The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
PARTY LIFE
Party in Auto District Scores
Serious Lag After Good York
Small Wage Gains Won By Auto Union In Jam,
1882, Wiped Out By Speed-up, Living Costs

d. Increasing the sale of the
Daily Worker.
e. United activity to some ex-
tent with the Auto Workers Union
over the head and against the
wishes of the misleaders, as well
as the building up in some shops OF
mass picket lines against the policy
of the leadership.
f. Calling of mass meetings ana
demonstrations jointly by the M.
E. S. A. and A. w. U. against the
policy of the leadership of the M.
E. S. a.
G. The election of the opposition
leader as president of the national
organization.
h. Recruiting some new mem
bers as a result Of our activity.
8. The growth Of the Unemployed
Council.
4. The growth Of our shop work
and the A.WU. in Grand Rapids.
s. The building Of the Workers
School in Detroit.
6. Increased mass work among
the poor farmers and the organiza-
ton of the Michigan Farmers
League, with approximately $500
members.
C. C. PIenun Resolution Correct
The 18th PIenum Resolution of the
@, C.. states: 1.-THE whole Party has
not yet fully understood the applica-
ton of the open letter and the lead
ing cadres have not yet fully &C
TWEED the Party membership for
these tasks. The advance has been
of very uneven character. Some
important districts have hardly par
ticipated in this advance (Cleveland):
others which have made Important
beginnings before the extraordinary
conference, have stagnated and even
fallen behind since Oetroit)."
This is true despite the fact that
our district has the most favorable
objective situation and yet we have
to register a setback in our shop
work since the open letter went into
effect.
Following the July Party Confer
ence and the study of the Open Let
ter, our district, instead Of intense
flying it's work in the main concen-
tration centers, picked ten auto
plants as centers of concentration
and added to this the Black Belt,
and the steel mills OF Ecorse and
Monroe.
1t is obvious that this method Of
concentration is not concentration at
all, but spreading out Of our forces,
which makes real concentration inn
possible. Our task was to concen-
trate more intensely and to assign
the forces around the major centers
Of concentration, such as Ford and
Briggs.
Basic Reasons for Tagging Behind
What are the basic reasons for
tagging behind in our DISTRICT They
are:
1. Failure to understand con-
cretely shop concentration (declin-
ing Of A. W.fUD.
g. A wrong and mechanical APP
proach in the carrying out of revo-
lutionary mass work. CThe setting
Of q strike date In the Ford plant
and the raising of general strike
slogans without building a base in
the shops and without consulting the
| workers)
3. Underestimation OF the deep
going rehabilitation among the
masses, especially among the Ford
workers in the shop.
8. Hesitation in bringing the
Party to the forefront, which carries
with It extreme slowness in recruit
ing members into the Party.
5. The extreme slowness in build
ing the circulation of the Daily
Worker
6. All Of which develops the
growing danger of right opportunism
and our failure to combat it as the
main obstacle in carrying out the
decisive tasks of our Party.
(TO BE CONTINUED