The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01

Central Council have been dealt with in moth
ing like adequate fashion so far and over them
most unsatisfactory.
We are entitled to demand that the Com
munist Party and its press should also give
every assistance to promote the development
of broad campaign of preparations for the
Fifth Congress- and the tenth anniversary of
the R.LL.U.
THE Comintern Presidium," reads the resolu-
ton of the enlarged presidium of the
E.CCI. dealing with the preparations of the
Fifth Congress of the Red International of
Labor Unions, attaches the greatest Importance
to the work of thoroughly preparing the
ground for the Fifth RIL.U, Congress and in
structs all sections to carry out this work on
the basis of international revolutionary compe-
tition." The Communist Parties everywhere
have failed so far, however, to get really down
to this job and carry out this plain instruction.
What happened with the findings of the
Sixth Session of the R.IL.U. Central Council?
Most of the Party papers not even printing its
decisions and the majority of the Party organ
izations doing nothing to give them wide pub
lclty among the masses, may very easily hap
pen once again in the case of this Congress.
The resolution passed by the E.C.CI. Presi-
dunn instructs all Communist Parties to verify
how the decisions of the Fourth R.ILU. Con-
gress and its Sixth Session have been imple-
mented, to ascertain what is the state of the
activities conducted by the Communist frac-
tons, to extend and improve the work of the
independent revolutionary trade unions, to
verify the work of the minority movement
generally and test its working methods, to
initiate discussions from all angles in the
Party columns of the main problems confront
ing the world trade union movement, and to
allocate special pages in their press to deal
with the Fifth RLL.U. Congress.
What news already have, indicates that
the different Communist Parties are still stick
ing to their attitude of passivity towards the
Fifth Congress preparations and really have
done nothing far.
Party Initiative Needed.
The resolution adopted by the EC.CI. en-
larged Presidium makes it incumbent on the
Communist Parties 'to take the initiative to
secure discussion among the masses of all
questions connected with the Fifth Congress,
and to do so not only at trade union confer
ences and congresses, but also directly at the
point of production as we'll"
Yet, what Communist Party has lifted that
resolution up off the paper it was written on
and applied it actually, has taken "the initi-
ative to secure discussion among the masses"
on all the problems of the Congress? What, we
may ask, has been the concrete shape taken
by the activities of the different Comintern
sections to train contingents of active militants
for the RIL.U.?
Again, what papers of the Party press have
already made serious start to implement the
decisions of the E.C.CI. enlarged Plenum?
How are we to explain the slow pace at which
this campaign is being developed? Finally,
when are they really going to get down to the
actua1 prnnarat ions for fhn Fifth COpprnSS and
the tenth anniversary of the R.LLU.? These
are all questions that await their answer and
must be answered here and now.
1t scarcely requires to be added that the
Red international of Labor Unions and its dif-
ferent sections will only be able to carry out
the extremely complicated and most militant
tasks facing them at the present stage of the
class struggle, that the trade unions and min-
GRITTY movements will only be able to develop
into really mass, fighting organizations guild
ing the workers in the process of mass econ
omic struggles and consistently apply the policy
that calls for the independent leadership of
economic fights, when they get real and tan
gible active support in all their work not only
from the Communist International, but also
from the Communist Parties in the different
countries.
1T WAS already pointed out at the Sixth
I0minLern congress Chat everything possible
had to be done to further strengthen the RI
LU. Shortly afterwards it was recorded that
at the Tenth E.C.CI Plenum that "the Com
intern and its sections must give every pos
sible support to the work Of charging the
RLL.U., by popularizng it's decisions ard
steadily strengthening the international and
its affiliated organizations"
1t will do no harm to remind all Communist
Parties of these most authoritative decisions
precisely at this juncture when, in the course
of the campaign of preparations, stock is be-
ing taken of the R.ILU.'s activities in The
interval since it held it's Fourth Congress, when
the work Of its sections is being verifie |, when
a searching criticism and self-criticsm is be-
ing used to bring to light the weak points and
gaps in our work, to seek out ways and means
of imnrovng that work, and to build up our
ORGANIZATIONS anew both in respect of the inner
content of their activities and their organza-
tional forms and working methods.