The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-24


days ago, will be of interest to all
members Of the Workers Party, max
ing available the experiences gained
so far for all units Of the party.
To the Executive Committee of the
Communist International
Dear Comrades : Your letter of No
vember %, 1924, on the matter of shop
nuclei has been received. Your let.
ter will be most helpful and we hope
it will be followed by additional ma
terial and suggestions on organiza-
ton and experiences in carrying on
shop nuclei work in the other Com
munist Parties.
The plan of organization which you
outline is the one which we have been
working on and which we hope to car
ry out in due time.
We are enclosing the thesis on re-
organization Of the party on the basis
of shop nuclei which was unanimous
ly adopted by the central executive
committee a number Of days before
receipt of your letter.
We think that you will find 1t in
thoro harmony with the policy on
shop nuclei of the Comintern. We
have, as you will note, corrected our
errors in conception and organization
of shop nuclei as contained in the
original resolution on factory nuclei
adopted at the second convention of
our party in January, 1924. Especial
ly as concerned with language organ
ization. dues payments. etc.
Followed Piatnitzky's Articles.
We have followed Comrade Piatnit-
zky's articles on shop nuclei organiza-
ton very closely, especially as out
lined in his articles in the Communist
international No. 4, English edition,
which goes into details on the way to
carry out the reorganization.
There is not any disagreement be-
tween your outline and ours. Yours
is a finished form Of organization,
that is, when shop nuclei organization
has proceeded to a very great extent.
while we have had to deal with but
the preliminaries of the organization
and therefore our immediate and prac-
blCdt dpDIOdCuCo 0IO NdildOAGs Uut nav
ing the same foundation and form. We
are even yet in the propaganda stage
in many instances of shop nuclei or
ganization. Not all the party units
by far. especially the language organ
izations, understand the necessity of
reorganization on the factory nuclei
basis.
We suggest to you that you deal in
a special communication on this ques-
ton in a great part with the role of
language groups and members or aux
iliaries when the party is a party of
shop nuclei. This will no doubt go a
long way in getting the language fed
erations more energetically behind
the reorganization.
At present we are following the plan
of organizing shop nuclei in favorable.
yet isolated instances. for the purpose
of experience and demonstration of
the superiority of shop nuclei over the
territorial or geographical form of or
ganization. This is on the basis of
information gotten thru the industrial
registration. We have organized some
shop nuclei in the city of Chicago and
In Gary. These are in the needle,
printing, machine shop and steel in
dustries. They have not been organ;
lied within a particular territory or
ward, but from locality in general
These are working out fairly well, de-
spite inexperience, and indicate much
promise for the future.
We are enclosing copies Of material
sent to district organizers on expert
ences to date in organizing shop nu'
clei which will explain some of the
difficulties thus far in the work and
some Of the benefits.
Work Will Grow.
It must be understood very clearly
that it is not our intention to continue
for a very long period the method OF
organizing shop nuclei in isolated in
stances and places. When these fac
tory nuclei have, among other things