The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15

schemes to eVade the real issue. Inc
United Front Committee, therefore,
places before you and the members Of
Local % our concrete program for
bringing about unity in the ranks Of
the dressmakerS so that we can i'm
mediately proceed with the prepara-
tons for the strike.
I've propose that committee
of rs rank and file members of the
International, committee of rs from
the Industrial Union, and a commit
tee of rs of the United Front Com
mittee should Immediately get to-
gether in conference for the purpose
of working out plans for calling q
shop delegate conference represen-
tatiive Of the members of the Inter-
national, the members of the Indus
trial Union and the unorganized
workers.
"2.-That at this shop conference
broad rank and file committee be
elected whose purpose it shall be tc
Immediately undertake a mass pre-
uganda and OrganizaHOnal campaign
in preparation for the strike.
"3.-This committee proceeds to
organize united front strike commit
tees in all the shops elected by all
workers, whose purpose it shall be to
unite all the workers, irrespective of
their political views or opinions, ir-
respective of their union affiliations,
in preparation for the strike and for
immediate united front struggle
against wage cuts.
4.-That the committee to prepare
the strike shall propose demands
which shall be widely discussed with
the workers in the dress industry and
to lead up to huge mass conference
where the strike machinery will be
organized on the basis of real united
front of all workers.
"5.-That Immediately after the
strike is declared by the rank and file
strike committee, this committee be
broadened out into mass strike COM
mittee representative of all striking
shops. This committee to have COM
pIete supervision of the conduct of
the strike and the settlement.
ut is only on the basis of these
proposals that real united front
strike for better conditions can be Or
ganized in the dress industry. This
so-called rank and file committee
cannot replace a real united front
committee elected by all workers for
preparation Of the strike. This So
called rank and file committee is not
elected by all workers, but nominated
by the leaders and includes the
leadership. This so-ealled rank and
file committee has as its aim to cover
the resistance of the leaders against
the developing of the strike and to
awaken illusions among the workers
that these leaders are ready to de-
velop and lead the strike, and that
this so-called rank and file commit
tee is brought to life for the purpose
of carrying on a united front policy
in the coming strike. Only a COM
mittee which will be elected by all
workers, without consideration for
political and trade union affiliations,
and also unorganized workers, on the
basis of a real united front, will be
able to correctly prepare and lead the
strike to victory. The workers who
are members of the so-called rank
and file committee should understand
the intention of the leaders and fight
against leaders for real united front
policy and for building up a real
united front committee of rank and
filters.
I'm making these proposals, the
United Front Committee has no po-
ltical aims in view. 1t was organized
for one purpose, it has one aim and
purpose; to wipe out the artificial dl-
vision in the ranks of the workers, to
unite the dressmakers, to turn over
the leadership of the strike into the
hands of the rank and file SO as to
make possible a real strike for union
conditions which will lead to the
building of one powerful union to
include all the dressmakers."
Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht