The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-09
BY TOM JOHNSON

IN previous article I dealt with the methods
l of work of our individual comrades in the
building up of grievance committees. In this
article I will deal with the mobilization and the
utilization of the Party apparatus and the main
political campaigns of the Party for building
grievance committees, and the entrenching Of
our Party and the revolutionary unions in the
big factories
The Work of the District and Section Committees
To carry out thees main tasks calls not only
for an improvement in the work of individual
comrades working in the shops but funda-
mental change in the methods of work of our
District and Section Committees. The work of
every department of the District Committee
must be directed toward roofing our organiza-
tons in the shops.
For the Org Department this means first the
efficient carrying through of the Party registra-
ton, in order to establish the disposition Of our
forces available for this work Second it calls
for thorough survey of the big shops in the
district in the concentration industries Through
this survey we must establish where the oppor-
tunities for the development of struggle are best
and where in consequence our best forces must
be placed. Third the org department must carry
through our fractions an investigation in the
mass organizations under revolutionary leader
ship to establish in what shops we have sympa-
thizers working and how such sympathizers can
be used to build shop organization.
Fourth, the Org. Department must work out
the proper methods for concentration on the fac
tories selected. Our past experience shows the
futity of expecting real results through the for
NAL assignment of street unit to concentrate
on a factory. We must quit this formal approach
to the question of concentration and work out
concrete plans in each case. These plans should
include: ca The assignment of a responsible
committee composed of the best fitted comrades
in the street unit for the task Of building up
grievance committee in the shop selected We
must be able to hold definite comrades respon-
sble for this work and not the unit as a whole.
(b) There must be placed in the hands of this
committee all available information about the
factory; the names and addresses of members OF
mass organizations, readers of the Party press.
etc, working in the factory Co Where we have
one or more comrades actually working in the
factory we must assure the closest cooperation
in the work between the committee from the
street unit and the cornrade in the shop itself.
To this end we should hold weekly conferences
between the con1rade or comrades in the shop
and the committee working from the outside.
The Org Department of the District and Sec
ton must give real attention to such conferences
and see that they are productive of results
Id The Org. Department, through our frac-
tons in the unemployed committees, must see
that shock troops of the unemployed are set up
for concentration on specific factories. Such
troops must of course include non-Party work
ers They should be unemployed workers who
formerly worked in the industry we are concen-
trating on, and as far as possible unemployed
who actually worked in the specific factory ana
have connections there. The work of the I'M
employed shock troops SELLING press and ltera-
ture at shop gates, holding shop gate meetings,
visiting connections, etc) must be coordinated
with the work of any comrades who may be in
the factory, and with the work of the comrades