The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

The resolution by the Detroit
DistritS Committee of the Com
munist Party on work in the auto
section of the country follows:
The District Committee is itself in
agreement with the Resolution of
the 18th Plenum of the Central Com
mittee which sharply calls to our at
tention the alarming fact that our
district, which made important be-
ginnings in carrying out the open
letter, is seriously tagging behind.
That this is true cannot be ques-
toned, and when we consider that
the economic crisis is deeper here in
our district than in other sections of
the country, and that our district is
considered the danger spot for Amer
lean capitalism, our weaknesses,
therefore, become still more serious,
That the N. R. A. did not stop the
downward trend Of the crisis is seen
in the fact that production of auto
mobiles dropped from $4,000 in the
week ending Sept. 80 to 1000 in the
week ending Nov. 7. The figures for
the latter week we're less than the
number of cars produced during the
same week last year.
The small gains in wages won by
section of the workers, primarily
as result of the militant strike
struggles last January, under the
leadership Of the A. w. u, have
been wiped out by the intensive
speed-up and tremendous increase in
the cost Of living. City officials
themselves admit that the cost of
foodStuffs has increased 1854 per
cent since March; coal has increased
81 per ton, and similar increases
have taken place in other necessities
of life.
All Of the illusions which the N
r. A. tries to create cannot hold
back the increasing rehabilitation of
the workers and poor farmers which
expresses itself in increased struggle
on the part of the workers.
Struggles Prove Rehabilitation
This rehabilitation is seen in the
mass movement in Dearborn, in the
strike of the tool and diemakers, the
joining of the unions by large num-
bers of auto workers, the rising mill
fancy in the shops, the growing
movement among the unemployed,
especially among the relief wage
workers, and the rising movement
Of the poor farmers against evictions,
foreclosures, etc.
Despite this rehabilitation, our
Party has not carried through its
main tasks-the penetration of the
basic auto shops and first of all the
Ford plant-which were pointed out
in the open letter. However, we can
register some important achieve
mentS, such as:
/. Our work In the city Of Dear
born:
a. The building of a consider
able movement among the workers
for some burning needs, such as
relief and against the terror of
the Ford controlled city govern
ment.
b. Building two territorial union
branches with approximately 200
members.
C. Building two wonens auxil-
larry organizations with 80 men,
bers.
d. Increase in the Party mem
bership from % to almost 100, as
well as an increase in sales of the
Daily Worker.
2. Strengthening our influence
through the application of the united
front policy in the tool and die
makers strike, which resulted in:
a. Building of a strong opposi-
ton movement.
b. Election Of rank and file
members to the strike committees,
both in the shops and the central
strike committee over the heads Of
the misleaders.
C. Building one shop nucleus.