The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-03

continental countries cannot be relied upon at the
present time Gas know from my personal experience
all the time we in Russia and also in Amster-
dam) to give unbiased presentation Of facts.
The above are extracts from the preface written
by A. A. Purcell president of the International
Federation of Trade Unions to the first issue of
the special supplement, devoted to international
trade union unity, to the Monthly Circular of the
labor research department of the British Trades
Union Congress.
The publication of this bulletin has been made
necessary by the sabotage Of the unity drive by the
right wing of Amsterdam and by the Second Inter
national.
Purcell sets forth in some detail the betrayal of
unity by the Amsterdammers and considering the
habitually restrained expressions of our British
brothers, his statements doubly damning He
says:
the conduct Of official representatives Of
the other trade union movements with certain
.iIaudable exceptions) has been one Of extreme
hostility to proposals emanatins from the General
Council of our Trade Union Congress and that this
hostility led them into acts Of trckery-it is
best to speak pIainly-towards trade union
movement cannot be doubted To this it is only
necessary to read of the statements they made
succeeding F. 7. U. meeting at Amsterdam
this month Both oudegeest and Jouhaux mot to
speak of VOrwarts have made it plain that they regard
the so-csled compromise" motion carried there
smart piece of work that defeats nine months
endeavOr to attain international unity thru the
medium Of Immediate unconditional conference"
Last week we said that the report of the British
trade union delegates to Soviet Russia marked the
hpOin Off ho of ha IF thp
sian revolution into the Anglo-SaxOn countries
countries where for certain reasons its effect has
been less marked than on the European continent
and the Far East The drive for unity Of the world
trade union movement started by the Red Interna-
tonal of Labor Unions has been greatly strengthen
ed by the official report of the British delegation
1t has blown away the fog of lies and half-truths
with which the sOcial-democracy and the capital
lists had concealed the great events taking place in
Russia. The publication of the report is coincdent
with the launching of an intensive campaign for
unity by the British trade unions marked by the
establishment of press devoted solely to the end
of exposing the Amsterdam and socialist traitors.
In addition to the special supplement to the
Monthly Circular of the labor research department
the British labor movement is now, publishing
Trade Union Unity-whose name declares its pur
pose-with editorial board composed of A. A.
Purcell, Edo Fimmen and George Hicks
Things are moving in the labor movement of the
world The agents Of world capitalism are on the
defensive
The task of the Workers Communist Party
and Trade Union Educational League i to bring
the best elements of the American labor movement
into step with the world swing to unity.
We begin tomorrow the publication in serial
form of the special supplement on International
Trade Union Unity from which we have quoted
: f5n now on we shall devote much space TO ex
tracts from all publications favorable to world
trade union unity. In addition we will publish
quotations from the report of the British trade
union delegation and endeavor to give the Amer
lean workers clear impression OF the immense
Importance Of the relations established between
the All-Russian and British trade unions-the most
important international event since the signing of
the Russian Chinese treaty. es
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