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Page Four TWO CITY C Mooney Urges Locals “Bombarding Co of AFL toEndorseBill |= For Social Answers Green’s Attack On H. R. 7598; Calls For Campaign NEW YORK.—Tom Mooney, fr his ceil in San Quentin, has again toe throw their whol arted port behind the Workers’ U: ployment and Social Insurance Bi H. R. 7598). Mooney sent h message through Louis Weinstock sup- National Secretary of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, who visited him in his celi last week. Mm a recent letter to Weinstock Mooney wrote the following “It gives me great pleasure to learn of the struggle your organ- ization is conducting for unem- ployment insurance and relief. With millions of workers and their families starving at this time, during an unprecedented crisis, I heartily’ and unquali- fiedty endorse your fight for re- Hef and ineurance, so vitally necessary for the lives of the American workers, ‘ “My attention has been recently called to a ‘warning’ issued by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, which is being sent to all city labor bodies, local unions, of the A. F. of L., attacking your organ- ization, “The action of Mr. Green and the reactionary leadership of the A. F. of L. in this connection, is similar to their action im trying ham-string my Defense Commit- tee by “warning” unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor to withhold financial sup- port from the Committee, of which IT am the director, and which has for 16 years been con- Pre-Convention Discussion Reveals Weakness in Daily Work of t How A Seven Year Old Shop Unit Wo Sideligh Member Makes Long Talk About Professional Reyolutionists, Bu Union Where He Is a Member The following two speeches de- livered by workers at Section pre- Convention discussions are very instructive. They show some of the virtues and deficiencies in our .day to day work, as actually ex- perienced by rank and file com- rades. All workers are urged to send in similar contributions to the Party pre-Convention discus- sion, toking up in detail actual experiences in carrymg through the line of the Party. These two speeches were deliv- ered at the convention of Section 14, District 2, last Sunday, March 11, and were submitted by Com- rade J. F., Unit 32, Section 14. The first speech was made by Comrade X. He delivered the speech in a very fine manner that had all the comrades greatly interested. Comrade X said: “Comrades, Lenin has said that we will never be able to win the great masses for a revolution unless we heve a trained body of professional revo- lutionists. We must all of us try to become professional revolution- ists. “What does this mean? This means that we have got to keep our eyes open all the time and spread our ideas wherever we are, at all times. “I have seen many of our com- vades in trains and street cars and I never see them carrying any of our revolutionary literature prop- erly displayed, such as a newspaper, |Vention expecting that one of the | states, And we must | Most important things that would | woods, or magazine, etc. also have some leaflet or pamph- jet with us that we can leave be-|work in reformist unions, and T| hind for some other worker te pick | must say I agree with Comrade W., | up. When I read my paper in the| (who spoke previously) that it was | that so-and-so?’ train. or when waiting I display it there is always somebody near curious enough to look into our paper. During National Defense Week we had a very good leaflet. It was a long leaflet printed on both sides but it was a very good leaflet, for @ change. I left this leaflet in the train next to a worker who looked very well off and the type who would be least interested in our literature. This worker was reading his own pepr but when he noticed the leaflet he picked it up and started to read it. He read for a minute or so and then put on his glasses and started to read the leaflet again. He not only read this leaflet, but he studied it. I watched him and it took him 25 minutes to go through that leafiet. Then he carefully folded the leaflet and put it deep into his cost pocket. When this worker got up to go out I foliowed him, al- though it was not my station. On the platform I spoke to him. I said I had noticed he had read the leaflet and that I had also hap- pened to pick wp the same leafiet and that it appealed to me very mach. He replied he thought it; was very good. I asked him he had ever read | for a train, is of a Section Convention of the Party Insurance TOM MOONEY ducting dom.” More than 1,200 A. F. of L. locals have already endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598), as