The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27


ship III the trade unions.
Some of these trade union leaders
are very good organizers, very aggres-
sive comrades. When spoke to seven
or eight hundred strikers in Allen
town it was decided that was to b@
introduced as a member of the Steof
and Metal Workers Union instead, a
as representative of the T. U. VI
Comrade Blank was kind enough, [
say that I brought in very skillfully
the question Of the N. r. A. Bus
this is beside the question. II we
are going to criticize these trade union
leaders and repeat our former mis-
takes, it means that we shall have
to get another set of organizers.
The only thing we can do In to
convince these comrades that the
Party has q right TO get into these
situations, not only the right, but this
duty.
Workers Ask About Party
These comrades have to be made
TO understand that they are Party
people, that they don't play an IN
dependent role. What standing they
have is a result of their membership
in and the support of the Con1mu-
mist Party. I would like to know
how far Blank and others would get.
if they went out on their own and
tried to organize the American work
ing class.
1t is well to be concrete In such
things, and this has something to do
with building the Party; 1t Is very
directly connected with building the
Party. dropped into Buffalo, more
or less accidentally, and I was around
there as reporter for the Daily
Worker. Here I was introduced ne
the organizer Of the Steel and Metal
Workers Union. I used to go to strike
meetings almost every day, The
workers would corner me and say.
Didn't you speak In. Pittsburgh at
such and such meeting2" Didn't
you speak with Foster in Youngs-
town." Weren't you in Chicago on
such and such a day?" OF course.
had to admit such indictments, anG
then after little more palaver, they
would say-"What does the Couimu-
mist Party think about this strike Al
At least 20 workers in that strike d
400 to 500 approached me In tn II
manner. "
Party Has Great influence
Our comrades must understand SkaS
the Party as such has tremendous
influence and commands respect
among the workers, and that II you
do not go to the workers who ore
active in the strike, who consider
themselves militant workers and asE
them to join the Party. they con-
clude that this Is line and policy
of the Party and that for some reason
the Party does not want them. In
every one OF these struggles there are
10 or Is and as high Is Is per
cent Of the workers who are ready
to join the Party Il they were only
asked
Comrades. ssaehes. Bsowose, ell.
get around the counbrys all cur leatE
ers get around the country tl,li I
speak to workers, thousands Of work.
ers hear them: yet In strtke struggles
no one comes forward to ask work
ers to join the Party Well they
wonder why this is. They know what
the Party program Is, that militant
workers are supposed to Join So.
If you do not ask them they con-
c1ude that for some reason o. othes
the Communist Party does not w1lat
them. This. may sound little exag-
gerated, but 1t is absolutely true. The
Party has tremendous influence and
these workers try to follow the line
of the Communist Party. They think
that if the Party does not think them
fit to join, they will not irgist On 1t.
More confidence in the American
working class and in our Fartyi