The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUPSPAY, JeTY Wn, 1354 Mich. Steel Workers Look for C Strong Rank and File Union Opposition Movement In A. A. Locals Needed To Struggle for Better Conditions (By a Steel Worker Correspondent ECORSE, Mich—In the last yeazs the down river section o! Vicinity of Detroit became a real dustrial center. The down river s tion includes the part of Det which runs from the Rouge Riv the west side, along the Detroit river to Elizabeth Park. It takes in River Rouge, Ecorse, Wyandote, Trenton and a few other small townships and villages. The larger plants on the wa front are the Standard Oil Great Lakes Engineering Wo: Nicholvan Steamship Co., M Body Corp. of America, Great I and Michigan Steel Corps, Wyan dote Salvage process, Wyandote Al- Kali Works and at the end of Tren- ton, like a dot after a line of writ- as ce sas ing, stands the Detroit Edison power |24tion ofa union that will help them plant. in their troubles. I don’t believe there is a single| At present the A. F. of L. union person living in these sections who/ holds meetings every Saturday night does not feel the pressure of these|at Wyandote. But one can hear on industrial slave drivers. every corner or beer garden or any~- The conditions of the workers in| where where steel workers come these shops (big or small) is the| together things like these: “I wont worst around Detroit. There is no| 80 any more to these damn meetings. | organization at all, except in the|It’s no use. I won't pay any more} Great Lakes and Michigan Steel | dues. Corps. share a bit.” | Las year the Amalgamated Fellow workers, it will be the Association Steel Union organ-/|greatcst mistake, if you do not p: ized a few hundred wi , but up|any more dues and drop out of ¢ to the present time the honorable} union. A union is controlled by the} officials of this union did absolut fake leadezs only until the rank/ nothing for the betterment of and file wake up to see the situa- Steel workrs. Their only activities|tion. The immediate and first ac-| are to collect dues and plan some) tion is to organize a rank and file| pienics, but when some one takes/ opposition, and put into leadership! the floor to present some of the|the real leaders from the rank and grievances, the officials as a rule|file who will work for the better- adjourn the meeting. ment of the conditions in the shops The workers have found out that|and for better living standards for the N.R.A, never had it in mind to| every steel worker. the Homes CONDUCTED HELEN LURE Keeping Up Our Infant Mortality Rate ‘e: 3 Ba > Some weeks ago we reported the | half imminent trial of Mrs. Victoria Raffe of 522 E. 13th St., and Miss Bertha Long, who were arrested at| @ demonstration for relief before a| relief station, the former was Gragged several blocks by police, though she was nearly due to give birth to her third child. (The two| women were given ten-day sus-| pended sentences). inches of cheek, no tight dresses, no hair falling over face or below neck, no bare legs. Counseling “simplicity and econ- omy” in food, selter, clothing and travel, Chiang—cloaking a drive against the living standard of the masses under his pious representa- tions—says: “In order to attain a higher level of morality, it is neces- sary first to practice simple and inch Il- The capitalist papers have now|the mother of sin.” Worried statisticians seeking the | Can You Make ’Em well to begin by investigating star- the camp of the Communists, who | 36, 38, 40, 42, 46, 48 and 50. down to the lowest humanly possible |lustrated step-by-step sewing in- Mrs. Rafie’s child was stillborn | ascetic ways of living, for luxury (and no wonder). |and intemperance have ever been taken notice of the case and re-| “Ascetic ways of living”—huh! ported on it. Polite name for starvation! causes of our high infant and ma- ternity mortality rates would do vation and police brutality. If hon- | Yourself? est, they'd be bound to wind up in| Pattern 1738 is available in sizes 44, offer the only program which can|Size 36 takes 354 yards 39 and will bring these death-rates|fabric and 5g yard contrasting. figures, as such a program is doing | structions included. in Soviet Russia today. Time Is Short—Prepare for Paris | Pe Congress | ~ To raise funds to send the N. Y.