The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
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a school of revolutionary struggle for the
broad working Masses the TUUL becomes
lever and the main reserve for the Party. All
Communists must belong to the TUUL. There
they must carry out the most fundamental task
of the Party, that of creating and ever
strengthening wide mass base for the Party
i'll the factories thus developing it into mass
Party. go
The leadership of the Party in the TUUL
must be assumed and maintained by the Com
munsts through their activities as the most
energetic members, the best fighters and the
leaders in the economic struggles of the
workers.
Revolutionary Strike Strategy.
%. The recent economic battles have
shown that the revolutionary unions and the
TUUL are as yet totally unprepared organiza-
tionally and politically to fulfill their tasks
This was especially demonstrated in the Hi
nois miners strike where the weaknesses of
the union, of the TUUL and of the Party
showed the imperative necessity of a deci-
sve turn in our work in this field. This turn
can be accomplished only if there is clarity in
the Party in regards to the tasks of the TUUL
and its function in leading and organizing the
economic struggles.
The Illinois strike revealed:
(a) Failure to prepare in time for the
strike on the part of the union, failure to
carry on preliminary agitation and organiza-
ton, failure to set up committees Of action,
and of eecting mass strike committees from
below; therefore the union failed to draw the
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of the struggle Even in some cases. where
pit committees had been organized spontan-
eously by the workers themselves, the off
cials of the union dissolved them.
(b) The union not only Jagged behind the
militant masses in the strike but actually OBJ
structed the spreading Of it and dampened the
spirit Of the masses by the pessimism of its
own leadership.
(c) The union failed to formulate clearly
set of concrete strike demands and to popu-
larize them among the miners, thus showing a
complete failure the part of the union to
understand its task the leader in the eco
nomic struggles of the workers.
The T.U.U.L on its part failed to appear
as the leader of the union. 1t was therefore
unable to repair the weaknesses of the union
in battle. 1t acted primarily as a propaganda
organ unable and unwilling to take the respon-
sbility and leadership where the union failed
This was manifested outstandingly in the fail
ure of the T.U.U.L. to supervise the unions
preparation for the strike, its failure to lead
the activities of the Belleville and Ziegler con-
ferences and its failure to organize mass sup
port for the strike among the working class.
The Party failed in this strike to mobilize
all of its forces, to become the real leader and
to direct its membership the struggle. The
Party fractions worker haphazardly. The in
dividual Party members were not subordin-
ated to the direction of the Party fractions.
The Party was not on the spot with sufficient
s,rces to overcome the pessimism and obstruc-
I've activities of individual Party members
iCorbishley). Although the general line of the
Party was correct neither for Center nor the
district gave the systematic daily attention
which this struggle required.
While the Illinois struggle showed the weak
nesses of the T.U.U.L. of the revolutionary
unions and of the Party in the most accentu-
ated form, the same difficulties presented
themselves also in smaller or larger degree
in the other struggles, especially in that Of the
Needle Trades, the shoe workers and the food
workers.
Strengthen the T.U.UL.
3d. All of the above shortcomings reveal as
the outstanding weaknesses:
(a) That unions have not yet outlined
their past of left wings, and have not yet
adopted themselves to the role of organizers