Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
Social-Democratic and reformist leaders. His third task should
consist of getting the Fascist agents, police spies, etc., driven
out of the shop and factory. This last task is forgotten most
often of all. However, it is evident that so long as there are
among the workers in the shop police agents who are following
every movement of the revolutionary minded workers, and informing
the boss about their actions every day, it will be very difficult
to organize work in that shop. But if by pressure of the workers
he should succeed in ridding the shop of these agents, Party work
will be greatly facilitated. Among those who should be thrown out
it will now be necessary to include individual Social-Democrats
who show themselves Fascist police agents, but the general line
in relation to Social-Democratic workers must remain, i. e., they
must be drawn into the general class channel of the revolutionary
struggle of the proletariat by means of the organization of the
united front from below.
Thus the foundation of the factory cell must definitely be the
workshop of dept. cell. The general factory cell can work well
only when it has strong support points in the workshops and
separate departments.
21. THE SHOP CELL
The most important task of the shop cell is to concentrate the
non-Party active workers in the shop compactly around itself. To
organize the shop, the dept.--this is the task of the shop cell,
so that every shop of a factory may act as an organized force. How
can this be done? It can be done only provided the shop cell works
on the foundation of the defense of the everyday interests of the
working class, that every Communist in every shop organizes the
mass of the workers of that shop around every question of everyday
struggle of the working class. For example, there is a foreman in
the shop who behaves very roughly to the workers. The cell must
organize the whole mass of the workers around the demand that this
foreman should be dismissed. The cell should create a committee
of action, organize elections of shop stewards who should be
delegate-representatives of all the workers in the shop, in order
to effect the driving out of the foreman. Active Communists among
these shop stewards should form the leading core, but non-Party
workers who are respected by the mass of the workers, should also
be drawn in, including even individual Social-Democratic workers
who have declared their readiness to fight for the removal of this
foreman, in spite of all orders and threats from their leaders. If
the shop cell succeeds in creating such a directing center around
concrete tasks affecting the interests of all the workers of the
factory, then we can say that this shop cell has worked well: it
has become the revolutionary leader of the workers of a given
shop.
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