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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
CHICAGO STUDY
CLASSES MAKE
A GOOD START
Enrolment Still Open
for New Students

The second term of the Chicago
Workers School began last Monday
with a good attendance at most
classes. H. NJ. Wicks is continuing
the class in Capital Volume One,
formerly conducted by Earl Browder.
This meets on Monday nights. The
group studying worker correspond
ence is working along constructive
lines. It is under the leadership of
]. Louis Engdahl and meets at The
DAILY WORKER office. Tuesday
night three classes started with teach
ers as designated: English, Gertrude
Welsh; National and Colonial Prob
lens, Manuel Gomez; and Elements
Of Communism, James II. Dolsen. En-
rolment is still open in all three. The
class in Elements of Communism is
conducted by the question-and-answe
method, with mimeographed outlines
Of the work supplied to the students.
The English class meets on Tues
day and Thursday evenings in the
Workmen's Circle Hall, 2644 LeMoyne
ot. Enrolments are coming in for a
class in English on the south side. II
started 1t will meet probably at BIG
South Halsted st. and If enough join,
the group will be divided into two
parts, one for those needing elemen.
tary instruction and the other for the
advanced. A practical method Is used
which trains the ability 70 read the
English working class press. to speak
English, and to write II correctly.
Those desiring to join should send In
their application Immediately, to-
gether with a dollar for the class fee,
TO the Workers School, VIM. Simons,
secretary, 10 S. Lincoln ST.
The class in American Social and
Labor History, one OF the most es-
sential for those active or who desire
TO become active in the working class
movement Of America, will hold its
next session on Wednesday evening,
Feb. IA, at D. m, at 10 S. Lincoln
81. Enrolments are still going on for
this as well as other classes. Send in
your name before registration closes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
The Party and the Steel Worker

should be. We are urging them to Or
ganize into the American Negro Labor
Congress, to become readers of the
Negro Champion, and listen to the
speakers of thier race who have their
real interests at heart. This is all
discussed and our plans laid out in
the meetings of our nuclei.
Fight on Every Day Issues.
Another question which has been
taken up by our nuclei in the steel
mills is the recent cuts in the price
per ton, which has stirred up the
steel workers and made them suscept-
able to our propaganda. Our nuclei
have taken up the question of putting
out shop bulletins and spreading with
in the mills the questions of organ
izing the unorganized, the condition
of the wages and the necessity of
building up the organization in order
that we may meet the onslaught of
the bosses in their drive for the
open shop Our study of the work
of the nuclei has shown us in no I'M
certain light that it is in the places
where the workers are employed that
our work must be done. We are now
using our nuclei to drive our roots
into the mills, for it is in the mills
where we can get our information
on the shop and mill conditions.
Whether the colored worker is react
ing to the discrimination against his
race. Whether the foreign born is re-
acting against the legislation for
registration and finger printing. and
the police having supervision over his
movements, for 1t is in the mill that
we meet him and talk with him, right
on the job. In our shop bulletin we
will take up and. discuss all these
problems OF the workers, and we will
then show the workers that our part
does not consist at all times Of talk
but that we are a party OF action, Of
deeds and not only do we voice the
theory Of our Communism, but that
we are practical men who are ready
to act in the mill mine and factory.
The party nuclei are the cogs of
our machine and II is meshing us up
with the machine of the working
class in the mills. Delegations TO
Russia, for labor party, based upon
the unions Of the workers. These are
some of the issues nuclei push and
agitate for and they thus win sym.
path, and gradually bring under our
influence greater masses Of our fellow
workers in the places where we work,
and we thus make OF them recruiting
grounds for our party
The shop nucleus is one Of the
greatest weapons yet devised BY our
party to carry on our work among the
masses Of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
'TRYHUNA ROBOTNICzA'
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION, MARCH I

