The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-25
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In building the union many extreme right tendn
e supported by the have been developed Among are
convention b policy of building basis oppo
ton to amagamaon ) class collaboration tendencies policy to
help the employers associations cd failure to es-
tabsh shop delegate system unions illusions unity
failure to fight schesnger peace proposals. O opporunist
united fronts e. failure build Party CHI organized youth
ton Of T. u E. L. W abandonment of fight Capmakers
mouy handicap the building Of the new union and the
OF an effective struggle for the economic
have been dropped That in the packing nd has @
even neen started Little support given the for
union of Marine Transport workers
In the old trade practically aban-
donnd Party fractions and T. U. groups almost
entirely quidated Party members have quit
Inactivity in the old unions exempfed by
OF the Illinois Federation of Labor
history left wing delegates evidence wing delegates
to the F. of L. convention Similar conditions exist throughout
1f trade union movement The present policy of the p con
IS contrary to the line of the Cominten and Profntern
TRADE UNION TASKS OF THE PARTY
A. The trade union work Party primarily
upon the great masses of unsked and semed the most sharply
the skilled workers We unite the xpod
masses in increasingly revolutionary struggles general
leadership of Party only individual capital
ISM but also to abolish the capitalist system itself Our immediate
against the speedup and capitalist naturalization against
collaboration for defense the Soviet Union ung these
work must especially the marstc mperasic
of the treacherous labor agents American capitalism.
B. The confronting Party the organization
OF the unorgane which has been repeatedly stressed by the
in the mining textile d needle industries
will have to be accomplished in the face violent
attacks by the government the employers the union bureauca and
PARTY aetac b nral problem e9hu c Or success s tna our
cision The E. c. deanism
be liqudated at once.
Elementary requirements for success in organzinp the nm
organized (a building Party key
basic industries STEEL meat packing, electrical manufacturing,
To lay preliminary basis for trade union organization
the Party foundation present
system of Party organization work must be abolished ) thorough
going construction of Party fractions all labor this
purpose campaign of fraction building shall be initiated all
fronts Party members must be required join the unions their
ened () build the u E. L. The T. u E. L. shall begin prepara
lions for national conference which shall have its central task
the organization of the unoganzed mobilize
against the danger and capitalist naturalization The national
conferences all important which shall begin Immediately
after the Party Convention Unorganized workers shall
all these groups E. with
Profnern decisions shall develop special departments
ties International Negro youth and education Labor Unity
must be made weekly Party Negro
emphasis must be laid the development
Negro trade union work.
D. The U. E L. shall appear openly left wing organ
ot tn OF the 1t mas been serious mistake
not to have brought the T. forward under its
the mining textile and needle industries the struggles
wing Commit
Progressive Committees, Textile Mill Committees entire
hment of the unions The National U. should
been itself directly active in the struggle.
Campaigns of organization shall be worked
of shop Committees and Unions The ampaipn to build the m
dCstra unions in the rubber packing
shall be revived In the railroad industry orienaon be
campaigns in
the mining textile and needle industries To build the National
Miners industrial Party
support The organization
and be based
the workers interest in the industries
organization
the South, being industrazed
In the old unions Party
extended We fight the agents
of American Imperialism and to win the for policy of class
struggle The strike the Lynn shoe strike
evidence of discomfort these unions In craft industries
where we have unions printing building etc. policy shall
be esabhed amagamation organization the
for Labor Party class collaboration and for the
notwithstanding of these unions.
F. In industries where old new,
exist side by side policy shall be follows: the building
locals of the
liberation between the old the BOSSES members
union will have continue their dues the old
until these be destroyed factors the ituaon)
the organization of T. u E. L. left wings the old
The organization of the shall be
all circumstances The organization of T. u
the locals of the old unions shall be undertaken in all locals which
have substantial rank and file which offer possibilities
for the development OF opposition the
In these old unions shall persstenty and skuy direct
the work the left building the
to them the of organized in the old by
splits amagamatons by recruiting
unions.
G. The formation of the industrial requires their
coordination with the T. u E. L. This problem shall be solved along
following lines (a) the T. u E. the
u. shall openly direct the organizing
industries where the
be