| s eo) delegates to the Paris Anti-War| 7 iz / Congress a tag dey will be held July 21. A collection of $75 was| made at the regional conference | that elected the four delegates, but the fund is still much short of the needed amount. (The send-off meet for the delegates will take place on July 28. Watch for details). ' An urgent communication from) the Harlem Women’s Anti-War | Committee (which nominated) Martha Johnson, the delegate from | the Domestic Workers Union) asks | that we announce a fund-raising affair that sounds so good I know one little comrade who will scram | . |on the job. |ests of the working class. Firing and | Speedup in Gary Plant By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—The production of teel is dropping down and the speed-up is increasing in the trans- ortation department in the past weeks, It dropped from 15 en- | gines down to eight engines and in general the forces are reduced all} | around, (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) HARRISON, N. J.—So sure was the Crucible Steel Co. that they’d be able to railroad through a com- pany union disguised under the name “Atha Works Council” at the Atha Works in Harrison, that on June 22 they put it t6 a vote. By all sorts of means they sought to terrorize the workers prior to the vote, thinking that by these tactics thy would get an easy victory. Imagine the surprise of the bosses when they found this scheme de- feated. One could well imagine the defeat when the bosses announced lit as a vote of 750 to 335, and this | Take the skull crackers, for in-|when the workers had no means to stance, One shift is pulled off | check up. |the entire crew. Then the mould| ‘The bosses well have realized the yard crew is taken off. The work | power of the Steel and Metal must be done in two shifts that | Workers Industrial Union, for this used to take three shifts to do.|qefeat was attributed to the mem- Not only that, but since the drop / pers of the S. M. W. I. U. within the | in production it doesn’t matter who | plant and the leaflets issued by the comes along; you must take his/s, m. w. I. U. both within and out- order and do it. side of the works. The “Vote No” For instance, take the 44-inch |campaign instilled the men with Why, those officials don't} blooming mill, It used to run 12 to | such confidence that in a mass they 15 turns a week. Now it dropped | swamped the whole farce. to five straight turns a week, and | Hoped To Start Speed-up if one stops at the main gates you'll | see more workers coming out with their lunch boxes, being turned back, than you would see workers stituting a maddening speed-up in case the Atha Works Council was established, by means of a bonus} system that worked backwards, and also by placing a minimum on pro- duction which meant doing two} ciation or the A. F. of L. fights for |qays work in one day. Through| the workers’ rights, and then again |«inside” information the S. M. W. some think that the N.R.A. will/y Uy. department groups of the force the steel mills to increase pro- duction. And yet some of the workers think that the Amalgamated Asso- We, the Steel and Metal | enough work for all the men for understand the meaning of unity |that it was temporary, but to be| and point the S.M.W.LU. which is | ready to return to work. | a real union fighting in the inter-| at about this time the company | | received a new contract for six-inch For instance, the other day as T| chetls from the Government. (We was going to work in the afternoon |we-en't supposed to know about, shift, I noticed a picket line in front | that.) Immediately afterwards the of our leading butcher shops, and | company stated that the balloting} I asked a fellow worker if he knew | was unfair and proceeded to prepare} the meaning of the American Fed-|4 new vote. eration of Labor, I asked him why |“ The rumors were that the workers it is that the meat cutters are oUt | were to put their check numbers on on strike and the butchers are/ine pallots, We of the S. M. W. working, since they are all affiliated |y 1, made several attempts to pub- with the A. F, of L. licize this in the local papers (both This worker replied to me that lin Newark and Jersey City, N. Y.), they were both members of the A./ hut the newspapers weren't in-| F. of L., but he claimed that if|terested and even one had the| they all go on strike at the same | audacity to state that that did not time it would be against the prin- | constitute “news.” 4 ciple of the A. F. of L. : Our district organizer, Albert} I stated that we are all class| richer, called upon the Regional brothers, fighting for the same pur- Labor Boazd and demanded that pose, and it is not necessary to] this vote be stopped. A telegram divide the unions in this way. I also| jos sent to Madam Perkins. This pointed out that our union accepts |telesram was referred to National all workers regardless of color OF | ste) Relations Board. They “prom- Political belief. ised” to “thoroughly investigate the | matter.” A telegram was sent to the super-| Letters from Our Readers jintendent of Crucible Steel Co., TERRORIZE MILITANT | Hazrison, N. J., to stop the bote. The| | bosses of the 2ble Steel saw the |reaction of the workers and quickly withdrew the whole scheme. Bosses Try To Act like “Pals” But this