The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08
ByJ.LENSKY

the bad conditions. The socialist Off
Gals seized this opportunity to close
the meeting without having discuss
cd the new government. The left
wing was blamed for it, aria resolu-
ton was published by the central
committee charging that the left
wing had broken up the meeting.
and condemning the Communist
Deputies of the 'Seym and the Com
munist Party. But the representa-
tivcs Of the Left Wing retorted with
strong resolution protesting
against such high-handed methods
and calling for an impartial inves-
tigation. The resolution of the Left
Wing Representatives ended with an
appeal to the membership of the
trade unions to preserve the unity
endangered by the leaders Of the
Polish socialist party.
Lately there has been a tendency
in certain part Of the Polish social
list party toward splitting the trade
unions. This is due to the sharpen
ing Of the social conflicts, and to the
effort of the Polish socialist party TO
prevent mass action. The Polish
socialist party is intent upon de-
stroying the influence Of the Left
Wing in the trade unions at a time
when the Polish socialist party has
time and time again gone over to
the support of the capitalist govern
ment and participation in it.
Those members of the Polish So
cia1ist party in the trade unions who
realize that splitting the trade unions
with their present internal weakness
and their financial crisis would re-
suit in their complete downfall are
of a different view.
As the creation of separate, red
trade unions under present condi-
tons cannot be successful (difficul-
ties with the police and Indifference
of the masses) and as such action
harbors the danger of curtailing the
Party's area of activity and the dam
ger of the slackening of the tension
in the economic struggles, it is our
duty to come out strongly for the
defense of the unity, of the existence
and the power of the trade uniops.
1t is our duty to reveal the real mo-
tives of those who are for the split
and to make it easier for those in
the Polish Socialist Party who are
for unity of the trade unions to win
a majority.
Left Wing Demands Unity.
A strong resolution for unity was
passed on December 90 by the Trade
Union Department Of the Commun-
list Party. 1t reads in part:
"The principal tactic Of the Left
Wing shall continue to be the unity
of the trade unions.
"The most important prerequisite
for this unity is full freedom Of
criticism and agitation for the left
wing within the general frame work
of organization of the unified trade
unions"
With the view that the agitation
for the formation of factory coun-
ellis hangs together with other prob
lens, the trade union department
! links this agitation with the current
trade union questions. In view Of
the weakening of the trade unions it
becomes a pressing necessity to re-
cruit new masses, and the surest
way to do this is to use the factory
councils as a support. At the same
time, this policy breaks down the OPP
position of the opportunists who
sense in the factory councils dam
gerous competitor; the chairman of
the Warsaw Central Committee of
Trade Unions, Gardetzky, came out
decisively against the factory
councils.
In order to plant the ideas and ex-
istence Of the factory councils in the
masses we must defeat, not only
the opposition of the opportunists,
but also the indifference Of the
masses. Wherever such factory com
mittees exist in their modern form
lin Upper Silesia--they are domin-
ated by a Polish or German oppor-
tunist majority and the masses have