The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16

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ported by all Communist parties no
matter what its practical results
may be. We must realize that the
rapprochement of the Soviet and
British trade unions is a circum-
stance Of extraordinary historical inn
portance. The move Of the British
proletariat to the left changes the ra-
ito of forces in the struggle between
imperialism and Communism.
OF course, in order to unite the
~ trade union movement, which is
now divided along innumerable lines,
into a homogeneous fighting battalion
the slogan: "convocation of an inter-
national unity congress and dissoIu-
ton of the Amsterdam international
and the r. !. L. U. into a unified
international" remains in force. The
idea of the International unity con-
gress must be spread amongst the
masses. The left elements in Amster-
dam, who are already beginning to
realize that there is no other way out
Of this condition of split, must be
won for this struggle and for the fus-
ion of both internationais at this con-
gress.
The trade union movement in the
Near, Middle and Far East has made
enormous progress in the last few
years. One only need mention the
trade union movement in Japan,
China, the East Indies, India and
Egypt to understand the entire sig
nificance of union of the trade union
movements of the East and West. The
trade union movements in the Near,
Middle and Far East are to con-
siderable extent linked up with the
R. /. l.. U. But there is a number
Of trade union organizations which be-
long to no International. 1t is neces-
sary to bring the trade unions of
Japan as well as of the colonial and
semi-colonial countries into the united
proletarian trade union family. In
<sseobtain the active participation
Of the trade unions in these coun-
tries in the united international, the
Communist parties and the trade
unions of the mother countries main
tain close contact with those in the
colonies. In the course of the past
year something has been done in this
direction. This task must be followed
as before, and we must set ourselves
the practical daily task of drawing
the labor movement of the Near Mid
die and Far East into the fight for the
united international. The unity Of the
trade movement is directed against
the bourgeoisie and their social-de-
mocratic lackeys. The fight for the
united front and for trade union
unity will bring the revolutionary
workers closer to the workers still in
the reformist and other organizations
and will transfer our struggle against
social-democracy to the very depths
of the laboring masses. The fight for
unity will only then be successful, if
the Communist parties in every coun-
try become a mass force to be reck-
oned with. To this end it is neces-
sary that more and more nuclei and
fractions be built up in all existing
trade union organizations. that the en-
tire opposition within these organiza-
lions be united, that we gain every
foot Of ground from the reformists
and that our fight against interna-
tional reformism be increased to the
utmost.
The organizational unity Of the
trade union movement does not sig
nifty an theological rapprochemen or
an armIstiee with the reformists; Il
signifies the hundredfoId intensifi-
cation Of the fight against reform
ism.
Ut present the international labor
n movement is going thru a pecu-
liar period Of quiet and OF the consoli-
dation of its forces. OF course this Is
only conditional quiet, for the in
tensifed class struggles are continu-
Ing, but an immediate struggle for
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