did not mean that the Crucible Steel Co. will be deterred STRIKERS in giving the workers “representa- Sacramen‘o, Calif. tion.” The besses became great Dear Editor: \“pals” of the workers. They were only In reference to an article appeer-|trying to “help their employes.” ing in the Daily Worker on June 13,/The “Atha Works Council” would 1934, headed “Ride Herd On Strikers|have meant better conditions for in California.” This article is a|the men. “Why listen, Charlie, how misrepresentation of what happened | is New Members Joining Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union Following Balloting The company had hopes of in-| | Crucible Steel knew that there was|in organizing this Workers Industrial Union members | months to come, but the company} promised a 10 per cent increase in must now openly agitate among jon the flimsy pretext of “No Work”| wages after the union is organized. our fellow workers, to make them |pegan to lay off men, telling them|But the men know this is as much | day we are becoming more powerful |gut for their fellow wo-:kers to join ucible Steel Co. Workers Defeat Company Union Scheme in Harrison jlong can the company last if you} spoil pieces?” And the bosses pro- \ceeded to instruct the worker the} proper way to do the work. Befo-e} it was, “You god-damned stupid| -bitch,—Go check your) time.” The men distrusted all this. They |knew that the company was only |biding the time to dish out a new |scheme. Then it began. The fore- men circulated the lie—that unie: | the men organized by July 12 the government would not give the com- pany a contract. “Trusted” com- pany men were picked out to or- ganize a union. On company time they went from man to man calling a meeting. Meetings were held on the out- side—but with no comparative suc- cess. Then meetings were held within company walls. The “trusted” company men were the spokesmea2. Men who formerly were against the company union now stated that the workers should not have voted the} “Atha Works Council” down. At one of these meetings on company premises the men got up and walked out, leaving six of the company men behind who went on ahead and railroaded through a committee of five that were to “represent” the! workers on the day shift. For a while the stool pigeons went around with bent heads mut- tering the so-oft repeated phrase, “The men don’t want to organize.” No attempt was made to even con- ceal the part played by the bosses “independent” union. Why, the bosses even have a lie as any of the other company promises. They also know that a} greater speed-up will go into effect after the “union” is organized. S. M. W. I. U. Growing During all this time: leaflet after leaflet was issued by the S. M. W. I. U. exposing the entire scheme. The men were instructed to boycott the meetings and to continue to work to organize the local of the S. M. W. I. U. Each day saw new members in the S. M. W. I. U. and each day we shall see new members in the S. M. W. I. U. Groups have been organized in each department with a chairman honestly elected by the worke:s, Every one has an ac- tive voice in any of the work. Each and soon expect to deliver a smash- ing blow that will resound through- out the entire steel industry. As a momber of the S. M. W. I, U., I call on all workers of the C-ucible Steel Co. who are willing to ‘ight for higher wages and better conditions not only for themselves the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union so that we can have honest zepresentation. And in closing may I ask those men of the Atha Works who have not subscribed to the Daily Worker or who do noi as yet buy the pager to get their copies each Tuesday or Friday afternoon at the Pennsyl- vania Bridge near the gates from the Daily Worker agent, and learn what workers are doing throughout the United States in their fight for better conditions and higher wages. And stop and have a chat with the Red Builder. er Facncipl ee ms that we ‘ tl i id no’ ow anything eee yaa goin on, or debe | A. EF. 1. Heads Help Tries cealy tagretad’ pris that “1 What really en G. Bo B ld) led by the Can-| the sire eas cued Wowace: | UATY BOSSES DU No-Strike Machine dustrial Union, affilia‘ed to the T.