The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21

THE Toledo events, together with Min
bama mining and steel workers, stand out
not only as examples Of the ever rising
wave of mass strike struggles against
everything the New Deal stands for but
begin to place these struggles on a higher
level
Significant in the Toledo events were:
1. The great unity of the workers. Thousands of
workers to the support of the striking Auto
Lite workers. out of feeling of class solidarity and
understanding of the connection of that struggle
with their own conditions. Thousands of workers
came from other factories to the battle front" and
for two and three nights didn't leave till morning,
till it time to go to their shop. 1t further DEM
onstrated a direct result of the work of the IN
employment Council, the unity of unemployed and
employed. Although not a single Negro worker
employed in the plant the unity of Negro and white
was seen on the mass picket line In the days Of
pitched battles the youth played big role particu-
lsrly in making use of their baseball training, in
successfully achieving the objective of the Auto
Lite Company-making it open shop" as was
iokingly referred to throughout the town. 1t was
not unusual sight to the wives of the workers
carrying baskets full of bricks and breaking them
up into handler weapons. The entire working class
population was aroused
q The determination to fight against all odds.
While usually the authority of government particu-
larry Federal backed up by troops has effect of
cowing the spirit of the workers, in Toledo just the
opposite resulted The troops and their bloody kill
ing and wounding further melted and Infatuated
the workers. Several times, the mass offensive of
the workers swept the National Guard back two
blocks and only with reinforcements and shooting
we're they able to retake their ground
3 The establishment of large masses in the
n. r.. A. and New Deal Government. Once the
success of mass violation of the sacred court in
junction penetrated the masses they more boldly
defed other capitalist laws and DEGREES The solid
front of government with employers and the send
ing of troops began the process of dsilusionment
OF many workers AS to the role of the New Deal
government and the entire system of capitalism
This, of course, does not mean everybody nor can
it mean that the government has not vet lots of
maneuvering power, but this process has set in and
been stamped indeliby in the minds of many work
ers, in way which will have more far-reaching
consequences in the future
A. Inherent organzatonal ability of the masses
Without in any way trying to make virtue out of
the consequences of our previous isolation from the
Auto-Lite shop and the A. F. of L. unions generally
which was the key weakness of the Party we saw
especially in the battles around the plant as
we'll as in the night of the demonstration the great
inherent organizatonal ability of the masses Our
problem is to harness this politically and organza-
tionally.
5. Action of the rank and file. Every forward
move in the strike was made by the workers over
the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders The role of the
leaders was to liquidate and scutte the Auto-Lite
strike and prevent the general strike at all costs
Every move Of the leaders is well calculated to this
end. The organization of small conscious group