The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-21
BY ossIP PIATNlTzkY.
Continued from last Saturday,

TN this article l will limit myself to
few facts from the German ex-
perience. In 1928 factories and work
shops in Germany were, with few
exceptions minus party nuclei, but in
the big factories and workshops Com.
munists were members of factory and
workshop committees.
AS there were no nuclei even in the
factories where Communists served
on factory committees, there was no
lead or control of the committees,
thru any nucleus.
Besides, the Communists in the fac
tory and workshop committees had
no definite standing because they had
no proper support due to the fact that
the Communists in the factories were
not co-ordinated into one body.
TlHE result was that the discontent-
l. ed workers of these factories and
workshops were led and controlled by
trade union representatives and mem
bers Of the socialdemocratic party
who played up to the mood of the
workers, proposing radical resolu.
tions, etc. But when these humbugs
were given the leadership of the move
ment by the workers they did their
utmost to hinder the movement and
certainly did nothing to encourage it.
AS yet there was no one who could
have exposed all these Judases to the
factory workers, for the Communists
among them were not co-ordinated,
they had no uniform leadership and
were not all of them working for the
same aim.
And Germany provided examples in
the first half of 1924 during the big
strikes in the Ruhr and the Hamburg
district which showed clearly the diff
ference in the leadership of the move
ment in factories, mines and docks;
wherever nuclei existed, the leader
ship of the movement was entirely
factories where no nuclei existed,
Communists acted against Commun-
lists and in some places Communist
chairmen of meetings refused to put
to the vote resolutions proposed by
Communists.
THE same might be observed lately
4 in Italy, in Milan and Turin. In
works and factories with properly
functioning nuclei the latter became
the leading centers of these works
and factories. The recent demonstra-
tions of the Milan metal workers
against the agreement of their fas-
cist trade union with the metal In
dustry employers were under the guild
ance of the factory nuclei of our
party. Big workers meetings which
take place in Italy when the workers
leave their factories at the end of the
days work and which are frequently
attended by as many as 5000 work
ers, have only become possible after
the organization of nuclei in the fac
tories, for it is they who organize
these meetings and carry them thru
ON the other hand, where factories
~ in Italy have no party nuclei, or
where these nuclei are not very &C
tive, there are no meetings, no dem
onstrations against trade unions and
other fascist organizations.
Everything has been done by the
Communist International to make the
Communist parties Of Europe and Am
erica realize the Importance of Great
ing correct forms of organization.
The theses and report of Comrade
zinoviev on the role Of the party in
the revolution presented at the Sec
ond Congress Of the Communist Inter
national, Comrade Lenin's statement
on the same question and nearly every
one of the 81 conditions adopted at
the same Second Congress gave to the
sections of the Communist Interna- !
tional minute instructions on the