| U. U. L, on June 4. The large growers, who were expecting the| By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind. — Fellow workers, since the strike was sold out last strike, had mobilized about 300 gun | thugs, which were used on the third | day of the strike to round up the round for her 50 cents admission right away: “Although this committee has | carried on many activities, we | have not been successful in rais- | ing the necesSary funds for the | fare for this comrade. We are therefore making a final effort through a Benefit Dance that we | are giving at the Lido Ballroom, 147th St. and Sevent Ave., Friday night, Juiy 20. Te dance will be held on the cool and beautiful out- | door terrace of the ballroom, | which overlooks a giant swimming | pool. There will be a fine jazz band and refreshments of all Kinds. We are urging all workers throughout the city, Negro and white, to attend this affair not oniy to spend a cool enjoyable | evening, but to help send this ive- gro delegate to the Paris Congress to represent the views of the Har- lem women against war and fas- cism.” Tickets may be bought from the Bookshop, from the L. S. N. R. at 199 W. 135th St., or the Negro Lib- crator, 2162 Seventh Ave. * * Mass Murder, Morals and Fashions in China General Chiang Kai-shek, well-| known Chinese wholesale butcher ‘md unsuccessful Red-squelcher, has lecided to remould his subjects | along “Spartan” lines and hands| out rules for dress to women of Wiengsi: gown to ankles, sleeve to vibow, collar to within one and one- Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write in Plainly name, address and_ style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. ‘Daily Wozke: 50 East 13th St. New York, N. Y. “$1 (check or money order). ‘Name ... City ..... -tor Manhattan and Bronx. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose .Note: This offer docs not appiy to ‘renewals, nor does it hold good Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS— picket line of 200 workers and herd them into a stock corral, where the leaders of the Cannery and Agri- cultural Workers’ Industrial Union were picked out and placed under arrest, and the rest of the pickets driven from the county. After the leaders of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Indus- trial Union were arrested and the militant workers were deported, an organizer representing the A. F. of L. by the name of J. B. Nathan came into the strike. Up to this time there was no A. F. of L. or- ganization in the field. Nathan, from his ectivity in keeping the workers off the picket line, ob- viously was brought into the situa- tion to defeat and demoralize the strikers. Nathan was not intimidated by the police, but instead was seen to hold many conferences with the police and growers. The terror which was used was against the C. and A. W. I. U. in an effort to drive this militant organization out of the | industry. 'M1..P.K, GDK., ALL STRIKERS. Ae cine EDITOR'S NOTE: The facts referred to in the above letter were taken from a Federated Press release of June 12. We had no direct information frem the strike area. The F. P. has been notified of wrong facts in their story. WHOLE PAPER GOOD Paterson, N. J. Dear Comrades: : Enclosed in this letter you will find $2, which will pay my subscrip- tion to the Daily Worker for three months. My last sub to the’ Daily Worker expired on May 15; however, Ihave been receiving the Daily Worker regularly and I want to thank you kindly for continuing to forward me this paper so stock full of interest to every worker. Your news items, both current and foreign, the editorials, the splendid column conducted by Mike | Gold or Sender Garlin—in faci, al- most every bit of the paper's con- tents—I am certain is of great in- terest and vital importance to every worker A. M. week, rumors are going on through jall devartments and these rumors have been proven with the bank- ing up of No. 9 blast furnace, and reducing of 3 open hearth furnaces. Some of the armed gangsters are | laid off, but we still have the motor cycle squads going around the mill and there’s much more spying go- ing on. | The bosses have found a way to hire new workers and get them all mixed up with the old time work-; ers, and this was done by reducing |the working time. Fellow workers, was done not because there aren't any orders, but by the lead- ers of the American Federation of Labor and their arbitration system. And now what has been taking place in the nast two weeks in the transportation and the locomotive shov. They’ve hired more than 25 workers on the extra list. Fellow workers, we know that they were hired for strike breakers. Besides all this they had six legionnaires hired from Crown Point es special gunners. ‘ RSAAaR | Rooseveli’s Words Are ‘Only Thing Official Has for AA Members By a Worker Correspondent FAIRFIELD, Ala.