The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-11

question of organizing a day nursery
for the peasants during the summer
field work. 1t was time now, he
thought, to proceed to the organiza-
ton of voluntary Society Of Guar
dams. taking in any nonparty people
who would be willing to work. Only
so could the connection with the vii
lage be put on broad enough basis,
with enough willing workers to carry
on all the activities needed.
No, he said, there was no sanitary
organization. but there was a very
good, small Sanitary Commission
which had been doing some good
work. 1t was not possible. in such a
small factory with only few hundred
workers, to start so many organiza-
tions. It was best to start organiza-
tions for the important things, but
merely have commissions for others.
l began to get the difference be-
tween commissions" and "organiza-
TONS" In facing any problem, from
sanitation to the relation with the pea
SAINT, from illiteracy to political pris-
oners abroad, the Party group in the
factory first organized cmmission,
chosen from among its own members.
When this had been going for some
time, and had aroused some enthusi-
asm, then an attempt was made to
create larger organization, drawing
in nonparty members to do as much of
the work as possible. But the line of
direction had always been fixed first
by the Partys commission. Thus they
were permeating ever wider and wider
groups of workers and drawing them
into active participation in many new
movements.
THERE were many such move
4 ments in this factory. The Down
With Illiteracy Society, the Friends
Of Children, raising money for home
less children, the M. o. P. r., the Vii
lage Get-Together organization, the
Cultural Bureau, the organization for
the Protection of Labor, the organiza-
tion for Speeding up Production. All
of these had been once launched by
I the Party, but were now functioning,
not under the Party, but under sthe
Factory Committee, elected by all the
workers. They had become part of
the accepted life of the factory. But
the Communists who had launched
them still kept a guiding hand on
them, assigned members to work in
them, received reports from them
and made suggestions to them, with
the aim of keeping all the life of the
factory,-its production, its workers
rights, its cultural groups,-in line
with the ultimate progress towards
Communism
"The most interesting job in the
factory is that of party secretary"
whispered R. to me, as the meeting
went on. after that comes the job
of managing the plant. But the Party
secretary really has more responsible
ity. If anything at all goes wrong
in production, or in the life of the
workers, he is going to get knocked
for it. 1t is the duty of the manager
to see that the factory produces well;
he must satisfy the trust. 1t is the
duty of the factory committee to see
that the workers get goodsTwages and.
conditions of labor; they must salts
the workers. But in the reconciling
of these two demands, and in the big
Eger questions Of making the factory
serve the ultimate needs of a social.
list state--that's where the party sec
| rotary has to satisfy everybody. If
he sees friction growing between man
ager and workers, he must forestall
trouble, sometimes by arguing poll
tics with the workers and showing
them what is and is not possible,
and sometimes by recommending the
removal of the boss"
THE young secretary. had just ans
4 swered question. Amid clamori
arose in the back of the hall. 9csOurs
party committees are getting to be
regular pets Of the administration"
said a disconnected worker. The