The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02

Fellow Workers:
The executive bureau Of the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions has APP
pointed the following fellow workers
to act as the Red International Af1il-
iation Committee in its relations to
the !. w. W.: Harrison George, Mike
Novak and H. r. Richards.
The failure Of the fifteenth general
convention to authorize delegates to
the third congress of the Red Inter-
national of Labor Unions, which will
convene at Moscow in July, 1924, has
been a matter of regret to the execu-
tive bureau Of the r. I. L. q.
This failure to respond to the cor
dial invitation extended by the author
lied spokesman of the r. l. L. u. who
addressed the convention, is, however,
but one Of series of incidents which
we shall not now recount, showing the
need Of information of the aims, meth
DDS and structure Of the r. l. L. u
among the membership of the /. W.
w. The efforts of the Red Interna-
tional Afliliation Committee, then are
to establish a definite and constant
contact between the l. w. w. and the
r. /. L. u, and by dissipating misun-
Outstanding and circulation of au-
thentic information, to bring about af-
filiation of the I. w. w. to the Red
international of Labor Unions.
Glass Struggle Is international.
We believe it is a duty Of the l. W.
w. to affiliate internationally. The
matter of international utilization is
Of vital consequence. 1t is only the
most backward members Of the work
ing class who do not conceive the ele-
mentary fact that the class struggle
is international. It is only those Of
provincial minds, or those that wish
to avoid responsibility to the interna-
tional proletariat, as does Gompers,
who opposed internationalism for the
working class.
We do not ascribe either Of these
motives to any considerable number
of the l. w. W. Its very name, it's eff
forts over a period of nearly 20 years
to extend itself internationally, its joy
GUS greetings Of international solidar-
ity in the California boycott by Chi
nese and PHILIPPINE workers, among
other things, all show that any state
ments, such as made by the past G. E.
B. Chairman Russell in the general
office bulletin for January, to the eff
feet that international affiliation does
not matter, runs counter to the whole
trend of /. w. w. theology
international AffiIIation Inevitable.
Any organization which, extending
itself from local jurisdiction with To-
cal viewpoint to national scope and
national outlook, is compelled by
those realities the workers must face
as class, to accept some sort of in
ternational utilization and some sort
of international perspective. Gompers,
until recently, maintained the A. F. of
L. Affiliation to the Amsterdam Inter
national, and even now he is aiding
with funds the traitorous leaders of
the German trade unions to expel the
adherents of the r. /. L. U. and to
wreck the resistance of the German
workers to the Fascist dictatorship.
Gompers and Morones have their Pan
American international of imperialist
varletry. Frank Hodges, traitor to
the English coal miners, visits the A.
F. of L. convention and approves of
Lewis, traitor to the American coal
unseating a delegate (Dunne)
who is an adherent of the r. I. l.. U.
the united front of the
labor lieutenants of capital with the
oppressive forces of capital itself, ex-
lists against the workers. The prob
lem, therefore, is not-"shall workers
have international utilization or no in
ternational affiliation?" But, what
utilization is best?"
''Absorbtion" Plan Means Isolation.
That the I.,W. w. is itself the In
ternational is an idea Of some fellow
workers. Yet any objective examina-
ton shows it to be no more than
fantasy. There are approximately
100000 workers already organized
in unions turnout the world. The
of the /. W. W., as shown
by the average per capita paid during
a period of twelve recent months, is
about 100000 BY what means are the
100000 to adhere to the 100000?
Upon what program shall we expect
10000, 900 to come to the 100000? The
anawer of those who conceive the
w. w. itself to be the international,
is the whole fanciful program that the
40,000,000 should abandon their pres
ent organization and be absorbed" in
dividually by the 10000 in the /. w.
w. upon personal acceptance Of every
item in the l. w. w. program. We
contend that any worker with seri-
Gus purpose for revolutionary prog
ress will perceive that such a program
II insisted upon, will doom the /. w.
w, to isolation and sterility. Inter