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

work in practice is not built on real
tiles, and is therefore wrong A Boil
shevist party cannot build on such
good" theories that do not work in
practice. Form and activities of a
Bolshevist party must be made a per-
fectly harmonious unit of theory and
practice.
XRTHAT is the theory of shop nue.
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The Communist Party must be the
head of the working class. The head
is the most important member of the
body. 1t has the eyes to see, the
ears to hear, the mouth to speak; it
is the seat Of the brain where all i'm
pressions concentrate to be digested,
assimilated and transformed into ac-
ton. But the head alone cannot act.
A head only functions in connection
with the body. This connection is
supplied by a system OF nerves.
Nerves are the conveyors by means
of which the body transmits all the
Impressions it receives to the head,
the brain. The nerves are also the
conveyors that transmit the under
standing, the initiative the will Of
action Of the head to the body. The
strike of the fist against the enemy
emanates from the head. The nerves
convey the will of the head to the
arm and fist and that member rises
to descend forcefully on the skull
of the enemy.
n COMMUNIST party that wants
"A to be the leader, the head of
the working class, must penetrate the
whole body of the working class with
a system of nerves. 1t must per-
meate every manifestation of life of
the proletariat with an organizational
system of nuclei. Every labor organ
ization must be thus permeated.
But the basic labor organization,
supplied by capitalist itself is the
grouping of larger or smaller numbers
Of workers at the place Of work, in
the shop.
All struggles of the working class
originate from the relation of that
organization to the exploiter. All
pressure that drives the workers to
fight is applied and felt in the shop.
The original form that the worker
meets capitalism in. is the relation of
the worker in the shop to his boss
or the boss representative. The
first form that class solidarity takes
among the workers is the solidarity
of the workers in one shop. If our
Communist Party wants to hear and
see for the workers, it must be organ
lied in the shops. If it wants to gain
leadership over the workers SO that
the latter may act in accordance with
the party's strategy AID tactics, it
must be organized in the shop and
must thru this organization, thru the
nucleus, influence the workers in the
shop. Thru party organization in the
shop, the party feels the pulse of
the working class. Thru the organi-
cation in the shop, the party inspires
and leads the workers.
n LII these considerations make it
n imperative that the shop nucleus
shall be the basic unit OF our party.
The reasons why this should be so
apply to the United States as much as
they apply to any other country in the
world.
But, say some comrades, we nave
some difficulties here in putting the
plan into effect. Language difficulties,
organizational difficulties, etc.
Unquestionably there are difficult
ties. However, our comrades must
learn to reformuIate the problem.
Some say now: There are serious
difficulties in the way Of that task;
therefore We cannot carry it out"
They must say: sour struggle against
capitalism demands the carrying out
Of that task; therefore, let us find
ways to overcome all the obstacles In
the way"
MANY Of the difficulties are already
lVI solved-theoretically. The prln-
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