The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-30
BY JACK sTAcHEL.

the basis of shop nuclei, and the
organization of Communist fractions
in the trade unions and other non
party workers organizations, such as
co-operatives, workers fraternal or
CARNATIONS, workmen's circles, altho
only carried thru recently and not yet
completed, has already shown to the
members of our party who were skep-
tical as to the new form Of organiza-
tions that the new forms are the only
forms on which a Communist Party
can be built.
The reorganization on the basis of
shop nuclei, the formation Of Com
munist centers in the shops, has plac-
ed under our influence workers who
heretofore had never heard of nor un-
derstood the meaning of Communism,
In the camp of the employers the
reorganization has increased the
number of labor spying agencies to
whom the employers are fiocking for
assistance. One of these agencies has
recently distributed handsome pam
phlet to the fur manufacturers enti-
tied, Fire the Reds" This agency
sells what it calls strike prevention
to the employers of labor at a rate
depending on the number of workers
in the plant.
This agency, the American Sterling
Service Corporation, operates on the
following plan. They pick workers
from the plant directly who are will
ing to become spies against their fel.
low workers and these plant spies re
main working at their regular jobs and
receive in addition for their spying &C
tivity about $40 to $50 per month. The
agency that pays this sum to the fac
tory spies receives its annual fee from
the employer for what they call strike
prevention. In addition of course
some spies are employed full time
either directly by the employer or
some agency. s4t
The reorganization of the party has
also brot about an increase in the
number of bosses-controlled and in
spired shop committees and company
unions. & IL
That the organization of nuclei and
Communist fractions is being watched
carefully by the labor bureaucracy OF
the American Federation Of Labor can
be seen from the following quotation
taken from the Labor Advocate Off.
cial organ Of the Building Trades
Council of Cincinnati and vicinity.
Orders were received from Moscow
many months ago to abandon the
old branch, ward, and city form of ,po.
litical units and adopt the factory
nuclei" plan. This has been done,
and in carrying out the order a card
index system has been complied show.
ing the occupation, industry, factory,
and home address of each Communist
Party member emphasis mine J. 81.
Every member is held accountable for
the successful spread Of Communist
doctrine in every factory or workshop
where he is employed. Each man and
woman must give unquestioning obedi-
ence to the central authority"
The reaction Of the enemy to the
creation of Communist fractions in
the unions has been similar. Here the
trade union bureaucracy is acting as
the agent of the capitalists, pledged
to uphold the present order of things.
Thru their policy of class collabora-
ton, these agents of the bourgeoisie
in the labor movement are now be-
coming more militant against the
Communists and the left wing in gem
eral. This "militancy" (more and
more going over openly to fascism-7
Beckerman in the A. c. w. A., etc.
expresses itself in all unions where
the left wing is Of some strength, and
finds its highest expression in those
unions where the Communists and the
let's are particularly strong, in the
needle trades, and other unions where
the struggle for leadership is be-
tween the socialists and the Commu-
nists. Here the socialists are calling
for the organization of Socialist
fractions" in the trade unions as well
as in all other organizations. This is
radical departure from the policy
that the socialists have been advocat.
Ing in relation to the unions. This
they explain is necessary due to the
fact that the fight in the unions is
no longer between socialists and con
servatives, but that there are three
groups. the Communists, the social
lists and the "impartials" This new
policy is presented in the March 10 is
sue Of the Wecker weekly organ Of
the Jewish Socialist Verband.
The following is the position ex.
pressed by A. NJ. Morrison (Kantaro-
WITH. "The trouble is that many so
cialists do not understand that the
tactics that were good prior to 1914
no longer hold good today. When
the division in the workers organiza-
ffnno Was IN thu haafe 80 eoofaifetc