The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1925, Page 13

é The Task of Reorganization in District Number 1 HERE can be no se es etchorik party without a Bolshevik organiza- tion.” These ten words contain the meat of the question. What is a Bolshevik party? It is.one that has-its roots deep in the masses and leads them in their struggles, permeating the work- ers with the ideology of Communism, and organizing them to achieve their historic mission—to do.away with capitalism. It is a party in which every member is equipped with the knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of Marxian-Leninism in theory and practise. In brief, a Bol- shevik party is a party which is ideo- logically and organizationally pre- pared to carry out the proletarian Communist revolution and to assume the responsability for the administrat- jon of the workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Soviet state. BE first and immediate task of our Workers (Communist) Party is to Bolshevize itself, organizationally. This involves.the reorganization of our party on the basis of the shop nuclei, The national conyention has decided, that. this. task must be com- .ffleted within the next six months. ‘The organization department of the C. E. C. has worked out complete and detailed~plans which should be studi- ed by every party member. Every member must face this task with the determination to solve all} difficulties and to overcome all ob- stacles. There must be no doubts or misgivings. In carrying out the plans of the C. E. E. for reorganization every member should do so with the enthusiasm which grows out of the conviction that we are laying the foundation upon which will be erect- ed the future Union of Socialist So- viet Republics in the Americas. bpm the report on reorganiza- tion has been made in Dist. No. 1 the membership have accepted it without opposition... An, analysis of the membership of Dist, No. 1, will show 34 Finnish branches, 12 Russian, 1 Lettish, 7 Jewish, 9 Lithuanian, 8 Armenian, 3 Scandinavian, 2 Ukrain- | ian, 2 German, 7 Italian, 2 Greek, 1 Estonian, 2 Polish and 3 English. Ninety-four branches with a total membership of 2192 in good standing. Ninety per cent of these work in the shops, mills and factories of New Eng- land. The actual carrying out-of the reorganization in this district, while complex, should not be over-difficult. Let us take, for example, the tex- tile industry. In Lawrence, Mass. we have 120 members in German, Rus- sian, Lithuanian and Armenian bran- ches, Of these we have 61 working in the cotton and wollen mills, who can be organized into shop nuclei ‘at once. Where three or more comrades work in the same mill] they can pro- eeed to form the shop nucleus in each mill, and begin functioning without very much difficulty. The Russian branch maintains a club foem and the German branch controls a very fine building. These language groups have already the basis for very effective Russian and German workingmen’s clubs- Those who are not in any particular industry can be formed into the street nuclei or international branch and after a membership meeting. in Law- rence of all the shop and street nu- clei have elected their city executive committee the first steps’ in the re- organization of Lawrence will have been completed. ig Maynard, Mass. we have a large Finnish branch of 135 members and a Russian branch of 12 members. Sixty-five of our Finnish comrades are weavers and nine of the Russian com- rades are textile workers. These can be organized at once into shop nuclei and begin functioning, Both the Rus- sian and Finnish nrades maintain club rooms and the problem of their functioning within these’-fs a lang- uage fraction is comparatively simple. This same process can easily be carried out in Woonsocket where we have an Italian and Ukrainian branch most of whose members work in the cotton mills; and im Lebanon, N. H. }where we have a Finnish branch of which 21 are weavers all members of the U. T. W. If our members who work in the textile mills had been so organized in the shop nuclei during the last campaign against wage cuts our party could have won greater results and leadership, In Gardner, Mass. we have a large Finnish branch most of whose mem- bers work in the only industry in town—furniture and chair factories. These comrades could be reorgahized in ‘the shop nuclei without delay by the local committee. These examples are typical of the rest of the district. In Boston we have 24 branches. The Russian, Letts, Jews, Poles, Ukrain- ians, Lithuanians and Armenians maintain club rodms jn different parts of the city. Here the industries are diversified and our comrades work at various occupations, At least 25 shop