The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Strike Strategy

is filled with the betrayals of the A. F. of L.,
the betrayal of the Ashawa (Canada) strikers,
General Motors) by the A. F. of L., the be-
trayal of the Hayms body workers in
Indianapolis. ', was in Flint that the ANU.
was able only short time ago to defeat the
A. F. of t. in their attempts to betray the
oil sanders strike; so that the errors in the
late Flint strike were certainly not due to the
lack of experience.
OppOrtunist Errors.
Allowing Comstock to remain as chairman
of the strike committee, the hiding from the
strikers Of gross opportunstic practices with
in the strike committee was rank opportunism.
The strengthening of the strike committee
should have been the first task of the members,
and especially the task of the leaders of the
Auto Workers Union, ~ exposing to the
striking workers the weaknesses within the
committee, demanding the removal of Constocl
as chairman and from the strike committee
the elimination of the wavering elements and
the election of new and more militant workers
into the strike committee.
The struggle against the reformists is in
tensified during strike struggle, Cancellation
with these elements is opportunism in practice
How the theology of the strikers be raised,
and the strike reach higher political level
if such practices are pursued. Such practice
is bound to lead to defeat.
No strike committee making a report to
strikers is force from revolutionary point
of vieW, if that report is couched in terms that
hide opportunist practices within the commit
tee This expresses a lack of faith in work
ers, developing bureaucracy, and becomes in
essence break with the united front from
below and the setting up of slick leadership.
Of course, one cannot say that the strike would
have been won, but we can say that strikes
are headed for defeat when errors of this kind
are allowed to be made.
Who Leads?
The strike committee is the leadership of
the strike. 1t must express the policy, pro-
gram, tactics, and the high fighting spirit of
the workers. We must figl against anything
and anybody that tends to weaken the strike
committee, special attention should be given to
fight against the forming of groups among the
leaders of the strike committee to fight against
all attempts to set up a united front at the
top, as Comstock was able to do in the Flint
strike.
In strikes or ockouts where the fascist Of
ficials of the A. F. of L. are in control. they
set up their d,mmy strike of lockout committee,
as they do on many occasions, such as in the
clothing industry They may place left wing
ers on the committee, as they have done in
the present strike of the children dressware of
New York (Which | will deal with in another
article. The duty of the revolutionary work
ers and the Twill. workers in a case of
this kind is to expose the treachery of the
bureaucrats, win over as many of the appoint
ed strike committee as possible, which you may
be sure will not be many, to program of
struggle before or at the very first meeting
of the STRIFE committee and withdraw from the
committee and call upon the strikers to form
rank and lie strike committee, which at its
initial meeting should issue the statements,
that the strikers will not be bound by any
agreement entered into by the fascist bureau
cracy.
Broad Conferences.
During strikes and lockolts it is very es
sential that conferences be held, under the
leadership of the strike committee, of organ
lied and unorganized workers, youth, women.
Negro, the unemployed so as to draw all work.
ers into the struggle, so the best, most en-
ergetc and militant workers can be drawn
into posts of strike leadership and to cement
working class solidarity in the strike, raising
the level of the struggle, making possible the
raising of new economic and political strika
slogans.
In the prep2ra' on for strike struggle. and
in developing and broadening The strike, the