—Mr. Caraford, the organizer of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, invited A. A. members and | the members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter unions to hear Mr. Roose- velt speak. Mirch, Crawford and Lepson were at the meeting. These three leaders last March sold out the T. C. I. mine strike here. The workers are not satisfied with the wage cut that they have got. Since the strikes we can see the discontent of all the workers, but the most outstanding thing that Caraford got for them in the steel mill was to tell them to come to hear President Roosevelt's speech. This is what they call col- lective bargaining for the workers, but the workers are sure that they cannot eat the speech. At the Westfield plant, where they work by the ton at 19 cents a ton, they get $3.50 a day, cut Struggle Against Blacklisting at | Cornell-Dubilier By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Mass picketing went on at Cornell Dubilier Con- denser Corp., from 12 noon to 1:30 p. m., the other day. It was led by Radio Factory Workers Union. affiliated to the A. F. of L. and supported by the Y. P. S. L. and the Socialist Party. William Budie, organizer, is a Socialist. 150 were on the picket line, about 125 So- cialist workers and Y. P. S. L.| members, and 25 strikers. An open air meeting was held from 11 a. m. to 12 noon at which Budie and Nozman Thomas spoke, using left phrases for action, etc. All this was the result of a strike called eight months ago by Budie and which for the past seven months has had no publicity, excent on a few scattered occasions. Budie refused to allow picketing while he was carrying on negotiations with the N. R. A.. which resulted in only about 25 strikers remaining out. } The N. R. A. decided that all blacklisted workers be rehired. Mr. Blake, v-esident of the corporation, refused to erant this and has won the 300 workers in the shov over to his side since Budie and the A. F. of L. demand that they all be fires. Most of these workers had been hired after picketing was suspended seven months ago, The Independent Radio and Metal Workers Union issued a leaf- let calling for the solidarity of the blacklisted workers and the work- ers in the shov, to fight for rein- statement of all blacklisted workers, against, firing, and for equal divi- sion of work. The leaflet received @ good response from a large per- centaze of the werkers. The riot squad was called down, but no at- tempt was made to break the picket line, Attempts were made to force the picket line across the street, but failed. $1.50, at 60,000 tons. They get $3.75 a day for 50,000 tons. Thos2 who get $5 a day for 50,000 tons and those who get $7 a day are cut $3.25 on a day’s work. Before the strike of the miners in Hampslop the workers reczived 54 cents a ton for coal. Since the strike they get 49 cents. This means they got a 5 cents cut. Wages lost are 10 to 15 conts, making the total Joss of the workers $1.50 a day. This is also true in No. 8 mine, pe ee Piece Rates tae! Cut Often in X-Ray Plant By a Worker Correspondent | LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—As you get off the Queensboro Plaza | station and walk two or three blocks | to your right you will see dozens of different shops and factories. Out- standing among them is the West- inghouse X-Ray, where about 200 workers are working. I have worked ever 20 years in various shops and factories, but I have never seen any exploitation like that which goes on here. All the piece work rates\in this sweatshops have been cut in half, or even less than haif. No matter how quickly you work you will never get the bonus. I have worked three weeks in the machine shop depart- ment on all of the machines, and was never successful in getting the bonus. Should the workers even} accomplish the assigned tasks on’ time the rates be cut again. | They have here a complicated time assignment , according | to which the hou: divided into thousandths. Previously the time ned for each piece was given | in minutes, and it was noticeable whenever the bosses would steal the | time, But at present with the sys- | tem of the thousands, it is not no- | ticeable any more. The workers are requested to work two hours weekly in order to provide for the wages of the fore- man. One cannot get the joo in this! factory unless through the Geneva | Employment Agency, which gets from $8 to $10 for the job. This is the way I got my job after I! was refused employment by the | foreman. It is generally known that | the foreman divides with the em- ployment sharks. One worker told me tiat ne has worked two months in this factory | and saw 16 workers discharged dur- | ing this time. I appeal to the workers to write | to the Daily Worker and other working class papers on conditions in the shop. The working class press will help us organize into a union in order to defend ourselves against the exploitation of the bosses. Wehrle Stove Co. Sets Impossible Foundry Speedup By a Metal Worker Correspondent NEWARK, Ohio. — The Wehrle | Stove Co., not satisfied with the| code, in the last twp weeks has instituted one of its own. In the foundry department the shakers-out are required to make a sum of not less than $3.50 per 8 hour day and five days a week, which mak $17.50 per week, or lose their jobs. At the rates they