well as three state federations of labor af- filiated with the A. F. of L. More than 60 of these locals have en- dorsed the bill since it was intro- duced in Congress a month ago by Representative Lundeen of Minne- sota. At the last meeting of the Na- tional Executive of the A. F. of L. Committee, held in Philadelphia, plans were made to broaden the campaign for support of the bill Thousands of A. F. of L. locals are being circularized and individual members of the A. F. of L. are be- ing urged to write letters to the Congressmen of their respective dis- tricts demanding that they support the bill on the floor of Congress. As the result of widespread sup- the fight for my free- t Fails to Work in would like to. I said I would also be interested and since there is an address on the leaflet I would go over to that address and see if I couldn’t find some more literature like that. He said that was a very good idea and he would like to go too, and we made an appointment to meet on that station and go over to that address. Now, com- Trades, this is what I mean by keep- ing our eyes open all the time, and making it our business to become professional revolutionists. ere Ts speech was followed by the report of Comrade B, a painter who is a militant fighter in his A. F. of L. local. He was elected by a 2 to 1 vote to be the delegate! | Of his local to the higher bodies of the A. F. of L. in Greater New York. When the burocrats refused to seat him, he took the fight into the other locals to get rank and file support. He began: “Comrades: It is all very well for Comrade X to get up and talk about being a professional revolutionist and telling us how he followed up on the workers in the subway. But this comrade also happens to be a | member of our A. F. of L. local with its 400 members at every one of our meetings. But Comrade X never shows up at these meetings! Little Work In Unions | “Comrades, I came to this con- | be taken up here would be how to |@ great shortcoming on the part of prominently because | our organizer that he did not even | | mention this very important matter in his opening report. | “I come to my unit meeting every | |. P. of L. When I was elected as | delegate to this convention I thought that, surely, now I will find the answer to many questions that | have been bothering me in connec- tion with my work in our A. F, of L, local. (Interjection from the com- jrades: What about your union | fraction?) “I know all about the fraction, comrades, but this is a matter that should be taken up right here, Comrade Organizer failed to touch on it and so did Oomrade Over- gaard. Hampered By Sectarianism workers in the A. F. of L. to dis- cuss these matters and work out proper methods of how to carry on our work. When we first started work in this loeal we were a small sectarian group and we never took up the problems of any worker ex- cept when he was one of our group. “HM a Socialist worker or any other worker except ‘one of us’ got week and the unit does not give me} any help in carrying on work in the | “I just want to give you an ex-| ample of how important it is for us| E mx WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934 = Deer ee, mente’ of this Bal. Committee of tneaplesed Gouncils, Now York Clty. This organization your request. Congress of the Bnited Mtates Bouse of Representattors Bestangers BA SS Labor Unions, working pecple, loss] and state authorities ALL over the Onited States are bombarding Congressmen with endorse- Reop up the good work! ‘This DLLI CE. X, 7698) has bosn reprinted by the Mational Mnoereis and fraternal; Member of Labor Commi ttes Mmroh 3, L084. 80 Best llth Street, Room 436, vill furnish you with copter at Excerpts are shown from a letter sent by Ernest Lundeen, Min- nesota Congressman, to a worker n Chicago. Lundeen says, “Labor unions, working people, local and state authorities al over the United States are bombarding Congressmen with endorsements of this bill (4. R. 7598) .” | Lundeen introduced the Workers’ Knempioyment and Socinl In- surance Bill into the Howse om Febrnary 2. Fle was forced to de this by the demand of the workers of Minnesota. However, Lundeen, who is a member of the Howse Committee on Labor, where the bill has been resting, has not put up a fight for the bi. On March 15th the bill will have been in the Howse Committee for thirty days, when amtomaticatiy, % is net reported to the floor of the Honse. The masses of workers and farmers will now have to bring pres- sure on their local Congressmen to sign a petition for the of the bill (H. R. 7598) to the floor. One hundred Congressmen must be forced