The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04

the left wing should emphasize that
the unification should be based
strictly upon working class basis
and fight against reformism.
The recent amalgamation of the
Jute Workers Union of Bauria and
the Jute Workers Union of Bengal,
as well as the amalgamation of the
two competing or parallel unions on
the Great India Railway, is highly
commendable in deed. Special at
tention should be paid without fail
to the transport workers. 1t is par
ticularly necessary to make timely
preparations for the maturing rail-
way workers strike. 1t must be
brought clearly before the masses
that while at the present time the
capitalists have centered the attack
upon the textile workers, that, sub
sequently, the onslaught will be
made upon the transport workers.
Workers Democracy.
The old bureaucratic system of ap-
pointing functionaries, delegates,
and other officials in the trade I'M
ions, should be done away with and
substituted by workers democracy
"a systm of election from and by
the rank and file. 1t is of para
mount Importance that the bour-
geois intellectuals and politicians,
occupying leading positions in the
trade unions should be thrown over
board and in their stead militant
workers elected. In addition to that
the center of gravity of the trade
unions should be transferred to the
factories, that the so-called resi-
Dental branches of the trade I'M
ions (branches organized where the
workers live but not where they
work. should be reorganized upon
shop and factory basis, and inter-
woven with the factory committees
and shop delegate conferences.
However, the organization of new
unions, etc., does not exclude, but
rather calls for more intensified
propaganda and organizational ac-
Invites of the left wing within the
reformist trade unions. The left
wingers must formulate strike and
other demands for the rank and file
and foster the fight for workers
democracy within the reformist
trade unions. The left wing should,
above all, win over the masses. Nor
does this mean that the left wing
should give up the fight within the
All-India Trade Union Congress. On
the contrary, our comrades should
make timely preparations for the
coming Annual Congress and should
take up a much sterner attitude to-
wards the social-reformists On. Jo-
shi, Bakhale & co., and national
ist-reformists q. Nehru, Bose, Cha
man, Lal, etc., than was the case
at the Annual Congress last year.
Without delay the left wing
should launch a systematic and per-
sistent theological campaign against
social-reformism. The treacherous
character of social-reformism must
be exposed at every turn and occa-
sion. Not less persistently and
sharply the left wing should criti-
cize the MISUNDERSTANDING, like
j. Nehru, Bose, ETC., as the expo
nents of the interests of the nation
alist bourgeoisie within the labor
movement, as absolutely unfit and
unreliable clemens to lead the la
Dor movement. In lis cam. @.Sn
we must not limit ourselves just
to theological criticism, but must
also expose the reformist leaders
before the l. asses by concrete facts.
The united front proposals by the
left wing should be always directed
to the rank and file of the reform
list unions, in order to build up
solid united front from the bottom.
Upon such a u:...cd front basis
nationwide campaign against class
collaboration, the Grades Disputes
Bill" the public Safety Bill" as
we'll as against the Whitley Com
mission, and against the mass ar
rests must b Immediately intensi-
fled.
Expose Reformists.
The campaign against class col
laboration and reformism should be
interlocked with a sharp attack
against the Ramsay Macdonald
government, against tn, General
Council of the British Trade Union
Congress, the Amsterdam Interna-
tional, the Geneva labor Office"
and the "Asiatic Labor Conference"
scheme. 1t is of paramount impor-
lance to persuade the working
masses and peasants OF India that
no illusions should be entertained in
regard to the Macdonald cabinet.
Ramsay Macdonald & Co. will at all
times serve and preserve the inter-