Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-30
COMMUNISTS WOULD
SPLIT WORLD LABOR
Moscow Committee Asks Union
lists TO Form New lnterna-
tional Body.

lloiidl Dohy-
Cpsatcr disharrnony in the ranks OF
international labor organizations may
result from the launching OF an appeal
from Moscow bv the Executive Conl-
mittec of the Third International urg-
mo rcvolutionary-min union men TO
inducr their unions to break away from
Tho International Federation OF Trade
Unions (the successor to the pre-war
International Trade Union Sccretarat
organized &C Amsterdam last August
nv CONSERVATIVES Of the unions of near
IN All European and American nations),
and found new Red union information
al 10 form a section of the Bolshevlst-
controlled Communist International
If this appeal is hooded there VIII pc
throc International labor union organiza-
lions as the Christian CLERICAL Trade
Unions also have their international,
formerlv Organized at a congress held
in The Hague in June of this year he
full text of the Bolshcvist appeal, which
Is signed by c.. Zinovief, President OF
the Executive Committee of the Com
munist international, was printed IN
recent issue of the New \ rker Noiks-
veitung. IL bore no date, After devot-
70 about 500 words to n general de-
n,'1ciation OF the old labor International
and its leaders, including Samuel Gompers
and Carl Lcgien, the appeal continues
''The mighty strike mo ement that Is
stirring up the European Continent
North America and the whole world OF
Industry shows that the trade unions
are not victims of decay, but will soon
assume new forms The trade unions
cannot remain indifferent toward the
extremely important questions that at
present arc exciting the attention OF the
entire world and which are dividing the
human race into two scCtlons-the RodS
and the Whites. 1t is the duty OF every
trade union 10 como TO an understanding
on the questions Of mobilization, de
mobilization, the introduction OF obh-
gatory military service, direct or lndl-
rect taxation, the paying off of the war
debts, government ownership and oper-
alton of railroads, mines and the more
important branches of industry, &c.
THINKS TIME FOR BREAK IS HERE.
The Communist international thinks
the time has come for the unions that
are freed from bourgeois influences and
from the social traitors to reconstruct
their international organization, as well
AS that of the whole trade union move
mCnt and Of the various trade and pro
fcssional associations We must oppose
the Yellow Trade Union international,
which is trying in Amsterdam, Washing
ton and Paris to call together the agents
Of the bourgeOisic, with the genuinely
proletarian Red Trade Union Interna-
tional which fights on the side of the
Third. the Communist, international.
'1n many countries the trade unions
are undergoing a decided Transformation;
the chaf is being separated from the
wheat In Germany, the cradle OF the
Yellows, i. G., the bourgeois trade union
movement that was guided by Legion
and a Noske, many organizations are
lining UP on the side of the proletarIan
revolution. Already the old leaders,
who had sold out the movement TO the
capitalists. are being cleaned out of the
unions. In Italy nearly all the trade
union associations stand for the rule Of
the Soviets. In the scandinavian trade
Unions the proletarian revolutionary ten
denotes are becoming stronger from day
to dav. In France, England America,
the Netherlands and Spain the majority
of the trade union members reject the
former bourgeois tactics and demand
revolutionary methods of fighting. In
Russia $500. 600 members of the trade
unions voluntarily and Internationally
support the dictatorship of the proletariat
In the Balkans the majority Of the trade
unions are in close organizing relations
with the Communist parties and fight
under the latters victorious banners.
The First International. led by Merx
and Engels, endeavored to gather within
its folds working class organizations Of
al kinds including the trade unions
The second (now destroyed Inter
national did indeed. also invite the
trade unions to its congresses, but was
not connected with them by any firm
organizing band.
BACE TO FIRST PRINCIPLES.
"The Third, the Communist, Inter
national, wishes to follow the lines Of the
First international in this. matter also.
The trade union association themselves,
after being freed from the errors men
toned above viii on their mart seek TO
establish relations with the proletarian
vanguard that is organized IN the Third,
the Communist, International
The intelligent opinion of the work
ing classes demands the unity of all the
Organized powers of the proletariat.
the attack upon capitalism. The Com
munist International IS obligated to
serve in every way the international
struggle of the prolctariat and oonse-
quently it strives for close relations
with those revolutionary organizations that
have grasped the demands of the times.
The Communist International wishes
to unite, not only the political organiza-
tons Of the proletariat, but also all other
working class organizations which recog-
nIze In acts, and not merely in words, the
revolutionary struggle and fight for the
dictator ship of the working class. The
Executive Committee of the Third Inter
national Is of the opinion that not only
the political parties but also the trade
unions that stand for the revolution ought
TO take part IN the congresses OF the Com
munist International These workers
organizations must unite upon a common
general basis and form section Of the
Third International.
I'VE address this appeal to the trade
unions of the whole world. The same de-
velopment and the same division is bound
to take place In the labor movement as
has already taken place in the political
Just as all the great labor
parties have severed connections with the
Second Yellow In tefnational so will the