to sign this petition, floor of the House. bringing and forty-five to bring it to the port being given the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment In- | issue, and will also increase its press | fight for support of this bill in Con- surance and Relief by the rank and | run by the same amount. The New gress.” They also sent telegrams | file in the A. F. of L., the “A. F. of | York headquarters of the A. F. of | to Congressmen Lundeen and Con- L. RANK AND FILE FEDERA- jl. Committee for Unemployment In- | nery demanding immediate indorse- TIONIST,” organ of the Commit-| surance and Relief is 1 Union ment of the Workers’ Bill. tee, will increase its number of | Pages by 50 per cent in its next | Square, Room 716, Machinists Loeal 119, With 700 Members, Appreves Bill NEW YORK. — The city councils of the industrial town of Salem, Ohio, and of Klamath Falls, an im- | portant lumber town of Oregon, in | addition to six more locals’ unions of the A. F. L. endorsed the Work- ers’ Unemp®¥ment and Social In- surance Bill (H.R. 7598), it was re- | ported to the Daily Worker yester- | day Over 60 A. F. of L. locals have| | indorsed the Bill since Feb. 4. In} | addition the large independent | union of tool and die makers in | Detroit, the Mechanics’ Educational | Society, indorsed the Workers’ Bill. | The additional A. F. of L. locals | indorsing the bill were: The Inter- | national Association of Machinists, Local Union 119 of Newport, Rhode Island, with 700 members, Local | Union 210 of the Carpenters and Joiners of East Stamford, Conn., which was previously dominated by the reactionary officials; the Woolen ‘and Worsted Local of the United | Textile (A. F. of L.) of Philadelphia, | Local 1586; the Metal Polishers In- | ternational, Local 6 of Chicago, and | Local 377, a Druggists Union (A. F. of L.) A food workers A. F. of L.| | local of Washington, D. C., indorsed | | the bill, but the Local Union num- ber was not reported as yet to the | Daily Worker. In Philadelphia, the Taxi-Cab | Drivers’ Union, with 1,000 members, | this week voted unanimously to |Support the Workers’ Bill. The |Taxi-Cab Union sent William |Green, who fights against the | Workers’ Bill as “unconstitutional,” land supports the useless Wagner | Bill, the following telegram: “One | thousand taxi drivers indorse the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and demand that you | 30,000 Copies Given Out by Jobless Council OUNCILS, SIX MORE AF.L. LOCALS, ENDORSE HR7598 of H. R. 7598 ¢cils, Herbert Benjamin, national yesterday. | “The National Unemployment dred, Both cost $2 a thousand. is not reported out by that time, |] floor by the petition method, that | | petition method. Only the mass 7598." which have just indorsed the Work- | ers’ Bill (H.R. 7598) and sent let- ters to Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee, where the bill is now resting, and to Green, |Lundeen and their local congress- include—Carpenters’ Local 1073; Painters’ Local 997; Hosiery | Branch No. 4 of Langhorn, with 800 | members, affiliated with the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers; Suit- | case and Bag Makers’ Local 52; | Molders’ Local No. 15, and Paper- hangers’ Local 306. The Office Workers’ Union of Philadelphia also NEW YORK.—More than fifty thousand copies of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) have been distributed in the past week by the National Unemployment Coun- In addition, 52,210 postal cards, demanding indorsement of the Workers’ Bill have been sent out. copies of the bill (H. R. 7598) were ordered and paid for in small quantities by individuals and local organizations, Benjamin said. sue one million of these postal cards,” Benjamin said. “They are to be mailed by individuals and organizations to the local congress- men, demanding that Congress act on the bill.” are given out at 25 cents a hundred and the bills at 30 cents a hun- “On March 15 the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598) will have been in the House Labor Committee for thirty days,” Benjamin said. the bill on the floor of the House, we will have to bring it to the men to sign a pétition for the brnging of the bill to the floor of the house. Therefore this phase of the national campaign for the bill will now be directed toward bringing mass pressure on the local Con- gressmen for the bringing of the bill to the floor of the house by the working class organizations will force Congress to act on MH. R. Copies of the bill and postal cards should be ordered from the Unemployed Councils, 80 Bast 11th Street, Room 437, New York. organizer, told the Daily Worker All of these postals