Trybuna Rohotnicza, the Polish
Communist organ, will celebrate it's
second anniversary by mass meet
ines all over the country.
In Chicago, concert and mass
meeting will mark the anniversary.
The concert will be held at the
Shonehofen Hall, corner Ashland
and Milwaukee AVes., Sunday, Mar.
z, at p. m. Besides speakers in
English, Polish, Russian and Uk-
rainian, there will be an excellent
musical program.
The Lithuanian Chorus, the Frei-
heit Singing Society,", the Russian
Mandolin Orchestra, a Russian
dance by Miss Jean Blasak, Com
rades Hilda Reed, Elsie Newman
and Emma HIeehsmidt dancing the
Tarantella, an UkraInian mando-
linist and a Russian, aecordlonlst
are among the musical numbers that
have been planned for this concert.
All workers are invited to come
and participate with the Polish
workers in celebrating their vic
tory in keeping alive. the Trybuna
Robotnieza for two Years in spite
Of many obstacles and also to help
them make it one Of the strongest
weapons in their fight against the
master class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
Some Problems in Connection with Pary REORGANIZATION

called. Some of them find it impos-
sible to attend at all. This class is
particularly a problem in the New
York district where almost every
comrade in the I. L. G. w. U. and the
Furriers' Union is engaged in admin
istration work directly of the union,
where the left wing is in control, or
must indirectly carry on administra-
ton work in order to overcome the
sabotage of the right wing machine in
the union. A solution of this prob
lem is very difficult but we will have
to find some way in which these com
rades can function in the party units
4. The difficulty of the language
is responsible for some comrades
staying away from the meetings
These comrades must be helped
along. They must even in some cases
be allowed to speak in their own Ian
guage and then their remarks are in
terpreted. They should be seated
near a comrade who speaks their Ian
guage and understands English They
must also be induced to attend
classes in English.
AetVization of the Nuclei.
DUT where the nucleus has a good
- attendance the problem is not
solved. The activization of the shop
and street nuclei is the real prob
lem. The greatest difficulty here is
that many Of the comrades who are
the functionaries of their nuclei
have never carried on any response
BILE work in the party In the old
branch there were always from five
to ten comrades in a branch of 100
that carried on the current work of
the branch and the remaining mem
bers were called upon to vote approx
al or disapproval from time to time.
Under such conditions the initiative
of the membership could not develop.
In all we are not eXaggerating If we
say that no more than 200 comrades
carried on any work at all in the old
branches, directly. Today when we
have organized about $50 to 300 shop
and street nuclei, the officers alone
in these units number 750 In addi-
ton there are SO sub sections with an
executive committee of seven in each
one of them. This means another 200
comrades. In all there are therefore
close to 1000 comrades who are the
nuclei and subsection functionaries.
1t is therefore clear that in order
that the units shall function we'll it
is necessary to train all the function
aries in their work Not only that
but the low political level of the mem
bership and therefore of these new
functionaries is hindrance in the
development of the nuclei. Together
with the training of the functionaries
for their different tasks we must also
instruct them in the fundamentals Of
Leninism and acQuaint them with the
policies of the party. Even these
comrades who have had experience in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
BY RUFUS p. HEATH.

WHEN 1 joined the league last year,
w the Young Worker was a weekly.
1t is now fifty per cent dead. Because
it is now a semi-monthly. This is a
fact, whether we like it or not 1t is
UP to us to look the facts of the case
square in the face and act according
ly. We must do something and do it
quick or else loose The Young Worker
entirely.
We as young Communists, the
leaders of the youth movement of this
country, cannot afford to lose our
press and must not lose it. But in
stead we must build 1t up and develop
it into a mass class fighting daily
organ. of the young workers of this
country. If we are to be the leaders
Of the youth movement, in this coun-
try, we must first have a powerful
press, one that is able to mass the
workers in protest of tyranny on a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
Organization
Meetings
sy WIN. ). WHITE.

