The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-10


we are insisting upon converting a
actory meeting to be attended by the
management In the question of the
factory meeting also we have learned
very clearly how difficult our work is
because we have no comrade on the
factory council
Owing to technical difficulties we
could not go further than our first
number of the factory paper. We lack
a printing apparatus. We wrote out
the first paper and since we are all
long-standing workers of the firm, the
management has at least one sample
of handwriting of each of us, and we
were almost removed We will get
our wives to write the next one for
us.
At the present time the reorganiza-
ton of our factory plays an import
ant role; this, with the increased ex-
ploitation of the personnel, and the
wage-rate decided last January in the
metal industry, forms the chief eco
nomic points which concern the per-
sonnet and the nucleus. The politi-
cal matters which have thus far
busted the personnel and nucleus, we
can mention: Locarno, the party
congress of the social democratic
party of Germany in Heidelberg, the
dissolution of the landtag in Saxony,
and price reductions in Saxony. The
nucleus paid special attention to the
E. G. G. /. letter.
With regard to trade union unity,
we have thus far achieved a minor
success, in that at a recent trade
union meeting, the question of Bri-
fish trade union unity was presented,
thus giving us, for the first time, an
opportunity to discuss thoroly the
matter with our social democratic
colleagues.
Forty of our fellow workers in the
factory are members of the Red Aid
and pay their dues regularly. The de-
velopment proceeds slowly, but upon
firm foundation. The turnover of
party literature varies. We sell regu-
larly the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Work
ers' Illustrated), and the Kneuppel
(CudgeD.
In general the entire nucleus work
has been prejudiced in that the fac
tory police, and the associated men,
ace of discharge have logged the path
of our comrades, and hence our nu-
cleus work must be naturally illegal
Participation in the collection for
the delegation to Russia was weak
Report of the delegation will be re-
ceived in an open trade union meet
ing. Any kind of contact with for
eign nucleus unfortunately has not
yet been made.
With regard to education, it is nee
essary, first of all, to acquaint the
members with the History of the So
cial Democracy" (Mehring) We then
worked thru the essentials of Marx
in order to create a foundation to be
complemented by Lenin and the other
necessary Communist works. We en-
phasized the necessity of our COM
rades remembering the things that
they hear in order to be capable of
participating in the discussion. We
attach particular value to this be-
cause we know that in this matter we
can best influence the social demo-
cratic workers, and even if they do
not come all the way at first, we
nevertheless feel that they sympa-
thize with us very strongly. The man.
agement of our factory prohibits
every political worker in the factory.
This can naturally only mean us, so
if our nucleus were careless in car
rying on its tasks, discharge would
be certain.
In general, we do not encounter
any other difficulties. Certain social
democratic functionaries tried to rifle
our comrades with sarcasm (paid
Moscow agents, etc. but of course,
without result.
District executive, sub-district exc
cutive, as also our field of work, con-
tinuously supply the nucleus with
material. Everything possible is done
also in the question of giving re-
ports, but it must be remembered
that real lack of reporters exists.
After thoro discussion the nucleus
firmly supported the letter of the E.
c. C. /. 1t welcomed the Russian
comrades criticism of the lethargy in
to which the German party has fall
en-, which awakens the party to real
ity.
The above report was thoroly dis
cussed at the meeting of the district
executive and altho recognizing that
the reported activity has not com
pletely overcome all our mistakes and
shortcomings, we nevertheless feel
that we have given suggestions for
the strengthening of a nucleus in a
factory of medium size. With Com
munist greetings, The Entire Factory
Nucleus No. 65.