nuclei can be formed and the rest of our comrades organized into the street nuclei or international branches. T first sight the task of reorganiza- tion seems to be exceedingly dif- ficult. In practise it will be found that nine-tenths-of the problems will be solved easily once they are under- taken with enthusiasm and real Com- munist spirit. In a large industrial section like New England the loss of membership due to readjustment in reorganization should not be over ten or twelve per cent. After reorganiza- tion our party in Dist. No. 1 will grow rapidly especially in the textile and shoe centers, The main objections that I have met from the comrades seems to be the following: We cannot speak English well and so cannot function in the shop nuclei. Answer: One’s English is not im- proved by remaining in our present language branches; our comrades will leart to understand each other and to carry out their Communist tasks in the nuclei, under the direction of the leading committees of our party. The party will disappear from the view of the ‘miassés “aiid only the non-party foreign-language workers “By JOHN J. BALLAM JOHN J. BALLAM J. BALLAM clubs will be open to their observa- tion. Amswer:» The shop nuclei, while limited in their activity to the factory and the industrial section where they are organized will operate to bring us into closer touch with the worke™® in the mill and locality— bringing the party’s political and industrial cam- paigns to the immediate attention of the workers in the mrt and factory and mine, while the general mass meetings and collective activities of the party in a city or sub-district. will be under the direction of the City Executive Committee or the leading committees. All the nuclei will work together tq make these campaigns successful. The foreign-language speaking com- rades. will not have the same oppor- tunity to work among their fellow- workers as now. Answer: The language workers clubs will give greater opportunity than exists at present for propaganda in foreign languages. By forming the fractions in these clubs our foreign- language comrades can carry op educational work, cultural, sports, de- fense, and other activities on a wider scale tham at present drawing in much larger masses of the foreign- born into our party campaigns and for recruiting larger numbers into the shop and street nuclei of our party. Where formerly hundreds of the to the federations, under reorganiz- ation thousands can be brought under our difection and influence and the language press and propaganda in- creased an hundred-fold. There is no phase of party work which will not be immediately benefitted thru the reorganization of our party. Let us, then, go to work with a will. Let us turn the energies of our party, which have been largely wasted during the factional struggle of the past months, into intensive, constructive effort. Let us go to work and by bolshevizing our party forge the weapon with which the workers can carry ott “fie ‘proletarian: revolad tion in America, ce i ar ae clon ine ence Mahal alan eh aaa The Tenth Year of Organization of International Leninism OSCOW, Sept. pt. 5 —(By Mail,)— “Today is the tenth anniversary of the Zimmerwald conference, which was the first appearance of organized Leninism on an international scale,” writes Zinoviev in an article entitled “The Tenth Year of Organized Inter- national Leninism.” “The Zimmerwald Left” formed at the conference was the first organized expression of International Leninism. The teachings of Lenin were formu- “lated Yong’ before Zimmerawld. His ‘efforts in the ‘nineties against men- shevism, his tactics during the Rus- sian revolution of 1905, his work at the Stuttgart congress of the Second International, all this had an inter- National significance, nevertheless, the first organized international nu- cleus of Leninism was the Zimmer- wald left, from which the Comintern is directly descended. Zimmerwald was a chip of the Second Internation- al, it consisted Of the center, a small, right wing and a left, which com- menced to.form itgelt in 1917. The majority belonged’ to to the center and was only captured by the left on very rare occasions. Zimmerwald.rep-| resented the best of the Second Inter- | national. But what did even this best look like? Beside Lenin sat Tcher- nov, Martov, Ledebour, Modigliani and Grimm.) _., “WThe French internationalist Bris on, declared that he was/a French man, and a_ socialist, and that hc would vote against the war credits as long as France was in a good military situation. Kautsky, Haase and Hoff- man protested against the undertak- ing to,vote against the war credits. Even the honest revolutionary Lede- bour threatened Lenin almost