THE city Of New York is now COM
L pletely reorganized on the basis
of shop and street nuclei. Yet we
can not say that reorganization has
been completed. Reorganization is
not merely the mechanical assign
ment Of the members to the nuclei
after even a thoro registration and
classification. It involves complete
change of the methods of work be-
cause the center of activity has
thereby been transferred from the
street to the shop. 1t means that new
forces must be developed to carry on
activity, that have heretofore belong
ed to the passive elements in our
party. It means that comrades must
be trained for activity that has here
tofore hardly been carried on at all.
These problems must be solved be-
fore the new units will function and
become life organs of the party.
Attendance at the Nuclei Meetings.
THE attendance at the shop and
4 street nuclei meetings is about 60
per cent of those registered. Since
other comrades fail to attend from
one meeting to another the number
attending every other meeting and
those attending regularly number
about 20 per cent. This number is
much higher than the attendance at
all territorial branch meetings in the
city in the past. In the past with the
exception Of the meeting preceding
the election Of delegates to the con-
vention the total attendance was
never more than 1000 while now the
attendance at the shop and street
nuclei meetings. and at subsection
meetings is well over 1900. The at
tendance at the meetings however
must be increased for now when the
units are so small the absence Of one
comrade in a nucleus Of means that
the work of the nucleus is retarded.
We must educate our members to
the understanding that every party
member must attend meetings of the
party units and carry out all the work
assigned to him. We must however
study the reasons for the failure of
many of our comrades to attend the
meetings. The reasons can be CLASH
fed as follows:
1. Those who do not care for the
party, are not Communists and who,
because of the reorganization, will
drop out of the party if they are
pressed to be active.
2. Those who are not yet clear Oh
what the reorganization is all about,
and are continuing as before their
inactivity. This class must be treat
ed with patience and education.
3. Those comrades who because
of their activity in the union, in the
fraction and other workers organ
izations find it impossible to attend
the mueller meetings on the days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16

California League Units on Job
LOS ANGELES, - Last week saw
the newly organized branches of the
Young Workers League and the Young
Pioneers in Fort Bragg and Eureka
holding general. membership meetings
at which Comrade VIM. Schneiderman,
district organizer, spoke on the
Youth Movement and the Working
Class" and on "Lenin, Liebknecht and
Luxembourg"
The comrades of Fort Bragg and
Eureka have pledged themselves to
distribution of the Young Worker and
the Young Comrade, and are actively
engaged in getting subs for their
paper, and holding classes on the A.
B. c. of Communism.
The Young Pioneers in each of these
towns are preparing to give some
plays in the near future, under the
direction of the league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
Make the Young Worker Mass Organ.

moments notice. The press is orr one
and best means of communication
among the masses. We cannot be
satisfied, until we have made the
Young Worker daily.
How to Build the Young Worker:
Hold rescue parties, dances, enter
tainments, stage plays, buy a bundle
and hand them out to your shopmates
and ask them to subscribe or renew,
subscribe, arrange picnics, box sup
pers, donate and take up collections.
We owe The DAILY WORKER
close to $4,000. The Young Worker
cannot prosper until we have settled
this account. A press that is in debt
is financial burden on the shoulders
Of the membership while, on the other
hand press that is even, is independ-
ent and has the opportunity to operate
on paying basis, become prosperous
and of a mass character.
Start the build the Young Worker
campaign nowl Subscribe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16

