The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
By J. w. FORD.

By ]. W. FORD.
THE Fifth Congress of the Red international
Labor Unions originally set for July 49,
$780, has been postponed to August Is so that
greater preparations can be made for this
congress.
The postponement of the congress gives us
in America a little more time to increase and
to intensity our preparations organizationaly
and politically. Especially is it necessary 10
increase our political preparations.
The Fifth Congress of the R.LLU. takes
place at a time of ever growing and extendir@
world crisis, increasing unemployment, increas-
ing speed up of the workers; at a time when
the capitalists are intensifying their offensive
all along the line against the workers in every
land. But there is a tremendous amount of
energy in the ranks of the working class th2t
must be modified for struggle.
The R.LL.U. Is Our General Staff.
The Fifth Congress will take up many in
rortant problems and tasks of the revolution
airy movement. The preparations for the Fifth
Congress must be made the means of strength
ening our forces for the activization and the
building up of the world revolutionary move
ment In every possible way we must strength
en- the fighting staff of The revolutionary move
ment, to enable it to lead the movement of
the masses to victory with the least possible
losses
Our preparations so far are moving at
snaiPs pace. Instead of making bold deep-go-
ing self-criticisms of our mistakes, in order
to correct our mistakes, in order to build the
revolutionary movement during the time of the
preparations of the congress, there is ten
dency to cover up our mistakes.
We are compelled to ask number of ques-
tions of the affiliated organizations of the
T.U.U.L. on the political preparations that are
being made for the Fifth Congress.
What has the National Miners Union done?
What has the National Textile Workers Union
done? What has the Marine Workers Union
done? What has the Needle Trades Industrial
Union done? What has the Auto Workers
Union done? What has the Food Workers In
dustrial Union Done? What has the Railroad
Workers League done? What has the Metal
Workers Industrial League done? What have
our district T.U.U.L.'s and local T.UU,L's
done? Every one of these organizations must
answer these questions for themselves.
Rank and file workers, what has the leader
ship of the various industrial unions, industrial
leagues and T.U.U.L. groups affiliated to the
T.U.U.L. done towards the preparations for
the Fifth Congress of the RIL.U.? What
basic political questions have been brought to
the rank and file workers in relation to the
RILU. in relation to their industries?
We have only few months left What must
be done in this remaining short period? Not
a single convention, not single conference,
not single delegates meeting, not even
single trade union meeting must fail to take
up the question of the Fifth Congress of the
RILU. and the Tenth Anniversary of our
International
The congress will take up the following
agenda:
l.. The Executive Bureau report and the
tasks of the international trade union revolu-
tionary movement.
Supplementary reports:
(a) International womens trade union corn
mittee
(b) The R.LLU. Youth Secretariat
(c) The International Negro trade union
committee.
2. The struggle against the menace of new
imperast war
3. Role of the trade unions in socialist con-
steuction Of the Soviet Union.
A, Tasks of trade unions in the colonial
and semi-colonial countries
5. Problems Of cadres for the revolutionary
trade union movement.
Under the head of this agenda will be raised