The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Step On 1t!

Time and tide wait no man! Not moment
must be lost. All members of the revolutionary
trade unions, every supporter of the minority
movement, all who stand for the consistent
prosecution of the class struggle, all who are
fired with will and readiness to fight the
fresh pressure the capitalists are bringing to
bear on the working class to fight the new
way of capitalist naturalization and unemploy-
ment, who are against the Young Plan and
against both social-fascism and fascism, and
who are in favor of the seven-hour working
day, of state unemployment insurance, and
who stand for the workingclass revolution,
must be got to bear their share in this mass
political and organizing campaign of prepare
tions for the Fifth Congress and tenth ami
versary of the RI.L.U.
Preparations for the Congress must be the
focal point of all our organizations considera-
ton and attention. They must rouse the mass
of their members to an activity greater than
they have ever displayed before, must awaken
the interest of the unorganized working class
in our movement, and transform the passive
members OF organizations into active re-
CRITTERS, agitators and fighting militants.
The preparations for the Congress will show
to what extent our organizations are in touch
with the masses, are able to set them in move
ment to draw out their creative initiative and
guide and develop their independent self-ac-
tivity.
They will show how far the members of the
revolutionary unions or supporters of the min
GRITTY movement have direct contact with their
own organizations, are really interested in
their fate, are anxious to see them develop,
feel themselves part of the bigger team that
is pulling in the one direction, are enthused
and live by and for its interests.
They will show, further, to what extent a
direct part is taken in our revolutionary acti-
vties not only by the active militants but also
by the broad masses of the workers generally,
how far they value their organization, how
far their direct participation in the everyday
work of their organization determines the di-
rection of their activities, to what degree our
organizations have reorganized themselves, got
rid of their lack of contact with the outer
world of labor, lifted themselves out of the
rut, shed the routine of trade unionistic out
look, and made a break with what are often
bureaucratic methods of working.
Both here in the center and outside in the
different sections, every bolt and lever of our
machine must be examined and studied by the
masses themselves in this mass campaign.
This is the meaning behind and the real job
parations.
1t is essential to explain and lay bare, to go
over again and again, the aims and objects of
the RIL.U. and it's organizations to every
worker, no matter how backward, to explain
to him and his fellow toilers the leading role
of the International and its sections in the
economic battles of their class.
Every report submitted, every speech deliv-
cred, that deals with the Fifth Congress must
be linked up with the vital issues of the given
national or local organization, must be con-
nected with the local question affecting the
broad masses of the working class at any given
moment which bear any relation to their needs
and the interests of the struggle
Every article every item, every leaflet, we
print in connection with the Congress must
speak to the workers in a plain and simple
language they can understand.
What we want, then, top-pressure speeds
in our work of developing the drive towards
the Fifth Congress and the tenth anniversary
of the R.IL.U., a development of that cam
paign on a broader scale and with bolder'
sweep