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

SOhNHptAOh VI NHO AuSOiOSy prevailing
in the /. w. w. to believe that it would
even consider affiiation to the Am
sterdam International, the sole func-
tion of which is to befuddle workers
with reforms, betray them by class
collaboration and to obstruct every
revolutionary movement. So we will
waste no words upon that.
Berlin Group Not Industrial Unlonists.
There is, also, an insignificant
anarcho-syndicalist group at Berlin
Il. w. M. A.) which profanes the name
of the First International of Marx,
whose Science they despise and ig-
more, but it is not conceivable that
the l. w. W., altho recently swayed
by an Intriguing anarchist element
which has traduced the Marxists in
the organization and Unanswered it
into a discreditable position Of hostil-
ity toward Soviet Russia, will ever
ally itself definitely to the Berlin
group. The Berlin group cares moth
ing at all for industrial unionism as a
structural form, its philosophy of in
dividualistic anarchism carries with it
decentralization, craft autonomy,
splits in the economic front of work
ers facing struggle with bosses, con-
fusion covered with revolutionary
phraseology, and it remains a schis-
matte and impotent handful of anar-
chists whose sole claim to attention is
a negative position-an opposition to
everything symbolized by the Soviet
power of the Russian workers.
Against the ever more united and
more murderous international bour-
geoisie such instruments are a danger
in place of an aid
X The Red international of Labor
Unions, with headquarters at Moscow,
is the international to which the /. w.
w. should affiliate in harmony with
its own best interests. The r. /. l..
u. unites approximately $4,000, 600
workers Of forty-two countries, and
bases its struggle upon revolutionary
industrial unionism in an interna-
tional of vigor, action and disciplined
effort thru democratic Capitalization.
1t aims to unite all revolutionary
workers in the world for a joint strug-
gle against capitalism and the build
ing up of a Communist society thru
the historically necessary period Of
transition During a transition period
the proletariat will become the rul-
ing class and will compel all capitalist
and counter-revolutionary elements to
submit to its class dictatorship. In
every country the R. /. L. U. strives to
bring about as close organic unity
as possible in the ranks Of economic
organizations which are fighting sep
arately against a common enemy. In
cases where, for reasons of organiza-
tionaT or theological differences, OBJ
stacles exist to organic unity, the r.
r. L. U. strives to bring workers or
CARNATIONS into united front of CO.
ordinate action upon specific pro-
grams of defense and offense toward
capitalist conditions.
r. !. L. U. for Industrial Unionism.
The R. /. L. U. feels that its pro-
gram, structure, aims and tactics have
an especial appeal to the revolution
airy workers of the /. w. w. Recog-
mixing that all unions under the pres
ent imperfalist stage of capitalist rule
must transform themselves from or
gans of defense into organs of attack,
the r. l. L. u. considers the industrial
form Of unionism as the one best
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brings about industrial unionism as
circumstances may dictate, either by
formation of new organizations or by
amalgamation of the old ones. The
r. /. L. U. bases these unions on the
point of production in factory and job
committees and their combination in
workers councils to control produc-
ton. What program is more near to
the /. w. w. than this?
The r. I. L. U. does not share the
syndicalist prejudices toward a revo-
lutionary party of Communism. The
structure of unions, which must in
clude workers of backward ideas
equally with the most advanced types
is insufficient during the now-opened
historical epoch OF capitalist decline
which must lead to the revolutionary
overthrowal, because such structure
does not conform to the function of
incisive inspiration and disciplined
direction in the developed and open
fight for power of the workers as the
ruling class. Victory in the fight for
power will come only when the vary
ing layers among the masses of the
workers are united and permeated
with Communist spirit, which unifica-
ton and permeation can only be per-
formed by workers Of the most adj
vanced layer organizing themselves
in an exclusive, disciplined body
united to the last man on the idea OF
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