The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-19
BY w. UL5RIGHT.
ARTICLE l.

| THE political tasks OF the Commun-
l. list parties demand that factory
nuclei be the foundation of party or
ganization. However, we must not
forget that it is essential to organ
ize also comrades who are not in in
dustrial enterprises and cannot be at
tached to factory nuclei. These COM
rades must be organized and in street
nuclei as it is absolutely necessary
to work Systematically among those
employed in small concerns, and
among housewives, unemployed and
the petty bourgeois classes, in resi-
Dental districts. The necessity of
this procedure is particularly notice
able during election campaigns. In
the course of the past few months we
had occasion to observe that in two
of the most important sections of the
Comintern, in the Communist Party
of France and the Communist Party of
Germany the election campaigns were
not carried on quite satisfactorily
The G. P. of F. was not active enuf in
! the residential districts as it almost
! entirely depended on factory nuclei
and the workers groups proved to be
failure. The c. P. G. on the other
hand carried on its election agitation
| almost entirely in the residential dis
tricts and neglected the factories.
Shop Nuclei and Election Campaigns
Attic agitation in the residential
districts is very important, agitprop
work during election campaigns
should be first and foremost concen
trated on industrial enterprises, for
the following reasons: ~
(a) The close connection of factory
questions with general political ques-
tons brought forward at elections,
give a very good opportunity to ex-
pose the election trickery of the op-
ponent parties.
(b) During an election campaign,
our first concern is to capture indus
trial workers as completely as pos
sible, because it is they who count
most in all labor. struggles.
(c) With the help of factory news
papers and by selling dailies in and
outside the factories, we can easily
influence the most important sections
of the working class In systematic
manner.
Cd Only by carrying on agitation
and propaganda in the factories on a
large scale during election campaigns
is it possible to organize rapidly and
successfully factory delegations and
mass demonstrations at the opening
Of parliament
Winning the SoeiaI-Demoeratie
The same applies to the struggle
| against the social-democratic party.
We will not make much Roadway if
we limit ourselves to general agita-
ton against the socialdemocratic
party in parliament. Such agitation
leads frequently to a more or less
serious clash between the social-de-
mocratic parliamentary leaders and
Communist parliamentary debaters.
But this does very little towards con-
vincing and winning over social-demo-
cratic workers. In the factories, how
ever, we can bring to the notice of
the workers the nature of the social.
democratic policy in connection with
all everyday questions. The social
democrats have recognized the i'm
portance of factory agitation. For in
stance, the report of the district man.
aging committee of the Berlin-Bran-
denberg district of the socialist party
OF Germany contains the following
statement:
The factory secretariat has taken
measures to supply our represent
atives in the factories with the ne.
cessary material in order to bring our
party again into good repute in the
trade unions and factories"
This quotation shows the import.
ance which the socialist party of Ger
many attaches to factory agitation.
IL is this which has enabled social
democratic leaders to keep social-de-
mocratic members in the party. in
spite OF their betrayal Of the inter.
ests of the workers. A section of the
social-democratic leaders deceived the
workers by radical phraseology in
parliament, whilst with the assistance
OF the influence of social-democratic
leaders, they INSTRUCTED the workers
In the factories in their every action.
These experiences are lesson that
we must first of all capture factory
workers, in order to take away the
ground from under the feet of the
social-democratic party. Then Com.
munist factory nuclei will be able to
act as the active vanguards of the
workers in their struggle for their