The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-18
Reorganization in Philadelphia District

an effort to line them up. We have
issued one small mimeographed leaf
let and are now gathering material for
shop bulletin"
Working in Shipyard.
Report from nucleus in a large
shipyard: Comrades, you know what
hell of a job we have to get our
comrades into the unions. Well, at
our last meeting we found four mem
bers who are not union members. We
discussed this question for quite some
time and finally all four promised to
sign up. We are also distributing Ii
terature and have discussed shop
problems extensively. We will soon
issue a Shop Bulletin"
How We Win the Shops.
Report from a nucleus in a clothing
shop employing several hundred
workers: We sell all our party liter
ature and papers openly because it is
union shop. A collection for The
DAILY WORKER was also done open
ly-even the foreman contributed a
dollar. We are getting one new mem
Der at every meeting of the nucleus.
When the shop elections came we
called a meeting of The nucleus, made
all our plans and carried the cleo
tons. Our comrades now lead the
shop. Due to our activity the work
ers in the shop are taking a greater
interest in union work and also in
general political work. We mobilize
them for local union meetings and
for party mass meetings such as Len
in memorial meetings and others. AT
ter our group had functioned only
two weeks we organized a nucleus of
the Young Workers (Communist)
League. The two nuclei in the shop
are working together we'll"
New Life in Our Ranks.
From Easton comes a very enthusi-
astic report from shop nucleus in d
silk mill: 1--WE started with small
group and doubled the membership
at the first meeting of the nucleus.
Most of our comrades do not speak
English very well but we are trying
hard to learn and to approach the
workers in the shop. We noticed some
workers reading the Hungarian paper
Elore and after short talk with
them got them to join the nucleus.
We have some very good prospects
for future work. Our next job is
to get several Of the members into
the union. Thru our efforts we now
have material for a nucleus in neigh
boring silk mill. We also have organ
ized fractions in a literature society,
beneficial society, in the union, in a
women's organization and in one or
Two others. In all these organizations
our comrades have quite an inhu-
ence."
The attempt to develop new forms
Of activity is true not only in the
shop nuclei but also in the street nu-
clei
One comrade reports: "Our nu-
cleus consists almost exclusively Of
Jewish comrades. A motion was made
hat we do not notify the non-Jewish
comrades so that we may be able to
conduct the meeting in Jewish. OF
course we did not even consider this
motion How can we talk to the Eng
lish speaking workers IL we do not
learn to speak their language
From another nucleus. "Our meet
ings are very short. Where a Rus
sian or Lithuanian .comrade would
make long speech in his old branch,
he gets up at the meeting Of the nu-
cleus, talks for two or three minutes,
and his vocabulary being exhausted,
he sits down. He Is greatly salts
fed having expressed his opinion
and in English at that! The rest Of
1.-The meeting we devote TO educational