The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-15

the very outset of a campaign is to invite
serious defeats.
Failure to Apply Correct United Front
Tactics.
The failure to involve the non-Party as we'll
as Party members in our campaign for sigma
lures as in the election campaign generally,
is result of our incorrect application of the
correct policy of the Party for the United
Front from below The tendency in practice
to limit our united front to the organizations
Immediately around the Party and to fail to
even win these for our campaigns, results in
narrow conferences, made up of delegates who
are merely present but are not required to
serve as means of contact with and leaders
of the membership of the organizations they
represent. Both the Party and non-Party Or
CARNATIONS look upon the conferences as end
IN themselves and as something to be disposed
of and forgotten as soon as possible. To get
them over with 80 that they can proceed to
"reaP' work.
AS for shop-committees, the basic form of
our united front from below, these have been
simply something we speak of having failed
to establish, after certain eliminating point
of a campaign has been reached! The building
of shop committees still remains something to
be done by an abstraction-"the Party" The
uiilS Vi CHe IdTIy ana Jne lnQlVlQudl comrades
who work in shops have not yet been con-
WINGED that building shop committees, estaab-
fishing the united front from below must be
undertaken under the leadership of the Cen
trail and district committees of the Party by
the lower units of the Party, the shop and
street nuclei and the individual members work.
ing in the shops.
Thus the vast reservoir of radicalized masses
were not drawn into campaign up to now.
Our campaign has not served to advance these
workers towards organized action.
Political Undressing alton and Organizational
LOoseness
Along with these basic political errors many
instances of criminal neglect can be recorded.
Thus, the petitions for Cuyahoga County
(Cleveand) were not issled until after the
first week of August because "the district did
not have the money to print these" Although
this delayed the collection of signatures for
the state petitions as well, the district failed
to bestir itself in order to raise the less than
$50 required!
Perspective for Our Election Campaign
and Further Tasks.
Despite the possibility that we will be ruled
off the ballot on the basis of the technical
grounds provided by the bosses laws, the Par
ty must and will conduct an intensive election
campaign in Ohio We must develop the strug-
gle to compel the bourgeois state authorities
to permit candidates to go on the ballot
We must insist that the workers be given an
opportunity for supporting our platform of
class struggle in the elections next November
At the same time we must develop mass
campaign in support of the local and congreA
sional candidates that have secured a place
on the ballot in Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County
and other counties of the state
Broaden the Base by Planned Work.
The state conference "for repeal of the cri-
minal syndicalist law, against persecution of
foreign born workers, against lynching jim,
Crowism and segregation of Negro workers"
will serve as the first step in broadening the
base of our struggle. The local conferences
on these issues will provide broad united front
campaign committees in every city of the dis
trict Tho local conferences under auspices Of
the TU.U.L. and Unemployed Councils for the
Workers Social Insurance Bill and energetic
support for the Organize ard Strike Fund of
the T.U.U.L. will serve further to provide Or
ganization for the mass struggles that must
be expected and developed as tho carteliet
crisis deenens and the conditions of the work
ing elias become more desperate.
Winter is coming. More rlnemplovmcnt
Bread lines. Evictions. The Communist PARTY
alone is .nobzing the nemn1oved and an,