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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07
(shop Nuclei Organizer Brownsville
Section).
BY S. JONAS.

(shop Nuclei Organizer Brownsville
Section).
When the question of reorganizing
and Bolshevizing the party comes up,
we understand that it means that the
workers Party, instead of being the
small organization that it has been
up till now, will become a Bolshevik
mass party. This can be accomplish
ed only when we make use of the
daily struggles which come up before
the workers in the shops and COM
bine these activities with the political
struggles which the party carries on
and make them a daily issue, among
the workers in the shops. This work
can be carried on effectively only thru
the means of shop nuclei.
The following are a few examples to
illustrate how the work has been car
ried on by the shop nuclei in the
Brownsville section of New York City.
In the Freiheit of June 10, there ap-
peared an article which showed how
the two shop nuclei of Brownsville
made use of the slogan not to work
the first of May and how the comrades
made it a shop issue. Not only did
! these factories not work, but the shop
nucleis took advantage of the oppor-
tunityVof carrying on Communist
propaganda in connection with the
first of May.
"A second instance was when the
workers of one factory went out on
strike for the recognition of the union
In this factory there was only one
party member. The section organizer
Immediately called a conference of
the party members including two SYM
pathizers and organized a shop nucleus.
In spite of the fact that the comrades
had not had the necessary experience,
they succeeded in having the strikers
invite party comrades to address
their shop meetings. These party
members have greatly influenced the
strikers. When the DAILY WORKER
carried report of the strike activi-
ties in Brownsville, these strikers
spread hundreds Of copies of the
DAILY WORKER. The strike was
stubborn one and If not for the mem
mers of the other shop nuclei who
helped the strikers financially and or
ganized many street demonstrations,
II is quite probable that the strike
would have been lost. With the help
Of the shop nuclei the strike was won
after a struggle Of IS weeks. This ac-
tivity won over many workers be-
cause the shop nuclei carried on their
daily struggles.
The shop nuclei also made use Of
the sentiment of the workers for am
algamation, pointing out to the work
ers that only the Workers Party is sin
cerely interested TO amalgHmate the
unions and that all the others ARE
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N. Y. Party Activities
Downtown English Branch
Discussion.

Every comrade in the Downtown
English branch of the Workers Party
ought to be present next Wednesday
evening at the regular meeting, as it
will be one of the most helpful
gatherings the branch has had this
year. The new left developments in
the labor movement in England will
be discussed in the educational pro-
paganda. Besides we are in the heat
of the city campaign and this will be
thoroly gone into.
The discussion will be opened by
Comrade George Siskind, who will
review the Scarborough and Liver
pool conferences in England, and his
and other talks will enable all the
branch comrades to get a splendid
idea Of the present situation in Great
Britain.
Comrades should realize the op-
portunity to understand the Com
munist viewpoint of the recent por-
tentous work Of the British G. p. and
be on hand.
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Problems of the Reorganization Of Our Party

later win many, Of them back to the
Party.
Also in many of the small towns
and agricultural communities, there is
only Finnish Branch. There, also,
the process Of Reorganization meets
with dificulties However even in
these places new organization form,
even if branch GAN be only nominally
turned into international branch, but
really remains Finnish branch, they
will become directly connected to the
Party and therefore closer to 1t. In
many instances these branches will
be broken up into several shop nuclei
and street nuclei.
In many localities the membership
of the branches is so divided in their
industries, that they can at first only
be organized jim the international
branches. Even this will be great
step forward from the present lang
uage form Of organization and can
later, when conditions change, be
easily transformed into shop nuclei
OF course the language difficulty is a
big problem m the functioning of
members In these international
branches. But a great bulk of
Federation members have already SO
much knowledge of the English lang
uage that they may easily learn more
and the new form Of organization
offers them better possibilities than
ever before.
In many industrial centers, how
ever, where Federation members are
working mainly in one industry, re-
organization is a comparatively easy
matter. In such instances their EN-
ployment has already laid the ground
work for our organization. We simply
must organize our comrades for their
Party work and instruct them how
to carry on their activities.
OF course, because there are among
the many nationalities of workers in
this country, very few members in
the Party in many shops there can be
found Party members who all speak
the same language In these cases
it takes some time before a really
effectively functioning Party unit
could be built. But after our COM
rades will learn how to approach
their fellow workers in the shop, they
will become more and more effective
in their work There is no doubt
that the Party will assist them in
every possible way.
l think that in many places re-
organization is much easier than the
comrades may. believe, so that we
must not think that the C. l. has
given our Party an impossible task,
which cannot be fulfilled. This, how
ever, does not mean that we shall
hide from ourselves all the difficulties
and therefore think reorganization as
an easy matter The greater the
task is and the more difficulties there
are, the harder we must grasp this
work and carry it out unitedly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07
BY H. PURo,
Editor of the Eteenpain.

