The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
THE GREAT TOLEDO STRIKE :

rate them from the Musteites and win them over
to us. If this Is not done they will be completely
corrupted and will follow in the conscious, Cleft
social-fascist footsteps of Music and Budenz
Having no sincere motives, but only q cheap
advertising motive for the American Workers Party,
to further mislead and split the masses of workers
moving toward the Communist position, it was to
be expected that their activities would coincide with
their motives They theatrically staged picket
line of two local fellows with banner Ohio I'm
employed Leagues Violates the Injunction" and
another THE American Workers Party Violates the
Injunction Budenz went out of his way to get
arrested so as to Try and gain prestige, use the
court as national forum and, we can presume
from his recently exposed wire exploit his arrest to
raise money to further heap abuse on the Commu-
mist Party and create confusion among the workers
by organizing another political party
The next objective of the Mustetes to horn
in to the local A. F. of L. leadership, by trying to
put their arms around Ramsey, etc. They rejected
United Front protest demonstration during the
height of the shooting; they issued two leaflets,
which didn't mention word against the real danger
of arbitration, they held up the general strike"
of Minneapolis as an example to follow in Toledo,
that didn't mention word of criticism of the
A. F. of L. leaders and referred to the role of the
Roosevelt government as follows: Even the Presi-
dent of the United States cannot or will not help"
Again, when the masses were in motion for gen.
eral strike under the stimulus of the Communist
Party slogans, and activity, the Musteites were on
hand to try and lead the revolt of the masses
when the A. F. of L. leaders we're booed off the
platform. BY maneuver, they gained the chair
manship of the meeting, but their followers who
spoke had to follow the line of the Communist
Party speakers, who were predominant
The Musteites utilized the Court Room to much
better advantage than did, with the full sup
port of the press. Although they have not made
any substantial organizationa gains in Toledo the
Mustetes real menace which the local Party
must energetically and convincingly expose to the
masses.
MANY lessons are to be gained from Toledo, only
wi few of which we can indicate here briefly. 1t
is clear that the problem in Toledo is not that
'the workers backward" etc, The workers are
ready. Its local Party which has been isolated
from these masses, stewing In its own sectaran-
ism in the past
Further see clearly how quickly the ideas of
the Communist Party if presented simply and con-
vncingly, become power among the workers
However, to guide that power, we need organization
This means Party organization and through this
broad rank and file groups in the A. F. of L.
unions and the building of class struggle unions
in Chevrolet and Willys-Overland plants.
The outstanding lesson for the Party is the alb
soute need of the Party being rooted in the shops
and A. F. of L. unions. Here we saw clearly how
much more effective We could have been if we had
an organizations force in at least Is A. F. Of L.
locals or if workers in large shop had been
under the influence of the Party 1t must be clear
to the Toledo comrades that these things are not
impossible On the contrary soon as we go
among the workers correctly, these detectives can
be carried out more quickly and effectively than
ever before The few beginnings already prove this
The Party must consider as its central task the
building of rank and file groups in the most i'm
portant A. F. of L. unions, and in the course of
this, recruiting the best elements into the 4arty
so as to establish functionng Party fractions Side
by side must go much more decisive work in build
ing the Auto Workers Union in the Chevrolet Plant,
and broad recruiting drive to build the Party