The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
The Convention of the Trade
Union Unity League
nSsoadtion Adopted by the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the u. S A.

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of the line of the Sixth World Congress- the Fourth Congress
the Red International Labor Unions the
Executive Committee of the Communist International appca-
ton of this line by the leadership of the Communist
the United States of America.
The Convention constituted in itself dramatic demonstration of
S gSg f o ne Mok@S Of H. hs umted states under
itself striking theory exceponasm
put forward by LOvestOne and Pepper and which found
majority minority Party evidence
of the correctness of the criticism of the Comnen contained the
of in
tern Address The conventions character and vitality coming this
time this country showed the righteousness of the
theory prmacy of outer contradictions the basis of which
LOveone is trying to substitute the Second industrial revolution" and
of the workers. result of the sharpening of the inner contradictions
of American imperialism which of the growing world crisis
of capitalism and from despite its continued growth
but undergoing sharpening of all its contradictions precisely be-
Unity League expression
of the development of the class struggle in the United States
of the growing crisis of world capitalism and the growing radcaza
ton of the The t. u u the instrument for the
United States called forth by the period of capitalism
country where the bulk of the workers are unogazed and where the
of has been reduced organization of the most
highly skilled workers the araGy labor The T. u u L. cor
iya5 1orLers are +la mos, rovot;onar section Of +bo in class
The T. UU L. is based these sections of the working class
The Trade Union Unity League structure form and method
revolutionary organization of struggle based the international
experience of the working class the
and traditions of the Red international of Labor Unions which the
U. L. the United Section. part world
wide the workers develop forms against
the combination of trufied capital the state and the ass
The u u L. will coordinate the struggles of the exploited
initiate the struggle of the organization Of the
and the social fas The T. u u L. will organize and direct the
work the old A. F. of that still retain within th
will coordinate the struggle of the workers in the industrial
unions with the struggles developing against the A. F. of L. bureau
A The T. will
the center of the American workers against the A F. of which
is tool of American imperialism.
Convention, recognizing role recognized
aims only be achieved in the struggle against all forms of social
recognized separate rust CAPT
government against
Musteites who machinery of capitalism
SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SOME SHORTCOMINGS
appraising scope
U.
There inadequate theological preparation and insufficient
gnzatonal work Pemism uneremation of rehabilitation and
the failure of the districts through the tasks outlined for them
against the convention Nevertheless there
$50 delegates from the most important and basic
industries of the country and from IS states The bulk of the dele
delegates represented mked and unked workers in the basic
industries For the first time in the history of the u E. L. there
represented Southern The Pacific
scented by IT delegates The miners had the largest delegation
beng 49, and the auto and metal industries represented by
delegates respectively delegates
railroads from the workers. IL rubber workers, from the
ing together workers Other delegations included 50 textile
needle workers. Al building trades workers. 5 food workers.
packing workers Is shoe and leather workers. well
smaller delegations from lumber and OIL There at the convention
@ Ias and 20 women in the total degan Thee @ a
Chinese delegates principally
Pacific Coast.
organized leadership the E.
(mnng textile neede and four of local character shoe
food auto) The membership of these unions shown
very small proved
organizing local unions taken advantage Of In the selection
the delegates from top without the
This showed practices still
vail in the work of these
Shop represented by
delegates In ALL they represented shop committees ga steel
metal railroad rubber OIL packing, electric
metal etc.. While this good beginning must be stated
rehabilitation
inactivity the number committees would have been multiplied
manifold.
represented ID local unions including print
railroad metal food needle gmakers public service workers.
ETC. T. u E. the A. Of L. unions represented
delegates This reflected the sackenng the
the
1t reflected the hesitation the of Party members
a struggle the convention in the A. F. of L.
COMPOSITION SHOWS DEEP REHABILITATION.
The composition of the convention delegates revealed the growing
readiness for struggle the semiked unskled
bear the burden of capitalist naturalization This area
indicated by Southern Textile Conference The large
cation reflection of the the
basic industries of the and their readiness
hand the other hand
number young
importance raionazed industry bearing double exploitation
against which they ready struggle increasing numbers In
word the Trade Union Unity Convention by its composition
Elected the deep of rehabilitation of the semked
skilled workers. the bulk of the workers i'll
also reflected the fact that despite the
Party and the T. U. E. L. in the
towards the organization of the unoganzed
the basic industries and increased though entirely
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