and Councils is now preparing to is- The postal cards “Tf it this means that in order to get is, to get 145 individual Congress- pressure of the workers and the last meeting. In L’Anse, upper Michigan, where Henry Ford owns a big saw mill and dominates the town, the Baraga County Board of Supervisors was forced by a demonstration of the workers and farmers to unani- mously indorse the Workers’ Bill. The demonstration was organized by the county committee of the United Farmers’. League, and C. W. A. and unemployed workers took part. The court room was jammed with work- ers. All of the demands of the work-: Other Philadelphia local unions indorsed the Workers’ Bill at its|ers and farmers were indorsed by ngressmen” ‘Salem, Ohio and Klamath Falls Councils ~“{| Demand Action on Social Insurance Bil} Taxi Livivecs Act; United Textile Local of Phila. Endorses the county board, which included free fuel, $15 minimum weekly on C. W. A. work which must be con- tinued, $8.40 minimum for single men, no discrimination. A cou! united front organization wW formed with George Monger, L’An’ Mich, as secretary. The newly formed Unemployed Couneil of L’Anse is taking an active part in the fight for the Workers’ Bill, Jamestown United Front The city of Jamestown, whose City Council indorsed the Workers’ | Bill (H.R. 7598) this week, is an | industrial center of 45,000 popula- tion, manufacturing wood and metal furniture, washing machines, tex- tiles, woolens and dresses, auto parts, pianos, automotic voting ma- | chines, etc. { t.on of the City Council of Jamestown was forced by the cor- | rect application of the united front, |The campaign was begun at an {open forum meeting called by the Joint Council of Industrial Unions, which elected a committee to seenre indorsements for the bill @. R. | 7598). Resolutions calling for ac- | tion on the part of the City Coun- | cil were sent to all local untons in |the city and in all cases the bill was indorsed. Only some expelled |S. L. P.-ites of the United Workers lof America unsuccessfully tried to disrupt the campaign. When the bill came before the | city council, LeRoy Barkstrom of |the united front committee, G. L. Anderburg, in the name of the Communist Party, T. Monroe, an A. F. of L. member, spoke and analyzed the Workers Bill. ‘The workers responded with thun- | derous applause. The councilmen, | fully aware of the militant voice | of the workers of Jamestown, had | no other recourse but to indorse the | bill. The city council indorsed the bill and called upon its local repre- sentatives in Congress to vote for it. Vitally Fight of War Vets By P. V. CACOHINE A few weeks ago, a certain com- rade met a member of our organ- ization and asked how the rear- guard of the movement was pro- | gressing. She was referring to the | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Our comrade remarked that what to her was the rear-guard, the Fas- | cists considered the vanguard of their own movement. This feeling in regard to our or- ganization prevails throughout our entire Party. Our comrades have not yet become politically conscious of the importance of organizing this section of the masses, which con- sists of approximately eight million | ex-servicemen. Of these eight mil- lion, over four million are Veterans |of the World War. In New York City, there are about four hundred over 250,000 of them are World War Veterans, Part of the Masves Who are these ex-servicemen?. The prevailing opinion is that they are @ separate part of the popula- tion, but the truth of the matter is that they constitute a group that is representative of the entire work- ing masses. Among them we find textile work- ers from the New England States: | taxi drivers and street cleaners from the large centers of popula- tion; miners from the coal ions | of Pennsylvania, Ohie, Illinois, Ken- |tucky, Tennessee and the other mining states of the nation: work- ers from the stockyards, ranch la- |borers from the western states, fruit pickers from the far wastern lumberjacks from the big longshoremen and marine workers, barbers, small shop-keep- and we never did anything for those workers. And some of the workers used to say to us, what's the difference between you and those burocrats? They have their clique and you have yours. years in that local and we never got anywhere. We were a small (clique by ourselves and the workers were on the other side. | “Then we started to discuss this and we changed our methods. We | began to put up a fight for EVERY | Worker, no matter whether he was a Socialist, a Democrat or what have you, And now things are differ- ent. “We have won many of the work- | “That