The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10

comrades who are eligible and VINO
CO not join a trade union, while
those comrades working in indus
tries where no union has yet been
established, do not join the union
nearest to their trade or take steps
through the formation of shop COM
mittees in their factory, to lay the
basis for the building of new union
The Party must carry on a broad
theological campaign to enroll every
member into union, and also adopt
disciplinary measures against those
who sabotage the decisions of the
Party to join a union when the pos
sibility exists.
The fractions in the trade unions
are in a very bad state. They have
received no attention during the past
year from the Trade Union Depart,
ment. The comrade who was elected
by the Gee as the Trade Union
Fraction Organizer, has been doing
other work for practically the entire
period and the comrade appointed in
his place has not yet taken over this
phase of the work. The Fraction
Bulletin was abolished since the last
Party convention and not single
communication was sent by the
Trade Union Department to the
Party organizations on the building
and the leading of the fractions in
the trade unions.
During this period, the Districts
were left to themselves to lead the
trade union work of the Party. There
was no connection between the Ma
tional and District Trade Union De
partments. The work in the Miners
Union, the Textile Workers Union
and the Needle Trades, was conduct
ed directly by the Political Commit
tee with the assistance of the Gee
representatives for the different in
dustries.
The work in the old unions was
much neglected during this period.
The correct orientation of the Party
towards greater attention to the or
ganization of the unorganized and
the building of new unions, were not
made clear to the Party in relation
to the decisions of the 9th Plenum
of ECCI, and the 4th Congress of
the RILU.
We must strengthen the Trade
Union Department, establish the
proper connections of the Trade
Union Department with the District
Trade Union departments, popular
ize the Party Trade Union policy
among the membership, build the
Party fractions and make a drive
for the enrolment of every Party
me- Der in trade union. The Trade
Union Department must also pay
greater attention towards the tying
up of the shop committees with the
campaigns for the organization of the
unorganized. The politicalization of
our work in the trade unions is one
Of the major tasks.
Fractions in Language Mass Or
CARNATIONS. The language fedora
lions of the Party formally no longer
exist. But there is still federation.
ism" in the Party. This manifests
itself both in the rights that the
Language Bureaus take for them
selves sometimes even disciplining
Party members) and the nature of
the work they conduct in the mass
organizations.
1t must be made clear that the
National Language Bureaus are the
direct agents of the Gee, carrying
out its policies. Likewise the Dis
trict Language Bureaus are agents
of the DEC's.
These bureaus are appointed by
the Gee and the DEC and are re-
sponsible to them.
The task of the Bureaus is to
carry out the line and slogans of the
Party in the given language mass
organizations, and among the mass
es of that language generally.
The present state of affairs with
regard to the work in the language
organizations is not satisfactory al
though there has been Improvement.
The work of the fractions in the
language organizations is in many
cases receiving no direction from the
Party committees and in some in
stances, is deviating from the cor
rect Communist line. There exist in
this country very large number of
language rganizations-mu aid,
sick and death benefit societies, etc.
These organizations have large
membership and while they are in
some instances conducting activity
against the interests of the workers,
hundreds of thousands of foreign
born workers belong to these organi-
cations, and it is necessary to carry
on Communist activity among them.
These organizations in which there
exists great, deal of nationalism,
are very often dominated by petty
bourgeois elements. We must carry
on fight to bring these organiza-
lions close to the struggles of the
workers in this country, to utilize
them in our Party campaigns. These
organizations can be of great SER
vice in the campaign to organize the
unorganized.
For the correct utilization of our
work in these mass organizations, il
is necessary in the first instance
that the Language Bureaus under