The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-20

81 an. Our program mas DeeH
recognized by history and it will
finally be recognized by the whole
working class. This unity proposal
us not, as some comrades think, a
coalition between the leaders of the
R.IL.U. and the Amsterdam Interna-
tional. The unity of the international
trade union movement can be set up
in the event of our succeeding in
arousing ten millions of proletarians
to take an interest in this campaign,
Some comrades are so afraid of re-
formism that they anxiously ask:
What will happen if the Amsterdam
International accepts your proposal
and agrees to the International Unity
Congress?" To which we answer:
Excellent! We will be only too pleas
ed if the Amsterdamers accept this
proposal, as it is precisely the task
Of our unity resolution to realize this
unity" - We'll, and what if you are
in the minority in this united Inter
natlonal?" ask the same comrades
IF we are in the minority then we
shall fight for the majority and hope
to win this majority You are pre-
pared to take part in an international
unity Congress without any previous
conditions ?"-"Yes, we are prepared
to take part in an international unity
congress without any previous con-
ditions. The relation of forces at the
unity congress will decide the pro-
gram and tactics of the new inter-
national. And if the Amsterdamers
lay down conditions, what then?"-'If
that is the case, the negotiations will
soon show what conditions of either
party are acceptable and what are
not acceptable by both parties. The
working masses will judge them
selves. '-"And if the Amsterdamers
refuse negotiations regarding unity?"
IF they refuse so much the worse
for them. We will not abandon our
struggle for unity"
In our struggle for unity we have
our eye on the masses and attach very
little value to the goodwill and the
mood of this or that leader. As soon
as the unity of the international trade
union movement is a necessity for the
masses, we have to fight for this
unity and mobilize the broadest mass
es against those who oppose this
unity. And there is not the lest doubt
that unity is threatened. The danger
comes from two sides: before all from
the side of the right wing of the Am
sterdam International. This was to
be seen at the Vienna Congress,
when the right Amsterdamers endea-
youred to render the resolution as
vague as possible in order to leave
open every loophole. After the Vien-
ma Congress the Bureau of the Am
sterdam International sent a letter
to the All-Russian Central Trade
Union Council proposing negotiations
on the basis of the decisions adopted
in Vienna. To these negotiations the
Amsterdamers attached the following
two conditions:
l. They will conduct negotiations
only with the Russian trade unions
and only with regard to the utilization
of the Russian Trade Unions to Am
sterdam.
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affiliation shall have as their basis
the program and statutes of the
Amsterdam International.
That the Amsterdamers laid down
such conditions is not to be wondered
at. They are continuing the sabotage
which they began at the Vienna Con-
gress. If we look up the letters which
have passed between the Amsterdam
International and the All-Russian
Trade Union Council during the last
two or three years, we see that all
these proposals. have already been
made on many occasions, to which
the All-Russian Trade Union Council
has always replied that it had no hand
in drawing up the program and the
statutes of the Amsterdam Interna-
tional and therefore has no reason to
recognize them as pre-conditions. 1t
! is in this manner that the right Am