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The Nucleus Chairman Of a Me-
dunn Enterprise Has Sent Us
the Following Account.

THE factory nucleus question is to-
4 day the main topic of party discus
sion. 1t is no doubt one of the most
important questions, and all comrades
should not only take an interest in
this question, but should work ener-
getically on this field.- There will
probably be many comrades who will
ask themselves the question: How
should l set about the establishment
of factory nucleus? 1t is true the
matter seems simple enuf when one
looks thru the good advice and, the
hints supplied by the Central Com
mittee. | admit that the difficulties
connected with establishing a we'll
functioning nucleus in a larger fac
tory or works where workers are un-
der very strict control are not so
great that they cannot be overcome.
1t is a different matter altogether
where a smaller enterprise is con-
cerned, where the foreman or employ
er can control every one of his work
ers at any time of the day. Many
comrades will have experienced this
OF themselves, and good few had
probably to put up with the conse-
quences of this. ifEs
| am employed in a small enterprise
which has the reputation that workers
are under control almost every minute
OF the working day. Nevertheless I
was determined from my first day in
this factory to awaken my seemingly
indolent colleagues from their sleep
and to try eventuallyto find out if
there were any comrades among them.
l must confess this was an arduous
task. was told by my fellow work
ers that the "old man''utook good care
tnat any one even the rleast suspected
OF spreading revolutionary tendencies
among the workers of the factory was
soon shown the road. , Hence caution
was OF the utmost Importance.
AS | could not think of any better
way, turned to be at the end Of the
working day always the last to nav a
Visit to certain small, quiet place.
the walls Of which | covered with
small handbills. Those who did not
tear down these handbills were sure
TO be sympathizers, and maybe even
comrades. On the following day
Kept my eye on the door of this
certain place and endeavored under
the pretext Of feeling i'll to enter the
said place every time u fellow worker
nad Just left IT, The first time | did
this noticed that none OF the hand.
DIS had been removfd. I took note
who had been insideA When | did
TINS the second time, there was the
same result--none Of the handbills had
oeen removed But the third TINA
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material from the Organization De-
partment of the Executive Com
mittee Of the Communist In
ternational.)

ternattonal.J
THERE is still a tendency in party
L organizations to build up factory
nuclei by rule of thumb, namely, only
after the registration of party men,
bers according to the enterprises
where they are employed the forma-
ton of various nuclei is taken in hand
one after the other on the instructions
of the party executive. These party
executives forget that it is essential
to encourage initiative in every indi-
vidual party member, and to make use
Of it in the formation and development
of nuclei.
1t should be made incumbent on
every party comrade to find out Com
munist Party members and sympathiz-
ers in the enterprise, and to form the
nucleus together with the party men,
bers in the enterprise Should the
comrade in question be the only Com
munist in the enterprise, he must en-
deavor to recruit party members
among the workers, in order that a
nucleus may be formed. All party
members should of course be regis
tered to their places of employment.
The enterprises, too, should be regis
tered to enable us to proceed system
atically with the formation Of nuclei
and to exercise proper control. But
we must be certain in systematizing
this work that we do not discourage
self-activity among our party COM
rades, for systematic development
of nuclei is only possible if full scope
is given to the initiative Of party
members and every one of them is
drawn into the work
In order to show comrades how nu-
clei are to be formed it would be adj
visable to publish in the daily press
as frequently as possible good exam
pies Of nuclei organizations. We give
below few such examples, hoping
that as many comrades as possible
will write to the party executives
about these questions, in order to
obtain an exchange of experiences by
means of the press.
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which the workers of the enterprise
were keenly interested just then. The
results were brilliant. Only two Of
those invited did not Dome, and one
of them sent an excuse. We did our
business and established a factory nu-
cleus.
1 notified the local party executive
of the formation of factory nucleus
in the works. The second meet
ing was held Immediately after work
ing hours in hall nearby. The party
executive sent to this meeting a re-
porter who gave a political address.
We then connected the report with
our enterprise and drew from 1t the
lessons necessary for u.s. The next
day we were able to do much better
oral propaganda work than before, as
we were now able to connect the small
needs and demands Of the workers
with the political events. / must re-
cord that since the establishment OF
the factory nucleus the comrades are
doing much better party work than
before. Only now have we a sound
basis for our propaganda work in the
factory, and we are sure that our leaf
let's are really distributed there. After
establishing this apparatus and ex'
tending the factory nucleus by grad
ually getting hold of all the Commun-
lists, we proceeded with the publica-
ton of factory newspaper. At first
of course we went about it in rather
clumsy manner, but after receiving a
few hints from an editor, we soon got
into the work. Our factory newspapers
have of course received particular at
tention from the management Of the
works, but we Communists have now
the satisfaction that non-party workers
approach us with the request for more
factory newspapers and themselves
bring contributions for the newspaper.
