The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
The Trade Union Convention Has Ended;
Now the Work Begins

land dispatches indicate bigger than had been
anticipated by the best friends of the project to found the
and revolutionary federation of American labor The
convention what could be done in convention hall
But the real organization of tremendous celebrating body
labor unions and militant groups to organize where there
none only reaconay unions cannot be accomplished
merely with the assembling of delegates in meeting hall
and the adoption of even the best of plans.
We repeat what we have said before The real work
begins when the convention ends The real building of the
and revolutionary federation of labor will be
pished many long months and of hard struggle in
the workshops factories mines and mills in the organza-
hundreds of thousands of unorganized workers. in
building up and the correction of the deficiencies of the
industrial unions which participated in the Cleveland
convention in relentless struggle also within the old unions
where not single worker willingly be surrendered to
the treacherous hands the old radeunion bureaucracy
and most of ALL by building real organization militant
unions among the millions who have no unions now.
Into the basic industries must be the slogan. Claim
the masses for the under the banner
of class struggle.
Nor is the fate of the new Trade Union Unity League
be decided by the quiet work factories and unions under
conditions of industrial peace Such would be out of
cord with the nature of the task and the nature of the times
in which the be performed For the organza
ton, founded in the spirit and plan of class struggle is
founded also time of rapy rising level of class struggle
Not alone in the textile mills of this country but throughout
the whole capitalist world be the signs of the
oncoming rising of revolutionary movement Lodz in
Poland the Ruhr in Germany, the agricultural workers in
Czecho-Sovakia the coal miners of Rumana the textile
mills of Northern France the events of India of China of
Argentine of Peru of Colombia of Uruguay and Chea
say with the voice Gastonia Eizabethton
and Marion that the time at hand when the organization
of the of the working class in the basic organizations
of struggle and must be pushed forward with unprece
dented energy when the tradeunon bureaucas who
agents of the bougeose and be defeated for the
leadership of the working class when the majority of the
working class and must be by persistent struggle
for their class
Capitalist decentralization is driving the workers to
condition responsiveness the initiative of the Trade
Union Unity League The and open treason of
the Green's Lewses McMahons Hmans and Schlesingers
working the of the revolutionary
union federation dsiusioning the regard
eahous disqualification policies of these agents of the
bosses.
The time is proptous
The greatest danger the newly launched Trade Union
Unity League the danger that the work of building up
may lag behind the elementary social forces which
the and which give its base among the
spontaneous among the unorganzed workers 60
ing to find the organizing center inactive slow to take
the initiative slow to respond to their needs Are the strike
breakers of the McMaons and Lewses going work
energecay for the bosses than the organizing
works for the workers? We believe not The danger is
great because the strong and the workers of Amer
lea just beginning to strike out for themselves naturally
without too much experience at first Numbers will grow
and financial for the struggle will be found by the
workers. dug out of their lean pockesfor they realize
they must fight.
The militant workers who founded the center of
trade unions the best poetaran material that this
try has produced The years of courageous and hard work
that they Trade Union Educational League
and related organizations of the left wing and the heroic
work hundreds of picket lines give confidence that
they will show the energy courage and intelligence to
throw themselves successfully into the situation created
by the action of the Cleveland convention.
We are not "Deeontes." We do not create perfect
program and then sit down and wait The program adopted
at Cleveland is not Father Haggerys wheel of fortune 1t
is program of militant struggle in the front trenches of
struggle of class with the perspective of revou
onary goal to give consistency momentum and sound
answering policy.
The national decorating body will grow struggle
1t is through struggle that the hundreds of thousands will
learn