The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-25
BY JACK STACHEL
(0rg. Sec. Workers Party, Dist. p

The Workers (Communist) Party
like every other Communist Party
has adopted the factory group as the
basis of its organization. A factory
group is the organization of all the
Communists in a given factory into
a unit on branch of the Workers
(Communist) Party. These factory
groups are also known as shop nuclei
In addition to organizing factory
groups the party also has street
nuclei (also known as international
branches) in which are organized all
members of the party who cannot be
organized into factory groups, name
ly those working in small factories,
housewives, professionals, etc.
The party is centering its attention
at the present time to increasing its
influence among the workers in the
large factories and in the most I'M
portant industries.
Into Basic Industry.
The aim of the party is to have the
great bulk of its membership in the
large factories in the basic indus
tries. From this it would follow that
while the party is organized on the
basis of factory groups and street
groups the dominant form OF the
party organization is the factory
group.
The Workers (Communist) Party
is a political party. Every other
political party in this country includ-
ing the socialist party is organized on
the basis of the state, city, county,
and assembly district. Why is it that
the Communist party adopts a diff
ferent form OF organization? 1t is
because the form of organization OF
every political party must be suited
to the political objective OF the party.
Territorial Form Not Ours.
If the party participates only in
elections, Their the form of organiza-
ton based on the assembly district
is suited for that purpose. The So
cialist party like the republican and
democratic parties IS merely an cleo
ton machine. The socialist party is
a reformist party and it believes that
it carries through its program by
electing its candidates to fill the posi-
tions IN the present day capitalist
state machinery.
The Workers (Communist) Party
on the other hand while it partici-
pates in parliamentary election CAM
paigns, does net stop there, but takes
part in every struggle OF the working
masses.
The Workers (Communist) Party
anticipates in the work in the an
ions. in all the workers fraternal or
CARNATIONS, in all struggles against
imperialism and capitalist militarism,
in the struggles for the interests Of
all oppressed races and nationalties,
for the protection OF the foreign
born, for the relief Of the unem-
ployed, etc. In fact in all struggles
Of the masses the party is to be
found on the scene playing leading
role.
To Organize.
The objective OF the Workers
(Communist) Party is to organize
the American workers and other eX-
plotted sections of the population in
a struggle against capitalism. In this
struggle the workers play the domi-
nant role. While the poor farmers
must be won over as the allies of the
revolution and many sections of petty
tradesmen will support the revolu-
ton, the workers in the factories play
the leading role in the struggle, and
the workers in the large factories and
basic industries must be won over by
the Communist party before Ameri-
can capitalism can be overthrown.
Every Factory Ours"
1t is for this reason that the Work
ers (Communist) Party, true to its
principles and aims, while it partici-
pates in all the workers movements,
centers its major energies in the fac
tories 1t was because the Russian
Communists realized the slogan of
Lenin, Every factory must become
our fortress" that the Bolsheviks
were able to overthrow the Czaristic
feudal-capitalistic government and
organize the Soviet system, and build
up socialism is Russia. The Ameri-
can Communists following the teach
ings Of Lenin are out to realize this
slogan in the United States.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN
THE FACTORIES