We utilized this politisation of the
workers and connected the sale of our
factory newspapers with a collection
for the Red Aid, and at election time,
for the election fund. The result has
been very satisfactory.
My experience in connection with
the factory nucleus is as follows:
There were comrades who were not
at all keen on it, they were too much
bound up with the old residential form
of organization. But soon they recog-
nized that factory nuclei are much
more advantageous to the party than
the old form of organization. The
party has considerably increased its
influence in the enterprise, and COM
rades are much more closely united
than before In conclusion I should
like to say to all comrades:
Establish factory nuclei every
where, publish factory newspaper in
every factory, publish your expert
ences in the party press IN order that
other comrades may profit by them.
If you do this, the influence of the
Communist Party Will ~ppeadf and the
party will be able to do Justice to the
tasks before it."
(Signed) Factory Nucleus Chair
man in -.
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moscow Professor Steklon, Of
the All-Union Academy Of Sciences
Leningrad), who has just returned
from a trip to Berlin. where he was
commissioned to purchase special In
strpments and apparatuses for the
Academy, tells the press representa-
tives that there is an intense and
growing interest in Germany for the
works Of the Russian scinetists and.
generally, the progress Of scientific.
thot in the U. S. S. r.
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the state of Tennessee had provided"
Bryan, Darrow, Scopes and the Judge
were all there true to the last detail,
and last but not least the monkey
himself was there with a monkey face
and switching his tail. He was all
but human and answered the questions
of Bryan with much intelligence.
The play was filmed by the movie
man. The crowd was also filmed at
various times. In the not distant
future this film will be shown in New
York and all those who attended yes
terday's outing will have the pleasure
Of seeing themselves on the screen
at that time. Watch for the advertise
ments for the showing of this original
film.
There was excellent food to be
bought at the food and drink booths
and before night everything was sold
down TO the last portion of ice cream
and the last hot dog.
Must Defend Our Soldiers.
In every way the affair was entirely
successful and the International La
Dor Defense has been strengthened to
carry on the great work for which 1t
was organized. And this work of de-
Tending and caring for class war pris-
oners and their families is one OF the
most important duties of the working
class.
Whatever happens. the defense OF
workers must go on. The next step
is to prepare for the coming confer
ence which will be held on Sunday,
Sept. 18th, at the Labor Temple, 243
East Saith street, and to which we
invite all working class organizations.
This conference will pave the way to
an ever stronger and greater defense.
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The Nucleus Chairman Of a Min
ing Enterprise Has Sent Us the
Following Account.

TN our mine various localities are
represented. l got into touch with
the managing committees of the Com
munist local groups, and got from
them a list of comrades employed in
our mine. ] picked out among them
the most reliable, and we all met on
Sunday. We discussed nucleus work
in the enterprise. The only question
was whether we should work illegally
or legally, After we had decided to
work Illegally, and after we had agreed
on the best manner of getting hold
of all the comrades, we held a meet
ing, and the. subject of the report was
nucleus work in the enterprise. After
thoro discussion we proceeded to
constitute the nucleus. There are
three shifts in our mines, and we
elected in every shift a shift-nucleus
leader, as we'll as a literature and
trade union secretary. These COM
rades constituted the executive of the
nucleus as whole. The elected com
rades received from the foreman of
this leading organ instructions to draw
all party members in the enterprise
into regular work. l made the nucleus
leaders responsible for the CARRYING
cut Of the work decided upon. The
nucleus leaders of every section were
given list of all the comrades work
ing in his section, and he must always
keep in touch with them. | as chair.
man try to find out if the nucleus
members of every shift receive the
Instructions which give their leader
Thus it is possible to draw every com.
rade into practical collaboration.
Our nucleus meets once fortnight
The nucleus leaders of every shift are
responsible for their nucleus members
attendance at the meetings. Every de.
parlment leader must present a report
Oh the work of the last two weeks
and this makes the meetings interest.
ing.
Collection Of membership subscrip-
tons in the mine is certainly the most
difficult question, because the marty
executive has not made any concrete
decisions on it. There are local grouns
who still stick to the old traditions
and have their doubts about nucleus
work. But | am doing nv hest m
solve this problem of collecting sinh.
scriptions in our enterprise in the fol.
lowing way. A sub-cashier is elected
in every shift and head cashier Of
the nucleus for the whole enterprise
The sub-cashiers Of the various shifts
settle accounts with the nucleus cash.
