The daily worker., 1935-02-15
Party Life
Dock Nucleus Reports
Next Tasks Outlined
Proposals for Section

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WE ARE submitting this
W resolution, which has
been discussed and passed
upon at our regular nucleus
meeting.
Our nucleus has been In
existence only ten weeks. We
now have ten regular members (nine
Of them working on the dock, and
good prospects of drawing in at least
five more during the next month
We have been getting out our dock
paper, Longshore Unity" pretty
regularly, and it is having a good
effect among the men, creating a
lot Of sympathy among them for
the Communist Party.
Although the work is hard and
slow, we can honestly say that we
are making progress in winning the
workers for Communism. We have
succeeded, through our bulletin in
winning some small improvements
for the men and we are beginning to
lay the basis for rank and file or
ganization, and to move in the di-
rection of organizing the dock into
the I. l.. A.
We know, and wish to state, that
this progress would have been i'm
possible without the assistance and
guidance Of the Section and par
ticularly Unit "a, which has been
working with us, and the comrades
who attend our nucleus meetings.
The policy of the Party in setting
up special street concentration units
for dock work has proven abso-
lutely correct, 1t has shown that
Communist workers from outside
the marine industry can play an
important role in developing the
Party among the marine workers.
1t is our understanding that one
of the main purposes of the division
of our Section into two parts, is
to establish more workable Sec
ton for waterfront concentration.
We members of the nucleus
realize that we must carry a large
share Of the responsibility for sctu-
ally carrying the Sections water
front concentration. Il will be up
to us not only to bu/d our move
ment on our own DICK, but to help
the Party to spread to other docks.
We pledge ourselves to do our best
IN this respect also. We wish to
pledge to this Section Conference,
the following:
1. That by May 1st we will have
at least Is good standing, active
Party members on the dock.
2. That we will have two dock
nuclei instead of one-one of these
on the banana dock and one on the
orange dock.
3. That we will have some form
of rank and file organization on
these docks, drawing in 40 to SO
workers.
4. That we will have made seri-
Gus efforts to organize the dock into
the I. L; A. under rank and file
leadership, Of course.
5. That we will try to carry
through q couple of dock actions.
6. And finally, and most i'm
portsnt, that we will do our utmost
to bring to the workers on the dock
the policies of tho Party
We also would like to place be-
fore the Section Conference the fol-
lowing proposals for adoption.
/. That we set ourselves the goal
of having four dock nuclei in Sec
ton One by May 1st, two on this
particular dock, and one on each Of
the decisive docks on the water
front.
2. That Y. C. L. nucleus be as
signed to concentrate on our dock
in cooperation with Unit "a, and
that this Y. c. L. unit concentrate
on other docks.
3. That we set ouselves the goal
of organizing rank and file groups
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four docks.
4. That we set ourselves the goal
of doubling our longshore member
ship from Is to 80 by May 1st.
5. That two additional street con-
centration units be set up within
four weeks, to work on two import
ant docks.
s. That one longshoreman from
our dock be put on the new Sec
ton Committee. We propose our
nucleus organizer who has shown
the greatest devotion and energy in
building up our nucleus, to be a
member of the new Section Com
mittee.
In closing, we pledge our fullest
support to the leadership of the
new Section One in carrying through
its central task-that of building a
strong Communist Party and rank
and file movement among the long
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