The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

the only vantage point from which our WORK VIII
be most effective is in the factories among the workers
involved in the very heart of the bitter struggles
The past year of struggles and the present seeth-
ing discomfort show very clearly the decisive factors
the stockyards the Pittsburgh district cambridge
Homestead, Alequippa, Clairton), on the railroads
Chicago and st. Louis, in rubber steel chemicals,
where decisive turn to the factories must be made
in order to make the Party the leading force in the
struggles winning the workers for the Party and
making effective its struggle against fascism and
On trade union work the resolution calls for
putting end to the OppOrtunist defeatis neglect
of trade union work and in particular work inside
the refOrmist trade unions and the fascist and
Christian trade unions, in accordance with the
directiyeS given by the 18th Plenum Of the E.C.CL
work inside the trade unions"
DECENTLY there has been healthy move in the
Party towards an attempt to overcome the former
defeats neglect OF trade union work. especially work
in the A. F. Of L. unions. But the beginning shows
how much is yet to be done. The railroad
workers show what tremendous pressure the rank and
file is putting the leadership. The turmoil In
the New York trade unions against rackeeerng shows
how easily the rank and file can be modified for
struggle However, without the most persistent, unre
lenting day-to-day work in the unions throwing the
whole party into this work. there be results.
The Communist Party must become the outstanding
leader in organizing rank and file oppositions in the
A. F. OF /. unions exposing the whole rotten strike
breaking racketeering oicaldom and its fascist ser
vices on the R.A commissions and On the National
Labor 8Yard
The taxi strike in New York showed the ponderous-
with which the Party into action in strike
struggles and trade union activities The Socialist
Party leaders plunged headlong into the strike
ming strategic posts from which they had excellent
opportunities for betrayals which they used The
Trade Union Unity Council took an active part in
the strike. The Party, however, showed many weak
nesses in mobilization of the whole Party for partci
patton in the strike.
All of this took place after the 18th Plenum reso-
luton had been discussed at Central Committee
District, Section and Unit meetings It shows that
the bridge between general abstract discussion must
be broken down in concrete, living activity.
m WORK among the unemployed the resolution
says the task consists of really developing mass
work among the unemployed, carrying on untiring
fight for social insurance for all kinds of municipal
relief"
Work among the unemployed has received an i'm
petus from the National Convention Against Unem-
ployment but again 1t is only spark beginning
which must lead to broad mass, untiring fight
for social insurance among all strata CT unemployed
among all C.WA workers. and in the A. F. of L.
unions.
For our Party the 18TH PIenum resolution is
broad guide to action which becomes clothed with
the flesh and blood OF living revolutionary struggles
only when it is concretized in action in the units
transforming the whole activity Of the Party to the
broadcast mass work
1t is in this light every unit should discuss the
resolution looking around it in the factories among
the masses, employed and unemployed, in the trade
unions, to see how it should be applied to speed the
revolutionary work and to strengthen the Communist
Party as the best guarantee of its fullllment
Particularly in preparation for the Eighth Con-
yention CT cur Party the 18th Plenum must be made
al integral and living part of the entire discussion