The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1933, Page 3

x 7 The Strike Movement Grow Throughout U. S. By J. STACHEL Despite every attempt of the em- ployers, aided by the government and the A.F.L, bureaucrats to disrupt the strike movement, strikes are develop- ing in all parts of the country. The strike movement is especially spread- ing in the textile industry. Textile strikes have taken place in all states of New England, in the South, in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and New York States. Tens of thousands of textile workers have already been involved in these strikes in the course of the last month. These strikes follow the mass strikes in the shoe and leather industry that num- bered almost 50,000 in the months of February and March of this year and embraced many sections of the country but largely New England. Preceding the shoe strikes there were mass strikes involving tens of thousands of auto workers in Detroit, ‘Toledo and Grand Rapids. In the recent weeks there were strikes of miners in -Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ili- nois, Kentucky, Tennesee, involving about 25,000 miners. Miners strikes are now developing in the Western fields. Strikes of fishermen and cannery workers over a 2,000 mile tront starting at Astoria, Oregon and reaching to Alaska are now in pro- gress involving 10,000 men, women and children. There are also many strikes of needle workers, food work- ers, small strikes of marine workers, workers in the light metal industry, furniture workers, bakers, and num- erous other indusiries. of this year there is every promise that 1933 will stand ont in the strug- gles of Isbor in this country. It is already clear that we are witnessing the largest number of strikes for many years. And this notwithstand- ing the fact that there are seventeen millions of unemployed. Strikes Will Increase re is every prospect that the scrixe movement will continue to rise. the strik in all parts cf the cou end embrace so many different in- dicates that the movement in its firs stages and velop into gigantic mass also of the greatest @ strikes include large num ers of Negro rkers, large num- past do we es the solidariiy “na yed with the strikers even thersh tn-mployment ts today est in the history of this es Monoceuvers did everything their to disrupt the | strike mov First, they relied on the rity propaganda and tbon the Roosevelt administration promises. Bue when this did not succeed they 4 to step the strikes through small “voluntary” wage increases. But even this did not work. They ate now compelled to grant bigger increases in their efforts to stop the strikes, This*is well illustrated in the tex- tile industry. Here the bosses when they sensed the fighting moods of the workers began to give in many instances 5 per cent increases. This was done in some of the mills in the South, and in Allentown. But this did not stop the strikes. They began. to give increases to become ef- fective months later. This was the case in the Amoskeag Mills in Man- chester, N. H. The bosses promised a 15 per cent increase on July 29. But the workers struck for higher imcreases and immediately. After a militant strike in which the workers bravely faced the National Guard, the bosses were compelled to grant an immediate increase of 15 per cent to all workers. In Lawrence the bosses were com- pelled to give a 1244 per cent in- crease after a number of department struggles were successful. The mine operators in the Pittsburgh region have announced an increase of 10 per cent. Increases have been an- nounced in many plants in various industries. New Wage Cuts The capitalists forced to grant in- creases through strikes or because of threat to strike on the part of the workers, hope in this way to stop the struggles of the workers, and then continue their attacks on. the workers’ standards. In fact in many cases the so-called “voluntary” increases are accom- panied by new speed up and other worsening of the conditions. Five thousand textile workers in Phila- deiphia are now on strike against speed up introduced following an in- crease of 5 per cent in their wages. is @ growing movement for struggle the long hours and sab iL Fa i as H H i begakt bs f j 5 F i z E i i i i i : i | 4 B : i Eg | x F : E : i if i REE i i Z i i i i ue \ strikes, and destroy the militant la- bor organizations. The bill under the guise of a minimum wage regu- lation would actually lower the wages of the mass of the workers. The shorter work day provision which does not carry with it a guar- antee of no reduction of actual earn- ings is not more than the old Hoover stagger plan. The provisions for compulsory arbitration are directed against strikes, and aim to crush all militant trade unions and all oppo- sition movements within the A-F.L. unions. Already the concerted at- tack now made against the militant fur workers who are organized in the Needle Workers Industrial Union shows where the government is driv- ing with this bill. The danger is great and immediate. The working masses must raise their protest and demonstrate their opposition to this vicious anti-working class legislation. AF.L.