The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21

most effective attacks against the en-
envy, against capitalism, with the
forces at our disposal?"
To create this atmosphere among
the members OF our party is the task
of our campaign for Bolshevlzation.
But the needs of reorganization do
not permit us to carry out that cam
paign separate from the problem of
actual reorganization.
4 our party the problem of Boil
l Shevizing the minds Of our COM
rades and Bolshevizing the forms Of
our organization must be solved con-
currently.
The greatest technical problem Of
reorganization is presented by the
need Of propaganda and agitation
among those workers in America who
do not speak the native tongue of Eng
lish. But for the solution of this prob
lem the presently existing declarations
can be preserved. If our party is
made solid, compact organism that
draws every one Of its members into
the general functions of the body,
then the federation will no longer be
able 70 act as seggregators by its mere
existence.
THE existence of the declarations
1 will then supply an additional ma
chinery to the party for foreign Ian
guage propaganda and agitation.
These declarations will then no longer
be actually parallel organizations to
the party as whole but helpful aux
iliaries. Their functions will then be
limited not only by rule on paper
but by the fact that the new organ
national forms of the party do not
leave them any other function except
the one that gives them right for ex-
istence.
Here again the Bolshevization OF
the concept Of the membership is
needed. The needs of the revolution
airy struggle, and the needs OF the
leading role of the party must be put
in the foreground. Instead of a pro
branch. pro-district, a pro-federation
atmosphere there must be developed
an anti-capitalist atmosphere. The
healthy efforts that most of the sub
divisions Of the party made in tho past
to cooperate with the party as a
whole in the solution of these prob
lens is some guarantee that this
spirit can and will be developed and
that we will get a party hewn out of
one piece.
CaiNCE the Bolshevization of organ
- ization and action must go hand
in hand it is clear that a mere tech
nical reorganization does not suffice.
The task remains to fill the nuclei
with life.
In the good old days" we had many
branches into whose meetings there
never penetrated even a Whit of the
storm of the class struggle that whis-
tied around the ears OF the proletar-
ian masses in the land. Branch meet
ings in many, too many instances,
were affairs where the spirit of the
struggle was put asleep in. endless
and meaningless routine, instead of
being placed where this spirit was
famed. If the shop nuclei should
only take over these routine functions
of many of our old branches, the reor-
ganization would not mean Bolsheviz.
ation-but only a temporary disturb
ance of the comfortable sleep of those
branches and members. In the last
years there was considerable i'm
provement and our branches have be-
come more lively. But, as said at
the beginning, the eggshells of our
former being are still clinging to us
here and there.
THE reorganization will help in the
Il solution Of the problems. First it
win draw every member who works
in the shop. into action. And second
1t will put the problems Of party ac-
tivity up 10 the members in more
concrete manner than the territorial
and language branch form. It win
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