The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com
mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A.
How A Local Mine Strike
Committee Functions
From the Org. Bulletin of the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee, Pittsburgh.


File Strike Committee, Pittsburgh
l. That meetings be called of all men and
women involved in the strike at which the Strike
Committee should be strengthened by electing
new elements to take the place of those who
have dropped activity.
q That at these meetings we begin to or
zar1ize all strikers men and women, into groups
of ten, each group to elect captain. These
groups are to be assigned to any strike activity
deemed necessary by the strike committee
g. That at these local strike meetings men
and one woman be elected to the Section Strike
Committee a sufficient number to take the
place of those men not active. similar num-
Der, but not the same people, should also be
elected to the Central Strike Committee.
Changes in the strike committee should only be
made to strengthen the strike committee by
dropping weak or non-active members and
electing stronger members to the committee.
a. Local mine strike committees should meet
at least three times each week to review the
situation and to plan daily tasks The local
strike committee should elect an executive COM
mittee to carry on the daily work between
meetings of the strike committee. This ex-
ecutve committee should be composed of the
following:
Local N.M.U organizer; Head of Relief Commit
tee; Head of Defense Committee; Womens Aux
iliary Organizer Head of Literature Committee;
Youth Organizer. The local Strike Executive
also proposes the Order of Business for the Strike
Committee.
5. Short meetings of all strikers, men and
women. should be held every day to strengthen
the local situation, to assign the next days
tasks. On days when relief is given out the
meetings should be held before the relief is given
out. The reports of the meetings and decisions
of the Section Strike Committee should be given
at these meetings. On Thursdays report from
the representatives to the Central Strike Com
mittee should be given to the mass meeting
of the strikers Saturday should be utilized for
mobilization for a central mass meeting on
Sunday. The Sunday mass meeting should be
utilized for mass picketing on Monday morning.
6. All strike relief should be linked up with
strike activity. Relief cards. punched or given
out on The picket line are to be shown at the
relief station.
7. The mine local of the N.MU. should meet
once each week in the evening, take up the
strengthening of the union, the drawing in of
every striker into the union, and see that every
member of the union be active in the strike;
also to take up the organizing of branch of
the womens auxiliary, assigning some members
of the union to help in this work.
g. 1t should be the aim of every mine strike
committee to draw into activity all strikers and
their families in an organized way. The best
and easiest way which will get the greatest re-
suits, is to organize groups of ten with a res
ponsible captain. When this has been accom-
plished, then the strike committees instead of
dealing with individuals, has companies to move
around.