The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
By JOHN WILLIAMSON

and Young Communist League among the strikers
and A. F. of l.. members in Toledo.
We must also learn that in such a situation as
Toledo the Party committees must not try to do
all the work itself. Leadership implies ability to
mobilize and involve the masses of Party member
ship in the class battle While the Party was not
modified 100 per cent, nevertheless once member
ship meetings were held and everything explained
the number of Party members involved in the daily
work increased manifold.
THE situation demands increased Party activity
In addition to those central tasks indicated above
special attention must be given to building broad
non-Party fighting Unemployment Council To
defeat the Musteites the Communist Party must
Immediately popularize its election program and
candidates, and organize support in the unions
and shops for the election campaign Under no
circumstances should the daily sales of the Daily
Worker be allowed to return to what they we're
before the strike. That would mean we have
achieved nothing. The daily sales of the Daily
Worker must be increased at least four times over
The greatest attention must be given to raising the
political level of the Party membership by thorough
understanding Of the Toledo events and the carry
ing through of the tasks now before the Party
Special attention must be given to the new Party
members and to start real broad Party recruit
ing drive without moments delay.
The Auto-Lite workers had within their power,
once the plant was closed down and the city
workers behind them in preparation for general
strike, complete fulfillment of their demands The
agreement finally settled upon after the general
strike had been scuttled was fraud and meant
absolutely nothing. Only the continued militancy
of the workers has prevented up until now the COM
plete vctimizaton of the strikers as was intended
To maintain their jobs and prevent continued dis
elimination and take full advantage of their return
to the shop, to build and consolidate the union
ranks, the rank and file must be alert and vgilant
and not trust their affairs in the hands of Ram
sey and Bossler.
The mere threat of the general strike forced
concessions to the electrical workers intended as
kind of bride to not participate in the general
strike-which these workers would not have gotten
otherwise. As q result of the Toledo events work
ers in other shops able to force small economic
concessions from their employers.
If the workers guided by class struggle policy
had been able to outrnaneuver and defeat the be-
traying A. F Of L. leadership and all the other
forces against them and actually called the general
strike it would have involved several times tens
of thousands of Toledo workers. 1t would not only
have clinched complete victory for the Auto-Lite
strikers, but would have been the means of i'm
proving the working conditions and wages of all
the workers. Further it would have shown the
power of the in head collision with every
thing the Roosevelt New Deal government of the
bosses stands for.
While energetically exposing the A. F. of l..
bureaucracy and their treacherous policy, we must
beware of any temporary elements of demoraliza-
ton and disgust with all unions as we too often
see On the contrary must show the masses
how to take over their unions-elect rank and file
leadership-and make it an instrument in their own
benefit and against the employers, government and
A. F. of L. bureaucracy.
The Toledo events despite their immediate out
come were great training school for the Toledo
workers as well as workers throughout Ohio This
is of the first battles of the new phase Of the
class war, which is maturing and ripening through
out the entire United States
THE END