The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Continued from Page 81.
3. Trade Union Work.

IN the trade union field the Party has achieved
quite number of successes expressed in the in
creasing influence of the Left Wing in important
unions (the miners union and needle trades) and in
initiating and leading big strikes. The increasing
influence Of the Party and of the Left Wing has
called forth offensive of the corrupt trade union
bureaucracy a result of which there are made
far-reachng demands the tactical adroitness of
the Workers (COmmunist) Party.
The Central problem facing the Party in its
struggle against the offensive of the trade union
bureaucrats and in its efforts to increase its in
fuence is the development of a broad Left Wing
within the trade unions in which the Party must
be driving and leading force for the revolutionizng
of the American Labor movement. Therefore the
Party, in the opinion of the leading comrades of
all groups, must support the Trade Union Educa-
tional League to much greater extent than hither-
TO- The Party should do everything in its power
to help build up the Trade Union Educational
League its industrial and local sections, without
delay under the most varied forms and means.
The Party members in the Trade Union Educa-
tional League should support the idea that these
organizations and contacts comprise all Left Wing
and genuine progressive elements who struggle
against the reactionary bureaucracy and who want
to transform the trade unions into organs of strug
gle against the capitalists. In accordance with this
line they should favor the program of the Trade
Union Educational League being on a broad basis,
which will include the organization of the morgan
lied, the characterization of the trade unions the
amalgamation of the craft unions into powerful in
dustrial unions, the formation of Labor Party and
an aggressive struggle against the capitalists. All
organizations built this basis should serve as
base for the development and organization of still
larger opposition movements beyond the confines
of the Trade Union Educational League. The Party
must give the most active support to the organ of
the Left Wing, Labor Unity" and other Left Wing
journals, help them to be placed on broader basis,
thus providing expression for all sections of the
Left Wing and genuine progressive movements.
THE Party and the Left Wing must make contacts
with all such progressive elements who are pre-
pared to join in a united front with the Left Wing
to fight against the policies of the reactonaries.
Every opportunity should be taken advantage of in
order to make agreements with these elements with
view toward conducting joint struggles for speci
fie issues. These united front movements and all
differences and splits in the ranks of the trade
union bureaucracy must be utilized in order to
strengthen the basis for the left wing and the po
sition of the Party.
The Party must combat every illusion about the
truly independent role of the prOgressiyes and
W hen in Joint action with them show up and criticize
their weaknesses and vacilatiOns, in order to adj
vance and to develop the leading role of the Party
and the left wing The Party must struggle with
special intensity against those black reactionaries
who for expediency, pose as progressves IN certain
situations and who thru their support of the left
wing only compromise the latter. Communists must
participate actively in every struggle and take adj
vantage of every opportunity to occupy leading Of
fees in the trade unions. The struggle for these