The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

and organizational work. They mobilize the
workers for militant struggles under the lead
ership of the factory organizations, etc.
The delegates are that lower functioning body
without which the factory organization would be
unable to carry through mass campaigns, to
arouse the workers to militant strike struggles,
to embrace c-ganizationally the workers in the
various departments and shifts, and successfully
lead the masses. To organize the factory groups
in network of delegates from The depar Sments
and shifts, this is our first and immediate prob
lem. This we must start.
Factory Committees.
But how to get connection inside the large
plants and factories? How to build our organ
izations there where they are yet no members
of our unions? Thoese questions can only be
answered according to the concrete case, because
conditions are very different. Every local organ
ization of our unions must work out the neces-
sary next 3ceps and methods Of this work The
general Ii, must be to use the unemployed and
part-tiIne workers movement for connections;
to use the members of the fraternal organiba-
tons Language organizations, mutual aid So
cieties readers and correspondents of the Ian
guage press, etc), and develop systematic house
to house agitation among the workers working
in the large factories.
The militant mass economic strikes consti-
tute the most favorable moment for the organ
ization of the factory committees. The strike
committees can and must be the basis for the
development of permanent factory committees
after the strike is over. The factory committees
are the organs of the united front in the fac
tory. They must be elected by all workers and
not only by the supporters of the revolutionary
trade union movement. The elections of the
committees must take place on a basis of con-
crete program of struggle. The factory groups
and the revolutionary organizations must pre-
pare carefully these elections. They should
enter the elections with an independent Cheir
own list of candidates
These lists must include also the most active
and popular members Of the union Of the A. F.
L. and the so-called independent unions and
unorganized workers who showed their devotion
to the interests of the working class during the
economic struggles, in other words, such ele
ments as are ready to carry through the line Of
the class struggle.
We must not confuse the factory committee
with the factory group The factory group is a
lower organ of given revolutionary trade union
or revolutionary trade union opposition in the
reactonary union in the given factory. The
factory committee Is the organ Of the united
front of all workers of the given shop or fac
tory, the organ of the workers representatives
who defend the needs and interests of the work.
ers before the factory administration.
Revolutionary trade unions must carry
through their line and lead the factory commit
tees by means of the supporters Of the revoIu-
tionary trade union who are members of the
factory committee The revolutionary trade
union organization must come very closely to
the question of organization of factory commit
tees. utilizing for this purpose every favorable
cess of the work of the revolutionary trade
unions and the trade union opposition must be
determined by whether they have succeeded in
recognizing themselves the shop basis,
whether they created strong groups and intro
duced normal life in them, and whether they
broadened mass activity in the factory.
OF course the work in the shops is very diff
ficult. The terror of the bosses and the espion-
age in the factories is accomplished by means
of information against the workers carried on
by the apparatus Of the reactionary trade
unions, by means of bosses agents in the fact
DRY, and the factory officials who work in
touching unity with the factory administration
and the police.
The factory group delegates, the factory COM
mittee, these are the belts and levers, these are
that lower staff by means Of which the revo-
lutionary trade unions can and must connect
with tho broad masses Of workers to ascertain
their Dsccds and To lead their militant mass
strugses
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