The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07

rank anu HE.
The Red international Afiliation
that the theories of anarcho-syndical
scientific theory of revolutionary in.
dustrial unionism which was the
cornerstone OF the whole structure Of
1.-The /. w. w. until-behind the. smoke
screen Of lies about Soviet Russia
and the Red international of Labor
Unions, the anarcho-syndicalist mis-
leaders captured the l. w. w. and
steadily diluted this, its basic theology.
Anareho-syndleaIists Destroy Indus
trial Unionism.
The Red International Afiliation
Committee has repeatedly called the
} attention of the membership of the
/. W. w. that such fatally wrong
theory, persisted in and carried into
practice, would tend to disinteRrate
and destroy the I. w. w. because it
removed its positive and firmly
scientific foundation.
The anarcho-syndicalis leading
group, consisting Of some deludeG fell
low workers and some artful dema-
gogues full Of spleen as a snake is
Of poison have, in some instances,
scoffed at our warnings or as in the
instance OF the petty-bourgeois fanatic
who edits the Industrial Worker, en-
deayored to shift the blame for the
admitted decay in the l. w. w. on
to the adherents Of the Red Interna-
tional.
A Stump Rancher in Distress.
1t is true that he failed to explain
how the Red Internationalists caused
the decay in the organization when
they hold no executive office anywhere
in the |. w. w. It is also true that
J 1.-THE frenzied editor fails to explain how
it happens that he holds the adherents
of the Red International up to scorn
as a mere handful of wretches with
impotent and worthless ideas in one
column, while in another he pays
tribute to our power and the force
of our correct ideas as being so potent
as to be responsible for all the ills
{ from which he admits the /. w. w.
suffers.
+, But If there were anything needed
, to prove up to the hilt that the cause
of dissolution and decay, so far as it
, exists in the I. w. W., is chargeable
directly to the anarcho-syndicalist
theory and the leadership which fol-
lows it and of which the editor of the
Industrial Worker is a noisy part, it
is the publication in the third and
fourth columns, page 2, issue Of April
1, 1925, of the same Industrial Worker,
, under the 'editorship of the stump
rancher anarcho-syndicalist editor, of
plan for abolishing industrial union
ism in the I. w. w.
J Confusion Upon Theory.
It is quite true that the plan was
really adopted by a mass conven-
ton" of General Construction Work
ers' Industrial Union No. $40 of the
. /. w. W., held in Seattle on March 2S
and "a. That is the fault of the mem
, bership Of /. U. $40 and indicates the
o complete confusion upon theoretical
questions now prevailing in the whole
l. w. W., with some honorable ex-
ceptions.
But 1t can scarcely be charged to the
adherents Of the Red International OF
Labor Unions that the plan finds
space in the columns OF the Industrial
(, Worker, without a word of editorial
criticism and with an approving head
line about l. U. $40 advising Organ
ization on Job Lines"
Behold the Enemy
This kindly advice" to abolish in.
dustrial unionism in the |. w. w. was
not printed by any of those terrible
Communists or Red Internationalists
On the contrary it was given space
.. by their bitter opponent. II a Com
munist had been editing the Industrial
Worker, or even had an old-time revo
lutionary Industrial unionist been its
editor, he would have resigned rather
than print without opposing comment
the plan (which is to go to referendum
in the union) for abolishing industrial
unionism in the !. w. W., OF which
J we give the essential parts as follows:
mo. I. The membership Of In
dustriaI Union No. $40 shall be
|, guided by this convention ruling and
the constitution Of the Industrial
!. Workers Of the World"
! In point of fact the "and" should be
an "or," as the ruling conflicts with
the |. w. w. constitution, also, II
the ruling carried, Industrial Union
? No. 310" would no longer be an in
dustrial union, granting the doubtful
: matter that IL is so now. But the
meat Of the plan IS as follows:
mo. 3. The offices Of secretary
Z treasurer, general organization COM