The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
CHAPTER II (cont)
ignment Of Work in the Shops.

At shop nuclei meetings members
should report regularly on conditions
in their department. Changes in
work and in regulations of wages, or
hours of work or new policies pro-
posed by the management and the
sentiments and reactions of the work
ers must be carefully noted. The
nuclei should discuss the reports
thoroughly before definite measures
or policies are decided upon.
The nucleus executive must assign
specific work to each member. Aside
from the regular functions of pub
fishing the shop bulletin, handling
the Party Campaigns and the Party
propaganda material, members should
be assigned to specialize on study of
the conditions existing in the shop.
They should prepare the proper ma
terial for the nucleus and bring for
ward recommendations for measures
to be taken. In connection with the
question of wages, data should be col
lected on the requirements of a de-
cent standard of living Of the work
ers. Question of health and safety
conditions in the shop should be
studied by comrades specially as
signed as we'll as the problem of Just
how the workers must go about OBJ
tanning compensation in case Of ac-
cidents. One comrade should be as
signed to study the piece work and
speed-up system, collect the neces-
sary material and bring forward
recommendations for demands. One
comrade should be assigned to make
a thorough study of the publications
of the company, if any, find out how
their blacklist system works, the
methods of their bosses associations,
or company unions and make pro-
posals to the nucleus on how to act
in regards to these. All this material
collected is, Of course, also necessary
for the shop bulletin and Party press.
Members of the shop nucleus should
be trained for shop committee func-
tons where such can be established
They should study union agreements,
should be assigned where possible to
take care Of the language problems
so that where necessary workers may
be approached in their own language.
Comrades should also be assigned to
take care Of Labor Defense activities
in the shop, relief work, etc.
Recruiting Of New Members.
The sympathetic connections es-
tablished by our shop nuclei with the
workers in the shops should greatly
facilitate the recruiting Of new mem
bars for the Party. Sale Of bulletins
and Party press at factory gates will
KEEP and our Party members should
in approaching sympathetic workers
cndeavor to establish connection with
-them socially for the purpose Of vim
Hing them for the Party. Such re-
cruitinc activities should always be
pursued theoretically. Great care
should be taken when new members
are won and brought into the shop
nucleus to get them interested, to
get them active and help them to get
a better understanding of our Party
so that we may not only make recru-
its, but also keep them New men,
bers should always be given specific
tasks to perform within their degree
of training in Party work. Shop nue.
lei viii find greater possibilities than
other Party units for enthusing the
membership for the work and keep
them active at their tasks, but it
must be well organized and system
lied.
Dangers of VictimizatiOn.
Due caution is always necessary in
conducting the activities Of the shop
nuclei Members active in Communist
work, exposing the Objectionable con-
ditions within the shops are easily
open to victimization by the bosses.
Examples Of such victimization are
not numerous as yet in this country
but they are bound to increase as the
work Of the shop nuclei becomes in
tensified. There are, however, real
dangers only if the elementary rules
of caution are neglected.
These rules are the following.
While the nucleus becomes known for
its activities on behalf Of the workers
in the shop the identity Of the indivi-
dual members must not be revealed,
particularly is this true for those on