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

$50 thousand. The number of young
Communists, between the ages of IS
and rs, was $40 thousand. The army
of Russian Communists thus counted
one and quarter million. Since then
the number has grown.
The total membership of the Rus
sian labor unions is five million, en-
bracing all persons engaged in use
full occupation. II we were to dis
count million and half Office work
ers employed in the state machinery
and cooperative organizations, most
Of whom are no less devoted to the
new order than many other groups of
workers, there would remain three
million and half proletarians en-
gagged in factories, mines, mills, in the
transportation system, partly in the
forests, partly as hired laborers on
the land.
Those five million organized men
and women, especially the three and a
half million manual workers, form the
foundation Of the new order. The one
and a quarter million Communists is
the cement that keeps them to-
gether. Communism is the motive
power that lends their work both
aim and direction.
MASTERS" and "SIaVes"?
1t is quite obvious at glance that
there can be no domination" of the
working class by the Communist "rul.
ers" as the social patriotic liars would
have us believe. Domination" i'm
plies small group commanding large
masses. There can be no domination
of one and q quarter million over five
million people. Where each third or
fourth member of the working class is
Communist, the Communists merge
in the masses, especially under condi-
tons where each proletarian can join
the party any minute and thus become
ruler" The doors of the party
open with great difficulty before an in
tellectual, son of the bourgeoisie.
But the doors of the party are wide
open before worker, proletarian of
the factories and mills. Each one is
free to become one of the chosen.
Each one may do the work Of admin
istration.
No Definite Line Between the Party
and the Working Class.
The truth is that it is almost impos-
sible to draw line between the Com
munists and the rest of the workers.
The working class is animated by the
same ideas as the Communists. The
working class lends a sympathetic and
attentive ear to the advice of the Com
munists. Among the so-called non
partisan workers there are many who
understand their revolution and class
interests no less clearly than the Com
munists. If numbers of workers do
not belong to the Communist party
this is due to causes that have nothing
to do with conviction: some are in
bad health, others are overbusy, still
others are not possessed of requisite
abilities, some, recently arrived from
the countryside, have not yet suffici-
emily adapted themselves to urban life,
others are handicapped by family con-
ditions, still others think that the in
terests of the workers will be suffici-
emily guarded even without their par
ticipation. 1t is not easy to be Com
munist. Communist duties are severe.
Communist activities are varied. The
Communist party gets hold of all of
a mans time, all his abilities, all his
attention, all his strength, health, life.
Not everyone can, therefore, become a
member of the Communist party. The
workers themselves distinguish as to
who should and who should not be a
member of the Communist party. In
the practical day-by-day work, how
ever, it is impossible to find the line
where the Communist party ends and
the working class at large begins
The sessions of the Communist shop