The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
By c. A. HATHAWAY.

IN the remaining days before May list, the
organizationa work of the Party, especially,
must be strengthened. The reports which we
have received at this writing from Kansas City,
Detroit and Boston, and our personal obserya-
tions in New York, indicate serious organ
national weaknesses which must be overcome
to ENSURE the maximum mobilization of the
workers for the mass political strike and the
demonstration on May First. While there are
weaknesses in all phases of the work, the or
ganizationa weaknesses must be especially en-
phasized and overcome.
The reports now available show that the
Party has a generally correct approach to the
May First preparations. The mass political
strike and street demonstrations are every
where placed as the objective. The slogans
of the Party-work or wages, social insurance,
seven hour day, five-day week, against the
speed-up, against wage cuts, etc.-appear to
have been well linked up with the broader
political slogans of the Party-fight against
police attacks, against imperialist war, defense
of the Soviet Union, etc.
An exceptionally wide agitational and prop
uganda campaign has been carried thru among
the workers. Hundreds of thousands of leaf
lets have been issued, thousands more are be.
ing prepared. Special shop bulletins are be-
ing prepared for distribution prior to May
First in all shops where we have nuclei. sStick-
ers and posters are being widely utilized. The
auxiaries are doing their share in this mass
distribution of agitational material. Noon day
meetings have been held at number of fac
tories Many more such meetings are planned
for the remaining ten days. United front con-
ferences have been held in most places with
reasonably good representation; in some cases
larger than in any previous conferences held
by the Party.
This wide and intensive agitational and prop
uganda work guarantees that great masses of
workers, .harrassed by unemployment, wage
cuts, and by the speed-up, have been made
acquainted with the slogans of our Party and
the significance of the international demon
stratons of May First Without in any sense
weakening the further agitatonal and propa-
ganda work of the Party, the period remaining
must be utilized to the maximum extent in
actually organizing in the shops and trade
unions for the mass political strike and for
the organized participation of the workers in
the May First demonstrations. The strength.
ening of these organizational preparations is
now the chief task before every leading COM
mittee and before all Party functionaries.
The principal weaknesses which must be
overcome can briefly be enumerated as follows:
/. The insufficient mobilization Of the en-
2. Lack of coordination in the work Of the
various district committees, the sections, units
and fractions.
8. insufficient utilization of the non-Party
workers drawn together thru the united front
conferences and the leading committees set up
at these conferences.
A. insufficient effort to organize May First
Committees n the shops, the inactivity of our
shop nuclei
S. Poor functioning of Party fractions in
the auxiliaries generally and primarily in the
T.U.U.L. and the trade unions.
6. Lack Of preparations for the organized
participation of workers from specific shops
and workers organizations in the demonstra-
tion.7
With regard to the first, the participation of
the Party members in the preparatory work
There it is quite clear that instead of March
9Th serving as stimulant for more intensive