Reorganization of our Party along
the lines of shop nuclei and street
nuclei international branches) is
one of the biggest tasks that our
Party has ever had.
Undoubtedly we will face many
difficulties before this work is accom-
plished. But we simply must have
one solid unified Party in this country
in order that we may be able to con-
duct the class struggle of the Amer
lean working class and in order that
we may in the near future have the
working class conquer the economic
and political power.
We can no longer tolerate, the pres
ent Federation and geographical basis
Of our Party. This very form of or
ganization offers fertile soil for diff
ferent views and different kinds of
actions in the Party matters and
places different sections of the
Party membership too far away from
Party life. Our Party, in the present
organizational form, is too loose for
functioning as an effective apparatus.
in order that it may be able to conduct
the class struggle, it must be central
lied so that the membership may be
quickly modified for every occasion.
Now then, the question arises;
how can we best realize our reorgan-
ization plan? In the language sec
lions of our Party there are more
difficulties than in those sections
where the whole membership is Eng
lNh speaking. Especially in some
large sections like the Finnish Fedora
ton, where there are some branches
as large as from 200 to 400 and even
500 members, consisting of workers
OF many trades and occupations and
large numbers of housewives and
servant girls. In these branches re-
organization presents the most diff
cult problems and cannot easily be
carried OUT In the big branches re-
organization is so much more diff
cult, because in them there are al
ways elements who are more nomin-
ally members than really active
ones.
We find in the large branches MANY
theoretically backward members. who
have become members of our Party
rather to express their sympathy
thereby and in order that they may
have the benefit of the social and
cultural life, which these branches
offer them. In these branches, if we
Will not find some special ways and
means to deal with them, we NAV
lose most of our present members
In any case we lose some of our
present membership, but we may be
able to save them for our sympathetic
organizations (Workers Clubs) and
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historic materialism; a study Of soci-
alist philosophers; the fundamentals
of Communism; etc.
The school will have branches or
annexes in all sections of the city in
which the fundamentals of Commun-
ism and English courses will be Of
fered and in which there will be pub
lie forums on Sunday nights.
The bulk of the courses mentioned
above will begin the week of Nov. 8
but registration is now open for them.
and some of the courses begin the
week of Oct. IL. The average fee
charged is $3.50 for a three months
course of one night week. Those
interested in training themselves for
a more active and more effective work
in the trade unions, in the party and
working class organizations generally
should register at once at the school
headquarters. A printed bulletin OF
courses will be mailed free upon re-.
quest. Address the Workers School,
Room "a, 1OS East 14th St, New York
City.
Details about the eastern district
training course will be announced
later.
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OF course only mechanical reorgan
ization is not sufficient and does moi
mean very much. If we cannot or
ganize our members into newly or
ganized units for their functions we
are lost. So it is absolutely necessary,
in the question of reorganization, to
carry out very effective theological
campaign in order to teach our mem
bers what reorganization really
means. Therefore, bolshevization pro
paganda must go hand in hand with
reorganization work and in many in
stances, it must go before it.
Our Federation membership must
become convinced that reorganization
and bolshevization of our Party means
to Americanize them in the boil
shevistic sense of that word. They
must realize that, hitherto, they have
been members only of some kind Of
Reorganization and that reorganiza-
ton means to bring them closely to
the fold of the revolutionary party
of American workers as full fiedged
members. Our members must admit
that, at present, in the Federation
branches which are more like clubs,
Party activities have suffered. Party
members must have a separate .appa-
ratus, thru which they can plan to
carry out the duties of the Party
Workers clubs and other sympathetic
organizations are good and necessary
Of course, in order to help us main
tain, connections with the masses,
but they cannot function as Party
basic organizations, as Party units.
1t is, however, clear that we can
never carry out reorganization by
