The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-16

The party must not decline to utilize
any workers mass organizations, es-
pecially anti-reformist organizations,
in the fight against reformism. The
Weimar conference is to be regarded
from this standpoint, for here it
proved possible to gather together not
inconsiderable strata of anti-reformist
elements beneath the common banner
of definite program of action. This
applies equally to the associations
formed by the expelled, to the Union
Of Hand and Brain Workers and
others stG
The slogan of save the trade I'M
IONS" as it has hitherto been inter-
preted, is not right. The trade unions
cannot be saved along the old lines
1t is only possible to save them by
means of fundamental change in the
trade unions, to be effectual by fac
tory nuclei aiming at organization ac-
cording to industry and at the substi-
tuition of reformism by revolutionary
activity.
The Role Of the Factory Councils.
Thus the most important task set
the Communists is the concentration
of the whole of their forces upon
work in the workshops and in the fac
tory councils, for the purpose Of de-
veloping the factory councils into the
starting point and fulcrum of the
whole of the work being done by the
party among the masses, especially
the work of opposing the reformist
leaders.
The shop stewards have further
important task to deal with, that of
combining the accommodating elemen-
tary struggles of the masses organ
lied in the trade unions with those
Of the non-organized masses.
This requires that the factory coun-
ellis be organizatorily connected with
one another in industrial groups, that
is, they must be associated locally and
in regard to the technics of produc-
ton, in districts and as a whole, as
the prerequisite and basis for the fu-
ture organization of production.
At the same time any subordination
Of the factory councils to the reform
list trade unions is to be combatted as
harmful at the present time.
The Economic Struggle.
The decentralization arising newt
ably from the existing situation (the
unfavorable economic conditions, the
reduction of production, the bank
ruptcy of the reformist trade unions,
etc., and the elementary outbreaks
of strikes among the workers against
the will of the trade unions and with
out the financial support of these),
confront the Communists with the
duty of undertaking the leadership of
these strikes.
Every concrete question ~ scono-
mic struggle and trade E...s--. --.4s.cs.
must be combined by the Commun-
lists with the general historical task
of the working class, with the neces-
silly of fighting for the dictatorship of
the proletariat
The Communists must take ener-
getic part in the Organization of strike
leadership and committees of action,
and maintain the connection between
these and the factories and shops.
But the whole responsibility Of the
economic struggle must not be thrown
exclusively upon the shoulders Of the
factory councils, for the factory coun-
ellis form the foundation for the gen.
crap regrouping Of the forces of the
working class for its struggle.
The factory councils must indict the
trade unions and hold them respon-
sible for the increasing impoverish-
ment of the working class.