The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 10

— F< T the Chicago conference of party functionaries there were asked many questions involving the prob- lems of reorganization. Very likely these problems will be faced by the comrades in the other districts. Their solution is, therefore, the concern of the party membership” thruout the country.” Some:of these questions and an- swers follow: UESTION: What is to become of the branch property and the money which some of the branches have in their treasury? Answer: Upon reorganization every branch secretary should bring all his or her records up to date and turn these over to the district organizer. Every branch, before it disbands as a party unit, that is, before its mem- bers are organized into shop and street nuclei, should liquidate all its debts to such party Institutions as The DAILY WORKER, the district and national offices, ete. If there are any funds after such debt settlements, the remaining money shall be divided as follows: Fifty per cent to The DAILY WORKER; twenty-five per cent to the district office and twenty- five per cent to the national office of the party. cases ‘where branches own property, like buildings, the present party members of the particular branch in question shall constitute a body for taking over the property, in- to which body only party members shall enter as bona fide members, ir- respective of their nationality. In cases where non-party members are co-owners of branch club rooms, etc., our party members should form aCom- munist fraction in the owning body and thus serve to control and own this property, under the instructions and as agents of the party. UESTION: .Some of our members do not live in Chicago, altho they pay dues’ to our branch here. Where wi they be attached ‘to? nswer: After our party is reor- ganized on the basis of shop nuclei, No one will be allowed to live and work ir one city and be a party mem- ber in another city. Every comrade will hold his membership either in a shop nucleus, that is on the basis of being connected with a party unit in his place of employment, or in a street nucleus, that is, on the basis of his being connected with a party unit in the residential section where he happens to be living. No one will, after reorganization, be permitted to attach hmiself to the party on the mere. basis. of having friends in or fond recollections of a particular par- CHF COT ces seccsrrinescveuey ‘ it a member neither. lives nor works in a city he will not be able to be.a party. member in that” city. Everyone will have to be a member of a party unit located in the section where he. works or lives in a partic- ular city. UESTION: How will migratory » workers hold their membership in the party? ‘ ‘ \Answer: The following shall be the rulesyfer migratory.’workers who. de- sire to'belong-to the party:.; ~ -» 1. -They: shali-be considered as na- tional office: members of the party, be- ing eonnected with the party center and working under instructions of the C, E, C, thru one or several special departments. 2. These. migratory worker-party members shall immediately notify the party district organizer of the ter- ritory in which they happen to find themselves at any time, 3. After such proper: and prompt notification of. the district organizer by the migratory, worker-member, the latter shall fully exercise all his party membership rights in any unit of the district in question. Likewise, ‘this migratory worker-party member shall then be prepared to discharge all du- ties and tasks *which may be’ as- signed to any party members. of «the districts. at the time in which he finds himself there, i ; ba i UESTION: Will the international branch be based solely on resi- dential or on shop location? Answer: The internationa)] branch is simply another name for the street ‘tarians as well as party members. nucleus. The street nucleus .is to be based solely on residential area. It. is .he shop nucleus which is to be based solely on the industrial area, the place of employment. UESTION: What about. those who work in the transportation in- dustry? Answer: If a comrade works as a chauffeur or truck driver, he will be- come a member of a shop nucleus in his’ place of, employment, provided that there are three or more party members employed there. Otherwise the comrade in question may be at- tached to another shop or to a street nucleus, If a comrade works as a railway shop hand, maintenance of way man, locomotive fireman or locomotive en- gineer, etc., in the transportation in- dustry, the procedure will be along the same general lines. The round- house, the railway or freight station is to be the point of organization for the party members employed in any capacity on a particular railway or system of railways. UESTION: In my particular place there are three party members. Are we to go into a shop nucleus or a street nucleus? Answer: Of course, you are to go into a shop nucleus. Don’t wait for anybody to come around and try to organize you. It is your job to take the initiative and proceed to organize yourself at once into a shop nucleus. Immediately get on the job and make your nucleus active. The first task is for each of you individually to get one or two new members into the nucleus. You will se how your shop nucleus will grow, how much new blood you will add to your group thru your being active, in accordance-with the instructions given in the C, B, C. reorganization plan. i UESTION: Is the present division of Chicago into six sections sup- posed to be permanent or temporary? Is this division on‘an itidusttial-or on a parliamentary basis?) « ..