The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10


e leading role Of the Party with
1t establishing contacts with the
seisive strata of the workers, mob
ling these workers and winning
lem over TO our side. Talk about
e defense of the Soviet Union
Id struggle against inperialist
ar is nothing but empty phrases
liesS systematic work Is carried
& in the war industry plants and
the ports; talk of struggle against
eial fascism is nothing but empty
lrases unless the struggle is car
d on from day 10 day in the big
ctories, IN the reformist unions
id among the unemployed. II Is
,thing but phrase-m0ngering 10
ak about building up the Party
the revolutionary trade unions
out doing this among the inn
mt bodies of workers, in the
'actories, in the important in
iaI sections. It Is idle to talk
the necessity of new cadreS
Vt developing them from
these very sections of work
from the open Letter"
eparing this article on shop
for the Pre- Convention dis
we planned only one article,
4 the shop paper situation as
is IN our Party, with an
of previous and present
liugs, and program for the
tie future.
er, in examining the Situa-
found that our Party is still
Sc where a propaganda article
papers, in the light Of the
mum Resolution and the Open
as still needed, to convince
nlrsdes that in neglecting the
paper, they are handicapping
basic work Of roofing the Party
chops. And this condition ex-
ten years since the Ameri-
Z adopted the slogan of
ning the base Of our Party
shopsI
Ire therefore dividing this
into a series Of two, the first
with the role Of the shop
and the second to deal con-
with the shop paper situation
Party.
conclusion of the 18th Plenum
Ition puts every Party member
specific obligations when it
"The PIenunl of the E.C.CI.
al sections of the Communist
satianal to be on their guard at
turn Of events and exert every
ort without losing moment for
: revolutionary preparation of the
Iletariat for the impending decisive
ties for power"
The main strategy pointed out is
establish firm roots for the Party
the shops, to raise the political
el Of the strategic sections Of the
king class-that is, the industrial
iletariat in the basic and strategic
.lstries. That means that our
gans III this present era, which is
osely approaching q new round of
olution and wars must be brought
these sections. Slogans for a Soviet
lerica, the program to bring be-
e the workers concretely and i'm
diately the question of power, of
blaming to them the urgent ne
sity of taxing the revolutionary
h out Of Tee crisis, the realization
vt impending battles" must be
ckly and thoroughly prepared for
his urgent and highly political
gram must be brought to this
ategic section not as a matter of
tract theory, but on the basis of
st the worker himself is up against
mis- daily work, in his daily strug-
S on the job
,0mrade Gebert, in his article,
a recent issue Of the Daily Worker,
min, Builder of Communist Party,
I'ght eut very clearly the genius
snin, when he wrote: While
saw clearly the need of devel-
activity around the smallest
les of the masses, he had
by before him the main OBJ
md the tasks of the prole-
This sensitiyeness to the rela-
+ Immediate. demands to the
Elective enabled him to raise
eper slogans in the situation
called Tor direct action, as was
case in the 1905 revolution, and
lily IN the revolution of 1917"
here is no better method Of edu-
ing the workers on the job for
political tasks confronting them,
n the Communist Party shop
ler The Party shop paper con-
5rs as its basic task not only the
lding up of the mass revolution
trade unions and oppositions in
ornist trade unions for the eco
mic protection of the workers on
Job, but at the same time show
them the way out by bringing
ward the ultimate and final aims
the working class, in conjunction
h the building up of these strategic
SIS organizations of the proletariat.
This is the tremendous task of the
.ty nucleus in the shop, if it is to
e seriously the program Of the
b Plenum Resolution. A Party
2leus in the shop which has no
yp paper, is like the Communist
.ty of the U.S.A. without it's Daily
jrser. A Communist unit in a shop,
ich neglects to make use of so
slty weapon as a shop paper,
going forth to terrific battle after
i carefully binding one of its
bs, covering one of its eyes, and
ting off all sounds from one of
Ars. Tt is deliberately mutilating
In For a shop paper not only tells
wo,Iers what to do, but it gets
work rs to tell us what to DO.
low arsAwe TO rally the working
sses against war and fascism-our