The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

correctness of the analysis of the present crisis
by the Comintern and the Central Committee.
The response of the masses corresponds to the
steady deepening of the crisis which results
in the constant lowering of the living standards
of the entire working class and reduces ever
larger sections of the workers to actual starva
tion The fact that large number of en-
ployed workers participated in the demonstra-
ton in Detroit shows that the solidarity of
workers employed and unemployed is growing,
This is accelerated by the practical wiping out
of the difference between employed and un
employed thru partial employment which Is the
lot of the majority of the employed. This
demonstration the largest lever held in Detroit
is the best proof of the growing rehabilitation
of the masses and the rising revolutionary
mood among the auto workers in this most
highly rationalized industry.
2. This demonstration Of over 100000 un-
employed and employed workers around the
slogans of our Party and under its banner is
the best proof that the Party in Detroit is be-
coming a mass Party able to rally huge masses
and that the District Committee under the lead
ership of the &C. has correctly understood
how to utilize the present situation for rally
ing the workers to fight for the demands of
the Party in the interest of the entire working
class. This demonstration revealed the grow
decentralization of the masses who gathered
under the banner of the Comntern despite the
vicious propaganda of the Bosses the social
fascists, and the entire capitalist press The
Party achieved such tremendous results thanks
to the adoption and the carrying out of the
line of the 9th Congress and the 10th penum
by our &C. and the political guidance given to
the District by the &C At the same time
we must emphasize that the mobilization of
over 900 workers was made possible by the
intense activity carried by the District IN
the last three months, the successes achieved
in the recruiting campaign, and finally due to
the seriousness with which the District Com
mittee approached the task of organizing the
demonstration and modelling the masses on
the basis of the directives of the &C. Over a
quarter of a million leaflets, stickers, shop
papers, and Daily Workers were distributed
in the factories, labor organizations, workers
homes, employment agencies, schools and SOL
diers barracks. Many factory gate meetings
were held organizations visited, etc.
8. The demonstration was convincing proof
that the workers in Detroit are following the
Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity
League. We succeeded in winning some sup
port in locals of the A. F. of L. despite threats
of expulsion. Nevertheless we must recognize
that the A. F. of L. bureaucracy is still a
powerful enemy that must be exposed and
defeated before the Party can gain the leader
ship of the majority of the workers. This
demonstration has exposed the A. F. of L. bu-
reaucrats, the Socialists, the Proletarian Party
sect, the SIP, as enemies of the workers who
must be fought by the workers. Particularly
have the Lovestonites and Cannonites been ex-
posed as deserters from the struggle to the
side of imperialism. In mobilizing the masses
for this demonstration the District carried on
a struggle against the attempts of the bosses,
the government, the churches, the A. F. of L.,
the socialists the various other social reformist
groups, and the Jerry Buckleys, all of whom in
their own way tried to hinder the mobiliza-
ton of the masses and to confuse the masses.
The size of the demonstration shows that in a
large measure the workers are beginning to
understand who their enemies are.
A. The District Committee tho ORIGINATING
on large outpouring of the masses, and APP
plying correctly the line of the &C. underes-
timated the tremendous response of the masses
to the call of the Party. This is true not only
with respect to the size of the demonstration
but also with regards to the number of work
ers who left the factories and demonstrated IN
solidarity with the unemployed. Already even
the partial reports indicate that many thou
sands of workers struck on March 6 in some
in the morning (Hudson) and strikes in de-
partments (Packard-U.S. Rubber) and the
leaving of the factories by manv workers at
Ford and other auto plants Tho we made
special efforts to call out the workers In the
factories thru special agitation, factory gate
meetings, special strike leaflets ETC.. neverthe-
less we did not estimate correctly the real re-
Spouse of the employed and insufficiently real
lied the mood of the employed, which if prop
ery organized would have resulted in many
more strikes in departments and factories.
This underestimation led to the adoption of
strategy not entirely suited to he huge dem
onstration Chief among these shortcomings
in strategy was the failure to properly concen-
trate the forces of the Party, leading to seri-
Gus difficulties in the eXercize of leadership
of the demonstration by the Party. At the
same time the steering committee at the DEM
onstration suffered from too much Journalism
and lack of initiative and did not quickly
enough respond to the new situation. One of
the most serious errors the failure of a
sufficient number of leading comrades at the
demonstration to take the lead despite the evil
dent difficulties that existed because Of the
massing and the strategy of the police and
other armed forces.
The demonstration has shown many weak
nesses of the Party both as to experience and
capabilty in effectively resisting the attacks
of the police. The defense groups were or
ganized without sufficient preparation and
were unable to cope with the situation. This
problem must be given the greatest attention
by the Party Immediately. Another great
deficiency both in preparation and in conduct
~ 4bo of of t., hp