The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-07

AS result or this isolation from the mass
work, the life OF the units is still sterile. The
unit is not the home of the new members who
come into the Party, and as consequence there
is considerable luctuation in the Party member
ship. Although the Party has grown from 5000
to $500, and the unions up to 10000, with the
hucFuation diminishing at the present time,
nevertheless, the situation is very serious since,
owing to the inward tendencies and sectarian-
ism, there is no guarantee that the new recruits
will remain in the Party and in the union.
The necessity of changing this situation owing
to the sharpening economic crisis and the grow
ing grave danger of war against the Soviet
Union, means that there must be a decisive
change in the practices of the Party otherwise
the District will not be able to get out Of the
groove in which it remains.
The District Resolution then proceeds to out
line the work as it should be conducted Accept
ing the decision of the Central Committee
Plenum that THE main basis of the work and
development of the lower Party organizations
is the work in the factory" the District Reso-
How To Overcome Sectarianism.
1. In view of the sharp war situation, which
grows more grave every day, it is the duty OF
the Party and particularly this District, to
concentrate on the var industries More than
IS per cent of the chemical industry is situated
in this d'etrict The New York harbor is the
largest port in the world. There are large metal
and explosive plants and big centers Of the rail-
road industry in the district. 1t is the distinct
task of the District, therefore to penetrate the
basic war industries. This must be done by col
onzing the shops or getting contacts with the
workers in these industries frfom the outside.
This may be done through wor': around the
shops, through the mass organizations whose
in, etc IN
where We have shop nuclei or shop groups of
the revolutionary unions, it is our primary task
to develop the struggle on the immediate condi-
lions in the shop linking up the work in the
shop with the war situation and the preparations
for war Wherever there are shop nuclei, shop
groups or individual Party or YCL members,
they must be given the utmost attention. in
order to teach them how to build up for struggle
in the shops
q The basis for work in the shops is the
United Front. The United Front is the basis
for struggle in the shops the immediate issues
1t embraces all workers in the shops, irrespec-
tive of organizational membership in the revo-
lutionary or A. F. of L. union, unorganized
workers skilled and urskilled, with the proper
formulation of demands for each category OF
workers. 1t is the duty of the shop nucleus,
shop groups of the revolutionary union or
single Party member, to build up the United
Front in the shop. This can be done only by
breaking down the walls of sectarianisn that
separate us from the workers, by lisving daily
personal contact with them by finding out their
grievances, formulating with them the demands
in the shops, and building up a grievance COM
mittee as the initial form and in the further
development shop committee delegated body
in the shop. The necessary precautionary meth
DDS of work must be adopted in order to safe
guard the work from the destructive action Of
stool pigeons.
g. The grievance committee is a temporary
form of organization and must embrace all cate
gories of workers possible. 1t should be made
up of members of the Party and revolutionary
unions, members Of the reformist unions, and
unorganized workers. 1t should contain Negro.
young workers and women workers, If such work
in the shop. Wherever possible the workers
should be recruited into the union and the
Party, thus giving pern1anency to the organiza-
ton in the shop. Of organizcton is built in
various departments or shops, the delegated body
is formed-the shop commit ee)
Demands must be worked out for each particu-
lar category of workers. and fight be put up
for them, particularly for the Negro workers. In
order to convince the white workers of the neces-
sity of drawing in the Negro workers, struggle
against white chauvinism must be conducted
and the right of the Negro workers to work in
any ana every department. Tor which tney are
fit be put up. This will convince the Negro
workers and draw them into our ranks. The
discriminatory practices against the foreign
born workers must be fought against, so that
unity of all the workers in the plant, irrespective
of organization race, nationality, age or sex, is
brought about.
d. The method of approach to organization
must be adapted to the conditions in the par
ticular shop. The raising of a particular shop
issue, or the Mooney campaign Scottsboro Ken
lucky, strike relief, fight against imperialist war,
may be an issue on which to bulls group of the
union (or Party nucleus) in the shop.
5. The building of the Shop Group in the shop
is the activity also of the revolutionary union
(shop work is 80 per cent of the content of revo-
lutionary trade union work--Losoysky).
The United Front in the shop is also the basis
for the formation and development of the revo-
lutionary opposition in the reformst union, since
are the chief content of struggle in the unions.
This is one OF the basic tasks of the revolution
airy opposition, which must depart from the
opportunist method of carrying on the struggle
against the bureaucracy of the reformist unions
solely in the local.
To carry on this work successfully requires a
bitter struggle against, and exposure Of the
Socialist Party and A. F. of L. bureaucrats, for
they play leading part in the breaking of all
struggles in the shops
6. No real shop or revolutionary trade union
work can be carried on successfully without con-
sideration Of the unemployed The bosses are