The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
By A. LOZOvSKY,
'mtinued from Last Issue.)

Continued from Last Issue.)
IKE all former Congresses, the
IL Fourth Congress of the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions will devote
much attention to the labor movement
in the colonies and sem-colonial re-
gions. Seeing that the working class
and the trade unions of China have
come most to the fore during the last
few years, the tasks facing the Chi
nese trade unions, during the revo-
luton will be the subject of special
consideration.
Quite apart from the Chinese trade
unions, which bear upon their
shoulders the great weight of the
struggle against the internal and ex-
ternal enemies, the trade unions Of
India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and
whole number of other countries
play a very prominent part in the
fight for national and social emanci-
patton.
In it's treatment of the Labor
movement in the colonies and semi
colonial territories, the prospective
Congress will have to undertake
differentiation and specification of
the facts submitted to it. Upon the
whole, the Fourth Congress of the
Red international Of Labor Unions
will have to reply to great number
Of questions, not only as regards the
colonies and semi-colonies, but also
in respect of the imperialist coun-
tries. This refers quite particularly
to the colonial countries, however,
since there the trade union movement
is yet young, so that errors COM
mitted are more easily made gooG
than is the case in countries in which
definite forms of organization and q
hard and fast organization and a
hard and fast organizatory system
nave evolved and assumed perma-
nent form.
A SPECIAL point on the agenda CT
II the Fouth Congress of the Req
international of Labor Unions is the
question of the tactics to be OBJ
served by adherents of the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions in Grea,
3ri.ain. For the decision of this
question, not only the experience
made during the last few years IL
Great Britain, but also the revolu-
.ionary experiences in other countrieA
will have to be taken into considera
ton. All objective circumstance
speak for the fact that Great Britain
is likely soon to experience an ag-
grava .on of social struggles, anc
That despite the energetic attempts
on the part of the General Counci.
leaders TO bring about "industria
peace" All such struggles, however,
are doomed to fail, if they are carried
on under the guidance of those men
who deliberately abandoned then
position in May 1926. For this rea
son the question as to the tactics o.
The Minority Movement in Great
Britain, as to the methods Of captur-
.ng The masses, and the process to
De observed in instilling our revolu-
.ionary fighting methods into the
masses, gains quite special i'm
portance.
At the same time l, should like to
.aise the question of the immediate
tasks facing the revolutionary wing
of the Labor movement in Japan.
Naturally the situation in Japan is
different. In Great Britain the trade
union movement can look back on a
long history, while in Japan it is still
quite young and comprises a far
smaller proportion of the working
class. In Japan, however, the situa-
ton is quite peculiar. We there see
rising wave. The labor movement
is extremely split up. There is a
serious revolutionary wing, but it