The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-20
BY WALT cARMoN.

| Altn0 the American COHuuulSJ
movement is recognizing on the
basis of shop nuclei, it has not SOLVED
everything" A shop nucleus can also
be quite dead. Just as inert and as
lifeless and as dead as any branch
whose ghost continues to drag itself
thru the books of our party.
But a nucleus permeated with a
true spirit of Communism can prove
to be the seed of our future full Com
munist growth.
In such nucleus there will be an
organizer-the most capable comrade
in the group and its guiding spirit.
But next to him, and second to him
only in Importance, will be that COM
rade on whose ability and under
standing will depend a great deal of
the groups real success in building
the Communist movement: the pro-
paganda director In other words
the DAILY WORKER literature
agent. The comrade who in the
present form of organization which
our party is discarding, was only
too often, if not the unwilling holder
of a title only, at least a comrade
whose good intentions were INSULT
cient for the important position of
propaganda director
Make Daily an Influence.
Half of the branches in our party
have not even yet deemed it impor-
tant enough to grant one of it's men,
bers the title! Out of thirteen
hundred branches, slightly over six
hundred have elected DAILY WORK
Err agents. of these about three
hundred and fifty were ever heard
from; and only half of these could be
called active Right in this set of
figures one can guess part of the
reason why The DAILY WORKER is
not now greater influence among
the masses-and what is greatly
responsible for the financial difficult
ties in which The DAILY WORKER
finds itself. Here also, is real evil
dence of a lack understanding of the
Importance of our daily to the party.
In the reorganization of our party,
next to the organizer of the nucleus,
must be The DAILY WORKER agent
the propaganda director, if you will.
Must be, | repeat, to be, that driving
force in each little Communist cell
that will so stimulate the growth of
the Communist body. Necessarily.
this comrade must be one from among
the very best in the group: a com
rade of understanding, judgement and
ability.
Great responsibilities await him if
he is fully to perform his duty. To
assist in bolsheyizing the nucleus
first: to give its membership an I'M
derstanding of Communist principles
and tactics thru the medium of "im-
mediate daily influence of Communist
theology the daily influence
of The DAILY WORKER, language
press, and the books and pamphlets of
the teachers of the Communist move
ment. A grave responsibility this is
indeed and one that begins and ends
with an ever pressing campaign to
make every party member a sub
scriber to The DAILY WORKER. (In
Russia, subscription to the official
party organ is a condition OF men,
bership). It is for this first respon-
sibility" that the questionable of
the organization department Of the
party asks: Are you a subscriber
to The DAILY WORKER?" The pro-
paganda director must have all the
latest literature at all nucleus meet
ings-and there are many other re-
probabilities he has to the nucleus
itself.
Agent and Correspondent.
But this is not all. To make The
DAILY WORKER truly a reflection
of the lives of the workers, to make
1t of greater interest to the workers
in his shop-he must serve as a re-
gular worker correspondent-or see
to the election of one in his nucleus.
He must also get other non-party
workers to write for The DAILY
WORKER. Bolshevizing his nucleus,
the propaganda director can assist in
Bolshevizing our press.
In the external activity of the
nucleus, The DAILY WORKER agent
is the driving force" in full action
and with him every member under
his guidance: to get subscribers to
The DAILY WORKER, secure worker
correspondents; arrange for the sale
and distribution Of The DAILY WORK
Err and all literature at the factory
gates (by party members not work
ing in the shop IL necessary; at noon
hour meetings: to advertise The DAI-
LY WORKER by stickers, chalk
marks and word Of moutb In. tho