-Socialist Party Leaders for Roosevelt Attack The AF.L. leaders fully support |the National Recovery Bill. Little wonder! Green, Woll & Co. have always aided the capitalists. The Green-Hoover agreement has fully demonstrated that the labor leaders have helped throughout the crisis to worsen the conditions of the workers, so that the total wage is now only one-third of what it was at the be- | ginning of the crisis. | The AFL. leaders have continued their opposition to federal or any | other form of genuine unemployment | insurance. terests of capital, of crushing the ris- ing revolt of their rank and file against their policies and leadership. | They are aiming to complete the con- version of the trade unions built by the workers to defend their interests | into agencies to carry thru the Roo- | sevelt program in the interests of the bosses. The Socialist Parjy is speaking of | the imadequacy of the Roosevelt pro- | gram, and of its inconsistency and | feigning opposition on this or that | point, but through such an “opposi- | tion” in reality it is trying to cover up the vicious anti-workingclass | character of the proposed legislation | and the Roosevelt government as the They see in this bill a) Alreedy in the first four months | greater opportunity of serving the in- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933 The greatest possible de-| velopment and strengthen- ing of the struggle of the proletariat against wage cuts and the worsening of the conditions of labor, the exertion of all the efforts |of the Communist \and the revolutionary trade} union organizations to en-| sure the independent lead-| \ership of strike struggles} yand the unemployed move-| jment, the raising of the) fighting capacity of the} masses, leading them on the, |basis of their own experi-| jence from the struggle for} jeveryday partial demands | |to the struggle for the gen-| | |eral class tasks of the pro- | |letariat represent the chief | | tasks for all sections of the Communist International, | especially under the condi-| tions of the end of capitalist | stabilization. From the thesis of the 12th plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com-| munist International. | | | By MILTON HOWARD. In our article of two weeks ago, jwe pointed out that the present rise in prices and the increase in produc- tion in a few industries, like textiles, automobile and steel was not due to a real turn for the better in funda- mental economic conditions, but al- most wholly io the pressure of infla- tion. Or, more accurately, in antici- | Selah Parties | Railway Association reports that all the railroads of the United States combined placed one new locomotive in service. Compared with the average of 1500 for the last 10 years, j only three lecomotives were on order, | compared with 51 on the same day last year ond compared with an average of 1,000 for the similar per- iod during the last ten years and same week last year. For, just as the advance in pri was beginning to show able signs of exhaustion, the Rocse- velt government was forced to give business another inflationary “sho! the Federal Reserve Banks to begin }an active cheapening of the dollar | through a deliberate policy of credit pation of furthe# inflation. This has been strikingly confirmed in the past week. Prosperity Fake Becomes More Evident. capitalist dictatorship against the toiling masses. The Socialist Party | leaders have joined hands with the | federal government, the local police, | the bosses’ associations, and the AF. there is practically no buying of steel Fails going on. Thus, from the two main pur- chasers of steel, there is coming no real buying. expansion. And the purpose of this “shot” is openly admitted by Secre- |tary of the Treasury Woodin, who |said that the Federal Reserve Banks jwere ordered to expand “credit” in |L. leaders to force the fur workers back into the A-F.L. fur workers un- ion, which is now existent since the overwhelming majority of the work- ers have become part of the Needle The prosperity ballyhoo of Roose- velt becomes more and more a flag- rant piece of publicity based on a business structure which gets more hopelessly than ever before entang- order to move things along.” In these words, Woodin not only ex- | plains what happened this week, but | he gives the clue to what the Roose- velt government will be forced to do The backlog of unfilled steel orders s right close to the low point of the crisis. It is clear that the much-hailed | Workers Industrial Union. AFL. Leaders Oppose Strikes The AFL. has in the recent strikes | further demonstrated that it contin- ues its strike-breaking policy despite ; the radical speeches of Green that | the workers should fight for highe: | wages because of inflation. | In Salem, the United Textile Work- jers Union, one of the A.F.L. organi- zations, thru its president McMahon, | has declared illegal the strike of 2,000 textile workers, all of whom have for a number of years been organized in the AF.L. organization. These workers are striking against @ new speed up that has been in- troduced and which would amount | to a big reduction in their earnings, | because of the increased number of | looms upon which they must work. | ‘The workers have repudiated the AFL. leaders and are continuing the | Strike with great determination and | militancy. It is clear that in every