are paying it is almost impossible for some of the workers to com- Ply with the said rule. At 2 cents each per flask for double molds (Rockovers) and 35 cents per hundred for single melds (R-K's) they have to shake out 175 double molds or 1,000 R-K’s to make the required sum. Also they have to wet the sand heaps, which take from six to 26 pots of water per heap. The boss tries to divide the men by favoring some with work that makes them $5 to $6 a day. They will not share up with the men who only have $2 or $2.25 worth of work. The Shop Committee of the A. F. of L. doesn’t have any- thing to say about giving all an equal break. The bosses also have some one planted among the members of the International Foundry Workers (A. F. of L.) who carries news to the bosses. Anything said in a meeting of the union can be repeated word for word by the general shop fore- man next morning, How Steel Walkout Spirit Was Blocked By A. A. Heads in Ecorse By a Steel Worker Correspondent CORSE, Mich.—There was gen- eral sympathy for the steel strike here, but so far the A. F. of L. union leaders have been able to lead this in quite opposite channels. For instance, the workers are waiting for the strike call. The company fills the shops with gun- men. This makes the workers still angrier and what do the union leaders do? They're telling the workers that they have to wait un- til the order comes from the main Offices of the Amalgamated. The workers were waiting one day, two days, ten days, but no orders came. NOTE: We publish letters from steel. metal and auto workers every Tuesdcy. We urge workers in these industries to “mie us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please | PARTY LIFE Importance of Fractions in Building Mass Organizations | small groups. This reflects the sec- Comrade Hits Lack of Fraction Work in Syra- cuse; By H. H., Phoenix, N { Fraction work carried out in the right Bolshevik manner will un- doub‘edly lead to building mass o1 ganizations and will the leadership in mass struggle.| But most of our comrades in the Syracuse Section have not reached the understanding of ¢ important work. We, therefo should not be surprised to make| such slow progress in building up| our existing mass organizations, LL. D., 1. W. 0. F.S. UL. S. U.! Trade Unions, etc. At the present} time these organizations are rather tarian activities of our comrades! and shows that they have not made the decisive step to fall in line with the Open Letter. The Syracuse Section neglected fraction work very badly. The attempts made were merely mechanical Paper attempts, therefore con- demned to failure. A short time ago I got an assign- ment to organize fraction work in order to carry out the Party line cr ning mass work, to build and lead mass organizations. As a/ foreign-born worker, and nov| speaking the English language very well, I was ra her hesitant and felt | to some extent inferior, not be-| cause I would not be able to tackle the organizational part, but to what extent my poor language would be ® hindrance to convince the com- rades to carry out the work. (1 mention this because many of the foreign-born workers take the same attitude.) With all my love and devotion for, the revolutionary movement I managed to break down this wrong attiiude. Deter- mined to make the comrades con- scious about their fraction work I worked out the following four months’ plan as a control task: 4 Months’ Control Task, Beginning May 1, Ending Aug. 31, 1934 1, Membership Drive—Goal, 100 per cent increase in the coming four months. Ways: (a) Sociali: competition between the members; (b) house to house canvass, street meetings; (c) visiting former mem- bers and sympathizers; (d) affairs, picnics, etc. 2 Organizing of Left Wing Groups—The most active and most interested members shall form this group. The fraction should have regular mectings with this group to involve these members in organized work in the mass organizations. Through this we will prepare them} for Party membership. 3. Have a Literature Agent in Every Fraction—Mass distribu-ion of literature is a very essential part of fraction work. 4. Daily Worker Agent—Make the Daily Worker a part of the life in every worker's home. Getting subs or get addresses of such work- ers, who would buy the paper daily. Give names to section literature} agent, for organizing Daily Worker | routes. 5. Language Paper Agent—The same systematic work as mentioned above. 6. Take Records of Members— Employed: In what shop working, sice cf factory, etc., exists a union, member of trade union, what local, so that Party can u‘ilize them for contacts to organize shop’ commit- tee, etc. Unemployed: Report them to the Unemployed Council or Re- lief Union. 