The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
2 THE REHABILITATION OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE
REFORMIST TRADE UNIONS.


REFORMIST TRADE UNIONS.
The continued of working
sharpening of class battles leads growing crisis the reform
trade Already the Sixth the Comntern
and the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions
recorded the fusion us of the trade union with
During the last connection with the unfolding of the class
Hcts this has still deeper Just social democracy
vong through socampeasm socaascm, joining the ranks
of the vanguard of the capitalist the
of the rising revolutionary of the working (Zo
giebes May Day atroce the socast trade bureau
during the period sharpening battles completely
going big bOurgeoe, defending compulsory
arbitration endaorng harness the working class the yoke of
capitalist Transforming the reformist trade
para into strkebreakng organization This openly disclosed
program"
France and in the decisions of the last trade union Ger
and Great Britain Hamburg SWANSEA Industrial
cray which embodes the joint of the capitalists and the
reform the working class the official
Amsterdam International This International strike breaking
of the economic policy of the capitalists by of the direct col
Elaboration of the refom trade machinery with the employers
apparatus peacu agreements participation in the
voy boards of the trusts etc. and with the bourgeois state
atus ndust councils economic of the League of Nations
compulsory arbitration boards etc. At the time international
ntenses revolutionary
movement of the proaat the colonies Albert Thomas frae
nzes with the leaders of the yellow unions the Kuomnng hangme
carries out his reactonary plan Of the so-caed Labor
Congress.
this
played by wing
International Cook Fmmen e who under the cloak Of opposition
to the reacona leaders of the Amsterdam International trying
to conceal from the workers the significance of this and
forming active constituent nd by far the least
importantly in the system of social-fascism.
Naturally the situation becomes and noabe the
workers. when economic struggles they must remain under the
backleggng time
when capitalism widening and neyng its offensive with the OBJ
the main of the growing crisis the reform trade union
movement.
2. growing found its expression number of
countries the the reformist
an) and the growth of the revolutionary unions nda
LainAmera u Al 1t has also found its expression in keen
d the trade union bureaucracy
onslaught the socaast union bureaucracy
revolutionary trade union opposition the increasing expulsion
of members of the revolutionary opposition from the refom unions
president Bern
the unions which converted into
tast economy will growth
form trade union and the will be the attacks
of the trade union bureaucracy the revolutionary trade union
position The struggle within already
unusually sharp The to bear the trade
union officials by the of the workers that
frequently the lower links of the reformist unions feel themselves
forced to act against the trade union wirepuers who in order to
capitalist Sterilization pursuing the policy of class disruption
the last vestges of union presenting
reve the revolutionary opposition and heading for the
The of development
conforms the general transitional period the correlation
class forces the whole The working
fny to be in position take the
The union bureaucracy still influential
union opposition increasingly winning large
workers belonging the reomst This predmn also the
tasks of the Communists the ormst unions
draw from these unions but contribute the acceera
ton of the of revounan of the rank and file
of the remst by placing themselves the head of the class
struggle of the proletariat.
3. THE ECONOMIC BATTLES AND THE REVOLUTIONARY
TRADE UNION OPPOSITION.
The Ninth Plenum the
Fourth Congress of the
fore the Communist Parties and the revolutionary
ment only the task of independent leadership
of the best organization and preparation this
bringing about of working class unity from below,
Already that time the disparity between growth political
influence of the revolutionary trade its
tioEa pointed With this
the Communist factions
bottom and also recognize revolutionary industrial
lines Tin countries with dual unons)
rasm and to set factory committees the basis revolutionary
unions Attention the time called
ndoft
uary revolutionary