The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

only support Auto-Lite but to formulate their own
demands and force concessions.
(D That the Party, through its contacts try to
initiate and lead a strike IN strategic shop,
which would stimulate the entire wave of struggles
which was quickly maturing and also give us an
organized base with which to operate through to
increase the activity of the Auto Workers Union
in the Chevrolet plant.
60 Call all Party members and sympathizers
belonging to the A F. of L. to carry through this
policy in their unions and try to get into position
of leadership.
(6) To make serious efforts to build the Party
especially among the trade union workers
This was the main line Of strategy laid down
which with the more definite formulation of gen.
eral strike, absolutely correct.
The carrying out into life of this line by the
Party resulted despite handicap through sola-
ton for years from shops and trade union move
ment, in some definite headway
AS have already mentioned innumerabIe leaf
lets were issued. Our first indoor mass meeting
in the first days of the strike had 300 present Our
attempted united front protest demonstration, or
ganized in "a hours notice was rejected by the
Mustetes and they tried to organize their own DEM
onstration which had $50 present. The demonstra-
tion organized by us, had 500 present We Or
ganized about shop gate meetings and issued
special shop leaflets to the Chevrolet and WHY'S
Overland Co. During the noon recess of the In
junction Trial" which included 81 pickets among
whom Communists and Musteites we we're
successful in organizing demonstration of 300
workers lasting two hours.
Role of NIusteites
In the Injunction Trial, which the Musteites
tried to by first making sure that Eudenz
would get arrested and then bringing Garfield
Hayes as his defense counsel, as national forum
to build their national American Workers Party
and bring confusion into the workers ranks one
of the Communist defendants brought forward our
position in fair way. although without the
dramatics Of the ex-lawyer Budenz and his able
assistant Garfield Hayes
The latter made clear he defended only the
Mustetes, and after delivering what would be con-
sidered brilliant legal argument to vacate the in
junction, turned to the judge and stated in words
to this effect: IF your honor finds it impossible to
vacate the injunction, then show your fairness by
suspending sentence
In the course of his various remarks this Music
ally made statements the meaning of which were
that "he could just as easily defend the rights of
the scabs to enter the plant as of the workers to
picket, and in order to also throw his midget
weight against Communism he asserted che saw
no essential difference between Communism and
Fascism." The crowd in the courtroom was the real
force which prevented the Judge from announcing
his findings They were militant they cheered the
workers and jeered the company lawyers
Sold Daily Worker
Every day of the strike, 400 copies of the Daily
Worker were sold and 1000 copies of the special
Toledo issue were widely distributed Thousands
OF the Convention Manifestos were distributed
large indoor mass meeting of 700 workers was or
ganized for Comrade Bob Minor and after the SELL
out $50 workers came to hear cur General Secre-
tary, Comrade Earl Browder
On the question of the United Front Conference
which vas decided upon, certain mistakes occurred
which make it necessary to develop this in order