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The Shop Nuclei-A Need Now Point of an Open Struggle Between the in America, the Workers (Common Spond to the Political Necessity of the by MARTIN ABERN The Shop Nuclei-A Need Now point of an open struggle between the In America, the Workers (Common spond to the political necessity of the By MARTIN ABERN. workers, organized under the leader ist) Party, yet retains the territorial situation in this period, and that de- Why is the Workers Party trying to i ship of the Communist Party and the form of organization, but has decided mands that the political, the organiz- reorganize Itself on the basis of shop i capitalist class. to begin changing (already has begun) ation unit, of our party must be in the nuclei? Many reasons and correct Political Situation Demands Shop to the shop nuclei basis. To form oi shops. ones hare been presented before to Nuclei. organize the Workers Party on the job Experience, everywhere that the membership, We are living greatly changed organisational the yet there are more I under is to solve the contra shop nuclei have come into being : political and economic in diction. and weighty rasoas why the Workers i conditions proves the soundness of the shop Party political party the United States too, which is now most become a By organizing our party units in the form of organization. organised at the place of work, in the i full-blown as an imperialistic nation. nuclei shops, factories, mills—shop nuclei—- only shops The world is eatsting in a period It is not that the Communist In- and factories. of we get permanent contact with tu Y Shop nuclei organizations or the shrieking militarism, battling imper- ternational has declared that we must mass. We carry on the struggle along organize shop ialism, struggle, conquest, starvation, a party of shop nuclei, and idea for nuclei did not fall from with them in the shops In the imme- the skies. neces- war and so on. Soviet Russia that is a very good reason indeed, but The idea and the ex- diate issues, whatever they may be, sity for the change in the party* hare cepted. the important thing is that it is neces- and also on the larger political prob- sary for the life the Workers arisen because of historical and prac- Socialist organizational forms, elec- very of lems facing them. The I. W. W. once Party, go tical necessity. Very briefly we can toral machineries with their lifeless if it is to forward with revo- served in away as an example of political point out that previous to the world devitalized thought and action lutionary activity. Even as can job organization for revolutionary pur war, the socialist movement thrnout not meet the needs of revolution. More the Comintern has solved correctly pose. Os cdurse, the I. W. W. has re- the world had been gaining strength virile and dynamic forms of struggle I the other political, tactical and other fused to face the most important fact organizational problems rapidly in comparatively easy man- are required. Oddly enongh, despite before the a of all, that the struggle is a political ner, thru propaganda, agitation meet- the contrasting aims of the socialist Communist Parties, the Communist In- one and the aim must he, first of all ings, press. Especially do parties and the Communist parties ternational arrived at the shop nuclei we note for the conquest of political power by this development in the party of most of the Communist and socialist form of organization thru experience soc- the working class, before control ial-democracy Germany. parties organisa- of and need. in There, still have the same industry can be established. more than anywhere else, social-dem- tional areas. In other words, an or The Communist International has stronger ganisation fitted for ocracy was growing In the carying on ordin- Historically, therefore, our present given ns the lead once again. We will reichstag and was presumably acquir- ary election campaigns, etc., and those organization is antiquated, relic of a do well indeed, to follow that lead and ing political power thru making use poorly, but not fitted for swift, mili- social-democracy and mast pass into Party of the institutions of capitalism, and tant revolutionary straggle and action the Umbo of the dead. We are meet organize the Workers on a Bol- there developed most strongly the re- either in the daily struggle of the militaatly, our political problems. But shevik, Leninist basis. A party or- visionist theory in economy, on the workers or for the revolutionary goal we must create and build our organiz- ganized at the place qf work. Forward state and other political matters. It of Communism. ational forms so that they will corre- to shop nuclei! became an accepted opinion with the leaders and very largely too, in the ranks of the social-democrats that socialism could be achieved thru the parliamentary or