theoretical and theological campaign
alone. We must, without further de-
lays and hesitation, start actual re-
organization work at once.
In the process of that work our
theological campaigns will assist and
become understandable for the mem
bership. So far as our Party and its
various language sections are pro-
crossing in this difficult work, so
much more experience we will get,
and our seemingly impossible task
becomes comparatively easy.
Towards those cases among our
membership in which we find that
they are not yet fully ripe and ready,
we must have some patience and not
handle them too ruthlessly, but try
to explain the matter. Entirely diff
ferent methods, of course, should be
used where conscious opposition to
reorganization is raising its head.
We cannot tolerate this in this great
crisis which is confronting our Party
in its reorganization and bolsheviza-
ton work.
Comrades, let us go into this work
intellectually. Let us show in the
process of this task that we are
worthy to be called Communists. If
we go into this work in this spirit.
then we surely will accomplish it
successfully.
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dAlu UlOuAloEo " 6AN0 AAAAS0 1ARROAN "
the Central Executive Committee in
this campaign and in the general
party work.
1--WE give our full confidence to the
Central Executive Committee In the
spirit Of the decision of the Commun-
ist international received during the
convention regarding the party leader
ship.
"The decision Of the Communist In
ternahonal which is the basis upon
which the new Central Executive Com
mittee was unanimously elected puts
an end to all legitimate further con
troTersy.
I'VE declare our earnest intention
to vigorously support the Central
Executive Committee in its efforts to
carry out the many tasks ahead of us
and to support with equal energy the
policies laid down for our party by the
national convention.
Resolved: That we accept and en-
dorse fully the decision Of the Com
munist International and all the &C
lions Of the convention. We endorse
the expulsion Of Lore from the party
and the removal Of Askei from the
editorship of Tyomies and pledge our
fullest cooperation in the struggle
against the right wing within our
party. We greet the determined atti-
tude taken by the convention on the
BoIshevization Of our party and the
recognition by the convention that the
reorganization of our party on a shop
nuclei basis is a real advancement of
our party towards Communist matur-
ity.
I'VE pledge the Central Executive
Committee our fullest support and CO
operation in carrying out all decis-
ions"
In the discussion Of the resolution,
four Of the members present spoke
against its adoption. These speakers
argued that an appeal was being TAX
en- against the decision Of the Com
munist International in the belief
that the Communist international had
acted upon misinformation; and that
as supporters of the appeal they
would be unwilling to vote an endorse
ment Of the decision Of the Commun-
ist International, altho they were will
ing to accept it and carry it out.
The representative of the Central
Executive Committee, Comrade Minor,
in closing the debate, declared that a
part of the process of Bolshevization
consists in bringing about condition
IN the party under which no one would
be willing to propagate the idea that
the Communist International acts up
on misinformation. The propagation
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in the party of the idea that the Com
munist International acts upon misin-
formation, said Minor, leads inevitably
to the conclusion in the minds of
members that the Communist Inter-
national acts in an irresponsible way,
that the Communist International can
not be depended upon by the Ameri-
can section for guidance. He COM
mented that the minutes Of the ses-
sion of the presidium of the Comm
tern Executive of about year and a
half ago, showed that Comrade Zinc
view at that time forecasted the COM
ing inevitable exit of Lore from the
party, for Lore was beginning his
propaganda with the claim that the
Communist International acts in
American affairs upon misinforma-
ton, that the Comintern leaders do
not understand American conditions.
Minor asked the membership not to
take the position that the Comintern
"acted upon misinformation," but to
believe that the Comintern has acted
in responsible manner as the most
reliable guide for the revolutionary
workers in America and in all other
countries of the world.
The vote thereupon being taken, all
present voted for the Central Execu-
tive Committee resolution and the
chairman, Comrade Edgar Owens, de-
clared the decision to be unanimous.
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FULL INFORMATION REGARDING
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS BEING
HELD IN REORGANIZATION DRIVE