youth pfODiemS ana demands OF, tnat
if there are such, it can well be taken
care of by the T. U. E. L.
Both of these contentious are in
correct. There are specific youth
problems in the industry and it is
necessary to have the young Commun-
list fraction so that they can fight for
the inclusion of the demands of the
young worker in the programs and
activities Of the T. U. E. L. The T.
U. e. L is neither the young Commun-
list fraction or the party fraction in
the trade unions 1t strives to be-
come the broad left wing. Therefore
it cannot take the place of the Com
munist fractions. (See resolution on
industrial work, 4th Congress, w. p,
based on the letter of the Comintern
and Profintern.)
Therefore we can see that as long
as there are young workers in in
dustry, the Communist youth fraction
must be organized whether the. T. U.
E. L. exists or not
The T. U. E. L. surely can and will
take up specific youth demands, but
when? When such demands are at
hand. When they are brought to the
attention of the T. u. E. L.? Who are
best qualified to do this work? Surely
the young Communists. How can it be
done in an organized and systematic
fashion? Only by organizing the Com
munist youth fraction.
Some comrades have the opinion
that the youth fraction is merely
member getting instrument or on the
other hand merely an instrument for
increasing our influence in the unions.
Both of these and neither of them
separated is the correct attitude. In
becoming a mass organization we
must increase our influence and men,
bership. This can be done only by put
ting forth specific youth demands
against the prevailing economic and
political conditions affecting the youth
and leading them in the struggle.
3 M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
HAVE you HEARD OF THE TRUMBULL-
FOURTH YEAR YOUNG WORKER AFFAIR?

A gala affair will be staged by the
Young Workers (Communist) League
to greet Walter Trumbull on his re-
lease from Alcatraz military discip-
linary barracks, and to celebrate the
fourth birthday of the Young Worker.
The affair takes place on Sunday
evening. March T., at Imperial Hall,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
HISTORICAL
MATERIALISM
CLASS OPENS
Questions for Next Fri
days Lesson
II. M. WIcKS
Instructor

! The first lesson of the first semester
Of the class in Historical Material
ism with rs students was conducted
as lecture last Friday evening at 10
South Lincoln, the instructor explain
ing the manner in which Marx arrived
at the conception Of Historical Ma
teriaism and warning Of some of
the narrow, mechanical pitfalls that
await one travelling this road.
The second lesson will be conducted
on the question and answer system.
Two books will be used as texts
Engels "Feuerbach," and Bukharin's
Historical Materialism." Mimeo-
graphed excerpts from a number of
other works will be furnished the stu
dents during the semester in order to
save their buying expensive books.
While studying Historical Material
ism, the class will also be required
20 utilize that method in its practical
application to the Identical thing it is
studying. With "Feuerbach" we learn
how Historical Materialism itself
arose at the time it did. (This will be
supplemented later on by studies from
Labriola's Essays on the Material
istic Conception of History.")
Avoid Introduction.
A word of warning is necessary for
the benefit of those students who are
not familiar with the history of the
English translation of Engel's work
"Feuerbach"
Austin Lewis, lawyer is the trans
lator and has "modestly" written an
Introduction In which he states purely
personal and unscientific opinions
saturated with discredited syndical-
list philosophy The introduction is
utterly worthless, is anti-Marxiatl and
is an insult to the memory of both
Engels, the author, and Marx, the
founder of the theoretical system of
the proletarian revolution. These OBJ
servations are made so the students
will not waste time on Lewis intro
duction.
The Next Lesson.
l. What, according to the Hegelian
philosophy, constitutes that which is
real?
2. Explain the economic founda-
tions of the Hegelian philosophy?
8. Explain briefly Hegers conflict
with his own system of philosophy?
4. How did it happen that a re-
dictionary conclusion was reached from
revolutionary method of reasoning?
s.. Why is it impossible. for given
philosopher to close his system?
Reference: Page 81 to end of
first paragraph of page 49 of
"Feuerbach."
6. Is there a purpose in the uni
verse?
(Answer this question yes" or MOI
Z. Is it proper to state that society
is moving toward a certain goal?
s. Is there a difference between the
social sciences and the natural
sciences? (Explain).
References: Page 10 to Page 80.
Bukharin's Historical Material
ISM"
Copy these questions and answer
them writing only on one side of the
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16