electoral machinery of capitalist "democracy.” Holding this view, it is natural that the revo- By tricacies, but on platform lutionary vitality, that the struggle on ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN the concert come to America. It does sound a and from the point of view of the lis- little bit other than the parliamentary field Alfred Wallenstein, first violincell- American. Glazunoff’s theme tener It Is not very Intriguing. There is derived from the tune was eliminated. The theory of soc- ist of the Chicago symphony orches- "John are some good bits in the Brown’s Body,” ialism gained easily and brought for tra, was soloist with it at the reg- second and the unaltered movement, but the rest is technical tune is also . ward organizationally a vast electoral ular concerts of last Friday and used. Which sets one hot air. to machinery of social-democracy com Saturday, at Orchestra Hall. Wallen- thinking. "John Brown’s Body” It Chaykovski petfng supposedly, with the capitalist stein eclipsed all his previous per- was the theme and is as near to an American folk song class. formances. There was an unusually variations that made the hit. The as any. There are a lot more like response, theme itself is not at all characteris- it, such as "Frankie and Johnnie,” Shop a Historical enthusiastic and the soloist Nuclei and Practical tic of the composer. It is almost "Blow the Man Down,” the cowboy Necessity. well deserved It. He played the Mozartian and simple, and the varia- songs collected by George Lomax, Then the world and de Schumann concerto and the variations war came tions are not the distortions one so and all the rest of the songs that strayed, in the vast millions of the on a rococo theme by Chaykovski. undoubtedly frequently finds. This music com- Carl Sandburg and his guitar sing be- masses, at least, if not in the leaders The first of these is inter- bined with Mr. Wallenstein’s tasteful fore literary societies. the illusion that political power could esting to the ‘cellist in the privacy and refined interpretation made a If Alexander Glazunoff, living in be gamed by the workers thru the of his studio as he works out its ln- most delightful combination. Leningrad, can write a march on an machinery of the capitalist parlia Mr. Stock opened the program with American folk song, why not some ac- ment and institutions. In fact, story ftes. 1632 S. Trumbull Avs. a the symphony of Ernest Chausson. tivity on our part to use what folk Is old, but which yet needs Phone Rockwell 5050 which now Chausson was a pupil of Cesar rausfc we have. tu many times, be told She socialist MORDECAI SHULMAN Franck and his symphony parties is much like thruout the world became the ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Franck’s, which means that it is mel- GET "AD” third parties of capitalism. The soc AN Association ody full of pathos and suffering that ialist parties, instead of being parties 701 Building FOR THE DAILY WORKER touches one to the depths. It Is a of revolution, have become the parties 19 S. La Salic Street CHICAGO 8H57 pity this man could not have lived of counter-revolution, last Dearborn Central 4945-4941 staves of and his genius ripen. But a recalcit- the barrel of capitalism. % Dust Proof rant bicycle and a stone wall decided RUBBER STUMPS The Communist movement coming Afitk differently, and all being we have is a few AND into during the course of the Slip poignant and SEALS Covers moving compositions to IN ENGLISH world catastrophe and the breaking remember him by. up of the International to protect FOREIGN LANGUAGES Second brot Richard Strauss’ rondo "Till Eulen- forward its own definite ideology prin INK. FADS. DATERS. RUBBER TYFEJIk. spiegel” and a festival march written cipally and tactically. The ideas oi Furniture by Alexander Glazunoff for the Chi & CO, Communists and socialists are as far cago on; NOBLER STAMP SEAL * world’s fair of 1893 rounded apart as the poles. Briefly, Call or Phone. -, 524 the Com- the program. This march is practical ” So. Dearborn munists have demonstrated that the Street Illinois Slip Cover Co. ly unknown, and it is a surprising primary struggle for power by the Plmm Wibish 6680 Not Inc. Sue bit of music, considering that i workers lies outside of parliament and Bldg., CHICAGO Warwick 551 E.47th St., Chicago is based on an American tune am gagM MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY congress, which can only be used as 4-| Telephone Atlantic 0601 was written by a man who has neve. ATTENDED TO mediums for propaganda for the revo- Estimates cheerfully given everywhere lution. The real struggle lies in par- ticipation in the daily battles of the PITTSBURGH, PA. workers, strikes, etc., in the fighting DR. RASNICK to revolutionize the trade unions and DENTIST to organize shop committees.
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