The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-12
THE FIFTHRLLU. CONGRESS
APPROACHES

criticism; results Of the development of the
labor movement; our Victories and defeats from
the point of view of taking the lead in the
economic battles; forms and methods Of win
ming over the majority of the working class;
experience in solving the problems of the united
front from below at the enterprises; the ques-
ton regarding the organization and activities
of the factory committees revolutionary trade
union delegates the problem of the mass poll
tca, strike, Of organizing Red trade unions,
the work of the revolutionary oppostions,
methods and forms of organization.
We will have to pay particular attention to
the different manifestations of the Right devil
alton and Cancellation in practice which have
been evidenced within our ranks, inasmuch as
the Right deviation and Cancellation in theory
and practice, during the course of these last
two years, were sharply resisted by Then
follows our work in the colonial countries, the
question of activities Of the U.S.S.R. trade
unions in the field of the Socialist reconstruc-
ton of the U.SSR. national economy, forms
and methods of organizing the unemployed,
work in countries with an illegal trade union
movement, combination of the illegal, legal and
semi-egal forms and methods of struggle, the
problem of cadres-in a word the joining up of
all political and organizational problems con-
ironing
are the questions embraced by the agenda Of
the Fifth RI.L.U. Congress.
Disputabe Questions.
There aresa number of disputable questions
which, of course, should be decided upon by
the Fifth R.LL.U. Congress:
1. Is it necessary to preserve in such coun-
tries like Germany, England, Poland, etc. the
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trade unions?"
2. Now is it necessary to organize trade
union oppositons in such countries like Ger
many, England, Austria; are the present or
ganizational forms of the trade union oppo-
sition sufficient in conditions of the ever-in-
creasing class struggles and the provocative
actions Of the socal-fascists?
g. How should the unorganized be organized
in those countries where there are no devolu-
tionary trade unions; should the unorganized
workers be called upon to line up in the re-
formst trade unions, should they be Joined up
with the trade union oppositions, and if So on
what basis?
4. Has the question Of setting up new trade
unions in such countries like for example
be accomplished?
5, What is social-fascism, and to what de-
gree have the reformist trade unions been
fascisized?
6. Should the slogan be used of winning
over the reformist trade unions or should
this slogan be diaecticay taken off and in
stead another slogan issued: "to win over the
members of the reformst trade unions" which
means, of course, to continue to work inside
the reformist trade unions.
| have only enumerated those basic ques-
lions which will be subject to preliminary de-
tailci analysis by us.
However, the principal thing in preparing
for the Fifth Congress is to lead these prep
arations out of the premises of the central
organs, to make these preparations widespread
among the masses, to make it the common
knowledge of the workers that the Fifth Con-
gress is approaching and that the questions
on the agenda of the Congress be really widely
discussed at the workers mass meetings.