The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19

training schools, and other forms
of schools, do not yet meet the
needs. The cry for leaders comes
not only from the districts and sec
tons, but especially from the lower
organizations: the units and frac-
tions. It is precisely in the leader
ship of the lower organizations OF
our Party that we find our major
weakness. The Party is growing,
the basic units are multiplying
every day-yet the leadership of
these basic organizations is not
developing with the same pace.
Training Active Leaders
Here we see Immediately that we
are yet far from having fulfilled
the principle of Lenin: the develop
ment of hundreds, thousands of the
best and loyal elements into lead
ing, functioning capacity 1t IS
thus clear that our task is to i'm
prove all the schools already exist
ing, especially the district schools,
section schools, and thereby to de-
velop the forces needed locally.
At the same time, there must be
more educational activities in the
basic organizations, in the units and
fractions, inasmuch as it is through
the raising of the educational level
of the Party members that we de-
velop Bolsheviks who will under
stand the Importance of their tasks,
and who will be able to convince
their fellow workers of the correct
ness Of our program.
We must have Communists who
will be recognized by the workers
as leaders. This means that our
Party will be more and more rec
ognized as the only Party Of the
working class, as the real vanguard
of the working class.
Shop Nuclei
How do we stand with our shop
nucleiP The shop nuclei are more
numerous than they were 6 months
ago. Yet the majority of the Party
is still organized on neighborhood
scale. And, Furthermore, many of
the shop nuclei are not yet con-
scious Of their role, namely, that
of being the Party in the particu-
lar shop. They are not yet clear
on the activities through which
they must establish themselves as
the leader of the struggles of the
masses in the shops, mines, mills,
and factories. The mere fact that
the building Of new shop nuclei
takes so much pains, shows that In
many instances we are still con-
fronted with lack of understand
ing of the Importance of this basic
organizational form of our Party;
and that where we do understand
this problem, not all the neces-
sary measures are taken to guar
antee the development of the exist
ing nuclei, the building Of new ones.
Here again the Importance of en-
lightenment on this problem, the
Importance Of training of cadres
from the top down, is revealed to
its full extent.
Have our fractions in the trade
unions and mass organizations be-
come real instruments of the Party
through which we are closely linked
with the masses, and exercise lead
ership in involving these organiza-
tons in the daily struggles against
the exploiters and oppressors? Here
also we must state; Yes, we have
fractions.
Yet our fractions are still func-
tioning very poorly, due primarily
to the fact that there is no clear
understanding of their role. Again,
we cannot solve this problem by
mechanical organization of the
fractions. The organization OF the
fractions must go hand in hand
with the education of the fractions
as to their role and tasks. They
must avoid, on the one hand, fol-
lowing at the tail end of the organ
lied workers, and on the other, tax
ing the attitude Of commanding, in