The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

among the foreign workers. This is
especially so because the shop nu-
cleus. members are, in most instanc-
es, the comrades who were most ac-
tive in their language branches.
Shop Nucleus Work Effective Because
Planned
The shop nucleus meetings will,
with few exceptions, (perhaps in
some places among the needle trades)
be carried on in English. Yet that
does not and cannot do away with
language propaganda work in the
work shop. Members OF the shop nu-
cleus, who speak foreign languages,
can carry on work in the shop in the
languages that the workers under
stand. For example, in a large shop,
clothing, textile, machine, etc., if there
are workers employed who speak Ital-
ian, Russian, South Slav, Jewish, Lith-
uanian, English, etc., and if the shop
nucleus has comrades speaking these
languages, it is expected that each
comrade does some part of his shop
nucleus work in other languages in
order to reach the other workers with
our propaganda, literature, ETC. The
formation of shop nuclei, hence, in
stead of interfering with the work
of the foreign-speaking comrades,
helps to broaden and extend their ac-
tivities. This is plainly so, because
the WORK OF THE SHOP NUCLEUS
FOR EVERY ACTIVITY IN THE
SHOP is PLANNED AND THEN
CARRIED OUT. Since the fundamen-
tai problem of the language member
in the shop nucleus is the matter of
continuing language propaganda activ-
ity among the foreign workers, we can
already see that the language work
will continue and increase in the shol
nucleus. We should, however, see
what technical or organizational ties
there will be between the shop nuc
leus members and the language terri
torial branch in the transition period
AS a MEASURE the following is pos
sible.
Shop Nucleus Member Continues Work
In Language Territorial Branch.
The shop nucleus member, as
pointed out before, has full powers
in his shop nucleus and carries on his
main activities there. In the language
territorial branch, he is subject to
carrying on propaganda work assigned
to him, such as raising funds for the
language press, educational activity
etc. All the members of the shou
nucleus must regularly and continu.
ously participate in the work of the
territorial branch: visit its meetings
work in the educational groups.
classes, and carry thru the various
tasks Of the branch. A transitional
relationship in thus actively entered
into between the shop nucleus and the
language or English territorial branch.
Participating, as he does, in the ter
ritorial branch, while primarily active
in the shop nucleus, the matter of the
powers Of shop nucleus members in
the territorial branch must be settled.
The following, on-the basis of activi-
ties of the members. can be satisfac.
tory to all.
The shop nucleus member shall have
voice and vote on all Federation or
ganizational matters. that is, on press,
internal Federation problems, such as
means Of conducting the work among
the foreign workers. But the shop
nucleus member has voice only in the
territorial branch on Party political
matters, sluch as the right to send
delegates to higher bodies, the c. c.
c., conventions, political issues in the
Party and so on. Those latter and
other rights he has in the shop nue.
leus. It can be said, then, inversely,
that the Federation or language
branch still has power over the shop
nucleus member on Federation mat
ters, but not on direct Party organiza-
tional and political matters.
1t follows too that even "a there