The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Rise of Struggle in
Auto Is Serious Test
For Detroit District

nucleus as a result of the initiative
Of our Party members and synnpa-
thizers, would not be as slow as it
is. All of which goes to show that
the leadership of the District and
section has not yet succeeded in
helping our members. especially in
the big factories, to overcome the
many difficulties that the workers
are facing, especially in such fac
tories as Ford.
Some of the difficulties that the
members and workers are facing in
the shop is the lack of experience
in developing correct slogans. That
is slogans that will make it possible
to rally the masses around
issues they are facing in the shops.
The failure to develop the proper
slogans and proper methods quite
often stiles the initiative of the
Party members in the shop, the re-
suit of which many times is that
either spontaneous movements de-
velopment without the Party and
the militant trade unions being in
the leadership or the initiative is
taken by the social fascist leaders
and therefore, in both cases, this
mass upsurge Of the workers is
checked and In some cases even de-
stroyed.
1t becomes the task of the District
and section leadership to guide the
discussion and the activity by Civ
ing daily assistance and cooperation
to the comrades in the shop and
TO the activity Of the comrades
around the shop. Tt remains the
task that the district and section
leadership politicalize our work to
link up the political task of the
Party that is the struggle against
war and fascism with the daily is
sues and grievances of the workers
and to give leadership to these issues
and grievances, by each and every
Party member. It must become our
task to prepare every Party mem
Der in the shortest possible time to
be a leader among non-Party work
ers, and among rank and file So
cialist workers. The Party men,
bers must become inspired by the
historic developments that are now
going on. But this inspiration must
express itself in revolutionary mass
work in the shop and trade union
locals, among the Socialist workers.
and among the masses generally.
However, this can be accomplished
only if our Party members are or
ganized in the shop. If each Party
member would have a group around
him formed into a committee in
the shop, if we Party members are
active in the union, that means
that every Party member must get
into the union and carry on Com
munist activity among the masses.
We must help the comrades to use
the Daily Worker, prepare other
mass literature, shop papers, build
ing of the union, press and cons
cious.. organized perspective for
class struggle United Automobile
Workers Union in the industry.
The comrades organized in the
fractions must have this as their
central task, that is, the fraction
in the M. E. S. A., Party fraction
in the automobile locals of the A.
F. of L., the Party fractions organ
lied in other workers organizations.
such as. 1. w. O., I. L. D., and
fractions in language organizations.
In other words the application
of the United Front policy from
below under the leadership of our
Party members will then result in
building revolutionary movement
in the fortress of Communism, that
is, in the decisive sections in the
shops.
This is the key task that will
united the Negro and white masses,
native and foreign born workers.
This is the task that we are charged
by the 18th Plenum Resolution of
the Communist International, that
is being explained and put in life,
by the rising revolutionary Social
lists, Communists and non-Partv
workers in Europe, and by the mass
indignation and waves of struggles
OF the American workers. The
Party must become the leader of
this mass movement. The Party
must become the leader of the auto
mobile workers in Ford, Briggs.
General Motors.