The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
For a Decisive Turn in Our Revolutionary Trade
Union Movement

mobilization preparation and organization of
mass economic struggles under the banner of
the united front and indepedent leadership of
these militant struggles of the toiling masses.
Here is the key to the successful work within
the reactionary unions and the transformation
of the independent revolutionary trade unions
into real mass organizations Of the proetariat.
Factory Groups.
The factory or shop groups of the revolution
airy unions or trade union oppositions must be
the primary organ of the union in the plant.
1t must be firmly established that every mem
Der of revolutionary union or opposition group
should join the respective factory group in the
place of work Trade union organizations must
be built not on the basis of the residence of
the member, but on the basis of the place of
work, at the same time in order to make better
use of the unemployed members of the revolu-
tionary trade unions. who live far away from
the given plant auxiliary organs can be created
on the basis of the residence. These organs
must work in the closest contact with the fac
tory groups.
Local organizations of the unions must base
themselves mainly on the factory groups. At
the head of the factory group of revolutionary
trade unions there should be bureau elected
Dy JU6 group, 10 WHICH Representatives 1IOll var
ious departments of the mill factory are
drawn in-the number to be from to Is, de-
pending on the size of the factory group and the
conditions of work in the given plant.
The entire work is then divided into the fol-
lowing phases: (a) organization, (5) agitation
and propaganda, (c) finance, Cd W2rk among
Negro and colonial workers (e) women, f
youth. The head of the bureau is the secre-
tary
But what is especially important is that each
member of the bureau should carry out the
work assigned to him and that he is to report
to the bureau of the group or to the entire
group. There should not be one member of the
group, one supporter of the revolutionary trade
union, without special tasks assigned to him.
The factory group must meet regularly and
manifest its initiative in the work.
Among the duties of the group are the agita-
tion propaganda and organization work, to feel
the mood of the workers, the shaping of the
growing discomfort of the workers. to formulate
preliminary demands and discuss these demands
with workers who have other political tendencies
than our own with members of other unions
and with unorganized workers; to prepare the
election of temporary committee Of action for
the preparation Of strikes, and then the election
Of factory strike committee when the strike
is declared the leading of the factory strike
committee through the members of the factory
group of the revolutionary union or opposition
the careful political and organizational prep
aration of the dvancement of the strike, the
recruitment of new members, etc.
1t is also the task of the factory group to issue
a factory paper, to distribute the organ of the
respective revolutionary union and the Labor
Unity" to collect membership dues for the
union to establish and keep c5l.sct with prole-
tartan mass organizations etc
The factory group must be in constant touch
with the working masses in the factory, to ex-
plain the needs, problems and moods of the
masses and inform the union about it; it must
appear before the masses as the basic organ of
the revolutionary union, the only organization
which firmly and consistently defends the In
terests of the workers.
Without the organization and what is more
important, without the normal functioning of the
factory groups in the shops and factories the
revolutionary unions or the trade union opposi-
tons will never be in position to know the
mood of the workers, they will never be able to
grasp and formulate the demands for which the
workers are ready to fight, they will never be
able to develop and lead strikes.
The connecting link between the factory
group and the workers in the various depart
ments and shifts. They carry through the de-
cisions of the factory group. They inform the
members of the group regarding the directives,
carry out the assignments, carry on agitational