The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16

bHOy CetH LHuS snow their loyalty
while doing some practical mental la
Dor at the same time.
Such practically degrades both the
bootlickers and the trade unions.
T ENNIS practically was a revolu-
- tionary practicality. He asked
but one question when considering
trade union struggles:
"How can the struggle be conduct
ed so as to best serve the immedi-
ate needs Of the workers and in
crease the power of the working
class as against that of their OPP
pressors?"
In finding an answer to this ques-
ton Lenin rendered to the trade
unionists of the world and to the
whole working class one of his great
est services. 1t is Characteristic of
Lenin's method. the MARKHAM dialect
ic method which considers all prob.
lens of the class struggle as part OF
The whole, that the treacherous role
Of the trade union bureaucracy in the
present period, was made clear in
Leninls analysis of imperialism as
vas the the revolutionary role of the
colonial and semi-colonial labor and
peasant movements as allies of the
working class in the daily and revolu-
eionary struggle.
THE bureaucrats, said Lenin, are
! part of the apparatus of imperial
SIN together with certain privileged
upper strata of the trade unions. The
ieninist strategy and tactics in the
ade unions are based on the now
ompletely proven fact that thesc
foups, because they are bribed and
'ebauched by portion of the super
'rott sweated from the conquered
olonial peoples, hamper, betray and
livide the labor movement. In the
United States that section of the
workers. and the bureaucracy which
Profits from banking and insurance
chemes, which accepts and encour-
ges the installation of the B. & o.
Ian and other forms of company
'nionism, are participating in the
uper-Drofits of imperialism and be-
raging the class interests of the trade
MONS and the whole working class.
7 ENNISM in practice in the Amer
IL lean trade unions becomes an
uncompromising struggle against the
bureaucracy-the agents of imperial
SIN in the unions. This struggle is
not only because of the
eounterrevolutionary character of the
but because it sabotages
even the struggle for increased wages.
shorter hours and a higher living
standard for the great mass of organ
lied workers. 1t wars on the most |
conscious and militant section of the |
workers with the aid of the |
bosses, the state and the police. II |
tries to lead the whole trade union |
movement into the capitalist camp.
President Green of the A. f. of L.,
speaking before the chamber of com
merce in Newark, Ohio, a few days
ago, said that there is no room for |
class hatred or the class struggle in i
America. The American labor move
ment has accepted the existing
order."
A GAINST this policy OF surrender
1 Leninism mobilizes the masses Of
he trade unionists. Precisely be-
cause of the reactionary character of
he trade union oficialdom, their role
If imperialist agents and because of
he function of the trade unions as
;enters of resistance of the workers
inder capitalism, mass organs of
struggle during the revolutionary
period and as organizers of produc-
ion and the basis of the working
lass government after the revolution,
n alliance with the exploited farmers
md farm workers, Lenin insisted and
proved that it simply plays into the
lands of the capitalists and the Off
'ialdom for the masses to leave the
rada uniOng