The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-05

it is extremely difficult to give the proper
attention to this unit, to follow up the work
started and crystalline the sentiment which
was manifested into concrete organizational re-
suits. We cannot, because of the great distance
from the center, inconvenent travelling and
lack of forces, give enough attention, at the
present moment, to assure the development
of the local forces.
Present Policies.
The Party has now worked out policy of
building broad Action Committees in the mines
and UNIV. locals. These committees, COM
posed of members of the revolutionary union
and workers ready to fight under its leader
ship, must form the basis of a mass organiza-
ton; must be means of giving leadership to
the dissatisfied miners, leading their discomfort
into revolutionary channels and winning them
away from the UNIV. With this policy has
been worked out program for concentrated
activity with assignments made to all COM
rades in the field, making them responsible for
certain tasks, such as building Action Commit
tees in specified mines, etc. In the next few
weeks we must have a number of these COM
mittees and local unions of the M.O.S.WLU.
functioning. The perspective is district Con-
ference of the union in the Anthracite to be
held within the next or 4 months.
The League must here also make change.
Our activity must be concentrated in one sec
ton of the Anthracite. Our main task must
be the recruiting of young mine workers into
these Action Committees and into the union,
and of the best elements into the League. Our
work in this field must lead to Youth Con-
ference in connection with the District Con-
ference of the union. We must succeed through
this work in establishing the League firmly,
through the building of several units, and
definitely establishing our leadership over a
large section of the young miners.
We shall have to pay much more attention
to the textile industry. We must Immediately
work out a plan of concentrated activity on
one mill and establish here shop nucleus with
a committee of the N.T.W.U. around it. This
task, if properly carried through, will give us
a base for carrying on more extensive work
for the building of the textile union in the
Anthracite, where the mills can in "a hours
be turned into gun cotton manufacturing
plants, thus making it an important and basic
war industry.
Methods and Approach
If these tasks are to be carried through, and
they must be, our approach to the young
workers, our methods of work, must be radi-
caly changed. Instead of only talking about
youthful methods of work we must learn how
to apply in specific situations. Such means
for example, as a forum, with the subjects
carefully selected and advertised so as to make
them attractive to young workers, must be
utilized. Advertising dance after each of
these discussions should enable us to draw
many young workers to the forums. This is
only one means We must be very flexible in
our methods. Sports, and other similar acti-
vltles must be developed as another means of
attracting the young workers to US. And
where We cannot sell the Young Worker and
other literature at the Mines we must utilize
the method of selling and distributing litera-
ture in the pool-rooms and similar places
where he young workers congregate in the
evenings.
Finally, we must learn how to, not only ex-
pose our mistakes, weaknesses and shortcom-
ings, but must also learn how to draw the
necessary lessons from our experiences and
make every conscious effort to overcome Them
From our work before, and especially SINCE
the introduction of the Shock Plan, we can gain
many lessons. These must serve as means
of furthering the work of the League Should
we fail to do this, all ouf experience will mean
nothing.
The Shock Plan has proven definitely, even
to the most cynical, that our League can carry
on work, good work, and build itself into a
mass organization. 1t has given us start
towards making change in the whole life and
come to its end soon officially and shortly the
work started with it and especially the meth
DDS which we have started to introduce must
be carried on much more intensively and at a
much more rapid tempo. The League Plenum
will have to discuss thoroughly our mistakes
and shortcomings, draw the necessary lessons
from them and thus become the mobilization
point of all active elements.