The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-03
Sixth All-Russian Trade Union Congress
Delivered sixth AII-Russan Union congres

take corresponding measures.
The diplomats of the Second Inter-
national have often tried TO stir up
.distrust for the Russian trade unions
and for our party. They ask why
do the Russian Communists and trade
unions all of sudden evince de-
sire for the unity of the world trade
union movement. Comrades, | think
that were there even no other rea-
sons, the one that l have mentioned
at least exists. The new phase Of
the blacklist world reaction is a suffl-
cient reason why every honest work
ing class militant should say that
under this situation International
unity of the trade union movement is
as necessary as the air that we
breathe. If from America and Eng
land, from these mighty imperialist
countries, a new eruption of reaction
airy lava is bursting forth, If there the
masks have been removed, if the mas
querade with the labor government"
has come to an end, and black clouds
are directly moving upon us. is 1t not
natural that the advanced elements Of
the working class respond to it, first
Of all by hearty, fiery desire to
unite the entire world proletariat on
a minimum program, in order to have
a united international trade union
movement and be prepared to put up
the united front against the world
bourgeois reaction? The riddle Is
easily solved For US the tactic Of
/ the world labor movement is deter
mined first of all by the class strug-
gle. We did not for a moment be-
lieve in democratic-pacinsm that has
become fayorite in some circles. In
the midst of this EZRA" we said:
Comrades. see they are presenting
you with cake, only in order to re-
place it with a whip. They show you
pink today, but tomorrow they will
show you the blacklist reaction" We
know that this democratic pacifism
is a brief episode, we know that the
bourgeoisie would show its teeth, and
this has now taken place. And now,
our militant cry to all the honest
workers, irrespective of views and
tendencies, to all the devoted sons of
our class, is: Let us unite, in order
to fight this black reaction, to meet
this pressure, to break the black
line, to deal blow into the heart
of the enemy, and to make the great
est strides along the path which in
our opinion would unite the workers
of the world. (AppIause). This is
our answer to the question why we
are so powerfully stressing the slo-
gan of international labor unity, that
has so unequivocally been formulated
by the Comintern and by the recent
congress OF the r. l. l.. u. hope
that it will meet with the same
mighty response at your congress, as
was evoked from the best workers Of
the entire world (applause).
It appears to me that the biggest
obstacle in the way Of international
unity is represented by the social
democratic leaders Of the German
trade unions, the most inveterate
trade union bureaucrats OF Germany.
In them lies the chief obstacle. or
course, there are plenty of secondary
obstacles. M. Jouhaux is not one
whit better than the German bureau
Gratis; still the main group that
knows Just what it is doing, that
knows for what object II is splitting
the international trade union Love
ment, that does not act blindly, but
pursues deliberately the tactic of the
bourgeoisie, are the leaders of the
German trade unions. AND we address
the British workers in the first place,
In order that they might know that
II any one prevents international
unity. that If anyone represents the
chief obstacle, it is the German So
cial democrats, the bu-eaucrats of
the German labor movement, who are
ready to do anything and everything
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