The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-30
THE UNITED FRONT IN
THE OHIO STRIKE

such committees. We must demand and fight
for a leadership elected and controlled by tha
of the strikers; that u.s. rank and file Strike
committee, 1t must be made clear to every
striker that during the struggle itself this is tbs
only organizational form real united front can
take
Such must be the basic line of our agitation
and propaganda, of our NN1U organizers, speeches,
of our leaflets, of resolutions introduced on this
question or that in strikers mass meetings, In
local unions of the UMWA where we have in
fluence, etc. The whole strike area must DO
flooded with such agitatonal material, bringing
our true position home to every striker
Concentration Necessary E
AT the same time we must in view of our few
leading forces, concentrate on at first only thre@
or four sections where conditions are most favor
able to speedily put the policy into action. We
must send leading comrade into each of these
sections to mobilize all local forces for the work
and to lead the work itself We have made q
beginning in this, concretzing the policy in each
instance to fit the needs of the particularly Sec
ton, and already we are meeting with sons
success.
Hand in hand with the struggle To wrest ths
leadership of the strike from the hands of the
UNfWA bureaucracy and to place it in the hands
OF broad elected strike committees under our
general leadership, must go an intensified CAM
paign of requirement of new members for tbs
NMU.
Already some three or four new NMU locals
have been organized, not SO much as the result
of persistent work on the part a. asar comrades
but because the men, many of tllsm United
Mine Workers Of America members came to lis
and asked us for help in organizing locals in
their mines. How much better results will be
obtained when our union leadership and menu
bership in Ohio is really modified for this task!
Finally, in the organization of united front
relief activities we have one of our best weapons
in the struggle against the UNWA takers. A
SPLENDID beginning made at the recent
Workers International Relief conference In York;
vile where the number of UMWA locals rep
resented outnumbered the NNIU locals with deli
egates present.
Much can be done in the organization of the
relief campaign in the strike area itself but it
will fail of its fullest effect unless we show to the
strikers in action that the WIR with the aid of
the NMU is ready and able to mobilize workers
from other sections for the support of the Ohio
strikers.
This is a task not only for our comrades in
Ohio but for the entire membership of our union
and for the national organization of the WIR as
well.
We conclude with this question from the Re-
solution Of the Eighth Session of the RILU Gems
trail Council on the tasks of the revolutionary
trade unions in America:
One of the most important methods in Or
ganzing the working masses for the struggle and
to undermine the influence of the TU bureatl-
Gratis and the socialfascists is the correct appli
cation of the united front tactic. The Reyolu-
tionary TIL movement must take the initiative in
carrying out the united front of the working
masses from below, drawing them into the
struggle, showing up the maneuvers of the re-
formists, particularly of the Mustetes"
This, then is the c~atral task of the National
Miners Union in Ohio today With increasing
emphasis it will become the central task of the
NMU throughout the coal fields