is why tt is very important for every Communist who is a mem- | ber of an A. F. of L. local to |to each and every meeting carry on a fight at every for the workers. Work in the ‘unions, and especially in the re- formist unions, is one of our biggest | thousand ex-servicemen and of these | We worked this way for| ers, school teachers, truck drivers, |milk peddlers, smaH farmers, nurses and small homeowners. Bat, téon of the working class that looks the Federal government as ireotly responsible for their eco- | nomic welfare. Vital im Anti-War Work One of the major campaigns of our Party is the fight against an- other imperialist war. The ex-serv- iceman is of vital importance in this campaign to arouse the masses of America to the fact that the im- perialist nations are at the present time preparing to send the workers into another blood bath, Who has a better conception of the horrors of war than the veterans of the world war? Who possesses a greater understanding that the imperialist wars are fought by the working Class for the banking class and that. workers have all to lose and noth- ing to gain by war? What can have | more impression on the masses than veterans who actually know what warfare is and who once more fought “to make the world safe for democracy”—demonstrating against another “imperialist war.” Today, the working class, in all is confronted with Fascism in some form or other. Fascism is forced upon the masses through murder, torture, beatings and all other forms of mass oppression. From where do the Fascists recruit their murder gangs? From where did Hitler derive his greatest strength? Who were these storm troops who carried out the orders of this bloody enemy of the working class? Many of them were ex-servicemen and in nearly all instances their lead- ers were veterans of the World War. Another proof of the utiliza- tion of these ex-servicemen as Fas- cist storm. troops by the ruling class is the Heimwehr in Austria. The ruling class realizes only too well the importance of winning over this section of the working class |and the same attempts are being made in America, One instance of this was the for- mation of Art Smith’s Khaki Shirts of Philadelphia, to which practic- ally every member of the Phila- delphia police belong. The Ameri- can Legion was used on many oc- casions in the middlewest in the attempt to break up hunger march- es. When we analyze the program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, we can see that it is definitely fascist in tendencies. That organization has gone om record as in favor of the payment of the bonus by the Roosevelt administration and for the repeal of the Economy Act and, at the same time, it is definitely anti-labor and for the deportation of all foreign-born workers. Their commander, Van Zandt, in his speeches states his demagogy rad- ically and emphatically. At the same time the leadership of the V.F.W. continuously asks for bigger war appropriations and shouts “patriotism.” The ex-servicemen and Federal employees were the first sections of the working class to feel the axe of the Roosevelt administration. In the any other literatuse put out by the up with same grievance, we said: jobs. More attention to this work, | passage of the Economy Act, four same pveonle and he said no, but he ‘Are we going to put up a fight for | comrades.” — hundred and fifty million dollars in addition, they constitute a sec- | the capitalist nations of the world, | Gathering Material, | | Taking Notes | By ROSE CLARK (Cleveland, Ohio) The Party has grown here in) the past two years to twice its | former membership. But this in- creasé has not been in the fac-| tories. Those factory nuclei which) we have barely held together. What is wrong? How can we) explain these serious facts? We can easily rattle off criticisms | against every committee, and every one in the different shop nuclei. and call the matter settled. But we can’t fool ourselves. After all) these good criticisms and resolu- tions—we are still confronted with a very tragic fact—a shop unit is) dying in the midst of an awakening to struggle and movement on the part of thousands of unorganized workers around it. This is the sit- uation which we find in F21. Let us examine the causes and perhaps we can see in these the weaknesss in other of our shop units, throughout | the district and the country. 1, F21 was organized in 1927 with six members. 2. In 1929 had around 100 or | more organized in a T. U. U. L. | committee. 3. The membership of the Party) unit rose to 20 (1932 had twenty | members). 