The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-30

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the war and the Russian revolution
have upset all the blue prints Of rev.
dictionary theory, to stand all anarch.
list and syndicalist theory up in the
light of working class experience and
examine them thoroughly and object.
lively.
The result would show what an ex-
animation Of the anarcho-syndicalist
international shows, namely, that it
has nothing in common with revolu-
tionary industrial unionism-does not
believe in that structure, that Berlin
is a Tolstoian, utopian, pacifist group,
impotent to oppose imperialist cap
italism, and lives solely for no nobler
purpose than to SANDER and attack
the revolutionary Soviet Government
of the Russian workers and peasants.
Beside this broader aspect, the char.
acter of Berlin's anarcho-syndicalis
group may be shown by the facts cited
in recent months by the English and
Spanish I. w. w. papers.
r. |. L. U. Mlsrepresented
But some fellow workers will ex.
claim that there are also Differences
between the l. w. w. and the Red In
ternational Of Labor Unions. And we
will agree. Yes, there are differences
But they are not basic. Above all,
there are far more important princip-
les we have in common Moreover
the differences are those which the
I. W. w. itself at present recognizes
as allowable differences of opinion ex.
listing among it's own membership. And
If it be asked If the workers in the
R. L L. U. are permitted to have these
differences, we reply, certainly. The l.
w. w. is asked to affiliate with the
r. I. L. U. upon the basis OF active
Revolutionary class struggle against
capitalism, and If 1t will fight together
with us upon that program, then the
basis Of cooperation will be estab.
lished.
The R. l. L. u has been misrepre.
presented to the I. W. w. in many
ways. The European custom of call
ing any labor union, either craft or
industrial in form, a trade" union,
has been seized upon by enemies and
confusionists. Yet from its very be.
ginning the r. I. l.. U. has based it's
organization upon industrial unionism.
At its first congress it declared:
1.-THE chief problem of organization
consists in passing from the system
of craft unionism to Industrial The
slogan, One Union for One Industry
should become the slogan Of the mil
liant revolutionary unions"
Again at the second congress it
asserted: 1.-THE most important task
is the creation Of centralized indus
trial unions" While the third con-
gress, during July this year. said:
THE trade unions should be welded
into industrial unions and the indus.
trial unions Of the various countries
should be united on an international
SCALE" 1t warned however, as the ex-
perience of the /. w. w. with the
danger of job unionism and federal
ism also warns, that-"The form itself
does not possess any mysterious
power which might take the place of
our revolutionary activity and strug.
gle."
r. |. L. U. for Industrial Unions
All Of these provisions are known
to the detractors of the R. I. L. u.
But we have not been permitted to
see them set forth to the !. w. w.
membership. These quotations show
that the R. |. L. U. not only favors IN.
dustrial unionism as a theory, but
fights to realize it by amalgamation Of
the craft unions.
Against this argument, false analogy
has been opposed. The craft unions,
composed of living, thinking, dynamic
workingmen, are compared to out-of.
date sailing vessels, composed of in.
sensate, inanimate timbers. Yet the
r. |. L. U. points to the storm of rank
and file revolt inside the craft unions,
compelled by the conditions Of capital
ism and stimulated and organized by