strike the AF.L. leaders try to dis- Tupt the struggle and help the bosses carry thru their program. The mem- bers of the AF.L. however are in a fighting mood. The proposed Roosevelt legislation which Green supports intends to force such workers back to work thru compulsory arbitration, thru outlaw- ing the strikes, thru the use of the armed forces of the government to enforce a worsening of the condi- tions upon the workcs:. Unite For Straggle The Trade Union Unity League and | its affiliated trade unions have late- | ly increased their activity to a very jlarge extent. They have organized | ‘and led many strikes in the auto, | mining, textile, needle and numerous other industries. The T.U.U.L. has also stimulated and supported the oppositions within the A.F.L. to car-| ry on the struggle in spite of and over the heads of the leaders who sabotage the struggle. In Salem the representative of the National Tex- | tile Workers Union is giving guid- ance and support to the strike, while McMahon is openly trying to break the strike. led in capitalist contradictions. As the season passes into the summer, the “evidence” which the Roosevelt pro- paganda machine has been turning out in such vast quantities gets thin- net and thinner. The real facts be- come more and more hidden under false newspaper headlines, inspired ballyhoo, etc. The analysis which we made about the spectacular rise in steel produc- tion “3 being confirmed everyday. There is absolutely no real basis for the expansion in steel production. As we have been pointing out, there can be no real prosperity in the steel industry without substantial buying by the railroads and the building construction industry. And from these vital industries which constitute the main support of the steel industry in normal times. there is coming less buying than ever before in the history of the country. The Engireering News Record re: construction activity as measured by contract awards, is practically at a complete standstill, contracts for May 15th totalling $7,694,000, a low figure for more than 30 years. - The latest figures from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in- dicate that building construction in the 352 largest cities of the United States are running at the rate of 41 per cent below the same period last year. There is not even the usual seasonal increase in building. From the railroads, we get similar news. For the first, foyr months of this year, up to May 1, the American M The statement of the T.U.U.L. printed in the Monday issue of the Daily Worker shows to the workers how they must organize themselves _ to defeat the attacks of the capital- - ists. | It is necessary that all workers, ir-_ respective of their union affiliation | or political opinions shall in the, shops, mills and mines, form their united committees of action build | their strength right in the shops, resist all new attacks, and take steps | to demand and enforce thru strike | higher wages and better working | conditions. The Trade Union Unity League will support all workers in their struggle for improved condi- tions. Write to the Trade Union Unity League, 2 W. 15th St., New York City, for more information. 20. + Chde tl i Mr i | which the Morgan firm is directly represented were about $25,009,000,- i i rise in steel production is based on a again and again in the near future. ports that the latest figures for heavy | Linked by Groas-Pirectorship with Morgen fire, Firet net" . Yank, er conbright & Co. Ne Tack & Woot. Rt Co eat Korthern Railway Cé rotten foundation. It must soon col- | lapse. The capitalist press is being | Rising Pri es Forces More forced to admit this more openly. | Inflation. For example, a special dispatch from| In our articles for the past few izing Pittsburgh to the New York Evening | months, we have been emphas. lt go | Post states: all the time that the Roc | “The particularly amazing thing | "ment in its open att | about the steel situation fs that the | Prices will be forccd more and more | imerease oceurs when so many of into inflationary measures Roose- the usually active consumers are |Velt and the capitalist class have | dolig. stomel: nothing” been talking of “controlied inflatior la But we have shown that the price- | Dimate: Consumers: Canney paay- raising effect of inflation depends The final proof that the crisis can- | precisely on the fact that not be much longer hidden by pros- | is; not controlled, and can perity ballyhoo is given by the evi-/ trolled. Inflation uses dences that indicate whether there | rise. As soon as the press |is any real kuying going on by ulti- | flation stops, prices will drop. There- |mate consumers, by the people. It) fore, in order to maintain rising is obvious that without this real, | prices, amore and more inflation is fundamental buying, there can be no | constafitly required, to leasing of the cris And no such pending. bubble from bur phenomenon of rising pri is Supposed to be the happy effect of ‘a controlled inflation, itself sx buying has developed or can develop. The buying of automobiles thru j out the country, despite all the opti- mistic reports, has -not even reached | the control over inflation. the level of last year. The reports | evitably,as more and moye inflation of