The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-11
c. C. ACTS ON
failure To HIT
ALL CONVENTION
T. u. E. L. Fraction Is
Criticized
Continued from Page One

SNf'NtseNSSN Wv ~
to take the initiative to issue state
ment. The Polcom even outlined thru
series of motions the line that the
statement must follow.
The Trade Union Department and
the TUEL failed to do anything
prior to the convention, to either mo-
bill for the elections of Party and
left wing delegates, or carry on a
campaign against the policies and ac-
tivities of the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy. Not a single Party or left
wing delegate was present at the
A. F. of L. convention. This is a
result of the complete abandonment
of work within the A. F. of La
complete surrender of the masses |
the A. F. of L. to the agents of the
capitalists in the labor movement
complete surrender of these masses
to American imperialism.
The last convention of the A. F..
of L. openly placed the A. F. of L..
in the service of American imperial
ism in it's preparations for war. The
last convention wiped out any SEM
blance of a class organization. The
empty gestures about organizing the
unorganized was nothing more than
part of common offensive with the
government and the entire capital
list class against the new unions, as
we'll as an open acknowledgement
that our Party has been successful
in making a good beginning in its
work of organization of the unor-
gained. Likewise the talk at the
convention about going down South
to organize unions is directed against
the Communists who have begun
work in the South and ORIGINATING
their policy mainly on the Negro
masses.
The Party, through its policies, has
taken the initiative and helped in es-
tablishing three important new
unions, the National Miners Union,
the National Textile Workers Union
and the National Industrial Union of
Needle Workers. Smaller unions
have also been established as among
the Shoe Workers, Butchers, etc.
The Party is going forward in the
campaign to organize the morgan
lied. Through the formation of shop
committees, through the conferences
held and being held among the steel
workers, auto workers, etc., we are
taking the first steps in organizing
new unions in these industries. This
work must be intensified and the
Party through it's factory nuclei, fac
tory papers must direct greater at
tention to the organization of the
unorganized. This work has been
carried on by the Geo and the Party
Committees in the districts directly
with the aid of special Gee represen-
tatives. Neither the Trade Union
Department or the TUEL have par
ticipated in this work to any con-
siderable extent. The TUEL thus
far has played no leading role in the
campaign to organize the morgan
lied.
In the work within the existing
unions comprising 8 million workers,
the TUEL has done nearly nothing
in the last period. Either through
policy or through negligence this
work was completely abandoned. The
Trade Union Department of the
Party similarly has done nothing for
the very same comrades that are at
the head of the Trade Union De-
partment are also conducting the
work of the TUEL.
The failure to do anything prior
to and after the convention of the
A. F. of L. is nothing more but a
reflection of this entire policy of
abandonment of the masses Of the
A. F. of L. to the bureaucracy.
Such an attitude constitutes a
serious right error because it COM
pletely underestimate the role of
social reformism in the u. S. The
failure to carry on a campaign
against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy
against its war policy, ETC., is an