The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-04
By JACK sTACHEL.

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Mt UCLEUS X in one of the largest
IN mems clothing factories in this
city has comrades who work in that
factory and three others that have
been attached to it. The nucleus car
ries on its work probably no worse
than the average nucleus in the
party. 1t meets more or less regu-
larly; the members pay their dues;
they all read the party press; every
one of them is an active member of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
and most of them also belong to fra
ternal organizations. The comrades
also attend regularly the meetings Of
their fraction and of the Trade Union
Educational League.
Question Of Judgment.
At the last meeting of the nucleus
during the discussion of the organi-
zers report the following interesting
situation was brought to the surface.
One Of the comrades expressed
himself that the entire shop was a
left'wing shop and it was only due to
the Beckerman terrorism in the shop
that the workers did not respond TO
the calls and slogans Of the Trade
Union Educational League. Upon
further questioning Of the comrades
/ learned that in this shop of overI
$50 workers 500 Of whom are ItalianI
speaking and the other 500 Jewish
speaking, only about 25 read the
Freiheit and only three read the Ital-
ian left wing paper, Il Lavoratore.
Too Much For Granted.
Our comrades in this shop have mo-
doubt taken too much for granted.
They actually believed that in q fac-I
tory Of $50 workers and only SO read
ing the left wing press, that theyl
have the bulk Of the shop behind
them. No doubt the influence Of the
left wing and the Communists in this
shop is much larger than the actual
readers of the left wing press, this isl
due to the fact that even many of the
workers who read the bourgeois and
right wing press recognize that the
left wing is the only group that has
a constructive program for the in
dustry, and that Beckerman is ruin
ing the union, but these workers who
are not sufficiently conscious to read
the left wing press can not be relied
upon in all occasions to stand behind
the left wing.
Getting Readers-A Daily Task.
] cite the above as very important, /
because these comrades have not
made a systematic effort to secure
readers for our papers. The com
rades in all factories must consider /
the getting of readers and subscribers
to our press as one Of the most es-
sential tasks in their every day work I
Not only must we secure more /
readers for the Freiheit and II Lavor-
atore. in that shop but we can and
must get readers for The DAILY |
WORKER as WELL Particularly the
younger workers must be induced to
read The DAILY WORKER, since
these workers can in most cases read |
enough English to read The DAILY |
WORKER.
In the needle trades shops our COM
rades often neglect to appeal to the
shipping clerks, office help, etc, sim
ply because the union does not or
ganize them. We must get after |
these workers and win them over for
the trade union movement, and by
explaining to them why they are not
organized, and that the left wing
stands for industrial unionism and
that we favor the organization of the |
workers in the factory, we can also
win them for the left wing. Even