The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
Resolution of District Bureau,
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May Day, 1884, was organized in
the midst Of an important wave of
strike struggles and sharpened class
relations throughout the city. AS a
further stimulus, there occurred the
historic Eighth National Convention
Of our Party at the beginning of
April The District Committee be-
gan modifying the Party already in
the first week of March and issued
sufficient political and organiza-
tional directives and material. The
surrounding circumstances and early
directives of the District Committee
presented every opportunity for a
tremendous May Day.
The 10000 workers who partici-
psted in the Public Square demon
stration and 5000 in the main pa
rade, was one of the largest May
Day events in the history of the
Party. Although it reflected in
creased activity on the part Of our
Party and it was more conscious.
spirited, colorful and solid than a
year ago, it cannot be considered
as satisfactory. This is reflection
of the fact that the preparations
for May Day were not carried
through on the basis of the winning
new masses of workers to the poll
tical slogans and demands of the
May Day campaign and that the
Party committees, units and frac-
tons did not carry through energetic
organization work, but depended
upon the non Bolshevik practice Of
Spontaneity.
The paradeS and demonstration
were characterized by fairly salts
factory organization work, the foun-
dation of which had been laid
through the material of the united
front conferences and special mo-
bilization of forces. A larger num-
Der Of Negro workers participated
than in any demonstration for the
past year and a half.
The main parade, through the
heart of the city, with the repre-
Sentatives of all working class or
CARNATIONS on reviewing stand in
front of the City Hall, was bhe
most impressive and best organized
part of the entire demonstration,
which created much enthusiasm
among all the workers.
Weaknesses
The outstanding weaknesses,
which every responsible committee
must study and examine In light Of
their own activities, are:
l. Inability to connect up eff
fectively the preparations for May
l with the series of strike struggles.
Issuance of special leaflet to Fisher
Body workers by united front COM
mittee only on last day of strike
and no special May Day leaflet to
Chase Brass, Cleveland WorSted,
Gas Operators, etc. This is a fur
ther reflection of our inability in
the A. F. of Lied strikes to be-
come a real factor influencing de-
cisively the policy, and in the 8.
M. w. I. U.-led Chase Brass strike,
our leadership reflected a pure"
trade union approach by failing to
tie up May Day preparations.
Q. No serious approach to mobili-
cation of employed shop workers.
The demonstration was organized
at such time as to permit partici-
patton of all shop workers who were
not yet organized r ong y
enough to strike on May Day. There
was no appreciable increase in the
size Of the Public Square demon
stration after 5 o'clock, showing our
failure to bring the workers in Or
ganized groups to the demonstra-
ton. An examination of our activ-
ity shows that the Party members
in the shops did not carry on indi-
vidual agitation and distribution of
leaflets and Stickers.
The work on the outside of the
factory was poorly organized and
haphazard, and only four shop leaf
lets were issued, with sections 2, 3,
IL, IA and Is not issuing a single
shop leafiet The positive feature
in our factory concentration was
the issuance of five shop papers
(Otis Steel, Midland Steel, White
Motors, Fisher Body, American
SteeD with the Spark Plug" ap-
pearing daily during the Fisher
Body strike
I. u. U. L. Failures
3. The unions of the T. U. U. L.
were not made conscious of May