The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
ON THE MARCH SIXTH
DEMONSTRATION
Resolution of the Detroit District Committee

between our influence and organZational
strength. 1t also brings home forcefully the
responsibilities with which the DC and the
entire membership must be ready to meet De-
spite the mobilization of the entire police force
something unprecedented in the history of De-
troit, and supplemented by the mobilization Of
deputized armed thugs from various patriotic
organizations, we record splendid militancy
on the part of the Party membership and the
workers as a whole. Especially the Negro
workers and women workers showed up well.
The working women were active in resisting
the attacks of the police, and almost half of
those taken to the hospitals and arrested were
women workers. Yet we did not succeed in
breaking thru the police lines and defeat their
strategy. This inevitably resulted in the fail
to bring out the maximum fighting spirit
of the masses who looked to the Communists
for leadership. This great shortcoming must
be overcome. We have succeeded gathering
over 100000 workers to demonstrate. We must
now learn from the experience that we had
for the first time in Detroit and be able to
resist and defeat the attacks of the police.
Here we can also record that the vel.
which for the first time succeeded in mobiliz-
ing almost its entire membership has increased
manifold in the last few months played very
militant role at the demonstration welding in
fluence over large sections of the young work
ers. The vel. was largely responsible for a
wide distribution of leaflets both in the Ma
tiona Guard and the regular forces. 1t also
helped to mobilize the children thru the Young
Pioneers by holding school yard meetings and
calling for strikes in the schools that resulted
in measure of success.
If the gap between the rehabilitation of the
masses and the growing influence of the Party
on the one hand and the organizational weak
n.A.,
more pronounced in the other cities of the Dis
trct. In Grand Rapids there was a splendid
demonstration of many thousands at the City
Hall despite the police announcements that they
will not allow the demonstration about which
the police changed their mind when they saw
the great mass. Already dozens of workers
have Joined the PARTY here as a result of the
demonstration. In Muskegon with hardly a
dozen members the Party succeeded in leading
a demonstration of about 5000 unemployed ,
and employed workers On the other hand in
Pontiac and Flint where about 10000 workers
gathered in each of the cities near the City
Hall there was no demonstration held because
the police by arresting practically all the COM
rades who were in charge of the demonstration
succeeded in robbing the demonstration of the
leadership, and the comrades sent from the
District the last minute were insufficient and
unable to lead the demonstration. Here we
see the tremendous response of the masses and
the great weakness of the Party which as yet
has not learned how to work in such a manner
as to be able to carry on the work IN spite
of the attacks of the police. Tho the District
has given considerable attention to the outlying
cities and has succeeded as result Of the re-
cruiting campaign for the first time really
building the Party in Pontiac and Flint, and to
more than double the membership in Grand
Rapids, the District did not give sufficient at
tention to the preparation of the demonstra-
ton The District assisted these cities by
working out the plan printing their leaflets and
stickers, and sent comrades to help in the prep
aration But the comrades sent were not the
most experienced and were not from the lead
ing comrades in the District which showed an
underestimation of the demonstrations in these
cities.
6. The District Committee must guard
against the results of the demonstration being
dissipated thru period of inactivity. On the
contrary the Party must apply itself with the
greatest energy and enthusiasm gained as a
result of the demonstration to the organlza-
ton of the masses that responded to the call
of the Party and fought under its banner. Al
ready the district has organized huge mass
meeting at Danceand Auditorium for Thurs
dav. March 10, against the brutality of the
police and for the purpose of dispensing the
experience of the workers and gain organiza-
tional results for the Party and the other mass
organizations.
The Party must Immediately concentrate on
the following important tasks.
Cal The Councils of Unemployed must be
built into real mass organizations. The Party
fractions in the councils must do everything
possible to build them and to develop real
leadership from among the most militant non
Party workers who must be drawn into all
the leading committees. The Councils must
give more attention to organizatonal work,
to the issuance of books, dues, etc.
b) The Party fractions in the T.U.U.L.
must see to it that the T.U.U.L. utiizes this
situation for the enrolment of tens of thous-
ands of workers into its ranks-into the Auto
Workers Union and its other sections. The
National Conference of the Auto Workers
Union held last week pledged itself to recruit
10000 new members into the Auto Workers
Union by the time of the National Convention
of the union on May II. This pledge must be
put into life. The Party factory nuclei must
take the lead in the factories for the building
of the Auto Workers Union into a real mass
organization.
(c) On the basis of the response of the
employed workers we must take steps to at
once create Committees of Action of the EN-
ployed and unemployed workers. The Party
must devote more attention to the winning OF
the workers in the shops.
(d) The Councils in Detroit, Grand Rapids,
Pontiac, Flint, etc., must be stimulated to
start discussion and election of delegates to
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