The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
URGES NECESSITY CONCENTRATION
Statement of the Central Committee, C.P.U.sA.

THE first meeting of the Central Commit
tee of the Party, since the Eighth Con-
vention, which met June 80 to July 2, took
place exactly one year after the adoption of
the Open Letter to the Party membership.
1t was in position, therefore, not only to
analyze the developments in the recent
struggles the degree to which the decisions Of the
Eighth Party Convention are being carried through
but also to estimate the position of the Party in
the leadership of the struggles after one year
Of the application of the Open Letter,
The task OF this C. c. meeting was not to lay
down any man line of policy. The meeting re-
corded furthermore, that the analysis OF the Sit
uation and the prospect Of the further develop
ment Of the class struggle as laid down in the
convention resolution was fully confirmed in the
last three months since the Eighth Party Conven-
ton The analysis of the recent struggles, especially
the strike struggles did, however, disclose rapid
growth of certain features in the strike struggles
already analysed by the convention which now
call for special emphasis
Growing Class Battles
The discussions of the C. c. were organized
around three main questions.
First the lessons of the recent strikes, which
we're clearly analyzed in the report Of Comrade
Brovder.
Secondly the examination Of the status of our
Of L. unions
Thirdly the preparations for the coming con-
gressonal state and local elections.
Comrade Browder analyzed the recent strike
struggles among them the strikes in Toledo,
Minneapolis, and Milwaukee, the strike Of the long
shoremen on the Pacific which has now reached
very high stage the strike of the Negro and white
miners of Alabama These were the principal strikes
in the last few months.
central feature in all these strikes Comrade
Browder pointed out is the growing support given
to the strikers by large sections Of the employed
and unemployed workers not directly" involved in
the strike. This was especially expressed in the
strikes in Minneapolis Toledo and in the recent
strike of the carmen in Milwaukee.
AS further expression of a higher development
of this tendency for the general solidarity of the
masses with striking workers, we have the begin
nings of the development of general strikes di-
recty out of the strike struggles now taking place.
In Minneapolis this took the form of the actual
entrance of the building trades workers into strike
jointly with the truckmen. In Toledo the over
whelming majority of the A. F. of L. locals in
the city had voted to join the general strike in
support of the automobile workers, and were held
back only by the treachery of the A. F. of L. lead
ers. In Milwaukee, in San Francisco etc. in fact,
almost everywhere where strikes now take place,
the tendency is for increasing groups of workers
only the A. F. OF L. bureaucrats who, for the mo-
ment, have still been able to restrain the workers
Toward General Strikes
This tendency of the workers in various indus
tries in given community to join in general strike
viii the striking workers in a given industry also
has its expression in the growth OF general strikes
of a national character in the same industry This
best expressed in the development of the strikes
and solidarity actions of the longshoremen in a
rofc
and longshoremen the West Coast Similar ten
denotes were to be observed in auto and STEEL Here
also it is only because OF the treacherous splitting
and captivating policy of the bureaucrats that
these tendencies have not yet developed into actual
mass general strikes We We're still unable to over
come this strikebreaking activity of the reformists
because of cur weak position in the factories and
trade unicns
We see everywhere the increasing role of workers
outside the immediate strike in affecting the rea-
ton of forces in strikes and the outcome of strikes
For example, in both Toledo and Milwaukee all
though at one moment the ma jority of the work
ers were not actually involved in the strike be-
cause of the activity of the company union the
general terror and intimidation against the work
ers the splitting policy of the A. F. of L. bureau
crscy, the growing Intervention of the N r. A.
nevertheless the willingness of all the workers to
strike unitedly was realized only because of the
the outside.
This is possible because of the already existing
mass resentment against the NJ r. A. and the
growing menace of company unions which results
from the operation of the Roosevelt New DEAF
supported by the A F. of L. bureaucrats It fur
Their expresses the fact that the mass of the work
ers are being united the issues which now char
acterize almost every strike-namey the right to
organize recognition of the union of the workers
choice, for the right to strike ETC. These demands
side by side with the immediate economic issues,
are now the demands Of all striking workers
Developing Class Battles
IN this situation, with strikes taking place at time
OF great establishment with the NRA with a
greater mobilization Of larger groups of workers.
with the increasing exposure of the government as
the suppressive instrument of the capitalists and
the growing use OF terrorism simultaneously with
the use Of strike-breakng arbitration as well as
the fact that the masses are everywhere responding
in support of their fellow workers these are all
symptoms OF the growing political character of the