The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Ito be continued
fDISC USSION ON
\ THE 14TH PLENUMj
BY A. w. MILLS.

bring May First and the issues around May First
into the shops and factories among the unem-
pIoyed workers in order to involve new masses
OF workers to our actions. 1t is therefore no
surprise that the May First demonstrations, de-
spite the larger number of workers who partici-
pated as a result of the increased resistance
among the workers, against the economic and
political offensive of the bosses, had glazing
weaknesses Of basic nature
What were the organizational results of May
First campaigns? The initiation stamps sold
during the last week of April and the first week
OF May amounts to 636, and is 80 per cent less
than the same period in the previous month.
Judging the results of the campaign by organ
national gains, the May First campaign, despite
the outside splendor, was not So successful, and
in this lies the sectarian character of our work.
Methods In Shop Work.
One Of the most important points of the reso-
luton is the necessity of turn in our shop
work, to carry through real concentration
policy in building up shop Organization.
Let US examine some experiences in connec-
ton with carrying through previous concentra-
ton plans, in order to understand the formal
character Of our methods of work. Concentra-
ton plans have been worked out in the past
Right after the 18th Plenum of our Party, all
the districts worker out plans of work, picked
factory for concentration, and then stopped
with this. If we will review the concentration
activities we will see that while we pick the fac
tory we do not take the further necessary steps
for concentration, which consists of clarity in
shop policies, of assigning proper forces of con-
tinuouS activities and outside of the factory It
is no wonder that with such superficial methods
very little results have been gained from our
concentration. The shop nuclei which have been
organized during the recruiting drive were pri-
martly of a character Of bringing together our
forces already in the shops as a result Of the
registration. And the vast majority of them
were not organized as result of real concen-
tration and getting new contacts in the shops
and factories.
Such experiences as we had in the General
Electric, where one or two comrades with the
proper coordination, with clarity in the demands,
could i'll short time organize a shop nucleus
and union group OF eighty and develop mass
movement, show the tremendous possibilities in
every section of the country, if we follow the
proper methods Of work.
Against Journalism in Concentration.
will cite a few examples Of our formal con-
centration Of the past A comrade tells us that
his unit decided to concentrate on factory
Much was spoken about factory work and the
unit decided as the first step to issue leaflet
to the workers of that particular factory In this
leaflet they called upon the workers to Join the
Communist Party, to join the Industrial Union
and to organize shop committees. All in one
shot Everything at once. Well, the workers
we're confused and did not know exactly what
TO organize. No concrete demands were worked
out around which to organize the workers; no
contacts had been gotten in order to involve the
workers in tho shop to work out the dernanda
Concentration" therefore Wac limited to a,atxa.