I the capacity of functionaries in the
old branch are incapable Of properly
attending to their work because the
center is now not the street but the
shop. The sale of literature in the
shops, the methods of carrying on
propaganda, in the shops, the coor-
dination of the work of the nucleus,
division of labor so that every mem
Der is drawn into the work of the
party, all those problems are the order
of the day.
How We Are Training Our Function
aries.
THE shop nucleus training course
4 to which every nucleus must send
one member preferably the organizer
is the method we adopted to instruct
our members in the nuclei in the Fun
damentals of Leninism and the prin-
ciples of feminist Organization. The
comrades who take this course are
obligated to discuss in their nuclei the
subject matter that they have learned
in the course. The class meets once
every two weeks. The week when
there is no school the comrades in
the nucleus discuss under the leader
ship of the comrades attending the
class the subject matter presented in
the class the previous week. In this
manner we hope to raise the politi-
cal level of the entire membership.
One class has already been organized
and has very good attendance. 9th
er classes are being organized.
2. The agitprop directors of the
nuclei are called together from time
to time and instructed in their work
The first conference was already held
and all the agitprop directors were
given a bulletin covering the duties
of the agitprop director. During Len
in week all of the nuclei were in
structed to have discussions on Len
in and the American working class
In the sub-sections the discussion has
already taken place. A conference of
speakers was held, the outline discuss
ed, and at the conference the organ
ization secretary assigned the speak
ers to the different sub-sections. We
therefore, had uniform discussion in
all of the sub-sections on Lenin and
the American working class.
3. The section organizers call to-
gether the organizers Of the nuclei in
their section, receive reports from
them and instruct them how to carry
on their work.
4. Every subsection executive
committee will have assigned to it
by the district committee a comrade
who will work with the executive and
instruct them how to carry on the
work. The subsection executive is
the most important body that we
must train, as they are directly re-
sponsible for the conduct and devel-
opment of the work of the nuclei in
their subsection.
5. Every subsection executive
must have at least once every month
an enlarged executive meeting. The
enlarged executive of the subsection
is made up of the executive (seven
members) and the organizers of all
the shop and street nuclei in the sub
section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-16
Social Affairs
Resolutions


assign to each one of it's members
one or more nuclei for which they are
responsible.
Z. Whenever an important cam
paign is undertaken by the party all
the functionaries are called together
and the campaign discussed both from
the point of view of the political pol
icy involved and the organizational
steps to be taken by the different par
ty units in order to carry on the cam
paign successfully
s. The subsection organizers are
called together regularly by the or
ganization secretary and instructed
on all the activity and problems that
the party wants to place before the
nuclei. They discuss, and make sng-
gestions since they are constantly in
touch with the nuclei. they are the
closest link between the party lead
ership and the membership.
Nuclei Must Garry on All Party Work
THERE still exists in the minds of
L some comrades the. notion that the
nuclei are to deal only with problems
of the shop. In other cases the com
rades are willing to go step further
and consider the nuclei the instru-
ments for carrying on activity on the
basis of shop problems, aIfd also to
take up questions of the union, prob
lens of the trade union fraction
While of course there are comrades
who without actively participating in
the work in the shop and thereby gain
the confidence of the workers, at
tempt to bring up in the shop only
the political campaigns of the party
The nuclei must carry on all the
work of the party. The nuclei must
carry on work in the shop. They must
be the leaders in the shop for the
fight for better conditions taking up
every problem that arises in the shop.
They must gain the confidence of the
workers thru their work for the inn
provement of the life of the workers
in the shop. The nuclei must also
check up on the union membership,
activity and fraction activity of the
members of the nucleus. They must
recruit members for the unions. The
party members must be the best UNI
ion men in the shop so that the work
ers will see that the Communists are
the most constructive element among
the workers. ~.
But all this is not sufficient The
nuclei must bring all the party cam
paigns into the shop They must bring
the party to the masses. and thereby
the masses under the influence of the
party At the present time in the
New York district the following cam
paigns of the party must be taken up
in the shop. Recogniti6n and support
Of Soviet Russia, the Champaign for
world trade union unity the work for
the miners relief, thehprotection of
the foreign-born. All these campaigns
must be unified under she slogan Of:
The workers must build a political
party of their own-A, labor party!"
The campaign for subscriptions to
The DAILY WORKER, and the sys.
tematic distribution of literature must
OF course be taken up by every nu-
cleus.