The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-24
WORKERS PARTY
ASKS FOR UNITY
FOR EDUCATION
PrOlet0riGn Schools for
the Glass Struggle
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society.
Workers education faces this in
escapable fact at the very outset.
workers education has for its pur-
pose the awakening of labor to the
consciousness that as class OF wage
earners, it is doomed as long as capi-
talism exists, to labor under Its yoke
for a mere pittance.
workers education must lead the
workers to an understanding OF the
nature of the system under which la
Dor works, SO as to conduct more
intelligent and a more aggressive
struggle against the everincreasing
capitalist expressions with view to
their complete liberation from such
conditions.
Workers education must teach the
workers the necessity Of following In
dependent political action.
workers education must expose the
institutions of capitalism, intellectual
as well as political as agencies for the
suppression of discomfort and the per
petuation of the power Of the capital
list class.
What Policy Has the w. {. 3. Been
Pursuing.
The w. e. B. is entirely falling to
meet these fundamental requirements
of workers education. In its present
policy and under its present leader
ship, the w. e. B. is only another in
strument to suppress any idea that
the position of workers rises or falls
as a class; It systematically minimiz-
es, ignores or completely denies the
existence Of the class struggle; it
has pursued a policy of educating the
workers to a policy of class collabora-
ton with the capitalists, a policy
which can lead only to the liquidation
of the labor movement; this concep-
ton and policy results logically to the
suppression Of any militancy in the la
Dor movement.
An examination of the activities OF
the executive of the w. E. B. fails to
show any realization Of the fact that
the capitalists are growing more pow
erful, more reactionary and are COM
bining to an ever greater extent for
the suppression Of the labor move
ment. They closed their eyes to the
fact that American capitalists are
monopolizing not only the economic
resources of America, but are stretch
ing out for economic supremacy over
the entire world.
The leadership Of the w. 3. B. ig-
nores the menace to the life and fu-
ture of the working class that lies in
the imperialist war-breeding policy
of American capital. The w. E. B.
leadership has failed to teach labor
the necessity of unity against this
menace to it's welfare.
The literature issued by the W. E.
B. tends both in point Of view and
selection of subject to support the
program of feeble reformism and col
laboration with the employers under
the guise Of impartiality. It in many
cases assumes a definitely capitalist
viewpoint.
Reaotionary Leadership of w. {. 3.
This policy of education is pursued
by the w. e. B. today, because its
leadership is in the hands Of the most
reactionary group Of the labor move
ment Of this country. who pursue in
the field of education the same path
that they have taken in the field of
trade unionism. On the trade union
field the Matthew Wolls, Perkinses,
Greens, follow the reactionary policy
of Gompers, eschew any militant class
policy and help the capitalists to
chain labor firmly to the wheels of
exploitation. These reactionary off,
Gals have entered the field OF edu-
cation with the sole purpose Of SNUFF
fing out any spark Of class conscious
ness which the growing oppression OF
the present system makes inevitable
and thus they make of workers edu-
cation a spiritual bulwark Of capital
list reaction as we'll as an adjunct to
maintain their policy OF rule or ruin
in the trade union.
These labor bureaucrats have enter
ed into the agreement to sponsor the
w. Il. B. at the price OF the complete
subsection Of the w. e. B. to their re-
dictionary policies. These oficials saw
that the existence of an organized
workers educational movement might
lead to the dissemination OF ideas
more in harmony with the interests
OF the working class; that II might |
,-.==-thermore lead to the creation OF
Of groups OF trained workers who chal- |
lenge their stagnant and oppressive |
leadership in the labor movement and |
they made speed TO get this movement |
safely into their hands.
Policy Of Exclusion.
In the course OF the establishment
Of their control the bureaucratic off,
cials excluded such large bodies OF
labor as the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers. They eliminated the mildly