The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-26

The case on which the ruling is made is that of the Nova Scotia district of the United Mine Workers. This district voted to affiliate with the Red Inter national. The district inquired of In ternational office as to its right to SC affiliate A special committee was au- thorized to investigate and report and the report rendered by this committee has just been adopted by the entire board, representing the miners of every section of the country.
 In a formal statement covering the case it is set forth that this is the first instance in which one of the big Ameri- can international unions has flatly ruled against the Moscow Red International.
 Indianapolis, Ind,
 January II, 1923. To the International Executive Board,
 United Mine Workers of America,
 Indianapolis, Ind.
 Gentlemen:
 We, your committee to whom was referred the communication addressed to the International Executive Board half of District No. %, concerning the validity of an application by said Dis trict to affiliate with the Red Interna- tional, desire to submit for your consid eration the following report of our finding:
 Upon an examination of the pro- gram and constitution of the Red Inter national, together with resolutions adopted at the last convention of this Organization, we find that among the objects for which the Red International was originally founded, it has for its purpose, hrst-control, and afterward %1,a of fha hOr1a fde trade union movement The Red International is an outgrowth of the One Big Union. which went through it's process of major development in the northwestern provinces of Canada during the year 1918, and like the l. w. w. and kindred organizations that preceded it, the One Big Union was doomed to inevitable fail ure, so much so, that in the year 1921 the Canadian trade union representatives were able to report to the American Federation of Labor Convention that the One Big Union practically ceased to exist.
 ADVENTURES SEEK RUIN.
 An examination of the records of the International Executive Board, United Mine Workers of America, during this period will disclose the attempt that was made by a species of characterless ad- venturers and spokesmen for the One Big Union who sought to destroy the United Mine Workers of America in District No. IS at that time.
 The Red International Is an organiza- tion similar in character and makeup to the One Big Union. Its program and policies being so shaped that 1t not only sanctions, but in fact urges the workers to resort to street upris1ngs, mob demonstration, violence, or any kl,1I pedient for the accomplishment of their purpose. For example, section 45 of the Red International program reads as fol- lows:
 "The fundamental policy of Trade Unions is the direct action of the re- volutionary masses and of their organi- cations against Capital All conquests of the workers are in direct proportion to the degree of revolutionary pressure they have exerted. By direct action it is understood every form of i1nndi- ate pressure of the workers upon the employers and the state, such as: boy colt, strikes, street uprisings, demonstra- tions, seizure of factories, violent resist ance against the removal of goods from factories and store. and other revolu- tionary activity leading the working class to the overthrow of Capitalism and consolidating the working class in the Struggle for Socialism The task of the revolutionary class-conscious Trade Union consists in transforming ali the expressions of struggle into an instru- ment for the social revolution of the working class and its militant training for the social revolution and the estab- lishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat."
 Whilst section 50 of this same Organi- zation's program, dealing with the ques- ton of collective barbaining, has this to say:
 "The belief in the sancity of co11ec- tive bargaining propagated by the oppor- tunists of all countries must be met with a resolute and decided resistance on the part of the revolutionary trade union movement. Collective bargaining is mo- always violates these collective contracts whenever slightest opportunity pre- sents itself. The respect toward collec- tive bargains only proves that bour- geoise conceptions are deeply rooted in the minds of the leaders of the working class. The revolutionary trade unions without as rule, rejecting collective bargains must realize their relative value and clearly define methods which will abolish these contracts when 1t prove to be profitable to the working classes y
 FOR ORDERLY PROGRESS.
 It must be apparent to all who read and think, th1t this program is in con- travention to the policies, customs, practices and laws of the United Mine Workers of America. The membership of our great Organization not only be- lieve in the principle of collective bar gaining, but also the sancity of contracts honorable entered into between the re- presentatives of the United Mine Work CTS of America and the coal operators In fact, this is the rock upon which our Union was founded, and in the practice of this policy we have not