4. Compositions of unit is for- eign born with one or two Amer- ican born. Some of the members | are non-citizens and have dropped because of fear of exposure. 5. A shop paper has been issued for the past six years by the Party unit, on the average quite regularly. 6. The factory hired at one time around 10,000 workers. Now hires between 5,000 and 6,000 which is the most since 1929. 7. At present the Party unit has 11_ members. 8. Auto Workers Union — 19 members. 9. A. F. of L. around 1,000 mem- |Meetings Busy With Important | ago. They have been quite per- bers. (First time any kind of or- ganization made such headway in this factory). 10. The Party Shop paper is still being issued. This is an alarming picture. Ac- cording to it the Party has barely moved from its position of 1927. But the workers have moved tre- mendously. They are talking or- ganization and need leadership. | The American Federation of Labor started organizing several months sistent and successful. Some of our comrades in the T. U. U, L. office do not yet realine to what extent} the A. F. of L. is gaining influence. | Of course the A. F. of L. has been | backed by the bosses. Their or- ganizers signed up workers in the factory right at the machines. But while they have been carrying on an intensive recruiting drive, win- ning hundreds of workers under their false program—we also make a step “forward.” We decide to hold meetings every other week of the A. W. U. members. Each mem- ber is to invite one or more work- ers to the meeting. The meeting takes the form of a lecture explain- ing Trade Union tactics. This is done to win the most trusted workers, and to prevent exposure, also to prepare a cadre of workers for future organization. Very well and good. We must protect our members who are joining revolu- tionary organizations. But this period is demanding more bold. ac- tion on our part. In spite of the fact that, any numbers of workers have refused to join the A. F. of L, because of mistrust of the lead- ership or because of the high initia- tion fees and dues, we have not crystalized any mass sentiment for the A. W. U. In the last produc- tion season we carried on some ac- tivity and at one time we got 42 workers to a meeting of the A. W. U. but since then practically noth- ing is done. We cannot merely work on an educational basis but must launch a determined campaign to win the workers to our program of class-struggle unions. were taken away from the ex-serv- icemen’s benefits—but they did not aliow this to remain unanswered. ‘They retaliated with a march to Washington, where the rank and file convention and due to mass pressure, one hundred million dol- lars of the original cuts were re- stored. Thus, we see that the ex-service- men, who were the first to feel the pinch of Roosevelt's Economy pro- same government has refused to pass any form of unemployment or social insurance that would be of benefit to the workers of the na- tion. Comrades, let us realize the im- portance of the ex-servicemen. If we once realize the importance of this section of the working class and win them over to our cause— they will become an ally of the working class in their struggles to gram, were the first to drive the wetlge into the plans of the ruling clase. Growing Class Consciousness All over the nation, ex-service- men are in a ferment. represent only one class and that is the banking class and that all the legislation that is made, is not for the welfare of the working class, but for the welfare class, that owns duction and is further its riches with resulting misery and unemployment for the working class, through the huge contracts in preparation for the next imper- ialist war. At the same time that these war contracts have been given out, this free themselves from exploitation and imperialist wars. Only by In all this period of changing moods among the workers our Party, has not recruited one member to| the unit and has not won back its! old members, What is wrong with F, 21? 1. The unit is not the political leader of the shop. | 2. The unit as such or the A. W. U. as such has led no struggles) in any of the departments or gen-) erally in the shop. 3. The shop paper has been) merely an agitator and reporter instead of an organizer for the Party in the shop. | One of the comrades from the} factory expressed himself at the District. Plenum in the following} manner: “Our unit meetings are not in- teresting. We are like a bunch of| Teporters, we come together. The comrade assigned from th district or section comes down, asks for in- formation for the shop paper. and we go home.” This is practically all a shop unit meeting is. Is it any wonder that we have the above situation when we have not done the following in this unit? 1. No leadership in the unit has been developed. 