The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
The Movement for World Trade Union Unity

Union also secured the support transport workers
continental Europe refusing to ship coal to Britain the
event Of miners strike This alliance pledged itself to strike
along with the miners and actually issued strike orders This
display of solidarity and mtancy forced the capitalists TO matt
their offensive on the government subsidized the
mine owners to the e5OOOOOOO the understanding
contract be extended until May 1926.
That the British ruling class understands that this swing TO
part challenge to the cap
ast system shown in the preparations being made TO ad
minister crushing blow TO the trade unions Inc lasc
men is openly organizing Strkebreakers are being organized
approval government in organization named the
Maintenance of Supplies Cabinet ministers openly threaten the
OF force against the working class Inc communist Far
Minority Movement leaders arrested charged
with sedous propaganda especially among the armed forces
The right wing leadership repudaed at the
Scarborough Union Congress- and the left wing leaders
lists Daily Herald discussion ragged for weeks
the question: Shall the workers arm The parliamentary
party still dominated by Macdonald Co But the masses
unionists following the left wnghe battles
being fought between the left and right wings inside the
today preparatory towards effective challenge
of British capitalism.
new the British trade union movement
Union
gress October The following constitutes the
gram British trade unions according to the decisions Of that
l. That capitalism longer the interests
the working class and must he renaced by system of societ,
upon the of wealth production
In the struggle against capitalism forms of struggle
therefore necessary organize shop
mobilize the fight against capitalism
The actions Of the general council regarding information
unity endorsed and the council instructed
continue work with the AngoRusan Unity Committee for
this aim
a. Definitely British Imperialism declared
that British empire based the exploitation of mill
lions of colonial slaves that the duty of the unions to aid
the destruction of this slave empire and that the Trade Union
Congress must help the colonial workers organize themselves
trade unions and political parties for the fight against British
capitalist exploitation.
program conjunction the growing
seriousness of the trade unonsts shown by the growth of the
Minority Movement has laid the basis for the of the
British trade union movement That movement has always been
held the ideal conservative craft union of the
world So conservative it that the great deeds of the found
of the first trade unions the beginning of the last century
the heroic deeds of the Char between 1880 and 1S9
forgotten But the misery brought upon the British workers by
the capitalist crisis has forced them forward as matter Of self
preservation The British workers will in the future that
they able perform deeds than the heroic
Charsts in the coming class conflicts.
The movement for world trade union unity having for its
basis the 1000 trade unions of Britain
powerful force in the working class today
The opposition of the reaconary Amsterdam encouraged
the American Federation of Labor ocaldom this
en will be swept aside by the necessity
defend themselves against the cooe living
upon them by capitalism. ae g