R. L. Polk & Co., experts in ana- | is pumped into the bubble of artifici- lyzing retail sales of automobiles, | ally rising prices, there comes the in- show that automobile sales are run vitable explosion and collapse. ning behind 1932. More and more, and with increas- 5 rr ing speed, the Roosevelt government Sante eee asad being |{s sliding down the greased rails of bought by the people is given by the | Ucontrolled currency inflation. This amount of merchandise carloadings, |¢@ omly mean a steady drop in the which as we have been pointing out |Purchacing power of the workers, shaw no improvement, despite the |™#king it more and imore difficult fact that total carloadings of all pro- -e starvation ducts show a very slight increase. | For the week ended May 20, merch- | andise carloedings showed a decline | ‘for them to keep standard of living. Farmer's Position Geiting Worse. In the last week, the position of |as the Party's deep-rooted sectarian | of Roosevelt’s “Prosperity” Ses: unmistake- | The United States Treasury ordered | | inflation | it be con- | tactic has been applied correctly by the Party, thereby forcing the issue of a united front of struggle into a cen- \tral position in the whole working class movement, there have been nu- merous and serious shortcomings, and also dangerous These shortcomings and errors—both | |its obligations Page Three Struggles By C. A. HATHAWAY tendencies, have seriously ain, ted front| the Party in its While, in the main, the uni Whiner eo ent favorable opport @ great mass worker The sectarian | chief obstacle t —have shown t in a more or less |sistance to the united hand, and in an dency to get out of ar | at the earlie other. One frequen relief after an action is finis comrades afflicted | cies are always gl into the qui | sectarian shells. | rigid formalism sometimes moveme ndencies — the 11 mass work most clearly ront, on one ncealed united f opportunist errors. the right and “left” varieties, as well gE rae —__—— | ‘The attitude of a political | party towards its errors is one of the most important and surest criterions of the | seriousness of the party, and Sean aa even ins ee of how it fulfills in practice | | their actions. j towards its | | UPROOTING jclass and towards the labor- | | RESISTANC |ing masses. To admit a mis-|| Im one district ge ai disch its | | Cialist bra take openly, to disclose its) | for joint sti , to analyze the sur-| | in proposin + whioh.d ‘ Communist roundings, which created 1%) aut correctly to study attentively the) | proposal, and wanted to co! means of correcting this mis- take—these are the signs of sectarian N WORK r example, a So- the Socialist branch on the c struggles to be un aken. But t ; ‘ District Bureau decided, No. a serious party, this means] | Central Committee in its united f a performance of its duti | directives, they pointed out, had in- ri ’ structed the Communist bodies “to |this means educating and | take the initiative in app training the class and conse-| | lower Socialist Party bodies | struggle.” The District Bur quently the masses. Oned, therefore, that. at —LENIN. | | “initiative” must be take y from ae ui the Socialist local. They acted Communist unit “to ignore the offer of the Socialist branch,” and to send another offer of its own for united action “in order that we retain Obviously, the prole- tarian instincts of the unit members would have done more to give the Communists real initiative in the d velopment of local struggles than the rigid formalism of the District Bu- HUNGER DOLES OR UNEMPLOYMENT all costs the the ing atéention. The Roosevelt gov- ernment has as one of its main ob- jectives an increase in the selling | price of farm products, ostensibly to help the millions of mortgaged and | penniless farmers. The economists | of the Roosevelt administration, the | crafty young demagogues of the! Grain trust have hailed with great | joy the recent sharp rise in the! ing this as the beginning of pros- perity for the American farmer. However, such an interpretation of the facts is a fraud. |ing tl of farm products, Baar | INSURANCE? In the frst | “SHALL IT BE HUNGER DOLES UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR- place, the benefit of the present rise |OR UNEM : in farm prices does not at all go to celcioad by Herbert Benjamin. Price the small farmers and farm laborers | 2 the ‘ who produce the grains. The pres- Reviewed By DAVE GORDON ent rise has profited only the wheat | The title of Comrade Benjamin's speculators of Chicago and Wall | pamphlet—“Shall It Be Hunger Dol 4 ;—Or Unemployment Insurance? Lalit : | —places squarely the problem facing But even more convincing proof| the 17 million unemployed and their that there ts no prosperity for the | dependents. fermer is given by the facts made| ‘Through tlie use of official govern- public by the United States Depart- | ment figures—which are considerably ment of Agriculture which reveals | distorted—it shows that King Hunger that between april 15th and May 20th | rules. The figures admit thai millions farm products such as wheat and | are living at a $200 per year income, cotton rose in price from 13 to 19| and less. In many cities relief has per cent, And at the same time, the | been cut to the starvation ration of