The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
Dime SPEAKS
o. PROFINTEUN
At TUE meet
TIlls of Progress in
Union Movement

The Red international of
Lbor Unions with headquarters
inIMoscow is no longer a mere
Propaganda organization, but a
pSwerful factor in the labor UNI
id1 movement of Europe and
tie leader of great masses in
tie revolutionary struggles Of
tie workers against capitalism,
declared William F. Dunno,
eiitor of the DAILY WORKER
AID Communist candidate for
gbvernor of Illinois, speaking
before a meeting Of the Trade
Union Educational League here
Oh Wednesday evening.
Comrade Dunno has recently re-
TUNED from Moscow. where he attend
ed the Srd Congress of the Prohntern
as a representative of the Trade I'm
ion Educational Leagnue. He was
elected members OF the Executive
Committee of the R. I. L. U. Dunno
was also a delegate to the Fifth Con-
gress of the Communist International,
from the Workers Party.
In British Trade Unions.
There is a powerful minority move
ment growing up thruout Europe said
Comrade Dunno. and even in the Brit
ish trade union movement, the liar
of conservatism, since the Labor gov.
eminent came into Office, sweeping
great shift to the left has taken place.
The old leaders who secured com.
Portable berths in the Macdonald gov
eminent have been replaced by men
who are more susceptible to the heavy
pressure which the slowly disillusion.
ed masses are bringing to bear on
them.
The speaker told of the election of
A. ]. Cook, left wing trade unionist,
to the secretaryship of the miners
union of Britain, one of the most for
midable armies of labor in the world.
Cook ran for Office on an R. l. L. U.
program.
Germany and France.
In Germany millions of workers fol-
low the leadership of the Profintern,
and in France the division of forces
in the trade union movement is about
even between Amsterdam and Mos
COW. There IS no country in Europe
where the Red International of Labor
Unions is not powerful minority as
in actual leadership of the organized
MASSES.
Dunno pictured the bankruptcy of
the Amsterdam leaders and the strong
left wing growing up inside. So vigor-
GUS has this become that at the Vienna
congress a resolution was put thru
instructing the Amsterdam officials to
begin negotiations with a view to
bringing about a united front of the
world trade union movement in one
international. Comrade Dunno ex-
pressed doubt that this would be ac-
complished in the near future owing
to the sabotage of the reactionary
leaders who are hand and glove with
the capitalist class and supporters of
the capitalist system. But the desire
for unity among the masses is so
keen that the splitting conspiracy of
the yellow socialists will prove their
own undoing and will revert to the
advantage of the Red International
which has already given ample proof
that it places the unity of the workers
for the struggle against the capitalist
as the first item on its agenda.
Storm Gathering.
That the temper of the left wing
inside the Amsterdam, while yet some
what vague, is growing in intensity,
was demonstrated. said the speaker,
when at the Vienna congress, the Eng
lish delegates threw CONSERVATION in
to the ranks of the social traitors of
Germany by asking, What about
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem.
burg?' This question exploded with
the force of q giant bomb and had a
shattering effect on the nerves of the
reactionaries.
Dunno in reporting on the Third
Congress Of the Red International Of
Labor Unions said that taken as a
whole, the r. l. L. U. has acqired the
leadership Of the workers Of the world
since the second congress. This"
he said, has not come because of
agitation. but because. Of leadership
gained by the international.
1.-THE three most important issues
taken up by tho Third Congress Of the
r.. /. L. U. were: Q.) the question of
unity in the world trade union move
ment; (2.) the fight against Fascism,
and (S.) the shop committee idea.
Trade Union Unity.
"The proposal Of the r. l. l.. U. in
regard to the Amsterdam Information.