Ter, and the latter with the cashier of
the local group. In this manner II
VIII be possible to collect membership
subscriptions in our mine.
p. M,
Nucleus Chairman of the Mine
A MOTHER nucleus chairman has
4 sent us the following communica-
tion on the formation of the factory
nucleus: got a list of comrades
employed in the enterprise where
work from the party executive. Some
OF them I knew already personally,
and the others had seen at factory
meetings at which have always been
a keen observer. thereupon called
together the comrades from the vari-
GUS sections whom ! knew personally
and gave them the names OF party
members together with an invitation
to a meeting to be held the next eve
ming. | did not place on the agenda
the dry subject, Establishment OF a
Factory Nucleus" but q matter in
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everything had been torn down. Then
knew that there was no hope OF
making friends with this lot.
l carried on this game few days
running, and in the course of these
days knew my fellow workers almost
by heart.
l joined in the conversation Of fell
low workers whom in my secret
heart considered to be comrades, in
order to make quite sure, and 10 and
behold! one of them showed me his
membership card. Henceforth we
worked hand in hand. We approached
our fellow workers singly and worked
them up as one should do in such
cases-and the result was amazing.
We discovered that not less than eight
comrades worked in this enterprise,
and they all told me that they had
mistrusted one another. No one of
them dared to attempt to establish
nucleus. But now "the nucleus is
there" We are of course very pleased
with our success, and altho we must
not make ourselves too conspicuous in
the factory, for fear of being given the
push, we have been able to enlighten
a good few of our fellow workers on
the treacherous policy Of the social
democratic party, on the shameless at
titude Of employers and the disgrace
full treatment melted out by foremen
IN hn Sea,
struggles do not give us any uneasi-
ness, for we are convinced that our
work has not been in vain, especially
as eight strong supporters at factory
meetings out Of a star of fifty are by
no means negligible quantity.
A COMRADE from the building trade
"A has sent us the following account
Of the establishment of factory nu-
cleus: When the party issued the
slogan of reorganization on a factory
nucleus basis, l Immediately proceed
ed to elaborate in our trade building
workers) plan for the establishment
of nuclei. l submitted this plan to
several Of my fellow workers, but did
not meet at first with much encouraged
ment from them. saw, however, that
this was only due to the fact that
altho these comrades possessed mem
bership cards they had never seriously
considered why they had joined our
party nor what are our aims. This
being so, told myself that must be
patient, and l proceeded to organize
a meeting of comrades from various
places where builders were employed.
This meeting was quite we'll attended
for first meeting. I explained my
plans to them. Several comrades pnt
down their names for participation in
the discussion. They said that the
plan was all right, but that it could
not be carried out in the building
trade, as party comrades were scat
tered because of the nature of their
work, necessitating transference from
one building site to another. Others
again were of the opinion that one
should not complicate matters, as we
had already trade union fraction.
They said that this was sufficient and
that there was no need for a special
factory nucleus organization. l then
tried to explain my standpoint to the
comrades, telling them that we could
very well unite the Communist build
ers of our entire locality into one fac
tory nucleus, as the formation of sew
eral nuclei was fraught with great diff
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GREAT CROWDS GATHER AT MOST
SUCCESSFUL OUTING HELD BYN.Y.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE

NEW YORK.
Defense huge with
Scopes Trial 5urIesque.
The
taking of moving pictures The burque
crowds who responded to the excellent
the farmers
who their splitting snttoon which
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working hours. The membership OF
our nucleus has already gone up from
20 to 49, From a staff of $50 people,
1903 are readers Of the Communist press.
There is no special need for factory
nucleus newspapers, as Communist
newspapers can be obtained in the
factory. 1t is only when one is com
PEELED to work illegally and Commun.
list newspapers are prohibited, that
there is work to do for the editor of
a factory nucleus newspaper. Leaf
let's, ETC., are distributed in the fac.
tory. Well, no sooner did the nucleus
begin to be busy than the firm began
to hunt for the nucleus organizer.
Communist election addresses had
been posted in the factory-hence the
alarm of the management. But as our
nucleus organizer is invisible, the hunt
was in vain. We had successful col
lections for Red Aid in our factory.
The successes achieved by a capable
nucleus show us that we are on the
right way and give us hope of victo-
rions revolution. Well comrades.
who work in factories: Learn to form
factory nuclei, make factories strong,
holds Of the working class. Carry out
the Bolshevization of the party and
ensure thereby the ultimate victory Of
the working class.
No factory without a nucleus!
On with the work.