\) «> , Answer: The present division i temporary. This does not necessarily mean that this division may not be permanent, Our analysis and classi- fication of the information gathered from registering our membership will decide the final lines of sub-division in the city. The present, or temporary, sub-divi- sion is based on the location of in- dustry, on transportation facilities and on @ recognition of- the existing par-}- liamentary sub-divisions in the city. In organizing our shop nuclei and/in setting up new sections: we must not totally. disregard the -need for our apparatus functioning in election cam- paigns, That is why we must in sub- dividing the city into certain in- dustrial sections also take into ac- count the parliamentary lines so that, as much as possible, our sub-divisions based on the industrial sections will enable our party to function effective- ly in election campaigns, ESTION: The prestige of our branch in the (name of nationality of language branch is omitted) colony is great. The disappearance of ‘the branch as. such .wilkshave a bad: im-|. Canada, $212,972,000; Latin-American countries, $154,351,000; Australia, pression on the colony. May we not;’ then, after reorganization maintain the present branch and eall it: the (language) branch: or fraction ‘of: the Workers Party? Answer: Under no circumstances should any of the. existing language branches maintain themselves as branches, in name or ‘in «fact, after: party reorganization. The only party units, in name as well.as in fact, after party reorganization are the shop and the street nuclei. .''.5 | The present language branches are to become fractions of the party in the workingmen’s clubs which they are to organize, These workingmen’s clubs will consist of non-party prole- These workingmen’s clubs will not be units of the party. These working- men’s club will serve as rallying cen- ters for our party, as recruiting fields where the members of .our party speaking a particular language will have additional opportunities to win over for Communism, to draw into the party, workers of their own nation-| ality, Weve Towards Party Reorganization If we were to call such working- mén’s Clubs branches of the Workers Party we would.-be wrong on two scores. First of all,.we would be giv- ing the impression that this club. con- taining non-party members is a unit of the party. Secondly, we.would be narrowing the basis of organization for these workingmen’s clubs. These clubs are not to consist only of those proletarians who are Communists. The constitution of these clubs is to be much more inclusive, -much broader. Any worker who accepts, in general, the idea of the class strug- gle, regardless of how little he knows about or how unready he happens to be at this time for party. member- ship, is eligiblewfor membership in these clubs. In fact we must strive to draw as many as possible such non- Communist werkers into these clubs so that we may have the chance to propagate Comunism amongst them. Obviously it is impossible to call pifblicly such workingmen’s clubs par- ty fractions of a particular nationality. Such methods will not draw to us the non-party elements we must have in these clubs. How can we ask a non- party member to join a party frac- tion? If a worker is not a member of the party he cannot be a member of the party fraction. The principle of Communist fraction work ap- plied in the trade unions, in the benefit societies, in the co-operative societies, and in other working class organizations is to be strictly adhered to in the work of the Communist frac- tions in these workingmen’s clubs. The party members of a particular = By Jay Lovestone language group in this country should win their prestige for Communism thru their work for the party, thru their activities for Communism, UESTION: Our .branch is to register at a membership meeting of section so and so at this or that date. Will our branch have any more meetings at all after this registration date? j Answer: Upon classifying the in- formation gathered at the registration meetings of a particular section the comrades of the branches in the sec- tion in question will be assigned as follows: t. If possible, they will be immediately organized into shop nuclei and will start functioning im- mediately as such. 2, The comrades may be organized as street nuclei members, 3. Where it is impossible to.