The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
OUR TASKS IN BUILDING.
THE RED UNIONS

thct his he's 5een one of the biggest Snor,com.
.n~s-tae failure 20 systamate2lty y1rry
thlona he struggle against oD2srtaaj>1.
Were the Struggle has 6een carried through
there IS new healthy breeze that A.ows
through the Parry Immediately. You IAN a.
most see the comrades hoaylng sigh o, relief
and beginning 20 act, 10 move. l hope that
some of the comrades from Pittsburgh will
cite some of these instances where comrades
have been activized after months of stagna-
ton Units took up new. live issues, shop
papers came out, real work began inside of the
shops, and in the recruiting of many new mem
bers. Without a systematic struggle against
the OppOrtunist tendencies We cannot mobilize
the Party for the mass work
The deepening crisis in the United States
has affected some of our comrades in a very
bad way. They are so enthusiastic about the
perspective of a world revolution that they con-
slider unimportant and do not deal with the
economic demands and issues in the decisive
industries. ! think that Comrade Lozovsky did
a great service to our Party and to the other
sections of the c. l. in bringing forth and popu-
larizing the resolution written by Comrade
Lenin on economic demands in 1907
Cent Skip Process.
This resolution could serve as a guide for
this convention and for our mass work. What
does it mean when we neglect these economic
demands? 1t means that we are trying to skip
a whole process. We are approaching the
workers from the top down. For instance in
Pittsburgh, one of the comrades organized 40
cleaners and dyers and devoted much atten-
ton to them. went night after night and spoke
to them, and finally the rank and file workers
came to the District Office of the Party. They
were almost crying and stated that they agreed
with all Of our program we are not against the
resolution they said. but for gods sake send
us a cleaner and dyer to speak to us about
our problems in the shop, will pay his fare
from New York if necessary. Workers viii not
be organized in this way. The struggle must
be centered around shop problems and de-
mands.
Then comrades there is the great weakness
in our day to day mass agitation. n the first
place there is not sufficient agitation, and we
do not issue enough leaflets, enough leaflets
dealing with local problems as they arise in the
basic industries. Certainly it is not necessary
to include in every leaflet. every slogan OF
the Party, every time leaflet is issued. Our
leaflets must be simplified. They must pro-
coed from economic demands and vice versa
New Forces
Then. comrades, the question of the develop
ment of new forces. From every District comes
the demand for forces, and our forces ar
very weak, especially in the mass trade union
work, especially in shop activity. There must
be more growth and conscious development of
the forces that are coming to the forefront in
the struggles that arising | know for
instance, that i'll the National Miners Union in
the last or weeks four or five rank and file
organizers have been developed and placed in
the field. The development of these forces can
not be mechanical, haphazard process We
must proceed systematically picking out those
rank and file comrades who show ability for
one or another kind work, and promote and
train them in the struggle-this is what de-
velopment of forces means. And in the educa
tional work in our Party we must assign GER
tain comrades for this work in the +rade unions
and in the Districts, and organize reading cir
cles, study classes elementary political educa
ton. BY these two methods we will develop
more responsibility in the new forces and en-
able them to deal with tn serious problems that
arise every day.