The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
BY CARL PRICE.
(ConcluSion)

". Mass Work and Struggle for Demands
The National Miners Union and the Metal
Workers Industrial League must intensity to a
great extent the mass work being carried on
a. More direct and more active participation
in the unemployment work.
b. More mass meetings and leaflets. The
Brownsville Section Committee reported that in
the month of October and in the first week
of November, not single mass meeting was
held in the name of the National Miners Union
in the whole section, and not q single leafet was
issued in the name of the National Miners Union
in the whole section In the JohnstoVn section
a leading member of the section committee of
the Party proposed not only no intensi1cation
of mass work, but on the contrary, proposed that
the National Miners Union in the big Bethlehem
Mines shall not try to organize any group meet
1ngs whatever, or any meetings of the local I'M
ions, but shall work during long period of
several months on the basis merely OF collecting
applications into the union He stated that this
would better the finances of the union and would
also give better results because the workers are
afraid to go to group or local union meetings
on account of the terror. This giving UP to
the terror this policy of advocating discon-
tinuance of mass work. or even of the necessary
group or local union meetings is a program for
the complete liquidation of the National Miners
Union. We must everywhere organize the miners
into mine groups of the union, hold local union
meetings and fight for the legality of the unions
HAEough its mass work In the very section of
Brownsville, where the NNU has for six weeks
not held single mass meeting, or issued single
leafet in meeting in Masontown, called by the
Unemployed Council $50 people showed up
Three hundred and fifty came to the hall and
hundred to the City Hall where demonstration
was scheduled
hat int prifNy
work, we must use greater efforts TO protect the
miners and steel workers and make them feel
that the union is safeguarding their Jobs as much
as possible.
The work of the union Is conducted too much
on the basis of agitation and propaganda not
enough on the basis OF struggle In the Ter
n1inal Mines, after the slow start, the NMU was
able to prevent the putting over OF Is per cent
wage cut by the UNIWA and the Terminal Mines
This had the effect of bringing many more min
ers from the Terminal Mines into the NMU.
We must follow out more the policy of work
ing on the basis formulating struggle for
the local demands Of the miners In each nine
especially In the mines on which we are CEN
centrating. We must make the miners feel that
we are real union and not a propaganda or
ganization-a union which leads the struggle
and develops fight in the interests of the needs
and demands of the workers. We must do this
by giving more concrete instructions to the To-
cal forces, as to how to go about formulating
denands-how to go about organizing on the
basis of formulation and the working I'D and
fighting for these demands
The mass work must be carried on on basis
OF bigger movements and campaigns in the in
terests of united struggle of all the workers
This includes formulation of the special demands
OF the most oppressed.
a. Fighting for the demands OF the Negro
miners and steel workers, and struggle against
he white chauvinism within our unions
b Fighting for the special demands Of the
young miners and the young steel workers
c. Demands of the women stsel wcrkerv-,n-
employed workers. etx