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H10A1001 settlerpent are enforced muttle stronger in the con and jet's see to it that every than before. rely on. The bosses crush them, or the leaders 574, a real union 1asr it and he sal not el han tong and better mand of edera meeton and be- And a final word: Mayur Bainbridge hea not let them forgot it fore the inexperi . workers know what has i of the city. tarted to te know what he means. He meat Botan easement on threspo happened their rike are broken and they go Same he zene Alance, hore becauser hey orkers rejoice to know that the attempt t union, without saything, sa a rule, but an NRA had to swallow the settlement, are planning to peak 574 has completely fizsied and that on promise worth junt about as much as Confeder- i sic their bloodhound Johannes unto some inno ad of struggle to all mortera seeking the ber Make That made the whole country aboup and We wara ail enemits of labor: [ocal 574 metres and their familles take notice. kind of frame-up. Those who start this sort he liang song of bri "Solidarity Forever!" enng, union-hatin: conspirator martyrs tu This outlines the immerliate program of Lobon, it means stick together, fight it out, don't ets and our leader into a military atockade. Thes We are gning to see in it that the settle give In. And this in term m *апа 574. raided our headquarters. ment is carmed out. lonim and the unconquerable spirit of labor in Every dirty trick and maneurer was tried. at ascrimination pet a crack on the head Minneapolts today. A Farmer-Labor governor, whom so many work- We are going to win the election and build national affair. see if they could catch some suckera uf our heroic strikers againat any bart of perst "! Not the fact that a lon Haas and Mr. Dunnigaa, to their shame, tried Strike Bulletin. It remains the official daily of housand worker, miserably oppressed sad ex to yo over the heade of our leaders and disrupt Local 574. Until the electione have been con. jolted, rose ta rebel That happens daily. овт тапкв. Such "labor leaders" as Tobin and cluded, we intend to keep in our hands Lhe prectrywhere American workers, sick of working Smith piayed the role of Judas weapon, a daily paper.

The pity in that, an a rule, they are cheated local 674 stood up and fought back. Rank us confidence that this will be welcome news to out by those they trust and and file and leaders stood united and nobody i the workers of Minneapolis. ions of the Minneapolis osses.

Cruising pickets-to be a cature of the major class attles to come-had made heir first appearance in linneapolis. And the strike ad been consciously repared with full knowidge that it would acounter nothing but pposition from the conserItive Teamster Union ureaucracy.

Conscious planning In May, now with 5,000 lembers, the second strike :hieved even higher levels mass support and inscious planning.

A hospital, a cafeteria, a ewspaper and a picket HQ ere all established in Ivance by the Trotskyistominated strike leadership.

An almost total victory as achieved on the emands for union recogition throughout the truckg and warehouse industry : Minneapolis as well as gher wages and seniority.

Realising that the key sue was to have the settleent of this strike impleented by the bosses, the rikers defied the ramsters Union bureauacy and proceeded to lay La one-month ultiadopted to the cotton lat strike settlement sight at a membership meet lag is a victory for Local 574 and for the cause of trade waioniam which was at stake in thin strice.

The bosse, led by the Citizena forced thie strike on u2 sace bandite admit that they ant to make this an open shop towe. he berlaning Lay thought, mash Local 574. Then they would to-on to the rot of die Unions They have been defeat ad im ela.

from many wounda.!

Minnespolia back defeated, witbout conditiona. righte.

remains in the fiela to ate money.

attoo or its ora member and to point the They tried all that in Minneapolis, but it hides. fit of organisation and a better life for them- strike.

The walls of Earles hall shook last night bear. They shot our piekets down in cold blood the members wound up their meeting Two of them lie dead today, victims of the murThen b7. myu "Solidarity," it means un. ne secred cause of labos They Nung our pickThis number is the veritable symoo, of un- But they couldn't break us.

Ard not only is Minneapolis.

country something new, and get the union to select a leadership to suit *ges gyerywben our name.

Nice slaves and liviag like burs, are etriking. But they couldn't fool us out and got a settlement which the whole labor more. mart will approve.

Thug the strike ende. ¡But the strugele does not end.

Electiona Are coming.

Local 574 wante to win in eyery houser Every worker shouid join the Union. Every anion man should speak to hie bruthers on i the job and see to it that 574 peta a unanimous vote. After that We shall remain vigilant and set that all conditions uf the practice. Local 574 in not going to sleep at the switch.

Let's pet aut the vote He Pecks a Wallop! ballot cast marked lat about drivin "Communista" out tent individual workers and take it out of their is going to take a hand in the fight agrinst any Every means of oppression was brought to ; of business will be responsible for ail the conseWe are going to see to it that any attempte turned up • copper. throwing a bigker union than we ever had before. packets into the stockade. They put over & "Rer And we are going to protect every last man the bosses. Sven the Federal Mediators, Father The Organizer ceraea tria! to Dr a Daily Numberlesa remarke, scores of letters give But as Cannon points out:

"Behind these fakers and renegades we saw some serious people, some proletarian militants. I have previously mentioned the comrades who led the Toledo strike.

"They had numerous elements of this type throughout Pennsylvania and the Middle West. They had built up an unemployed organisation of considerable size.

"These proletarian activists of the AWP were the types that interested us."

As a leftward-moving heterogeneous centrist grouping, the AWP reflected the political confusion and turmoil of the period; there are few if any similar groupings to be found in the workers' movement today.

The Trotskyist CLA was organisationally larger and certainly more cohesive and disciplined than the AWP.

Compromises

But in pursuing the struggle to unite the two organisations and thus win the key forces involved, the CLA willingly made a number of organisational compromises.

Eventually Democrats and based on the trade unions.

Instead they adhered to the perspective of directly recruiting forces to a mass Trotskyist party.

Thus only a qualitative few out of the tens of thousands of workers mobilised at Minneapolis, in the New York hotels and in the car industry developed to the point of recognising the need for an independent workers' party.

Not challenged The majority of even the most militant workers remained at the level of trade union militancy, and the hold of the two capitalist parties was not challenged.

Though this position was -at least verbally-corrected when the 1938-9 discussions between the SWP leaders and Trotsky spelled out the necessity of calling for a Labor Party, this early weakness meant that the huge growth of trade union organisation in the USA from 1933-38 could not be accompanied by a parallel growth of working class political consciousness or a political break from the bosses.

This weakness in the

Change made

Only later, when the attention of Trotsky and the international leadership was focussed on the question of a programme to build the still small forces of Trotskyism through intervention in the daily struggles of the working class, was this position reassessed, a change made, and a weakness confronted.

Thus there were undoubtedly weaknesses and inadequacies in the work of the 1930s US Trotskyists-weaknesses which, with the benefit of hindsight, we may be tempted to overstate.

Pioneering work

The fact is that without the pioneering work, the vision, the tenacity and the self-discipline of Cannon and the CLA, and without their determined break from the propagandism of the past and turn into the mass struggles of 1934, the basic forces would not have been assembled for the foundation of the Fourth International in 1938.

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THE ORGANIZER WONTSE SOUTH THIRD STREET ough! could split us. We suck it