The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Fifth R.I.L.U. Congress Postponed

number of great and important questions
for the whole international revolutionary move
ment:
gefOrmist unions.
The organization of the unorganized work
ers, how they must be organized etc.
Independent revolutionary trade union lead
ership
What is sOcial-fascism? and to what extent
have the reformst unions been turned into
fascist organizations?
How to capture the members of the reform
list unions.
We, in America, must ask ourselves and
answer number of important questions: Why,
in view of the great unemployment in the
United States, the cutting of the standards of
living of the workers, the increased fascist
attacks upon the workers, the complete fas-
ciSt role of the A. F. of L. and its capitulation
to the bosses, is our revolutionary movement
so weak and so small?
Why, in view of the response of over a mil
lion workers to the great unemployment dem
onstrations conducted by the Communist Par
ty and the Trade Union Unity League on
March 6, and the general widespread militancy
# the workers throughout the country, is it
that our movement does not grow sufficiently?
that is being conducted against the Negro
workers, and the response of the Negro work
ers to our movement in the South is it that
we do not have more Negro workers in the
TU.UL.?
We must answer these questions in relation
to the Fifth Congress of the RIL.U., in rela-
ton to building strong section of the R.ILU.
in this country. But we must not only answer
these questions at the Fifth Congress of the
RLL.U, we must answer them now and here.
We must work out ways and means to cor
rect this situation.
What must be done? From now on in every
meeting of whatever character, these questions
must be raised, must be discussed, must be
answered.
Now that the technical side of the prepare
tons for the congress are nearly over, mass
meetings must be held for the nstructing of
the delegates that are to go.
In those cases where the nominations and
elections have not been completed these ques-
tons must still be taken up. Every leading
comrade of every national union and league
must write articles for Labor Unity on these
important questions in their unions and in
their industries.
Rank and file workers, organized and unor-
canized and unemployed must also write short
articles expressing their opinions, their criti-
cism on the work of our unions for the build
ing of the TU.U.L.
We must organize workers committees in
the cities to be sent into the countryside to
establish contact with the farm workers.
We must organize Defense Corps, composed
of both white and Negro workers, as a defense
against the rising wave of lynching and ter
ror. We must put forward slogan of the
self-determination of the Negro toilers in the
South.
This is the meaning behind the real job of
intensifying the campaign for the preparation
of the Fifth Congress of the RLL.U. during
the remaining period.
To continue to carry on our present methods
is evidence of right opportunist tendency still
within the ranks of our revolutionary unions
A superficial attitude and superficial work in
the preparation for the Fifth Congress of the
R.IL.U. must cease.
Forward to the Fifth Congress of the Red
International Labor Unions on August 18th,
1880, with militancy and determination.