The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
OUR IMMEDIATE TASKS


The above analysis and the actual conditions
in the automobile industry can therefore be
characterized by increased unemployment, in
creased wage cuts, and a still more inhuman
speed-up system. In addition to that, there is
further development and the application of
Hoovers "stagger system" AS a result of this
program additional thousands of workers will
race mass misery and mass starvation and will
place upon the Communist Party and the Auto
Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League
ever larger responsibilities in order to give
leadership and militant organization to these
hundreds and thousands of unorganized workers
in the industry Our Party as well as the Auto
Workers Uniop are still Tagging behind in this
great task of organizing a fighting Auto Workers
Union. We still face a situation within the
ranks Of the Party membership which expresses
that it is impossible to organize struggles in the
automobile plants in the present period of the
OF the fact that the struggles of the miners and
deepening crisis. This tendency exists in spite
textile workers have shown the contrary.
1t is therefore the task of the Party leader
ship IN the Detroit District now more than ever
before to ruthlessly burn out this conception,
this hesitation and tagging behind of the re-
Volutlonary forces which is nothing else but
opportunism in practice-developing out of an
unions of the Trade Union Unity League and a
lack of confidence in the masses of struggle
against increased hunger.
The industry besides being completely omen
shop and producing automobiles is rapidly being
developed into the most powerful and gignatIc
war industry. Some of the plants are already
producing war material, the outstanding of
which is the Packard Motor Car Co. This de-
VeIopment in the industry has been underesti-
mated by our Party forces. 1t is a well known
ment are working hand in hand in the city of
fact that the representatives of the War Depart
Detroit with the automobile manufacturers
These very same representatives were the lead
ing forces in framing the Alien Registration Law
in the state of Michigan
"
This starvation program on the part of the
automobile bosses is already creating verv sharn
discomfort on a broad scale The masses are
becoming increasingly more militant and ready 10
fight
1t is therefore the central task of our PARTY to
make 1t possible for this readiness on the part of
the masses to be crystallized into powerful
movement under the leadership of the Auto
Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League.
We must once and for all take up seriously the
building up of an organization campaign, keep-
LIB O44O NOAlOCl VI ILLS UIle OF action
OF the employed and unemployed auto workers
Organize and Prepare for Strikes against the
Starvation Program of the Automobile Bosses
and the City Government!
The building up Of a membership drive, the
building up of grievance committee, the building
up OF the department form of organization and
the establishment of shop locals as independent
fighting organs is the task of the hour The task
OF these shop locals and shop forms of organl-
zatlon Is to take up the struggle against layoffs
Wags-cuts and the "stagger plan," etc.
The building up Of real militant shop organi-
zssions OF the employed and the unemployed
demanding that the automobile companies pay
relief to their unemployed workers will keep in
the center the most elementary partial demands
Which must be our key approach in the develop
ment Of strikes and struggles against the auto
mobile bosses
All the work, all the campaigns Of the Party
and the reyolutinary forces generally must be
directed towards the aim of building up pow
erful Auto Workers Union, which must give con-
crete leadership and concrete organization both
10 the employed workers in the shop and to the
automobile workers around the
,nson and the Unemployed Council,