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

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as indicating that the spirit Of the
workers will not much longer brook
the restraining bonds OF the craft sys-
tenn. The r. /. L. U. asks merely that
the I. w. w. members who are also
members of craft unions, unite with
the r. l. L. U. adherents to organize
the growth of that spirit and give it
revolutionary expression, At the same
time the greatest efforts of the l. w.
W. should be to organize the indus
tries that 1t has by experience found
to be its most fruitful field. This
has been suggested by many /. w. w.
among them Fellow Worker George
Williams in the General ONCE Bull
letin for June.
For One Front Of All Labor.
The Red International believes in
unity. It holds that the goal to be
aimed at in this respect is the COM
plete unity In one great fighting orga-
nization of every labor union in Amer
lea. But it is pure fiction to assert that
the r. l. L. U. wishes to "liquidate"
the l. w. w. and drive" its members
into craft unions. Yet this tale has
been circulated, in spite of the fact
that no document adopted by the Red
International of Labor Unions in its
whole existence has every intimated
such a thing. Moreover, IN practice
1t should be noted that other indie
pendent Industrial unions in America
which have been affiliated with the
R. l. L. U. not only remain, but are
strengthened. In addition, considering
the loyal activity of R. l. L. U. adher-
ents in the l. w. w. in fighting for
unity and against the danger of dis
ruption and injunction, anyone who
questions the r. l. L. U. desire for
unity of the l. w. W. merely reveals
himself as completely uniformed or
entirely mendacious.
There should be no mistake as to
the origin of the r. l. L. u, in view
Of the publication twice, once in Feb
ruary and again In April 1920 issues
Of the Zone Big Union Monthly" Of
the very first call, which was issued
by the industrial unions of Russia
and which reads as follows:
THE Central All-Russian Council
Of Industrial Unions invites all econo-
mic organizations based on the real
and revolutionary class struggle for
the liberation of labor through the
proletarian dictatorship, to solidify
anew their ranks against the inter
national league of brigands, to break
with the international of conciliators,
and to proceed in unison with the
Central All-Russian Council of Indust-
rial Unions toward the organization of
truly international conference of all
socialist labor unions and veritable
revolutionary workers syndicates. We
beg Of all economic labor organiza-
tons that accept the program of the
revolutionary class struggle, to re-
spond to our call and enter into direct
touch with u.s." This was signed
by nine officials of the Russian in
dustrial unions, including Tomsky and
Losovsky. That was the beginning of
the r. l. L. U.
The R. /. L. U. does believe, none
the less, that the formal "non-polit-
ical" and actual anti-political attitude
Of the l. w. w. is harmful to itself
and to the working class. The RI L. u
believes that this attitude would be
discarded II the membership fully
understood the distinction between a
Communist Party and the reformist
socialist party. from which, quite nat
urally, the /. w. w. members derived
their conception of a workers polit-
ical party. The two are SO different,
however, that they cannot be COM
pared. Your disagreement with this
view is no bar to utilization, of course,
but we merely assert important facts
which, being known, should guide you.
A revolutionary Communist Party is
not territorially based. but is founded
upon shop nuclei organized at the
point of production. 1t does not accept
the permanence of capitalist parlia-
mentary forms, nor does it deceive
the workers with the hopes and pro-
misses that by voting in capitalist