The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-09


we succeeded in breaking away from the fake
progressives in the painters unions in the last
elections. Our comrades and supporters ran
Tor election on a militant program. We have
succeeded in putting forth our program in
several locals of the carpenters, despite the
threats on the part of the fascist officials
We have spread propaganda in the electri-
clans locals which resulted in the barring of
our comrades from the union meetings, but not
making an attempt to organize the rank and
file sentiment for US. Our present groups are
being organized on clear-cut T.U.U.L. pro-
gram. We have made inroad among some Sec
tons of the unorganized workers. Mass meet
ings of organized we'll as unorganized work
ers were called. Our program was read by
tens of thousands of building trades workers.
But despite the improvement in our work
there are still many shortcomings. The fol-
lowing can be listed of the most important
ones:
l. Failure to organize the unemployed into
councils Although this work was started it
was quickly given up.
2. Failure to broaden our group within the
A. F. of L. locals, bringing in new rank and
file members.
g. Failure by the building trades league to
link up its work with that of the groups in
the locals.
4. Failure to bring together the organized
and unorganized.
s. very small per centage of our COM
rades are active in the trade union field, only
about Is per cent.
6. Having hardly any contact with the ma
tive workers although they comprise great
majority of the workers in the industry.
l. An erroneous policy given out by the
District T.U.U.L. in regards to the unorganized
Iybi late
g. Not sufficient work among the morgan
lied, especially construction workers
g. Not recruiting sufficiently into the T.U
I'LL.
The possibilities are great if we will pursue
the correct tactics Our main task at the
present time is to intensity our activities among
the organized as well the unorganized. Our
aim is to build an industrial union But before
we do this we must strengthen our position
among both organized and unorganzed work.
ers, which means strengthening the Building
Trades League We must work so in the old
unions as to not only limit ourselves to pron-
uganda but do actual organization work To
broaden our groups and to recruit the best
clements into the T.U.UL. The Building
Trades fraction, which is next to the biggest
in the New York district must be actvized. Un-
less this is done we will not be in position .
TO carry out our work, e., to win the majority
Of the members for our program The work
among the unemp loyed must be renewed. Our
demands must be concretized, more immediate
in order to rally bigger section of the work
ers around our activities. And last, but not
least, intensity greatly our work among the
unorganized which are the most exploited.
The Party and the T.U.UL. must analyze
the conditions in this industry and pursue
line which is adaptable to the conditions in this
industry. 1t seems to me that the T.U.U.L.
is too general in it's present line The present
policy of the TU.U.L., if applied would mean
isolation from the organized workers without
any benefit to the Party or League. 1t would
result in the expulsion of our comrades from
the union 1t is wrong to say that what APP
plies to the needle trades or the miners also
applies to the building trades (Gorman). 1t
is wrong to say that all the organized workers
are the aristocracy of labor, therefore
haven't much to lose if we are expelled. 1t
is likewise wrong to say that we must put 81
per cent of the emphasis the unorganized
(Gorman) While it is true that there arc
Just as many unorganzed as organized, work
ing under bad conditions big portion of these
are unorganizabe due to conditions under
which they work. 1t is also worth while men,
toning that the unorgapized do not work on
new work, they only work on repair or alter
alton, with the average big contractor employ
ing about 10 men. 1t is incorrect to say that
a comrade has adopted the theory of excep-
tionalism because he does not believe tina.
building trades workers are just as ready TO
follow the Party and the T.I.U.L. as the tex
tile or the miners are. That if we are ready
for union in the textile industry therefore,