7. Financial Support—B uild around the Party a group of sym- pathizers, which regularly through donations support the Party, in or- der to enable the Party to carry out its revolutionary work; (b) mo- bilize through the fraction for mass participation on Party affairs. 8. Youth Work—In all organiza- tions we have to organize Youth Suggests Four Months’ Plan These are the main conditions which assure correct tactical lead ership. Fraction work is a ve! portant link in the Party task of building mass organizations. Alert and good work on that field is necessary to become a mass Party end the leader in the approaching s| revolutionary struggle. I knew it would be a hard job to the comrades working, but with vik stubbornness and passion as convinced we would make headway. The fractions were ore ganized and the comrades, accords ing to their ability, assigned to their work. To every fraction sece retary was given the above plan with the control task book in order to write down the progress of their work and by this enable the section fraction organizer to control at any time the activity of the fraction. It is understood that the fraction should meet regularly at least once a week. All problems concerning the mass organizations should be dscussed thoroughly in order to give correct guidance and sponsor initia- tive, to make ‘he meetings interest ing and wok all the time in the interest of the life and the program of the organizations. Bring, in an alert and intelligent way, our Party line forward in order win the! confidence of the majority of the members, showing them that the! interest of a Communist is the in-! terest and the benefit of the whole working class. By doing correct) Bolshevik work the fraction will be, able to win the mass organizations | to support any political and eco- nomic struggle led by the C. P. : Up to now the work has gone for- , ward very slowly. The comrades haye not yet grasped the necessity of doing fraction work. Some do the work too mechanically, forget- ting that the plan is for general guidance only, that it must be flex- ible, that a Communist has to be alert to find at all times the right methods of work and of approach, Those comrades who started frac- tion work “fraction-conscious,” and took the work seriously, have ob- tained results. The membership in- creased, the life of their mass or- ganizations grew more active, with a pronounced political trend. That shows that real fraction work will build mass organizations and bring the Party forward as the leader of the masses in general. Not One Fraction The greatest weakness in our section is that we have not one fraction in tie trade union move~ ment, and this explains why our Party had no influence at all dur- ing the last strikes in Syracuse. It must be sharply criticized that of our entire mombership within the section only 8 per cent are ore ganized in the Trade Union. What wonder tha; we can not root our- selves in the masses. How can we tell them to organize in unions while our comrades stcy econom- ically unorganized? That means, in other words, that the majority of our Party members are not Trade Union conscious yet. We have to make a strong attempt to change (his in order to be able to build Trade Union fractions. In our last District Committee meeting I listened very carefully to the reports of the comrades and almost every one complained that through neglected fraction work many defeats had occurred. But none of the comrades dealt con- cretely with the problem, not one offered a plan which could give to the comrades organizational guid- ance. The leading comrades com- plain very much about the neglect ing of fraction work in the district, but they failed to give an assigned comrade ihe floor on that question because of lack of time. Perhaps this will help the other comrades to accomplish better frac- Groups. Work in co-operation with Y¥. C. L, fraction. If no fraction is existi-.g, throw one Y. C. L. member in the Party fraction, so that the ith question gets the right atten- tion. If this plan is carried out under the control of the Party it should bring a change in our present frac- || . tion work. I tried to hammer into every comrade’s mind what Lenin meant by sayin: “It is net encugh to be a cates uenery and aguerene < ie mf Please send me more informa- What is necded, is the ability to || tion on the Communist Party find at any moment that p2rtica- * g sf lar link in the chain which must || Name be grasped with all one’s might to gaia control of the whole chain and pass without a hitch to the next link.” tion work. Other comrades doing fraction work should tell about their experiences in this column. In this way we will learn to avoid mis- takes and carry on real Bolshevik fraction and mass work. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Street City DR. 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