Workers (communst Party membership
reorganization held
following dates:
CHICAGO, ILL-wednssday, T.
Ruthenbes and
coNN-sundaN H. Labor Lceum SO Howe
St. J. J. BaIam lam
An districts
Central Portland
Angeles
meetings
Conn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07
District Five Elects
Jakira as Organizer

PITTSBURGH, Oct. Sat the last
meeting of-<the District Executive
Committee of Pittsburgh, Comrade
A. Jakira was elected district organ
izer of District. Five in place of Com
rade Arne Swabeck. All communica-
lions pertaining to district matters
should be sent to A. Jakira, Room
5, sos James St., N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa.
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COURSE
FIRST ON CURRICULUM OF
- NEW YORK WORKERS. SCHOOL

Training leadership and training
The
be
elements, Of
working
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Chicago Membership Meeting,
Wednesday, October 9TH

The Chicago membership meeting the
Party Local Chicago called discuss the reorganization the
the Of nuclei will be held WEDNESDAY, ocTo.
Der T. 1925, M, NORTHWEST HALL and
and M. Abern.
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RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN
PERFORMANCE & DANCE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER II

The Russian and Ukrainlan
branches Of the Workers Party
have arranged jointly perform
ancs and dance for Sunday, Oct.
II, at Emmett Memorial Hall, cor
ner Ogden and Taylor.
All friendly organizations are re-.
quested to keep this date open and
not to arrange other affairs.
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DETROIT MEMBERSHIP MEETING
UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSES DECISION
sH /. OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL

DETROIT Oct 5The
Bolshevizaon
nuclei 2s6 members being the following resolution
snimously:
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American Imperialism
aids British Imperialism
by keeping out the man
who made this attack.
You can bring into the
hands of every worker
this brilliant exposure Of
Imperialist oppression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07
Speech
BY
Shapurji
SakIatVaIa

Delivered in the House OF
Commons July 9, 1925 and
quoted by Kellogg as the
reason for barring him from
the United States.
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16 pages with cover
photograph of the
speaker in a c I'll o n.
Evening star., 1925-04-08
The Bach Choir, April 16.

THE world-famous Bach Choir OF
Bethlehem, Pa, headed by DIR.
J. Fred Wolfe. Mus. D.. composed of
$50 voices. with a section of is Mo-
ravian trumpeters. and the Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra as accom-
paniment. will be heard at the
Washington Auditorium Thursday
afternoon and night, April Is, in the
first local presentation OF Bach's cele-
brated masterpiece. The B Minor
Mass" II will be given in two parts.
starting at 1880 pm. and continuing
until pm, when a recess of two
hours will be taken, resuming at s
o'clock. The performance will be
given in connection with the World
Fellowship Through Music convention
at the Auditorium on April Is, Is and
II.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge is honorary
chairman of the governing commit
tee of the convention. and will receive
the singers and members of the or
chestra.
Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur
Smiths Concert Bureau, 1906 G street
northwest
Evening star., 1925-04-08
Keith 's-N. Y. A. Week.

The National Vaudeville Artists an
nual celebration for the sick and in
surance fund of that organization
will be ushered in at B. F.. Keiths s
Theater next Sunday afternoon with
a bill headed by Benny Leonard, the
lightweight ring champion of the
world, in a one-act comedy, with George
Mayo and Charlie Marsh.
Featured also will be Irene Ricardo,
character coincidence, in big laugh
called Whoa Pagliaeci," written by
Joe Young.
Next in line will come the Royal
Siamese entertainers in their first
engagement on this continent. They
consist of the leading dancers. musi-
clans and takraw players of Siam, In
cluding Princess Mon Luang Sud Chi
ira and the dancers of the palaces of
the late Prince of Bejrapurna, brother
of the present King of Siam. The en-
gagement is said to have the permis-
sion of the Siamese government
Jim McWilliams, who kept the
crowds laughing during y. V. A. week
last year. returns with The Pianu-
tist': Ted and Kathryn Andrews Will
offer a terpsichorean novelty, Dance
Vanities," with Steve Kretzmer at the
piano: the Hedleys will present In
the Moonlight; Hewitt q Hall, Song
lands Favorite Sons" will be heard
in original numbers, and Miacahua,
the Brazilian wonder, will startle
with her feats on the wire. In addi-
tion there Will be unbilled surprise
numbers and the usual screen fea-
lures.
Evening star., 1925-04-08
CHRONICLES of America"