Long live FACTORY N,oIauuG
The Strongholds of the Revolution
Organization Departments Note:-
To prevent wrong deductions being
made from this report, we would like
to say that it is most expedient to or
ganize factory nuclei according to the
division Of the factory into sections.
blocks, or workshops. In general. me-
chanical divisions into groups of five
Is not to be recommended. But see.
tional nuclei should be formed whore
such thing has become an absolute
necessity
TT should not be necessary to form
1 special groups of Communist WON
en-, for our women comrades should
carry on the same kind of work and
in the same manner as the men COM
rades. Propaganda and agitation
among women factory workers is not
only the business of women comrades.
but also that of our men comrades.
But this does not mean that no spe-
cial groups of women sympathizers
with us should be formed among whom
our women comrades could do the nee
essary work.
Wherever possible, nucleus meet
ings should be held once a. week. II
these meetings are we'll prepared and
not too drawn out, attendance will be
better than if a nucleus meeting is
held once month and has an agenda
that takes up too much time.
Factory nucleus newspapers should
be published also in factories where
Communist newspapers are widely
read. The daily press cannot allow
enuf space for the discussion of oues-
lions arising in all the factories.
factory nucleus newspaper appeals d.
rectly to the workers of the respectiye
facory. 1t deals with factory questions
and connects with them the general
questions of the labor movement and
other political questions. The main
task of the factory nucleus newspaper
is to tell the workers continuously
what they must do to improve their
position.
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ficulties in our trade in which work
ers are continually shifting from place
to place. told them that if we stuck
to the trade union fraction work which
we had done hitherto, this would be
by no means factory nucleus organi-
cation. also said that comrades
must, above all, realize that our aim
is to build up the party on factory
nucleus basis, and that therefore, fac
tory nuclei are of fundamental impor-
lance. Unlike fractions, which only
discuss and organize work in the trade
unions, factory nuclei are the medium
thru which all party work should be
done carrying our party activity,
propaganda for the party and the
press, collection of membership con-
tributions).
We thereupon proceeded to form a
managing committee, making certain
that the largest building centers
should be taken into consideration.
We also appointed a nucleus repre-
sentative for every building site. The
first work of the nucleus was to col
lect signatures in favor of the initia-
ton of plebiscite in Switzerland
against excessive taxation. Every nu-
cleus member was given three to four
sheets and a list of the places where
he should collect signatures. COllec-
ton of membership contributions from
all workers engaged in the building
trade is also done now thru the nu-
cleus.
Next time will tell you about our
further work and experiences.
Red Builder.
Organization Departments Motel
The above example of the formation OF
nuclei in the building trade refers to
small locality. In larger localities,
party comrades employed on various
building sites of one and the same
employer should be organized into one
factory nucleus. Especially in the
building trade, it is essential to pub
fish factory nucleus newspapers, as it
is difficult to exercise thoro and con-
tinuous influence over workers en-
ployed in this industry which necessi-
tates frequent shifting from place to
place.
THE nucleus chairman of a medium
= sized industrial enterprise has sent
us the following account: 1--WE started
our important work with the party
slogan: TO the Factories!' There
were in our factory comrades from
various local groups, and they were
organized into nucleus. We started
with 20 Communist members and we
proceeded to elect the executive whose
composition is: Nucleus organizer, or
ganization organizer, agitprop organ
izer steward for professions, demon
STATIONS, etc., trade union organizer,
cashier and Red Aid organizer. Then
we divided all members into groups
Of five, allotting leader to each, and
into a group of Communist women.
The whole factory was divided into
sections and every group of five was
allotted one of the sections as its field
Of activity. Membership subscriptions
are collected weekly thru the leaders
OF these groups of five, and this en-
sures regularity. Nucleus meetings are
held whenever important political and
economic questions arise. Those ques-
tions are discussed and this ensures
united action by the whole nucleus
within the factory. Regular nucleus
meetings are held once a month after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29
Color Prejudice

A coored police officer into Cleveland
coffee The informed him served
of his color The coored policeman arrested
and took him the station Wheeupon
Lieutenant by the Of Walsh the
soundy beraed the oored officer for
policeman the higher authority,
the restaurant held a charge Of violating
Ohio civil rights law. Such is life free
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29
Workers Strike In Boston

BosToN-About 300 cloak and suit
workers employed by contractors are
striking because jobbers and contrac-
tors refuse to renew the agreement
for another six months. Sol Seidman.
organizer and vlce-president Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers I'm
ion says. Manufacturers renewed the
contract, affecting about 70 per cent
OF the cloak and suit workers. Strikes
are on In the rs shops of contractors
Tor the 8 jobbers who did not renew.
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British Unemployed Number f,2es,o
LONDON, England, Aug. 27.-The
number Of unemployed persons in
Great Britain continues TO mount The
increase last week, according to flr.
ures issued yesterday. was 10000.
bringing the total to 1r2as.ooe
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