The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-07

4ue HlOSG serious weakness Cn1S movement
lay in the Hunger March preparations. While
the Ford Hunger March was set three months
ago, during its entire, preparations it was char
acterized by serious political and organizational
underestimation. The Party was not modified
and electrified with the Importance of the March.
Public hearings for Ford workers were not held,
local leaflets not issued. Only during the last
three weeks when the Central Committee gave
direct and detailed direction and members Of
the District BTo personally undertook the
carrying out of the preparations, were there
signs Of improvement. Our inability to develop
struggles on local issues as the means to mob
ilize the masses for the Hunger March was the
central weakness Of the Party In the preparatory
work.
The central task Of the Party now is TO con-
Solidate this vast movement organizationally and
direct it into channels of struggle for unarnploy-
ment relief unemployment insurance, against
wage-cuts, against the war danger and against
the growing terror, especially upon the Negro
masses and foreign-born workers.
The central organizational task of the Party
already raised in all the leaflets, slogans and
mass meetings is the building OF powerful Auto
Workers Union, the Unemployed Councils and
mass Young Communist League, at the same
time intensifying the recruitment Of the best
elements into the Communist Party.
The Hunger March and the protest movement
against the Ford Massacre have been powerful
instruments in developing the units of the en-
ployed and the unemployed. The sentiment for
the Hunger March in the ford factory expressed
itself in hundreds of letters and discussions in
the shop, in the collection Of over $3.50 from the
Ford workers. over 500 application cards for the
Auto Workers Union during the first week and
the large attendance Of employed workers at the
demonstration and the funeral
The Party must now help to Systematically
build the Auto Workers Union through all its
activities, with special attention to the hundreds
Of shop connections secured during the Party
recruiting drive. Every mass organization must
become the center of recruiting for the Auto
Workers Union.
Best of Party forces must be assigned to the
Union and Unemployed Council activities. While
sustaining and raising the protest movements,
the Party organization must intensity the strug
giles against evictions, for relief, for unemploy-
ment insurance and thereby continue the battle
for demands of the Ford Hunger March.
The role of the youth in the Hunger March
and the heavy losses to the Young Communist
League must be emphasized and special assist
ance given to the recruiting campaign and the
activities of the Young Communist League.
Side by side with the development OF local
struggles building of shop groups and organizing
this movement the great protest movement must
be continued sustained and directed into con-
crete struggles for the Hunger March demands.
The main movement must be directed against
all efforts to frame-up the workers leaders on
criminal syndicalism charges the terror which
has slightly subsidized into the mass pressure
must be broken completely by continuing the
offensive against all attacks upon the workers
rights. The International labor Defense, which
proved so valuable during the most intense ter
ror, must now be built up into powerful mass
organization.
The Anti-War Conference will be linked up
with the Ford Massacre and the April DEM
onstration must become another mighty protest
against the Massacre as part of the war prep
arations against the Soviet Union.
The campaign for the Unemployment Insur
ance Bill must become the medium of involving
the vast masses in the day to day work of con-
tinuing the struggle for the Hunger March de-
mands.
The Party must decisively combat the Sec
tartan and terrorist illusions of some workers
under the influence Of the provocative SUCCESS
ton Of answering the Massacre with arms. This
Is the provocative policy Of fascism, of Ford,
Murphy Spoansky and their agents. The work.
Ing class can stop the terror and murderous poll
icy Of the government with q mighty and
ganised mass movement, by q mass defense
corus by o powerful industrial union