The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
PARTY LIFE
Cleveland District ReUie1Us
activities Of Four Months
Key Problems Are York in Unions and Shops,
Building OF Mass Unem pLOyed Increment

! (Otis Steel, Republic Mills in
Youngstown and Massilon) or in de-
veloping broad mass struggles for
Negro rights. The greatest political
weakness of the entire District ist
the absolute failure to build an
American League Against War and
Fascism on broad united front
! basis.
The main tasks in union and shop
work show no decisive change except
some beginning in A. F. of L. work.
/ The work in the six concentration
shops Except Youngstown Republic
/ and Goodrich showed a defin to
step forward Immediately after
| convention in activity, Party grow
and slight beginnings towards TUUL
and A. F. of L. opposition growth,
but since the collapse Of the steel
strike this upward swing has not
continued with the same tempo. In
steel, the Party was only partially
modified, but we can definitely
state that in some mills american
{ CbCCl ctllQ WiIG dllI OOIIlEdn NlC~
Kinney the SMWIU had much
greater influence than the A A.
Throughout the entire period, tree
mendous amount OF agitational ma
terial was issued, with some slight
organization in Cleveland, but the
key weakness was inability to work
successfully inside the mills and lack
of trained union cadre. The TUUL
membership remains practically the
/ same. although some 600 new men,
bers were recruited, but because OF
fluctuation, loss of strike in Cincin-
natl causing generalization among
other local there is no decisive
change in membership. In Cleveland.
functioning Joint Council of IN
dustrial Unions has been established
and Labor Unity sales have in
creased. Some success in A. F. of l..
work is shown by organization of
fifteen of the quota of twenty-five
actual rank and file groups, endorse
ment of Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill by 38 A. F. of L.
locals, beginning of rank and file
center in Cleveland, a conference in
youngstown, as we'll as winning key
positions in some local unions.
The main line of the Party in steel
must be to energetically build union
cadres in every mill, who must gain
influence so as to be better prepared
for real leadership and action as the
next situation natures. In metal
and marine, there must be mass re-
cruiting to the TUUL unions. Inside
the TUUL unions, the line of revolu-
tionary unionism must be energetic
ally developed, since a series OF
events have occurred eaton Axle,
National Sanitary, Cleveland Furni-
ture, SMWIU locals in CINCINNATI
which reflect non-class struggle
policy.
While emphasizing the building OF
the TUUL among the unorganized
/ especially steel, metal and marine),
there must be still greater apprecia-
ton of organized work inside tbs
A. F.. of L. locals especially in auto,
coal, rubber and wherever A. A.
lodges exist -learning to connect
this with factory work in fulf1llment
of the A. F. of L. control tasks.
Greater attention to roofing the
Party and Y C L through an active
policy of political leadership and &C.
tivity and recruiting in all shops,
where We have TUUL or strategic
A. F. of L. unions must be followed,
as the real guarantee of overcoming
our difficulties and developing Lead
ership = Extract from Into Mass
Work" Resolution of Ohio District,
adopted at Conference, Aug. 25-26,
1884.