The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-24
By MARTIN ABERN

voted and intelligent, the Party will
reach position where its advice will
be accepted gladly and readily by the
unions"
| DEACTION in the labor union move
IN ment is not something which can
be overcome over night and without
the most difficult of work and opposi-
ton and hard knocks. The whole thing
must be considered practically and
historically. In his book 'Leftism, an
Infantile Disease" Comrade Lenin
states:
"But the development Of the proIe-
tariat did not and could not anywhere
in the world proceed by any other
road than that Of trade unions with
their mutual activity with the working
class Party" Further on, referring to
the Left German Communists he says:
"They refuse to work in theml They
invent new workingmen's unions!
This is an objectionable blunder, one
by which the Communists render the
greatest services to the bourgeoisie
/. -. Not to work within the reac-
tionary Trade Unions means to leave
the insufficiently developed or back
ward working masses to the influence
CT reactionary leaders, agents of the
bourge oisIe, labor aristocrats-bou
geoisfied workers"
DUILD the Party by working as
ID Communists should in the trade
union movement. In the metal trades,
needle trades, building trades, every
where, get into the work of the T. U.
e. L. which is the work of the Party.
Our Party has got on the right basis
by declaring for trade union work and
we must not and can not tolerate for
a moment any inactivity in industrial
and trade union work. Not out of the
unions, but into the unions; don't just
accept the program of the T. U. E. L.,
but get into the unions, get into the
work.
1T is to be seen that the problems Of
| the Communist in the trade unions
are fundamentally the same all over
the world. To become the vanguard
of the proletariat. the Communists
must attain the leadership of the trade
union movement. Despite explosions
and splits, whether engineered by
Amsterdam, Gompers, Sigman, or any
body else, our task is to fight for unity
in the trade union movement. If our
comrades have not been as active as
they ought to be in the unions in Chi
cago, New York, Minneapolis and the
hundreds of other cities, let them get
more firmly into the work. BY fight
ing all along the line on every issue
before the union from wage cuts,
strikes, amalgamation, Fascism, Ku
Klux Khan, shop delegate system, the
Labor Party, to Communism, we can
win the fight against the yellow union
leadership. In Southern Illinois, for
instance, we know that we have the
problem of the Ku Klux Khan in the
unions and the only way 70 meet it
is for our comrades to be inside of
the unions fighting the Khan on all
issues.
the Revolution is to be conquered,
] we must conquer the organized La
Dor movement for this will be the
basis Of the future economic and So
cial order. Comrade Losovslky says in
his book, "The International Labor
Movement:
"But one thing is clear: the
stronger, the more united, the more
elastic and aggressive the revolution
airy wing of the Labor movement will
be, the more effectively we. the Com
munists, estimate the relation Of
forces outside and inside the working
class-the more correct will be our
conduct, the sooner will humanity ar.
rive at the developed form Of Com
munist Society,""