The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
BY JAY LovEsroNE.

raised at the recent party member
ship meetings.
Question What control will the
party have over the shop nuclei To-
Gated in the small shops?
Answer-The various shop nuclei
found in a particular industrial d.
vision Of city are combined into
sub-sections and sections. When our
party is developed into a mass Com
munist Party with many thousands
of members, we will find that it may
be necessary to divide the cities of
the type of New York and Chicago
into more sections and perhaps even
sub-districts.
The party constitution provides for
the election of subsection, section
and city executive committees by the
membership in the respective sub-di-
visions. Each of these executive COM
mittees, in turn, elects a secretary
organizer "who is to be responsible
for the maintenance of connections
with the next higher unit and for
the execution of the decisions of the
committees
The Central Executive Committee,
thru it's connection with the district
organization, maintains contact with
the various succeeding lower units
The national party center will also
for some time maintain direct con-
nection with every shop nucleus sec
retary-organizer and will transmit in
structions directly when the situation
demands such procedure. Thus,
whether shop nucleus is organized
in small shop or big factory, it
will be within the frame of the APP
paratus in the subsection, section,
etc, and will be directly connected
with the Central Executive Commit
tee. The activity reports will be a
part of the regular order of business
to be attended to at every meeting
of every shop nucleus. This will fur
Their help The party's having adequate
control over the shop nuclei in the
small shops as we'll as in the big fac
tories.
Question s.-Where will the shop
nuclei meet?
Answer.-The choice of meeting
place depends on number of cir
cumstances. In some cases it will
be found that there is one or more
party meeting centers, or headquar-
tiers, in particular industrial section.
These headquarters can and should
be used as meeting places by the
shop nuclei in the particular indus
trial section.
When shop nucleus is small. it
may even use the home of a COM
rade. If the home is close to the
organized, it will tend to insure regu-
larity of meetings.
OF course, meeting places may also
be hired. everal shop nuclei, if not
too big, may get together on such
meeting arrangements to tighten the
financial burdens thus involved.
While It may be necessary and
proper for the comrades of a parti-
cular shop nucleus to meet very often
with each other in the factory, this
should not be taken to mean that
organized shop nuclei meetings
should be held in the factory where
the comrades are employed. AS a
rule, the holding of such meetings
in the factory would only make more
difficult the functioning and very like
ly even endanger the existence of the
shop nucleus. 1t is our task to make
the shop nucleus a moving, a direct
iIg force in the plant and to popular
ize as much as possible the nucleus
among the workers We must spare
no pains in making known to the
workers the existence and influence
of the shop nucleus. But in doing
this, we must avoid those methods
which will undermine the possibili-
ties of work.
Question s.-What are the relations
between the district executive COM
mittees and the party reorganization
commissions?
Answer.-The answer to this ques-
ton can be best given in a definition
of the tasks of the party district re-
organization commissions. Concrete
ly, these tasks may be enumerated
as:
(a) To direct the agitation and
propaganda campaign for the reor-
ganization Of the district in question.
(b) To direct the preliminary re-
organization steps in the re-organiza-
ton campaign under the direction Of
the c. e. G. organization department
and in full cooperation with the Dis
trict Executive Committee.
(c) To sub-divide the district into
industrial sections. sub-sections, etc.
Id To direct the organization of
the district membership into shop
and street nuclei on the basis of in
formation gathered at the section
4 membership meetings. The fullest CO.
operation with the district executive
lcommittees must be secured in or
der TO achieve success in this.