Peter Stuyvesant. the clever Dutch
man who led the group that settled
what is now New York City. and one
of the most picturesque figures In
all American history, and Wolfe and
Montcalm. who fought the battle that
determined the fall of Quebec, were
featured in the fifth of the interest
ing series of Yale University Press
pictures, called "The Chronicles of
America" sponsored by the Yale
Club and the d. A. R., shown yester-
day afternoon at the Ambassador
Theater.
1t is small wonder that large and
representative audiences attend these
performances. The pictures are not
only accurate in historic detail, but
also most attractive in costuming
and settings. The historical charac-
ters are all well cast and the actors
make vivid personalities of their
roles. Especially picturesque arc the
scenes and costumes in Peter Stuy-
yeSanth as = -
Evening star., 1925-04-08
Central-Dynamite Smith"

Charles Ray will be the picture star
at Crandalls Central Theater, in
Dynamite Smith," Sunday and Mon
day, together with Our Gang, In Dog
Days" short reels and pipe organ
music; Tuesday and Wednesday, Cecil
B. De Miles film version of wallace
Irwin's The Golden Bed" with Rod
La ROGUE, Vera Reynolds. Lillian
Rich, Warner Baxter, Julia Faye and
Theodore Kosloff, also Earl Hurd, in
"Broadcasting." cartoon comedy:
Thursday and Friday, Colleen Moore,
in 80 Big" and Cliff Bowes. in In
side Out: Saturday. Cheaper To
Marry" with Lewis S. Stone. Mar
guerite De La Motto and Conrad
Nagei, and Lee Moran, in His High
Horse"
Evening star., 1925-04-08
Columbia The Charmer

Pola Negri will be seen in her first
comedy role since coming to America
in The Charmer," which will be the
attra ction at Loew's Columbia next
week, together with added screen and
musical features.
The Charmer' Is a perturbation of
Henry Baerlein's novel. "Mariposa,"
directed by Sidney Olcott, adapted by
Sada Cowen, while the supporting
cast includes Wallace Macdonald.
Robert Frazer and Trixie Friganza.
Pola Negri is seen as a Spanish
lancer in a Seville cafe, where she
meets a wealthy American and Is
greatly attracted to him. "Discov-
cred" by a New York theatrical man
ager, she is brought to America and
makes a wonderful success and re-
news her acquaintance with the
American, who tells his mother that
he proposes to marry her.
Bertha Sedgwick, married woman
who is interested in the same man,
arranges a party to which the dancer
is invited and where she is greatly
Inundated through her ignorance of
social usage. Later she shields this
woman from an enraged husband and
In the climax that follows she and
the man she loves are brought to-
gether.
Evening star., 1925-04-08
Poll Baby Blue

Baby Blue" comes to Polls Thea
ter next week, beginning Sunday, and
then goes directly to its Summer run
in New York CITY. When this piece
arrives on Broadway. it is claimed,
it will give MIR. Hurley the disttnc-
tion Of having directed three of the big
Rest hits of the current Season--"The
Firebrand." with, Joseph Schildkraut;
might Hawk with Mary Newcomb,
and Baby Blue
Arthur Hurley, who is stage di-
rector of this musical comedy, after
staging for nine years many of the
most elaborate and successful of. the
Broadway shows. was made by
Arthur Hopkins his general stage man
ager. and it was under this manage
ment that Mr.. Hurley directed the
destinies of the plays ofN the Earry-
more family ~ "Hanliet.' Richard
III The Jest" and Redemption"
with John Barrymore; Ethel Barry
more, in Rose Bernd." The Laugh
ing Lady" and THE Second Mrs.
Tanqueray"; Lionel Barrymore, In
Macbeth" and The Claw; Pauline
Lord in Anna Christie" All these
pay tribute to the art of Arthur
Hurley.