materials which the farmer must buy | $62.50 per year for a family of 5. rose in some cases as high as 41 per Diseases, mounting shicides, awful cent. Metals which the farmer must | degradation in every form—these are buy in the form of machinery, etc.,| the widespread results of the crisis rose as follows: Copper, 33 per cent; | that has ravaged these four years. tin, 41 per cent; sheetings, etc. 35) Yet on top of this, the capitalist goy- cent, and 80 on. Feriilizers, | ernment plans to reduce the relief which the farmer musi buy, rose 12| doles to the outrageous level of $12.05 per cent in price during the last four per year through the so-called “Emer- per weeks. Leather, which the farmer | Sency Relief Bill.” | must buy in various forms, rose 23 Hold Boss Class Responsible per cent. Lime, which the farmer The most devastating sort of hun- And, in-| { | of 15,000 cars as compared with the | the fatmet has come in for increas- | culy incre ger exists as a result of the fact that 17 millions are out of work. It is not the wish of workers to be unemployed Those who do the hiring are respon- sible for firing. They are the ones who have the wealth in their hands, while they throw ers out to starve. The Morgans’ and their gov- ernment should be forced to pay for must buy, rose 21 per cent. is obvious that even if the farmer | Ww able to cash in on the present | advance in the price of farm pro-| he would not be one bit bet- | And, as a matter of fact, is cost of living has advanced, he | is now more poverty-stricken and more crushed by debts and mortgages | the maintenance of the unemployed. | | than he has ever been. The Roose-/ The capitalists and their govern- velt prosperity for the farmer is ®/ ment are forced to speak of relief lie. and even of “insurance” for the un- ‘Thus, the Roosevelt government | employed; they can no longer say has been unable to lessen the crisis| that unemployment is not a serious) in any way. On the contrary, the | problem. But $12.05 per year for a | deepening of the crisis is forcing it| family of 5 is a brazen proposal for more and more on to the road of | slow death through starvation. open inflation. And this can mean| The only answer is suplied by the ig misery for the people, | Unemployed Council of the U. 8, A 5 nemployment insurance equal a full wages, as demanded in the ers’ Unem Insurance Bi The capitalists and their gov ment can pay. It is up to the united | effort of the unemployed and em- AP OF THE MORGAN EMPIRE Odbereine Linked with Morgan tevep Ry Gos. ay tae og < erhean ai “fm. Boadtaag & SSpetroat Raton $25,000,000,000, groups represented one-sixth of the | 000 on January 1, 1932. Those in which Morgan was represented thru the First National Bank and thru | Bonbright & Co. totaled another , es Beate Rubber Company, (pez ‘Cambie Company \ 5 Guie.Reck Island & Paa-Ryco Floricn ast Const Ry Ce. Lebigh Yailey Railroad Go. 1, Kew Mavendiiart ford Compan; Anericen Tobacco Company var & Fousary Go. Refining Co. onda Gopper Mining Co. ~ Company i -Tadutent dellanours & Oe. . O11 Corporation | by the figures just made public b \xiitae Teak Gisele | the U. 8. Department of Agricul? (Racket aller compasies) Together these , States, and probably employ about | ployed to force the government to enact such a bill, eliminating the | charity racketeering, eliminating the | placing of relief payment on the backs of the employed and insuring the un- employed with sufficient funds for proper ¢~~>. | | Popularize ea Pampilet nlet, selling for 1 a great lever the fight for yment Insur- T pemphlet should find into the hands of the widest number of organized and unorganized unemployed and employed workers. The pamphlet, used in this manner, must stimulate the fight for unem- ployment insurance. It can be used as a convincing weapon of propa- ganda to help in cementing the united front from below in this struggle. It should be carefully studied by every revolutionary worker in order to follow its clear line for the purpose of convincing the widest number and categories of workers cf the burning need for a broad united front struggle for the Workers’ Unemployment In- | surance Bill. World Wheat Crisis Grows Steadily Worce | WASHINGTON, June 2.—The crisis | in the world wheat market is getting | worse, despite all attempts to ra | prices. This is definitely indicated | Which show that the four principal | wheat exporting countries in th- | world, now have supplies on hand totalling more than 650,000,000 bushels | of wheat. The normal surplus is cal- culated at 300,000,000 bushels. This explains why the United States exports of wheat have dropped one-sixth of the industrial workers. corporate wealth of the United | These assels dominated by Morgan | steadily for the last 4 years. ‘ eas Fruit of Morgan Favors | —By Gropper Lessons of Our United F ront reau, which would have made the unit the laug stock of the workers In ther one of the hborhood st unemployed ‘anizatio the revolution- Ww council there to into joint struggle for more The itation was refused reformist was informed, to our policy, that “we want —this at a time when we are nating precisely against limiting our united front efforts to the upper com- mittees of the reformist bodies. Such examples could be cited from