The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-25
A, New Stage in Our Trade
Union Struggle
BY WILLIAM w. WEINsTONE.

pessmm and defeatism of the
convention closed important the development
gle for the conquest of the masses the trade unions and for the
organization of the unorganized filled with
possibilities for the development of Communist
ment in the United States.
The convention which attended by 900 delegates had its
basic composition the delegations from the decisive sections the
notwithstanding textile, automobile transportation ETC. In
addition the largest number OF Negro delegates that have ever come
together gathering either of the Party left wing attended
rmno- WOMEN workers from the innortant industries as we'll as
of industrial youth Indeed the first
enon that really be called national embracing delegates from
the coast and 80 delegates from the South representative of IS
states-the most industrial states in the country.
The convention therefore showed the base which the
Trade Union Unity Center is being built the largest conference
character 1922 This in itself shows the far
reaching extent of the of rehabilitation that at the
present time among the American workers
represented organized
below 1t gathering the of broad of
unoganzed industries well of the union
ing progressive that had been
po allies previous struggles attended this conference These
progressive leaders have the bureaucracy the sharpening
struggle and growing movements having driven them
enemy the time the conference indicated that the
deseon of these progve the splits that had occurred the past
with place weakening the advancement of the revolutionary
trade union movement has only and in place oang
adherns the fight that the left wing
has forward with against the and against
the employers
delegation represented chiefly the industrial
and revolutionary sections of the working class the unsked and
.Io .rd ao;ns+ +6e brteanaS S assin into The hands of these
sections whose numbers and Importance growing the
naturalization and onopac development The increase
Der of women delegates militant ready struggle
industrial youth that formed of the best
well mnorie the old unions likewise show the
correctness of the emphasis upon drawing the women workers and
industrial the forefront of the The large
of Negro delegates ready take only the ug
gle for racial social and political equality but as indicated by their
remarks the convention fight side by side with the white workers
organized developing the leadership for the of the
Negro whole for their liberation from racial
against Imperialism The the
delegates by the convention indicated the growing solidarity of white
Negro fight delegates
$50 of Them leaving Negro delegates
further evidence of this fact
All convention observed working
by the deep spirit for the struggle The rank and file character
eshp represented by this convention of workers in touch with the M
ing realities of the class struggle that they all know the meaning of
mpast and preparations and that they supply
from sthend and contact the shops the leadership for
immediate feature
composition sharp
contrast with the paid offadm conventions of the L. Behind
this convention and its delegation stands Passac New Bedford the
showing that the TUUL has been forged in actual struggle and that
the TUU has only the fight made by the TUEL the past
chiefly the old unions but the heroic fights of of
organized workers.
The convention was great for the Gaonia strug
gle not because of the realization the Importance of this fight
but because Gasona ymbozed the struggle for which the TUUL
is organized.
unanmty general agreement
delegation program the International Unions
the unanimous of the constitution and resolutions
program Party wing
penetrated to broader of the rank and file workers that this
and manifold character of the struggle which the u u must
undertake.
The fighting character of the convention its readiness brook
interference the overwhelming sentiment of unity Expressing the
gle the expe and bureaucrat) the
going discomfort of the organization through
Trade Union Center likewise of the quite evident
fact of militant joining the revolutionary fight
the and that these cades decisive
determined militant methods The
of naturalization forcing the of the revolutionary
fighting strug
gle levels
The convention adopted unanimously the calling for af
fation with the R. T. u well the Open Letter of the R.
IT, pointing out the shortcomings and in the work of the
T. u. E. L. in the past
the defense the
the fight for the freedom the Philippine workers. American
and of the colonial generally
the delegation showing the growing nernationasm
working realization that the fighting proe
tarat becoming international that there growing
imperialism.
The discussion rather upon general
laid emphasis chiefly the necessity of organization
the fight naturalization,
ponderatng fight
the bureaucracy the old
sufficient extent the methods
the unorganzd and revolutionary strike
the Right and shortcomings the
shortcoming of the discussion which
tenn Of Qualification and discussion the sections
union in for the actual task organizing
unoganized fighting the explained
the fact that the Party has been slow in the ORIGINATING the
line and tasks of the section of the u
and the delegates therefore asserting necessity