The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Communists, Into the
Strike Front!

IT is important to note the qualitative diff
ference that marks the present strike
wave from the struggles last year.
First, the present strikes are increas-
ingly political in character. Last year the
workers fought the employers with the
illusion that they had Roosevelt and the NR.A. on
their side
This year the workers are learning that to fight
the bosses they must also fight, not with, but
against. the Roosevelt Labor Boards and the NR.A.
codes The workers are up in struggle against every
thing the NRA slave codes have brought them,
the speed-up the wage-cuts the spread-work plans,
the company unions, the strike-bresking compul-
sorry arbitration.
Secondly, the biggest battles are now taking
place in the countrys basic industries marine, COAL
auto Clearly, big strike battles are brewing IN
steel Now it is the most vital spots in the armor
Of American Wall Street imperialism that are be-
ing struck by the strike wave.
This gives all working class fighters, especially
the members of the Communist Party serious
responsibilities and tasks. Every Communist has
the duty of Immediately getting as much pos
sibIe into the front ranks of the present strike
struggles. There must be hesitation or delay.
Deep into the ranks of the striking workers we
must 20 at once. Right into the front lines of
the battle-thst is where we belong! These direc-
tives apply in every Party district We must set
up new connections with the strikers, establish
strong roots in all the strike areas.
Then we must get to work to accomplish the
following tasks:
We must not permit any obstacles difficult
ties to stop us in forming the broadcast opposition
movements in the A. F. of L. unions. Not an A. F,
of L. local must meet in the strike areas without
at least Party comrade present, or distribu-
ton of Party leafet the strike situation.
Rank and File Strike Committees. We must
make every effort to get the strikes into the hands
of the workers themselves, warning them In leaf
let's and at meetings against every effort of the
A. F. of L. leadership to weaken the workers fight,
making clear that sooner later they will try
to break the strike through arbitration"
The striking workers must be warned to de-
mand broad rank and file votes on all decisions
affecting the strike. They must be told that the
most militant mass pcketing, including the
men and children, must be demanded and
ranged the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders.
Attempts to split the ranks of the strikers We
must warn the workers against all the old tricks
Of the bosses, their press and the A. F. of L. off,
cialdom, who will use SANDER and prejudice against
The Negro workers. against the foreign porn work
ers. against Communist workers to split the unity
Of the workers This is a stage that is reached in
almost every strike. We must defeat these split
ting tactics, calling for unity of all workers point
ing out how these splitting tactics play into the
hands of the employers.
Under circumstances must the workers be
tricked off the picket lines the basis of prom
ises" to settle in conference" etc. This is what
Communists should spread in all the strike areas
The building of the revolutionary opposition in
the A. F. of L. and the building of the class struggle
unions of the Trade Union Unity League, must go
forward with new energy A fight for indepen-
dent class struggle movement in the unions against
the A. F. of L. of1cialdom must be waged.
All Communists into the strike front! Into the
picket lines union locals and factoriesl Help lead
the workers to victory against the Roosevelt-N.R.A.
slave codes. The fight for the every day economic
needs of the masses is the vital link to winning
the majority of the American working class for
the road to Soviet Power! Let us prove to the
workers that are the best defenders of their in
terests. Seize this link with unflinching hands
Comrades, to work