- cure one new member for whom he would make himself responsible. We have elected a bureau and have elaborated a series of Proposals for the general meeting of the factory. We instructed six comrades to pass on our party and trade union papers _to workers who belong to other par- ties and trade unions In order to show them how untruthful their own party papers are. “Four comrades are instructed to make up a list by ethe end of Janu- ary of all those wishing to. subscribe to our press. At present we are en- gaged in collecting material for. the publication of the first number of our factory paper. - — in the factory nucleus pre- sents some practical difficul- ties because comrades are accus- tomed to the old forms of organiza- tion. But the importance of factory nuclei consists In the fact that they give an opportunity to bring all comrades into the work. Moreover, the nucleus itself works systematic- ally and everyone of its members does a definite branch of party work under the contro! of the nucleus,” N the same number of Rude Pravo we find the following statement ina letter from a tobacco factory: “Nu- cleus work has the advantage that the entire party work does not devolve as before on One or two comrades, but is distributed among évery membér or the nucleus, ¢ach ‘one -of-them doing @ definite task, which is very valuable from the point of view of party edu- cation.” TT cannot be otherwise. As soon as 4 nuclei come into being in the works and factories, their members immedi- ately realize the superiority of this kind of organization over the old form of organization. Once adopted, they will not relinquish it. On the con- trary, they do their utmost to make nuclei live organs, capable of attract- ing and absorbing the best elements of the factory. In order to achieve this, they distribute the party work among all their numbers. Our slogan should be: “No party members with- out duties or outside party nuclei.” Iowa Culture---Churches and. Lodges By TOM MATTHEWS. Canesten out here in the sti¢ks has’ found a pair of invaluable allies, the church and the fraternal order. No better servants are to be found, unless we include the labor bureaucrats, for the work of dividing the workers against each other and turning their attention away from the issues of the class struggle. Consider, for instance, the recent school board election here in Du- buque. What was the issue? PBOTRRTANT versus Catholic!. Not republican or democrat, not capi- tal or labor, but a straight-out fight over religious humbug, with the work- ers of Dubuque fighting each other even ‘inside their organizations, Then there are lodges. It seems that practically every unionist in these parts is a member of from one to five fraternal orders, stich as Elks, Masons, Moose, etc. HAT does the worker derive from his lodge affiliations? Uniforms, insignia, degrees, titles, and the right to pay admission to the “blow-outs” of his respective orders. So it may be said that the Main Street unionist is, first, a member of his church; second, a member of his lodge; third and last, a worker and member of his union. {3 adbena arriving at snap judgments regarding this deep-rooted condi- tion, we must take into consideration that the only cultural expression open to these workers is through the church and fraternal order. These organizations fill, in some de- gree, the instinctive yearning of the working class for social and cultural expression. E Communists must sooner or later awaken to the , fact, that mere broadsides of denunciation and truth-telling will not alone) suffice to. ‘break the hold which the chureh and fraternal order has succeeded in-‘so: artfully fastening uponsthecbrain and. imagination of the average worker, American kamen ret) We must, instead, point” ut “the sham of the “culture” offered by the’ priests and mystic nobles. We must lead ever larger numbers of these workers toward the vision of the - genuine thing—to an appreciation of- a proletarian culture based upon work-. ing class’vision and Working class gol- ‘idarity 5. fd fraternal order offers the mer- est sham, the cheapest imitation of culture. Fancy-colored uniforms, silly headgear, stupid ceremony, bar- barian titles. A fancy wrapper, but no loaf. Communism will replace this stupid, capil “culture” with proletarian culture which will give the worker the opportunity for self-expression which he craves but tries ‘to satisfy with blab-blah and tinsel. © The church pretends to offer the worker a “spiritual escape” from the monotony of life, together with social contact with-his fellow-man. SUALLY, the fraternal order wins the loyalty of the slave; the church wins the loyalty of the slave’s wife and children. Not even the families of Communists are exempted. Taking advantage of the desire of the human being for some form of social life and culture, the spell of the capitalist sys- tem gradually gains its hold. First the children of the worker succumb to the magic lure, then the wife, finally the ‘worker himself falls into the trap. j T is interesting, if not nauseating, to listen to the excuses offered by the working class victim, man or wom an, for his or her folly. Invariably it is the desire for a “good time; “for NEW YORK BUILDERS’ CORNER Conducted by KATTERFELD. relaxation;” “they really do good work,” ete, os ua Communism and the “Cémmunist movement will break this hold of capi- talism by firing the enthusiasm of the working class with its own sincere, proletarian culture, For, after all, the culture of capi- talism is but a tinseled gaudiness which might as well encase a swill- barrel as a palace of art. Only Communism offers the workers the hope of a real social life, a genu- ine culture, ».. REMEMBER MAY 231». : The John Reed Junior group is -ar- tanging a surprise party and’ dance Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division St. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs on that date. ‘RUSSIAN CHEKA’ TO. BE PRESENTED..AT.. WORKERS’ HOME, SAT. A Russian performance and dance will be given by the Workers’Home, (formerly Soviet School) this Satur- dayp April 25, at 1902 W. Division St. Two revolutionary plays will be presented, The Struggle for Exist- ence, and The Cheka. Beginning at 8 p.m. Dancing after the perform- ance. Come! OMRADE Leo Kling dropped into the DAILY WORKER New York office * yesterday. and paid six dollars for his subscription for a year, and.then he left the rest of the ten dollar bill to pay for two gift subscriptions for two ‘political prisoners. “A mighty good example to follow. E New York’ A HE York’ agéney has just received. the revised mailing list from ~ Chicago, with the names of more than four thousand subscribers secured thru the press pageant at Madison Square Garden, which are now expiring. These must be solicited for renewals. Go to the DAILY WORKER office at '108-East 14th St. and find out how YOU can help. setae onsale ; « * OW could you celebrate MAY DAY any better than by securing some new subscribers for the DAILY WORKER? Make it at. least one, . * Fa . Ps i ; / , % | j . ’ ; ; | pat §