The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
olution Of the Comintern on the American Question

offices should never degenerate into an unprncped
scramble.
ALONG with the development of the left wing and
"A closely related to this question: there is another
problem facing the Party; the organization of the
unorganized. This task is two-fold: ~ the
strengthening of existing trade unions and (2) the
establishment of new organizations where no OF
CARNATIONS of the American Federation of Labor
exist where the existing organizations stubbornly
resist the organization Of workers despite the fact
that there is possibility of conducting struggles
against the employers.
The significance of the strengthening of the
existing organizations of the American Federation
Of Labor consists especially in the fact that thru
the streaming in of additional hundreds of thou
sands and millions of workers into these organiza-
tions the basis for the revolutionary work of the
Party and of the left wing becomes extended, the
struggle against the reactionary bureaucracy can
be carried with greater possibilities of success
and the Party thru this work secures closer contact
with the native sections of workers
The Party members in the Trade Union Educa-
tional League should work for its avoiding any kind
of rigid organizational forms and should help it
adapt itself to the special conditions in the various
trade unions and industries in order to prevent
in the most intense struggle against the trade union
bureaucracy a split of the trade unions.
THE Party should not limit itself only to the work
in the existing trade unions The reactionary
policies of the bureaucracy who, in many instances
refuse to organize workers, and the increasing will
of the unorganzed masses to struggle, demand that
the Party, after examining all the circumstances,
and eXhaustng all possibilities to force the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to organize the I'M
organized especially in connection with definite
struggles against the employers should pursue with
the greatest energy the task of organizing the
organized. In such cases when it is necessary to
establish organizations every effort must be
made to link these up with the existing trade unions
and at the same time to insist on the right of the
workers themselves to administer the unions.
Wherever mass explosions or explosions of en-
tire organizations by the trade union bureaucrats
take place, the expelled workers or organizations
must hold firmly together and continue to struggle
for reinstatement and for the unity of the organza
sion the basis of the protection of the interests
of the workers
Wherever the formation of new organizations
becomes necessary they should be carefully planned
and prepared and be determnd by the concrete
circumstances of each particular case. The struggle
against the bureaucrats must never for fear
of their splitting measures but thelfoI1ns of the
struggle must be adapted to the special conditions
and designed to protect the unity of the organiza-
tons and to promote the interests of the workers
and their fighting capacities.
in order to carry work more successfully in
the trade unions and to ensure the leading role
of the Party in this work. the Party must give seri
GUS consideration to number of deviations which
have taken place recently. Leading comrades in the
needle trades (Wortis, Zimmerman, etc. have on a
number of occasions made Right deviations, thus
hampering the execution of the Party policies de-
signed to strengthen the struggles of the workers
This worked against the development of a suf-
ficiently clear and decisive leadership in the