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

2-The isolation over years of the Toledo Party
(only little bit accumulated compared with the
average Party organization) from the shops and
unions. The failure to begin real fufllment Of
the central task of the Open Letter further
concretized in the District Convention Resolutions
Only in the last month had the problem of pen
etrating the A. F. of L. locals been thought about
with beginnings in three A. F. of L. locals and
independent union.
In the large unorganized Chevrolet plant no
shop nucleus existed and the Auto Workers Union
local was very small and inactive and played no
role during the strike This isolation could not be
overcome overnight, altho even energetic
measures should have been adopted to establish the
first beginnings of rank and file groups inside the
local unions, SO of which went on record for gen
eral strike and many of whose members participated
in the big battles.
Sin working out our general strategy in the
first days of the action, we did not appreciate
the key role the Electrical Workers Union would
and could play in connection with the general strike
action While we will develop this in the next
article, suffice it to say that real efforts were
made, despite all the known difficulties to organize
some contact inside the Electrical Workers Union
just had to do in the Auto-Lte strikers
United Auto Workers Union CA F. of L.. To have
had group with a conscious policy against the
betrayers like Bennett and the left-phrase monger
Myers, could possibly have changed the sel-out of
the general strike
Inability to build up the Unemployed Council
into real non-Party fighting mass organization
during the of the strike events itself when
the Unemployed Council was doing an excellent job
on the picket line. This comes from no outlook of
mass politics and no developed forces in the U. c.
5-While the District Committee of the Party
sent in forces Immediately upon the outbreak of the
mass actions, well the District Org Instructor
two weeks prior, the District Committee was not
alert enough to the growing moods of the workers
in Toledo. Also the District Organizer left Toledo
for one day to cover other scheduled Party as well
as mass meetings, which under such circumstances
could have and should have been sacrificed be-
cause it was precisely this day of absence when
the mistake in connection with the united front
conference occurred.
6-Tendency on the part of the local leadership
to have no confidence in the Party membership and
try to do everything themselves. This reached
serious point in the early days when there was no
established apparatus and the local leadership was
choked with technical work which crippled organi-
rational and political work While the political
level of the Party membership is still not sufficiently
developed once we attempted to mobilize the Party
membership politically we did involve regularly each
day between 35-4o Party members who reported
for work with other comrades doing various
tasks without reporting. Three Party membership
meetings were held with attendance of 55-73-65
respectively. This shows only so per cent of the
membership was really keyed up to the situation
and necessitates not only a political examination
but overhauling of our methods of political mobza-
ton and methods of work. Throughout the events
the section leadership and Party units continued
to function.
Insufficient recruiting to the Party Only 30
new applications were taken of whom five were
Auto-Lite workers and 10 applications to the YCL
Other aspects Of Party work will be included in
the article which will elaborate on the general
strike situation.
CTo be continued)