The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-10
Party Recruiting Drive
January II March Is, 1882
SOME EXPERIENCES IN THE CAMPAIGN TO BUILD
THE STEEL WORKERS IN DUSTRIAL UNION IN THE
CALUMET DISTRICT

tories Immediately With other demands and
struggle against other grievances OF the work
erS and in this manner develop the struggle to
q, higher level we in most cases neglected this
important task for 2 and weeks. In some
cases where We followed such victories OF par
tisl demands with other demands our groups
became important factors in the life of the
workers in their particular Dept
Another form of organization very important
in the building of our union is the Grievance
Committee. A United Front OF organized and
unorganized workers within a, mill or q Dept.
around outstanding ore or more grievances Of
the workers.
In Gary we are nov attempting to organize
such Grievance Committee composed OF all
workers in g certain department to go to the
bosses and make a demand for more work or
relief The demand of the grievance committee
for more work or relief will be made not In the
name Of the department. group of our union but
in tn name of the workers in the department.
OF course, our union group must organize, pre-
pare and give leadership TO this movement
Grievance Committees properly organized
around outstanding grievances supported by the
workers Will help to develop department. strug-
giles and mill strikes that win result in the build
ing of q mass Steel Workers Industrial Union,
Especially in the present period when millions
under the stagger system, the struggle for one
or two days week more work will rally masses
Of workers around It, IN the Steel Mills this
is the outstanding grievance of the workers and
therefore grievance committees must be organ
lied around this grievance to carry on struggle
for more days Of work.
Our Party and our unions usually carry on
good agitation within the shops through Leaflets
and other material Generally, workers agree
with what they read in our sgitationz1 material
but when the workers look around to find our
union they are almost always disappointed, be-
cause they cannot find anyone by asking that
belongs to the union that issues the good leaf
let's or shop papers. This happens in the very
departments that are organized where we have
q group OF Is or 20 members Why? Because
We don't discuss with the workers the problems
in their shops departments; because II we
discussed in the groups the good and bad quail
ties of all the workers or at least as many work
ers as we know about III the departmNnt and
then decide to a certain number Iof the best
qualified workers about our union, this viii part
1y solve the problem of our isolation from the
rest Of the workers i'll the mill or department
For this purpose too, we must build our union
on department. basis, and we must organize and
lead Grievance Committees first because Griev-
ance Committee is the best organ with which
to develop struggles second, because Grievance
Committees which are known to and supported
by the workers, will discover the missing link
between the workers organized into our unions
and the unorgan1zed workers
This link Is one OF the most Important PROB
lens in our shop work. Our union groups will
not grow If they are not part OF the workers
III the department. or mill Our Party members
and union groups must be alert to an problems
of workers in their shop, They must give guild
ance and leadership to the workers in the strug-
gle against all their grievances and we will over
come many weaknesses in our shop work towards
the building Of mass revolutionary union based
on struggle of the workers and a mass Commu-
mist Party strongly entrenched in the shops mills
and mines.