The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14
DISCUSSION
The Work of Our Trade Union
Fractions

guides the proper orentation for the union
membership. The needle trades convention
which we have just experienced is the best
example of this condition. The preparation
on the part of our Party comrades for this
national convention was scandal and was
good example of how not to apply our Party
trade union policy in the unions. Instead of
organizing the Party fractions in order to-
really build up the convention politically and
to present the T.U.U.L. program in con-
scious militant fashion, giving to the workers
in the needle trades industry and to the dele
gates at the convention militant program for
struggle, almost no preparations were made,
the program presented to the convention Lack
ing the most fundamental issues of the class
struggle.
Lack of Party Fractions.
This lack of militant Party fractions within
the trade unions is to a large extent RESPONSE
BILE for many of the right wing mistakes, as
we'll as the tagging behind of the T.U.U.L.
organizations Such a fundamental shortcom-
ing of our Party must be sharply called to the
attention of our membership. The following
steps must be taken Immediately:
l. Our Party members in the unions must
be organized into functioning fractions.
2. The fraction meetings must be held
regularly and must take up and check up on
the tasks and activities of the unions.
3. The fractions must have a leading COM
mittee which must come into the general frac-
ton meeting with definite proposals and
definite outline of work of the unions.
4. The Party fractions must vigorously
take up the question of self criticism, not for
the purpose of confessing, but for the better
purpose of steelng the membership to the
hardships of the struggle, and of learning by
the members experiences and mistakes.
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for the development of the proper leadership
and of drawing into the leadership new forces
growing out of the actual struggle between
the unions and the bosses.
6. The Party fraction must be conscious
of its tasks and must create political and or
ganizatonal leadership in order to activize
and mobilize the entire union membership for
the class struggle program of the unions.
7. The Party fraction within the revolu-
tionary opposition in the reformist unions
must be responsible for the proper orienta-
ton of our revolutionary opposition in order
to hasten the building up of the T.U.U.L.
movement and to give the correct line and
policy in our open struggle against the fas-
cist and social fascist leaders.
8. Our Party fractions must be held re-
sponsible for the building up of the Labor
Unity and must place before the T.U.U.L.
movement the Labor Unity as the official or
gan of the revolutionary trade union center
Only by organized and well functioning
Party fractions will we build up the T.U.U.L.
membership drive, and only in this manner
will we popuarize the Fifth World Congress
of the Red International of Labor Unions as
well as build up the mass sections of unem-
ployed councils. The responsibility of our
Party members must be taken up seriously
and through proper organization must be
sharply corrected.