The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
Strike Strategy

must be taken care of. The rule has been
generally that Sunday is holiday even from
strike; this is mistake and has paved the
way for many defeats. No day should be al
lowed to pass without some form of strike
activity. Sundays, while mass picketing may
not be necessary, should be utilized for the
preparations of mass picketing on Monday
morning, and at least picket lookouts on Sum
day duty to see that no attempt is being made
to bring in strikebreakers.
Watch Monday.
good example of this weakness was the
Detroit Murray Body strike where the strike
was defeated on Monday despite the fact
that on the previous Friday the picket line
1900 strong smashed through heavy police
Gordon and picketed the plants. Of course
there were many errors made, all of which
were repeated in the Fisher Body, Flint strike,
but the other errors could have been, and were
in the process of being corrected, when the
fatal Monday put an end to the strike.
The picket line poorly organized, the
comrades sat back on their laurels of having
led the pickets to a successful drive through
the police Gordon, Saturdays picket line was
poor in comparison to Fridays. Sunday was
taken as a holiday; Monday saw corporal
guard on picket duty, there a long line
of unemployed at the gate, and when the
picket line was too weak to influence them the
strikers became demoralized, accepted the
proposals of the company, although the T. U.
U. L. and A. w. U. fought for the rejection
of the proposals, and the strike was defeated.
Special Demonstrations.
The organizing of special demonstrations of
strikers wives and children, against the fas-
cist betrayers, against Srikebreakers, against
the police terror are very effective weapons
tlo
into strike activity, raising the morale of the
strikers and drawing other workers into sup
port of the strike.
Defense corps are an essential part of strike
preparations and strike struggle. The slug
ging and numbering of comrades by the gang
sters AMI fascist leaders are increasing every
day, and the propaganda slogan, workers.
Defend Yourselves" must be crystalized into
organization and practice.
Defense Corps.
Into these defense corps must be drawn the
most active groups of workers, from the revo-
lutionary unions and leagues from the strikers,
from the labor sport organizations, workers
clubs, proletarian womens organizations.
These corps must be trained in the art of
fighting. Leaflets and propaganda means
nothing in meeting the attacks Of the gang
sters and the A. F. of l.. and s. P. fascists,
who are protected by the police and white
washel by the capitalist courts. They must
be combatted physically and in an organized
manner.
The organizing of mass pcketing and de-
Tense corps and their proper functions is the
duty of the strike committee and is just as
important as the strike committee. However,
it is also very necessary that the proper les
sons are drawn by the strikers from the strike,
from the struggles between the picliets and
the city or state authorities, showing the class
political character Of all strike struggles, and
that the ending of strike whether it be
victorious or lost, is but one battle in the
class war, that is continued in some form
every day and will continue until the workers
are powerful enough TO smash capitalism.