2. The comrades in the factory are not directly responsible for the shop paper. 3. No comrade from the unit is on the section committee. 4. The sireet unit concentrating on the shop is one of the weakest. units in the section, 5. No American workers have| been recruited into the Party unit. In all the years that this unit has been organized someone from the district or section has been in “charge” of the unit. There is no unit buro, There are no _ political discussions held in the unit, The majority of the meetings are oc- cupied in collecting material from the shop. Rather “notes” are taken by the comrade in “charge.” ‘These notes are written up by the comrade “in charge” and very often the shop paper was issued without the material being reviewed by the unit members. The shop paper has gained a good deal of influence. Workers have written letters, and supported it financially. Also sev- eral demands have been won through raising them in the shop paper—but our comrades failed to crystallize this influence into or- ganization. And one of, the chief reasons is because the tnit mem- bers themselves have never written up the matertak tor their paper, Someone always was there to “take notes.” A word on the concentration unit. It has been a very mechanical cleat lhe making the “turn to a ops,” merely assigning a unit for concentration on a certain factory. The unit which was assigned to this he Party rks Coneentraticn Unit Works Without Plan; Gets No Results activity in the neighborhood of the factory—where hundreds of workers employed in this factory live they would have given support to the Party and the union. We have made some efforts to improve the work in this factory unit. 1. A “sticker” campaign is started. Certain demands of the A. W. U. are typed on a very small sticker, These are distributed to the me! bers of the union who stick the! up in the various departments, the washrooms on the fountains, machines, etc. Reports have come back that they are no- ticed and having some good effect. 2. The comrades in the unit have written the February shop paper themselves. In fact it was decided at the unit meeting that unless the members of the unit wrote the ar- ticles themselves on questions in the shop no paper would be issued. 3. A decision has been made that @ comrade from the unit be made editor of the shop paper having full responsibility to see that the com- rades write for the paper and editing the paper. 4. The preconvention discussion is taking place at each unit meeting., 5. Four comrades from the unit have been instructed to join the A. F, of L. to form an opposition, by raising certain demands at the closed meetings utilizing the senti- ment expressed in favor of these demands to form an_ opposition group, (This has been carried out by two comrades only so far). 6. An Auto Workers Union affair is being held to raise finances to carry on a real recruiting cam~ paign in the factory. 7. One comrade from the section is put in charge of the union work, paying particularly attention to this shop. 8. A shock troop of the league has been organized to do concentration work at the factory. Some plans which are yet to be fulfiled: 1, A member of the unit to be on the section committee. 2. To increase the union activity, broadening out from the “lecture form” of union meeting. 3. Detailed demands for the 0) position group in the A. F, of L, be worked out and put up. 4. A plan for the street unit con! centrating to reach the workers in their homes—in addition to their leaflet-—Daily Worker, and shop paper distribution activity. To develop neighborhood activity and thus involve these workers, The Open Letter to our Party set certain tasks for us to fulfill, One particular factory is a good example of this mechanical applécation. This street unit meets in the and shop paper distribution. But what have they done to help the work inside—by recruiting into the Party or Union? Nothing. No real plan was ever given them. No real Tt is no wonder we get stich poor results, If this unit had carried on of the basic tasks is SHOP WORK. The last District Plenum in Ohio talked more shop work and Union activity than any oth plenum. We ’ve started it—now the problem is—to put talk into action. And we can do But as the Open Letter has warned. Us—we must move faster. We have to win the workers away from the social-fascists. We have to win the Majority of igs working class to our program. We have to prepare them from the coming struggle for Go thet, is by beet eerie iyi 18 developing revolutiomame Jeaderhin in the shops, . :