The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-23
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Build THE Daily --BuiId the Nucleus
BY }. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

IN discussing the question OF the
4 Communist press and party reor-
ganization, three natural divisions
present themselves:
First.-The press and the party I'M
der the present, geographical form Of
organization.
Second.-The press and the party
during the time of transition from
the geographical to the shop nuclei
form of organization.
Third.-The press and the party I'M
der the new form of organization with
the shop nucleus as its basic unit.
An Argument for the Change.
THE dinicult and well-night impos.
i sible struggle to build mass Com
munist press, under the geographical
form of party organization, is one Of
the strongest arguments that can be
used in favor Of the change.
Where contact with the masses is
developed, in cases of strikes, or the
concentration of effort upon some
shop or industry, the contact is usual
ly lost when the strike has passed,
or the special campaign comes to an
end as it must. There is no nucleus
left in the shop or industry directly
concerned to continue and develop
the interest Of these workers In the
problems of the working class as a
whole. They fall back into their usual
rut, until stirred again, while the geo
graphical branch, based primarily up
on the election campaign divisions Of
the capitalist class, reyerts to its for
mer isolation If it ever managed to
escape from 1t. In the performance
of its routine duties, the DAILY
WORKER committee Of the branch,
except during special drives, usually
reports mo progress" a report that
is usually accepted without much
| comment Success in winning work
er correspondents for the DAILY
WORKER under the present organ
/ national form has been absolutely nil.
Workers gathered in the geographi.
cal branches do not think in terms of
the problems that arise on their jobs
In the city of Chicago, for instance
where the DAILY WORKER is pub.
lished. strikes have como and gone
important problems have time and
again faced the workers, but no work
er has ever thot of writing about his
needs and grievances. When asked
to do so, he instinctively feels that
that is the exclusive duty and task
Of the editorial stan of the paper.
During the Transition Period.
One Of the first problems that pre-
sents itself during the period of tran
sition is to firmly establish the newly
organized nucleus and to increase its
strength. A geographical branch ma,
hibernate and carry on a casual exist
ence. But the shop nucleus that re
mains inactive, will dry up and dis
appear. Only the struggle will keel
it alive.
The Communist press is the quick
est and easiest weapon at hand il
solving the problem of activity fol
the newly created shop nucleus. 1t il
not enough to concern the nucleus
with the getting of new readers, thru
the securing of subscriptions, tn,
sale of individual copies, or the dis
tribution of bundle lots of the paper
Stories of shop conditions, or tn,
problems of the industry, must b,
sent in for publication, by the work
er correspondents of the nucleus, VIII,
must be its most active because bes
informed members. Thus the work
ers will be introduced not only to tn
DAILY WORKER, but to the Worker
(Communist) Party and its struggl
for the workers nationally, and to tn
Communist movement internationally
The campaigns for the organization O
the unorganized, for amalgamation
for the labor party, for the protection
Of the foreign-born, against child Ia