-assign the comrades to either a shop or a street nucleus in the sec- tion being registered, then.they may be asked to appear again at the regis- tration meetnig of the section whore they work and there become mem- bers of a shop nucleus in the plant where they work or attached to some particular shop nucléus in the indus- trial section, in case less than three comrades work in their place of em- ployment. At most one branch meeting should be held after the section registration meeting has been held. This meeting should be given over completely to disposing of the affairs of the branch as a branch; for example, bringing up all accounts to date, settling debts with party institutions, putting the records in order for the district of- fice, etc, * American Capital Abroad By EARL R. BROWDER EN years ago the United States was a field for the investment of capital, from,abroad, - British, Belgian, French and German ‘¢apitalists owned securities from America amounting to over four billion dollars. “Them days is gone forever,” as Rube would say. = At the beginning of 1925, the inter- national debit balance of the U. S. had changed to a credit balance, con- sisting of: “J Government loans 12 billion dollars. Government guaranteed loans to private investors, 9% billion dollars, Which is not to mention the volume of private financial investments in Europe. And in 1925, this movement of Am- erican capital abroad has gone on at an accelerated pace. In the first nine months of this year, over one billion dollars has gone abroad on bonds and notes, The report of the Wall Street Journal (October 17th) gives us the following figures: be furnishing British possessions with more capital, by about 40 per cent, than Britain herself ig doing. ; New Capital in Britain and America, yer illuminating of the course of economic events in the two great centers of imperialism, is the com- parison between the total volume of new capital flotations in the first nine months of 1925. They are: Great Britain «8 800,000,000 United States .. 4,300,000,000 _ Of Great Britain’s new capital flo- tations, only one per cent went to for- eign countries. Of American, almost 25 per cent was foreign. American capital is abroad, with a vengeance, and entering in one way jor another, every field of exploitation in the world.. And contrary to the traditions of the era of Mark Twain, this new. American traveller is .not “An Innocent Abroad.” The world is new dealing with an America hard as nails, shrewd in business, filled with a sense of power and the arro- gance of the noveau riche. And the : ‘Nine months Nine months Capital invested in— of 1925 of 1924 Total foreign bonds and notes........$1,039,018,000 $760,652,000~ Foreign governments ereussssnene 726,628,000 ~ 509,376,000” Foreign corporations, vison 190,250,000 84,000,000 ,/The governmental loans were. dis- tributed as follows: : European: countries, $284,300,000; $75,000,000. .. > LOOM Ata Decline of Great Britain. - “(NREAT BRITAIN is on the road to ruin.” This isnot a Commun- ist prophecy: It is the statement of Sir George B. Hunter, a leading figure British shipbuilding. © © «% : The Outstanding symptom of the decline which brings forth such wails from British capitalists, is the inabil- ity of British finance to play the lead- ing role in the export of capital. Formerly the grea financiers thru- out the world, holding the world’s in- dustry in pawn, today Britain cannot even’ meet the demands of her own colonies. Canada and Australia come to Wall Street, instead of going to “4 City” for their loans, ring the nine months of 1925 while the U.S. was exporting capital of over a billion dollars, Great Britain showed the following: Foreign governments, none. Foreign corporations, $8,000,000, British possessions, $177,500,000, The United States is thus seen to — American working class will before ~ long be called upon to shéd its blood’ | to enforce the will and protect the property of this new world-traveller. Detroit Women ‘to Give Freiheit Benefit - This Sunday Evening DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 23.—On Sun- day evening, October 25th, the Wo- men’s Educational Circle of Detroit, which is affiliated with the Detroit federation of working class women’s organizations, is giving a concert and package party for the benefit of the Freiheit. The affair will be held in Carpenters’ Hall, 935 Alger Ave,, near Oakiand, cin An exceptional concert program has been arranged and some of the best talent in Detroit will participate, The Women’s Educational Circle is justly famous for the manner in which they attend to the hunger needs of their patrons and all who are fortunate enough to be present Sunday evening are assured “an enjoyable time, Fest- - ivities will begin at 5:30 sharp, Ad- mission is 25 cents, mae