The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
BY ALFRED WAGENKNECHT

For a month my unit has been discussing
the right danger. The four meetings held
lasted until nearly midnight. The members
Of the adjourned unit meetings in the section
headquarters, gathered around to listen.
number of comrades in my unit argued as fol-
lows: The workers are not radicalized as much
think they are We tried to sell them
Daily Workers in the shops covered and
many would not even take them free. The
Party may be too much to the left We do not
yet understand the psychology Of the workers
There may be rehabilitation in other countries
there may be revolutionary upsurges in India
and China, but American workers are slower
: they are still too well off There is very little
unemployment in France, so France must be
an exception and maybe the United States is
also. Our principal task should be to build
left wing in the AT. Of L. and in the Music
groups, Every time we tried to do shop gate
work we met difficulties, the workers did not
listen; they not rushing to join the revolt
tionary unions and the Party.
Several unit meetings ago, the unit buro
brought in a resolution which overestimatoI the
power of American imperialism said it was
being drawn into the world crisis, and orient
ated the unit towards street corner meetings
and away from shop gate meetings.
in the same several buildings where, other unit
comrades had been before. On the basis Of
which some Of them evolved platform of in
surmountable difficulties. Five comrades had
been assigned and only three appeared. The
section headquarters was locked and remained
locked We could not get our leaflets. Two
comrades from another unit were sitting on the
steps waiting to get in. They told US that eight
comrades had been assigned to go to the West
inghouse Electric neighborhood. The other six
never appeared. These two had leaflets for the
Madison Square Garden Party convention rally.
We had none. We had a small bundle of Daily
Workers which took along (none were ordered
in advance) and the other comrades had no
Daily Workers. All ineXcusable shortcomings.
We decided to form one shock troop to in
wade the territory assigned by my unit. In this
territory there is big print shop, big shop
that makes army, navy and police uniforms.
and a shoe factory. II had been reported in
our unit that the workers in the shoe factory
were backward element and might as we'll
be left alone. Without flag or stand we held
three short curb meetings, two of five minutes
each, one of ten minutes. At the first two we
had total of about % workers. At the last
one about 35 workers gathered around us. A
dame from the Daughters of the American
revolution invited all to go back to our own
countries and engaged me in rapid fire argu-
ment until one worker said well give you
revolution here" whcreupon she fled across the
street.
The speeches were sloganzed. another big
crash in Wall Street. Read about it in the Daily
Worker. sign Of the big capitalist crisis
Seven million workers out of jobs. You may be
next What are you going to do about it? You
get low wages and speed-up. You've got to
organize at once. Join the revolutionary unions
of the Trade Union Unity League. Employed
and unemployed workers must get together and
fight together. Organize unemployed councils.
The bosses are trying to save their necks by