The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-13
THE POWER OF SHOP NUCLEI
FOR COMMUNIST WORK9IN
AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS

mittee form of organization. This,
in itself, may be wholly inadequate
and dangerous to our party without
at the same time, a network of shop
nuclei of our party in control of these
shop committees. The shop nuclei
already organized have in most cases,
gained control of the shop COM
mittees very quickly.
Organize the Unorganized.
The party's campaign for organ
izing the unorganized cannot be real
lied thru the traditional method Of
using paid organizers. 1t can only
be carried on successfully through
the establishment of shop nuclei in
the industries and establishments we
wish to organize. There is no doubt
that the party will have to discard
it's present haphazard use of it's
forces. Capable comrades will have
to be INDICTED into key factories and
industries for organization purposes,
power plants, transportation lines,
telephone and telegraph companies,
and the large trustified plants which
dominate each particular industry.
The shop nucleus will be the center
from which will radiate the energy
and the power behind these organ
ization campaigns. This was proven
in a number of instances during the
past year, where the shop nuclei have
campaigns and have succeeded in
unionizing a number Of shops.
AmaIgamation.
Amalgamation cannot be realized
through preaching and propaganda
alone. There must be some medium
which acts as unifying force be-
tween the workers of different crafts
in the same industry, pointing out
constantly the inefficiency of the craft
form Of organization and gradually
fusing the crafts together into uni
fed whole. The most powerful uni
flying force in factory is the shop
nucleus. The shop nucleus with its
representatives from all crafts and
departments of the shop, gives the
workers not only the viewpoint of the
shop but that of the industry as a
whole in place of the narrow craft
outlook.
Building the Party
The recent victories of the Commun-
lists in the trade union movement, their
successful fight against explosions.
particularly in the l. L. G. w. U. their
growing influence and prestige, must
be capitalized for the party. There is
great danger that the allies and SYM
pathizers which have been won over
will drop away as soon as the en-
thusiasm of the battle dies down.
These sympathetic elements must be
brought closer and bound by party
discipline in preparation for future
struggle. They must be educated be-
yond the trade union issues and i'm.
mediate demands, to the complete
political program of the party. The
easiest and most natural raIlying
center for these new members to the
party, proletarians who have been
tested in the fire of the class struggle,
is the shop nucleus. The fact that the
most active comrades in the trade
unions, those who are on the front
line trenches, are not active in the
party branches, is partly due to a
faulty territorial form of organization
The party cannot afford to have these
valuable elements abstain from active
participation. 1t is an essential step
in Bolshevization that the proletariau
elements in the shops WELD a more
potent influence over and participate
more theoretically in the formulation
Of the policies and the destinies OF
the party. AS soon as our comrades
in the factories realize the power OF
the shop nucleus, and energeticall,
try to make use Of it, we will be on
the road to the formation of a mass
Communist party in this country.