The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-01
Workers Communist Party
More Caution i'm Our Shop
Nuclei Work
Form Committees on Departmental
Delegate Basis.


4 committee in the shop is to organ
ize a committee in each department
of the most trusted and militant work
ers, and then to form a delegate body
of one representative of every depart
ment. While not doing away entirely
with the possibility of spies getting
into the committees, it can first of all
be kept secret much more easily, and
then the danger is localized and min
imized. Even in this delegated body
or shop committee only one or two Of
the Communists should enter to guide
the work. In some cases to properly
lead the work we may need few
more, but by no means all the Com
munists, for if there is spy, and we
have not all the Communists exposed,
we can still continue to do the work
the nucleus will remain in the shop.
Who Publishes the Shop Bulletin?
nor a while the prevailing idea
L among the leading comrades in
New York was that the shop bulletins
published by our nuclei should not
state that they are the organs of the
Communist nucleus, but, rather, that
it is being published by a group of
workers in the shop. Here, too, there
are a great many dangers. In the first
place, l want to make clear that the
nucleus while it must do everything
to stimulate organization of the unor-
ganized, and may be the basis for
union in the industry, if no union ex-
lists in that industry, cannot adopt the
conception that that is its only task.
By leaving off the name of the party
from our shop papers we foster this
idea among our own membership and
give the Impression to the workers in
| the shop and to the union officials
that we are out to organize unions,
and nothing else, thus failing to ap-
pear as a political organization before
! the workers in the shops as well as
! the organized labor movement. Fur
| thermore, by concealing that the bulle-
tin is published by a political party
the contents of the bulletin are written
accordingly. We are compelled to
talk mostly Organize the morgan
led" and one step must lead to an
other; that is, organize the morgan
| lied means strikes. We must be care
full of premature strikes called by the
bosses or provoked by them to root
out the militants, at the same time
giving all the support of any group of
workers that are out on strike, Our
task is to stimulate, aid and even lead
when necessary in the organization of
Party we must consider this only as
one of our activities, even if at this
moment it is the most important activ-
ity of the party. At the same time we
must tell the workers and speak to
the organized labor movement of the
necessity to stimulate the American
Federation Of Labor to organize the
unorganized. We must speak thru the
organs of our nuclei to the workers
as a Communist Party that is inter.
ested and participates in all their
struggles. Some comrades say that
the party is not known, therefore, we
cannot publish the name of the party
Others say the workers think that the
party is interested only in the revo
luton and does not work for the i'm
mediate interests of the workers, sc
we must not use the name of the
party. Others say that the party is
too red for the workers. The sun
total of all these arguments is, let the
party be put into the ice box unit
the revolution, then we will give it t.
the workers. Our answers must be
we must convince the workers thru
our participation in the everyday
struggles in the shop that the Com
munist Party is their party, is thei
leader, and that the Communist Part,
fights for the everyday needs of tn,
workers. At the same time we mus
never fail to connect the immedlat,
interests and needs Of the workers
their present-day struggles with tn,
ultimate aims Of the party.