The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-04

Milan with $50 members. The entire
organization in Milan has thousand
members. approximately half of the
membership is organized in street
nuclei. The Italian factory nuclei are
somewhat different from the street
nuclei in other countries for not mere
ly are they composed of party mem
bers, but also of sympathizers. This
looser form in the Italian nuclei him
ders them without doubt in their eff
forts to become real Bolshevik party
nuclei. However, the factory nuclei
carry on far greater activity than
that of the old groups" Thanks to
the revival of the work of the G. P.
I. and the general strengthening of
the anti-fascist movement, the mem
bership of the party has doubled itself
in the last few months and has now
reached $4,000.
Great Britain: The c. P. G.B. is
directing great attention to the reor-
ganization Of the party upon the fac
tory nuclei. The formation of nuclei
is made very difficult by the numeri-
cal weakness of the party. Despite
this however, there are IL factory
nuclei in existence in Great Britain.
A plan for the reorganization Of the
whole party has been drafted.
U. S. A: A great discussion is TAX
ing place in the Workers Party OF
America upon the question of the re
organization upon the basis of the fac
tory nuclei. The reorganization meets
with great difficulties on account OF
the various nationalities among the
American workers, and on account OF
the fact that the immigrants can oft
entimes not understand the English
language and because of the numeri.
cal weakness of the American Party
At the moment the party actually rep.
resents federation of national sec
tons loosely bound together in which
sequence of this the reorganization
must be proceeded with very care
fully. The organizational department
of the e. G. of the G. /. is of the op.
inion that the national sections must
be maintained, their functions must
however be confined to agitation and
propaganda work amongst the work
ers of their particular nationality
The chief political work and the party
work in general must go thru the fac.
tory nuclei which must organize all
Communists OF a particular factory
without distinction of nationality. De.
spite hindrances there are already a
few factory nuclei in the United
States. The Young Workers League
is already almost completely reorgan
: lied on the basis OF factory nuclei
(This is inaccurate, but the Y. w. L.
is working hard to this end.-Ed.
Note.)
! Scandinavia: I. Norway: The Nor.
wegian Workers Party, from which
the Communist Party of Norway or
iginated, was built up upon the basis
of collective membership of the trade
unions and individual membership was
quite unknown. Whole trade union
sections have affiliated to it. This cir.
} cumstance in reality placed the trade
unions above the party and was not
able to promote the development OF
the ACTIVITY of the party members
Therefore. the first task of the C. p
consisted in carrying out the change
from collective to individual member
ship. This has already been practic
: ally carried out. Work is now pro
J ceeding for the formation OF factory
J nuclei. In Oslo (Christiania) there
are 3S factory nuclei organized in var
'lious districts. The party members