The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-19
WORLD CRISIS AND REVOLU-
TIONARY TRADE UNIONS

and stores in Moscow and other towns would
have been over-stocked, but very small part of
these goods would have found its way into the
workers districts and villages Now all the out
put of the factories and mills is directed into
the workers districts and collective farms ex-
cept what must be used to buy machinery for
the Five-Year Plan The requirements of the
workers and peasants have risen by many times
while production increased only to double-this
explains the shortage of goods -. :"
The hundreds of workers representatives
listened with the greatest attention to the living
convincing facts formed by this great amount
Of figures and statistics These dry figures speak
louder than any words and tell about the con-
ditions in the capitalist countries and those in
the Soviet Union. In their minds they at once
compare the situation in their own" country
with that here in the Proletarian Land, What
difference! There in their own country just as
well as in the. entire capitalist world, such
terrible crisis. Here, in the Soviet Union-such
unusual growth and improvement
While the Soviet proetariat is entering into
period of political, economic and cultural
growth and steadily increasing prosperity, the
proletariat of the capitalist countries is faced
with the dilemma, either of suffering patiently
a further lowering of its standard Of living to
the point of complete degeneration, or OF choos-
ing the way the Soviet proletarat took, !. E..
overthrowing the power of capital and establish
ing the dictatorship of the proletariat Interna-
tional and Soviet experience confirm the truth
of Lenin's words, that the dictatorship of the
proletariat is the only power that really defends
the economic interests of the working masses,
for it is ''the only step towards equality and
democracy in fact not on paper but in real
life; not in political phrases but in the economic
reality"
Self Criticism and Tactical Conclusions
Comrade Losovsky dwelt on the great number
of strikes since the Fourth R.IL.U Congress
He takes up each strike separately and points
out their specific characteristics in the period Of
the world crisis He brings facts after facts about
the treacherous, strike breaking work of the re-
formists and social-fascsts in every strike. He
also points out, that notwithstanding that the
sections of the R.IL.U. often conduct economic
struggles, organize around them united front
of all interested workers. mobilizing new layers
of workers expose the strike breaking role of the
social-fascsts etc.-notwithstanding all that
there are still noticed many weaknesses and
shortcomings in this work. Here he dwells con-
cretely on all weaknesses and shortcomings of
the various struggles in each country separately
that had right opportunist and left sectaran
devations. . . ,. -..
Losovsky emphasizes that under the present
conditions there cannot be any purely economic
strikes. To revolutionize the strike movement
means to make clear and understandable for
the strikers the connection between their econo-
mic demands and the entire system of bourgeois
dictatorship, to expose the role of the social
fascists, to make out of every worker consci-
GUS fighter for the fundamental interests of the
working class. Strikes are not the aina-they are
only the means to an end. Lenin, who was the
greatest strategist and tactician known to man.
kind, defined this end as follows:
"The final end of the strike struggle in the
capitalist state is the destruction of the state
apparatus, the overthrow of the particular
class state power
Here Losovsky turns to analyze the practical
and tactical conclusions for the work in the i'm
mediate future. There are 81 conditions neces-
sary for the organizations of a counter attack
against the bourgeoisie in the period of the pre-
sent terrible world crisis. The most important
OF them are: the struggle for the every day
needs of the workers; not to lag behind ("chyost-
ISM, but lead the working masses; to organize
the unemployed, not on paper, but in fact and
unite them in an iron bloc with those who still
work; to struggle against fascism penetrating
the enterprises, and link up the struggle against
fasclsm with the struggle against social-fascism.
We must really get down to the organization of
Workers Defense Corps and pickets, strengthen
the independent revolutionary trade union and
the revolutionary Illegal trade unions. Serious
activities must be developed in the reactionary
UNIONS We must seriously organize the trade
union opposition in those countries where there
are no independent unions. We must organize
the unorganized, who comprise the bulk of the
working class in the capitalist and colonial coun-
tries Concrete steps must be taken to aid the
struggle of the colonial peoples. We must organ
lie and fight every day until the final victory
OF the international working class
Defend the Soviet Union!
Especially must we now, and all the time, con-
duct determined struggle against the new war
menace, explaining to the working masses what
it means, and its class meaning 1.-THE interna-
tional working class movement must also strug-
gle to defend the Soviet Union-the land of the
proletarian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mperialist at
tack The working class in every part Of the
world is now giving central attention to the de-
Tense Of our socialist construction. And 1t de-
ponds on the way we carry on our activities every
day, on the way we organize the masses on our
work among the workers at large whether or not
the imperialists will be able. to realize their
designs Ito attack and destroy the Soviet Union).
In the Soviet Union the international revolution
airy workers movement has a territorial base
and it is the defense of this base, the defense Of
our socialist construction that is the chief and
foremost duty of the working class throughout
the world BY defending the Soviet Union the
working class throughout the world is defending
itseIf!"