The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-12
Strike Strategy
By JACK TOMBSTONE.
Article 10.

THE preparations for strike struggle, cannot
be seriously thought of without major at
tention being given to the unemployed workers.
Unemployment is and will be ma or factor
in all strikes. Not the same factor that I'M
employment played in the strike that occurred
during the previous crises, when capitalism
was in ascendency, therefore expressing the
growing pains of capitalism, when capitalism
was able to dissolve the large army of I'M
employed with the overcoming of the crisis,
through the development of new markets and
new industries
This type of recovery of the present crisis is
preluded by the fact that every capitalist
country has entered this phase of capitalist
over-production, where they find themselves
with an industrial machinery developed far
beyond the needs of the worlds capitalist mar
ket where the limits of extending that market
has been reached and where the very process
of wage cutting and speedup still further deep
ems the crisis.
1t is precisely in this period wwhen, for the
capitalist there are too many workers Ito give
work to, but not enough" workers to sell their
goods to-, that the potential industrial work
ing class grows more rapidly in numbers and
becomes more poverty stricken, their ranks
being swelled with the ruined petty bourgeois,
the poor farmers, and the agricultural work
ers that formerly depended solely on his living
from the land.
In revolutionary strike strategy the perman-
ancy of large army of unemployed number
ing millions at the peak of capitalist "pros-
perity' expresses an important phase in the
decline of world Observation-Disclosures of
industry at the expense of the workers-eX-
presses the enlargement and not diminish
ing of this permanent army of unemployed
80 bn 49, o,,;I 81;
It is precisely this difference between pre-
war and post war crises that must be under
stood and considered in revolutionary strike
strategy and in the preparations for strike
struggle in this period
The organizing of unemployed councils is
prerequisite to the preparation of strike strug-
gle. 1t should be made clear to the unem.
ployed worker that there is very little hope,
if any, of finding job in other cities in
dustries, that where he is, is the place to stay
and fight it out by organizing into industrial
unemployed councils and to fight jointly with
the employed worker. This is the major
ganizational task of the T.U.U.L. and the revo-
lutionary unions.
The unemployed workers m Ist be drawn into
every leading strike committee, on to the picket
line, they must be made TO see and feel hat
they are part of the strike. Specific demands
should be made and slogans raised to meet the
needs of the unemployed. The 7-hour, 5-day
week, unemployed insurance, immediate relief
for the unemployed mass struggle against
evictons, free lodgings for the workers with
out home, ETC., must be brought forward in
the preparations for the strike, and unem
ployed relief measures forced through both in
the preparation and during the strike.
In this important field the T.U.U.L. is far
behind the fighting mood Of the workers. March
9Th and Sept. LIST showed that the Party and
the T.U.U.L. have the theological leadership
of large sections of unemployed workers, still
the organizing of unemployed councils progress
as at snail's pace.
The unions and leagues are not giving suf-
ficient attention to this important task. The
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union which
is now preparing for strike in the dress sec
ton Of the industry, while speaking almost