physi- cally, telling him that it was dasy to vote against the war ¢redits in exile. e Frengh internationalist Dugence, . approved of the German socialist de- mocratic party and the French social- ist party when they voted for the war credits. Zimmerwald was a conglom- eration of rosy-hued” pacifism up to ‘Leninsm. One section of the Zimmer- waldians developed towards the right like Modigliani, Morgari, Grimm, Tchernov and Kautoky whilst others, ‘Radek, Serrati, Ernst Meyer, Paul Froelich, Platten and Lapinsky found their way to‘Communism. The Zim- merwald left began its work under the most difficult circumstances. Its financial resources amounted to 100 francs. Soon after Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Klara Zetkin and Franz Mehring joined it. The work- ing out of the program was not car- ried_thru without difficulties. The Polish internationalists Liebknecht and Luxemburg, stood between men- shevism and Leninism. “With what devotion Lenin worked! It is almost unbelievable: that only a decade has passed since then and that today the sixth part of the world in’ a Soviet state and the Comintern the most powerful international organization, oe i the capitalists many sleepless nights. Second International is rot- ting, despite the breathing space that it has received as a consequence of the breathing space which capital- ism itself has been able to obtain, and the Comintern is developing. It is true that the Comintern is now going thru its most difficult period. The conquest of the majority of the de- cisive sections of the proletariat is going more slowly than we thot, and there are also set-backs. But the Russian movemient hag experienced them also between 1908 and 1912. The Hoeglunds and the Rosmers are run- ning away, but there were always de- Serters and liquidators. We know how |= Lenin thrashed the deserters and the liquidators and we niust do the- same with the waverers and those of little faith who do not understand the sig- | | GARY By WORKER CORRESPONDENT w ‘One summer day | took a car to visit Gary for a spell, And as | spied it from afar quoth 1, “it surely looks like heii!” A little later and my nose assailed me with a sulphurous smell, Thought I: “The likeness grows and eieitied this 50m yelp sure smelis like hell!” Anis tdeaiua audio soa So | kept thinking more!and more, os me with its dchistant swell, bedlam rely ‘sounds like hell!” When | beheld the molten steel, which from the white hot furnace fell, Quote UH “This business makes one feel, it surely mitted oO dike heii!” With burning thirst | sought a drink from greasy “top” eu? have’ no well), The liquid made me scowl! and blink and say, “This water tastes like héil!” When to the hospital | came and viewed the wreckage, foul and fell, Said |, “This ig the devil’s game, and Gary certainly is hell!” Russ ‘2... nificance of this difficult stage in our development. The Comintern is only beginning to fulfill its historical tasks. It has not. yet gone one-half the way. Since the adoption of the united front tactic, four years have passed and only now can we see its great results, the agreement between the English and Russian unions, the growing struggle for trade union unity, the in- creasing number of workers’ delega- tions to Soviet Russia, the growth of the Communist Party influgnce in England, the worthy attitude: of th Communist Party of France’ towurd the Morocco war, the policy of: the} Comintern in China, etc. The Com- intern has found the way to the mass- es despite all the difficulties. Our chief task is now the carrying out of a still broader and more systematic ‘united front tactic, a still stronger propaganda for trade union unity, still greater action to win the social de- mocratic and jon-party masses and to find with them a common tongue against the treacherous leaders. The bourgeoisie declare that it will recog- nize the Soviet Union when the lat- ter parts company with the Comin- tern. Our answer to this is clear. The Soviet Union pursues its way bas- ing itself upon the working, clags slow-| ly rising from the depths and, not! upon the slowly descending bour-| geoisie. The XIV party conference of, the Russian Communist Party has de-! clared war upon the national limita- tion caused by the N. E. P, and the slower tempo of the revolution. The Communist Party of Russia is over- coming this limitation, On the Tenth Anniversary of Zimmerwald the Sov- fet power*controls one-sixth of the earth’s surface, and the Comintern unites the minorities in the working class. N, EB, P, in Russia is becom- ing socialism, the Comintern’ will cap- ture the majorities in the working classes and capitalist Burope will be- come proletarian Europe.” foreign-born workers were attracted”