istrict, and from almost every ‘aried forms of course, to retely the need for con- tinuous efforts to clarify the Party comrades and to uproot this sectarian resistance t s mass work. | CAPITULATING TO | REFORMIST INFLUENCES S tendencies hamper us in our e ong the m is, but when to enter into work on a united front e have once entered into such activities the greatest arises from mistakes of an opportunist character. our anx! to set up 2 united front, there is the tendency to capitula to the demands and, man- euvers of the reformist leaders, there- akening the effectiveness of our 0 expose these leaders and to the illusions among the created by these leaders, the principle barriers to a t of struggle together with muni. In other words, in anxiety to achieve united ion, by our own capitulation to re- mist influences, we make ‘it more difficult for the masses to find the only road to effective joint struggle— the road which takes the masses over the political corpses of these leaders. Other mistakes of a right oppor- tunist character have been made, and also from the failure to realize that we desire a united frort with the masses on the basis of energetic class struggles for their day to day needs. me comrades interpret our, policy as one based on a desire for a united front of “tendenc: ” of “organiza- tions,” etc., when what we want is a united front of the masses regardless of tendencies or organizations. In the course of the united front strug- gles it is our aim to win the masses for one “tendency”—the revolutionary fighting policies of the Communist International, and for one Party—the Communist Party. | this is our objective in the united front. THE COMINTERN POLICY OF THE UNITED FRONT Some comrades have interpreted the manifesto of the Communist In- ternational as a “new policy” based on a united front with the leaders. But this is not correct, as can be seen from the following excerpt from that manifesto: “The Communist International, in view of fascism which is un- chaining all the forces of world reaction against the working-class of Germany, calls upon all Commu- nist Parties to make yet another attempts to set up the united front of struggle with the Social Demo- cratic workers through the medium of the Social-Democratic Parties.” Here the Comintern policy is very clearly stated: “with the Social-Dem- ocratic workers through the medium of the Social-Democratic Parties.” What we want is “the united front of struggle with the Social-Democratic workers” (read also A. F. of L., C. P. L, A., and all other workers). This is our objective. All other questions such as “through the medium of the Social-Democratic Parties,” etc. are only tactical questions, and should never be permitted to blur over a clear view of our objective in the de- velopment of the united front strug- gles. Above all, such confusion should never cause us to lose sight of the fundamental social-fascist character of the leadership of the reformist bodies. And they should not cause us | to fall into the renegade chatter | about a united front of “tendencies.” ‘These conceptions can only serve as brakes on the development of our mass work. But these opportunist conceptions have influenced our mass work, In some cases the effort to set up the united front “through the medium of the Social-Democratic Parties” and other reformist bodies has caused us to neglect the basic task 6f win- ning the masses in the factories, in the trade unions, and at the’ relief bureaus. This reliance on appeals to top committees of the Socialist Party, of the A. F. of L., etc., manifested in Some instances, can only be based on the misconception that these bodies, as such, will change their basically reformist character and adopt a pol- icy of class struggle. This is 2 false outlook. As organizations they will remain social-fascist. If they come into the united front, even on a lime ited number of issues, it will be because they are forced in by the mass pressure for a united front of struggle. Waiting at the doorsteps then of the social-fascist leaders and neglecting the basic mass work would jJead to failure all around. It will lead to a weakening of our efforts to win the masses for our policies. It Will lead to a relaxation of the mass pressure on these leaders, thereby de~ stroying even the faintest possibly that they would enter the united | front. The main task, now as ever, is the work in the factories, in the sions and among the unemployed— directly with the workers, This is the way a united front of struggle will be built. When the Communist International urges us ‘““o make yet another at- tempt” to win the workers “through the medium of” the reformist organi- zations, it docs not do so with the expectation that these reformist bodies (except of course the .lower units) will enter a fighting united front. It makes this proposal. in the sense of calling the bluff of the re- t leaders, with the viewpoint of hese herous mis-lead- of united action, Win the masses, as the s of the workers. In {his way, “through the medium of | the Social-Domoerstic Parties,” the masses will become convinced of the anti-working class character of these bodies and of their leadership. They | will be won for the Communist pole | icies, and for the Communist Pary.