The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

dam International is attempting by drawing in the
conservative A. F. of L. to drive the entire trade
union movement still further to the Right.
IN addition to a broad theological counter-campaign
the Party must adopt a number of effective meas
for bringing ever-increasing sections of work
into the most intense opposition to the capital
lists and the trade union bureaucrats and for max
ing the proetariat adopt independent class pol
icy. AS much measures should be considered:
Increased struggles for the establishment Of
political mass party of the working class independ-
ent of all capitalist parties-of a Labor Party
strengthening at the same time the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. In order to accelerate the forma-
ton of Labor Party, not only politically but also
organziationally the Party should form local and
state committees composed of Left Wing and prog
ressive trade unionsts; trade union locals should
be won for this work. AS a broad enough
basis has been created, the Party shall take the
initiative in the formation of a National Committee
which should seek to form Labor Party thru the
calling of national convention. The Labor Party,
a forerunner, UNITED Labor Ticket" must have
a strong basis in the trade unions If this
mass basis is not attained, then the Workers (Com-
munist) Party must itself a Party enter the cleo
tons campaign. This applies both to local and ma
tona election campaigns. The Party must con-
centrate great attention election campaigns.
These have growing Importance for awakening
of the workers to independent political action and
for linking up the Party closely to the
THE Party must carry on the struggle against the
reactionary trade union bureaucrats, for the
transformation of the unions into militant organza-
tons and for broadening their basis thru the organ
izaton of the unorganized masses. The economic
struggles of the workers must be developed extended
and intensified by the Party in order to increase
the class solidarity of the masses
The Party must oppose the reactonary govern
ment as executive organ of the mperialist trust
and finance capital, as enemy of the working
class who in every struggle supports the bourgeoisie
with all the means at his disposal and an instru-
ment for the oppression of colonial peoples and for
fomentng new wars.
In order to expose the anti-abor character of the
institutions of trade union capitalism Qabor banks.
trade union insurance corporations, etc. to under
mine the confidence of the workers in these nstitu-
tions and to free the labor movement from their
disntegrating effects the Party must also put for
ward other specific proposals in accordance with
the concrete circumstances. To this category of
proposals belong: struggle for social legislation 9d
ministered by the insured. This struggle must be
carried with the understanding that reforms
by-products of the revolutionary struggle" for
social legislation is not in ITSELF effective weap
against bourgeoisificaton.
At the time, the Party should encourage the
development of powerful genuine working class
cooperative movement which must be closely con-
nected with the class struggle of the proletarian
movement. All measures must be taken in order to
eliminate the influence of the reactionary labor
bureaucracy and to place leadership in the hands of
Communists and of other reliable left workers.
THE freeing of the trade unions from trade union
capitalism and the complete separation of the
trade unions from the labor banks is an important
premise for the development of the trade unions
into fighting organizations. The Party must de-
Veop concrete methods of struggle in order to de-
velop effective resistance against the linking up of
the trade unions and labor banks. Whenever it ap-
pears evident that the mobilization of the masses
for resistance to trade union capitalism in the form
of labor banks can be best effected by demanding
the transformation of these enterprises into coop
eratve labor banks under the actual control of and
direction by the workers, the Communists can bring
forward such proposals. relating them with other
concrete demands in their agitation and eff
fectively counteracting, thereby, the demagogy of
the reactionary trade union leaders. But the Party
must certainly not allow itself to be carried away
by illusions in regard to the possibility of such
transformation of the labor banks which may be
possible only in a few individual 1t would
be mistake for the Party to put these questions
in the foreground of its work
The Party must do its utmost to expose labor
banks which pretend to be cooperative banks, but
which in reality entirely bound up with the big
capitalist banks Where the possibility exists and
where it advisable, and after making the
economic basis of such institutions thoroly secure
cooperative banks controlled by the workers them
selves be established in order to the means
at the disposal of the workers for strengthening
the material basis of the labor movement Under
no circumstances money raised in this manner
be used for anti-proletarian aims-it must rather
be used for building up of powerful workers CO.
operative movement, and for other purposes in the
interest of the working class for example, grant
ing loans to the Soviet Union.
THE most important weapon in the struggle against
the bourgeoisificaton of the working class is
the strengthening of the Communist Party. With
the greatest energy the Party must overcome the
existing difficulties The division of the working
class into native foreign-born and Negro workers
makes great demands for increased activity among
the Negroes. Work among foreign born workers
must also be increased. But the most important
task in the present stage for the development of