The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-18

be put into flesh and blood by the determined
will and through able leadership of this strike
What Is to Be Done?
What then must be done in order to extend
the limits of the strike to involve in it not only
the workers of the open shop, but also of the
shops controlled by the SchleSingers? What must
be done in order to break down this barrier to
expose the strike breaking trade union bureau
cracy to accomplish a broad united front from
below, to Isolate the Schlesingers and thinner
mans and to achieve success in the strike?
For this it is necessary first of all to carry out
broad militant mobilization of all workers in the
dress industry, to explain to them the aim of this
strike and the tactics which it is necessary to
apply in order to secure victory. It is necessary
therefore to strive with all determination that the
demands and tactics in this strike which are re-
commended by the United Front Strike Com
mittee shall be grasped by all workers, that they
should be carefully and fully discussed by them
in the shops. We speak not only of the shops
which follow the United Front Strike Committee,
but also of the shops which are under the control
Of Schlesinger
1t is necessary to see that in all of these shops
the workers should form strike committees,
elected on the basis of a united 'front.' that into
these strike committees should be elected not
only members of the Industrial Union or its
sympathizers, but also the rank and file members
OF the Schlesinger union who are ready honestly
to fight for the demands of the workers
This refers also to the Central United Front
Strike Committee built upon the basis of repre-
sentatives from the shops 1t must under no cir
cumstances be just another name for the In
dustrial Union. Its frames must be considerably
broader. In it there must be secured place for
workers regardless of political convictions and
trade union utilization, for the organized and the
unorgsnized.
No less important is it TO draw into it repre-
sentatives of the unemployed. Especially it is i'm
portant to draw into Shop Comm as we'll as the
Central United Front Strike Committee Ameri-
can elements, Negroes, Italians and Spaniards.
In the shops controlled by the Schlesingar union
the initiative for the discussion of the program
of demands must come from the adherents of
the revolutionary trade union opposition or from
those who are sympathetic to the broad united
front in this struggle of the workers.
In case the majority of the workers expresses
itself for the program of demands, and the re-
lolutionary opposition or the adherents of the
broad united front succeed in drawing the over
Whelning majority of the shops towards them,
this shop must be drawn into the united front of
struggle i,
In cases when in the shops controlled by the
front continue to remain in minority and, as
q result may be isolated from the mass OF the
workers, thrown out from the shops as result
Of the understanding between the employers
and Schlesinger. they must not isolate them
selves voluntarily and leave the shops in insight
ficant groups but must continue the untring
work among the workers to get them to join the
militant strike and for the united front of the
workers from below. They must expose the strike
breaking agency by means Of striking, concrete
facts of their betrayal of the interests of the
workers. The sending of workers delegations
from the striking shops to the shops which are
continuing to work, or which are waiting for the
official call of Schlesinger to cease work, and
also to the open shops which did not cease work
ing, In order to convince them to join at once
the general front Of struggle, not to put any con-
fidence in the Schlesinger strike breaking ma
chine, to warn against the treachery which is
being prepared by means Of the proposed fake
strike on the part of the Schlesinger- thinner
man to instill into the workers the understanding
OF the necessity to take the leadership of the
strike into their own hands through their elected
results
No less advisable Is the arrangement of street
demonstrations Of the strikers with plscards
and slogans explaining the aims OF the strike,
popuIarizing the basic demands of the strikers