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

to draw the necessary lessons The objective was
to initiate united front conference which would
have as its purpose the swinging into action Of the
masses of workers and union members, for an i'm
mediate general strike despite the sabotage of the
A F. of L. officials Was it correct to issue such
a call? Absolutely correct.
The thing that wrong that we issued
call to 100 A. F. of L. locals and other
CARNATIONS signing the name Provisional Com
mittee for General Strike" No indication was
given to who comprised this committee aside
from the pretentousness of the name itself. The
kernel of the was that no effort had been
made, despite the obvious difficulties because of
our isolation, to get group of strikers, well
A. F. of L. locals or at least groups of
members of A. F. of L. locals to become a part
of the Provisional Committee"
Realizing the narroWness of the Provisional Com
mittee, the local comrades hestated to indicate its
composition, resulting in the call being addressed
to the A. F. Of L. locals MESA. Unemployed
Leagues, Socialist Party, ETC., and thus completely
emitting the Communist Party and all class struggle
organizations such as Unemployed Council Auto
Workers Union, TWO, ETC., either as signatures
to the call addresses. Furthermore with our
complete isolation from the A. F. of L. unions and
shops, to merely send such call was to expect
that the local officials would take it up and act
upon it. This was obviously in the at
tempt to carry thru perfectly correct idea.
Correct Mistakes
In order to correct this the Call was then
printed a mass call, signed by the Unemployed
Councils, Auto Workers Union, and including CP
Two, ETC., in those organizations to which it ad-
dressed itself calling upon all workers in shops and
unions to get together in groups read the Call and
elect delegates. 1t distributed before the shops
and those unions that met in 2 days time in 5000
copies
Under such circumstances, the conference met
with over 200 present including two A. F. of L.
locals officially groups from five A. F. of L. locals
a group from the MESA, twelve strikers from the
Auto-Lite plant as well as representatives from
UCY Two, language organizations CP. YCL.
The conference heard a report endorsed several
resolutions and elected committee of Is to present
the resolution to the Committee of % and demand
representation in their committee we'll as speak
ers at the A. F. of L. organized city-wde demon
straton. All these proposals were rejected by the
Secretary of the Committee of 49, but as they found
out to their surprise the masses had a different
answer. But this comes later.
Another unclarity expressed itself in connection
with the conference to which organization should
be the medium of initiating and leading such
broad movement under such circumstances Ten
denotes existed to place the Party forward at the
expense of the economic mass organizations This
was clarified without in the least negating the open
bold political role of the C.P which appeared boldly
in its own name and activity during the strike.
Weaknesses Due to Isolation
What were some of the main weaknesses in con-
nection with the work of the Party?
mo organized connection with the strikers at
the beginning. The contacts had six weeks ago
had not been fully appreciated Only in the course
OF these battles rank and file group of at first
10 built, and now numbering "a, which even in an
uncleer way not fully convinced at the beginning of
the oetraying role of Ramsey and much less of
Music, began to make itself felt force to carry
through class policy and attempt to block the
maneuvers of the officials.