The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-27
The Economic Struggle and the
Tasks of the Communist Parties
Theses the reports by Comrades Thaemann and Lososk

7. However, the opposed principle
splitting the trade unions The resolution the
Comntern pointed the conditions under which Communists
bound to work for split
from splitting the trade union organizations if avoid split would
mean to give up revolutionary work in the unions to abandon the
attempt the exploited
The growth of the strike the VI Congress the
Conten and the furious onslaught Of the Oca trade union
bureaucracy, which expulsion
organizations a. B. the General Federation German Trade
Unons) which is arificay narrowing of
workers in the trade union by of craft barriers he
gang example of this the American Federation Labor
blackeg activity-a countries
the conditions under which it has been
establish new revolutionary trade unions The TX Penum of the
E. c. and the VI Congress of the Comntern have laid down
the line for the American Party establishing
unions first and foremost in those branches of industry where
trade unions exist and then in those cases where result of
the trade union movement was benz DESTROYED This b b
started by the Party and should be
vgo attracting into the unions the large the
Great Britain where workers
miners union formed In Poland became necessary
P p S. to raise the question the single
and i eh pau0t h o. ne @ s l {g n Looz5
the Dombrowo dct). Mexico in connection with the
of Labor formed which has 100000 members
Communists understand however, the splitting
trade unions not question of mechanical formation of trade
e nn o ts to combat idea Of the whole
is possible only the high tide of strikes only when the political
have already graspd the soaascs
trade union bureaucracy and when these actively
tons exist the formation of
many undertaken only from case to case in Conformity
with the whole objective situation.
T. WORK IN COUNTRIES WHERE THE TRADE UNION
MENT is ILLEGAL.
growing nenscon of the class struggle urges the ruling
classes to adopt harsh repressve crush
revolutionary unions Where the revolutionary
legal France Chosovaka etc. they threatened with dsou
ton Under these to prevent
the 0utawng of the existing legal organizations In countries where
the bourgeoise collision
ouawing the Italy Yugosavia etc., revolutionary
unions unetioning underground the outstanding
number Of nonPary workers. and to unfold their activity the
basis of the growing strike is essential
struggle against the eapatory and datory tendencies abandon
the activity OF the illegal trade unions on the ground of the mpos
countries where the movement illegal particularly
These committees of action the best breaking
through the whole system of police and enabling
the illegal trade
emerging from underground and for existence struggle
successful only the up the struggle
for the daily needs of the workers and with actual leadership
economic fights.
condition Strengthening the illegal trade
unions to the revolutionary leadership of strikes emergence
in the factories the factory the building up
of all trade union work factory basis
WORK IN THE sEMICoLoNIAL COUNTRIES
past year characterized by great upswpp in the
economic struggle all colonial and countries especially
in India The strike reached even the
developing upward swing the labor beyond
the boundaries of the old capitalist countries The features of
China AMI also ndone Ceylon Africa etc.
where spontaneously it was of pro-
found revolutionary favorable ground for
the strengthening and development
revolutionary unions those
the formation of Communist Parties revolutionary
those colonial countries where
for all the Communist revolutionary
working class leadership fights eliminating
the strike
elements and eevatng the higher
stage struggle.
particularly shops notng shortcomings the ten
dency to let the campaign lag)
In view of the sharpening against Negro las
of the theological bourgoe
working class it to increase the Negro work. particularly
to establish definite in the units
through this work energeically.
While to
this still bears insufficient shops