The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-07
RESOLUTION FOR THE NEW
YORK DISTRICT CONVENTION

connecting links between the workers In the fac
tory and the unemployed. The workers in the
shop must also be connected up with the UNI
employed council in the neighborhood, through
delegates, by carrying on work in the shop for
the unemployed, getting registered supporters,
circulating petitions, etc
7. With organization on this basis, struggles in
the shops can be properly conducted. A struggle
is not necessarily strike. Through building up
grievance and shop committees, many grievances
can be settled and demands be won without
strike, owing to the strength of the organization
of the workers in the shop The workers whose
interests are represented through a grievance
committee, which puts up light for certain de-
mands, may not wish to form permanent unim
organization in the shop, declaring that they viii
organize again when a grievance appears. 1t is
the duty of the Party members and the union
to recruit into the union and Party as rapidly
as possible, so that there is permanent organiza-
ton in the shop that can build up from struggle
to strike on the basis of the United Front of
the workers
8. Strike struggles must be we'll prepared. II
they are limited to single shop, United Front
groups should as far as possible be formed
beforehand in each department (although this is
not imperative). The demands of the strike
must be formulated and fully discussed with the
workers. If there are Negro, young and women
workers in the shop special demands must be
put up for them, and stubborn struggle be
conducted to win them thus soldifying the Or
ganization. rank and file strike committee
must be elected out of the most militant, relia-
bic elements who are known through the shop
work The strike should be conducted either
under the official or unofficial leadership of the
revolutionary union. If the strike extends over
more than one shop of the industry, the strike
committee is composed of delegates from the
respective shops, elected on the same basis.
In preparation for the strike, educational work,
especially for the prospective strike leaders, must
be conducted. Party and union papers and liter
allure must be brought into and around the shops
in preparation for the strike. Shop paperS-both
of the Party and union, according to conditions
prevailing-Should be published and distributed
as soon as information can be secured from the
shop These papers should, wherever possible,
be distributed also directly in the shop, this
quiring some skill to avoid spies, who are intent
upon breaking up organization.
9. The function of the shop nucleus or individ-
ual Party member. in order to break down the
wall between the Party and the masses, and get
daily contact with the Masses build up a shop
group Of the union, or grievance committee is
(a) To find out the burning grievances of the
workers and around them organize struggle
(b) To recruit into the Union and the Party.
(c) TO educate the shop workers. through
papers, literature, study circles.
Id To bring in the Party comprehensive
relief, Scottsboro Mooney, protection of the for
eign-born, right to strike and picket, unemploy-
ment insurance, war the election campaign ETC.
(e) To build up workers defense and the LID
81 To take the lead in the struggle
In carrying on this work, from its very incep-
ton, it is the primary duty of the district and
section committee to assist and educate the shop
nucleus or Party member.
10. The street unit concentrating on the fac
tory must work in close contact with the shop
nucleus or Party member in the shop 1t must
get contacts in the shop, distribute literature and
Daily Workers, shop bulletins etc. 1t must build
up organization of the unemployed in the neigh
borhood, Of the housewives and children, in
preparation for the struggle 1t rust get contact
through and with the mass organizations and
rally them for the support of the struggle,
through direct participation, relief defense. etc.
IL The revolutionary union mrst assist in the
building Of the shop groups and grievance COM
mitteeS on the United Front basis for the shop
is the basis of organization, also of the TUUL.
The Communist fraction in the union has also
the task of building shop nuclei where there are
no Communists in the shop
H. The work of the shop nucleus street unit
talso the Y. c. L. where it is invoved), the union
traction and section committee must be CO.
ordinated, so that political and organzational
results may be attained and confusion and fric-
ton be avoided. Joint meetings of the shop
nucleus (or Party member, representatives of
the street unit and Y. c. L. unit, section COM
nittee Gin important war shops also the District
Committee) and of the union fraction must be
held, in order that joint activities may be
planned and worked out. Only in this way can
proper coordination of the work be brought
about and all forces inside and outside the shop
be modified for struggle, and the union and the
Party be built up in the shop. This requires
persistent day to day work, a struggle against
opportunism and sectarianism. This demands
personal daily contact with the workers, so that
the Party may become not "a Party for the
masses, but the Party of the masses-the real
leader of the masses in the shop"
CTO BE CONCLUDED