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


prepare for the Congress locally in all the diff
ferent countries ought to be in full swing.
Actually, the organizations affiliated to the
RILU are only getting down to the job
of developing this campaign.
And if the rest of the work to prepare for
the Congress is going to proceed at the same
tortoise pace it is going at now, this cannot
in the upshot but bring about the breakdown
of the entire political and organizatonal cam
paign in connection with the Congress and
the celebrating of the Tenth Anniversary of
the RILU.
The findings of the Sixth Session of the
RILU Central Council lay it down perfectly
plain that the campaign of preparation for
the Congress must be Of an essentially mass
character and that these preparations must be
concentrated primarily and directly in the in
dustrial plants, in the pits, at your big rail-
way functions, on board ship in a word, every
where at the point of production.
1t stands to reason, of course, that only pro-
vided this campaign involves the effective
mobilization of all the men and means at the
command of the RLL.U affiliated organza-
lions that it will be really successful and fur
nish valuable results of far-reaehing political
and practical effect-only if every member of
the revolutionary trade unions and every sup
porter of the minority movement is reused, Is
really up and doing, and got to perform def
mite jobs fixed upon specially for each indi-
vidual follower of our movement.
Promises Were Good.
All the national representatives who took
the platform at the Sixth Session of our Cen
trail Council were unanimous in urging that
there could not, must not, be a single confer
gress, national, or local trade union confer
ence or full delegate meeting, not even
single trade union meeting, aye, not even any
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out the question of the Fifth RILU Congress
and the Tenth Anniversary of our Interna-
tional being raised and thorough discussion
initiated on all the basic issues of the inter-
national revolutionary trade union movement
in its present stage marked of forward adj
vance.
Actually, the fact has to be recorded with
regret that far from all our affiliated organ
izations are applying the findings of the Sixth
Central Council Session and the RILU instruc-
lions regarding the preparations for the COM
ing Congress.
DESPITE the short interval left till the Con-
gress meets, many of these organizations still
display a surprising complacency towards,
nay, totally unwarranted neglect to this highly
important mass campaign involving such tre-
mendous political implications.
Passivity Means Opportunism.
At bottom, this snaiPs page IN developing
the preparatory work for the Congress is
nothing more less than evidence OF right
opportunist tendencies within the ranks of the
revolutionary trade union movement For one
of the signs of right-opportunist tendencies
and sentiments has been, and still remains,
supercious attitude towards, more, an actual
underestimation of the leading role of the R.
I. L. U.-that fighting H. Q. of the revolu-
tionary trade union movement. neglect of
ND foil clyy IN no of
providing internationalist education for the
working masses, getting them thoroughly ac-
quainted with the experience gained in the in
ternational struggle and to use that eXper-
fence in the fights of the working class
1t cannot be stressed too strongly that the
campaign of preparations ought not to take
the line only of organizing elections and al
lowing the delegates seats, beating up funds
and sending across delegates-the technical
side of the business.
Yet, properly speaking, in many cases, this
is all that the campaign is being boiled down
to-.
The Fifth Congress will only be a general
review of our forces, will only afford an op-
oortunity to verify our achievements and find
out our sweak points, our mistakes, the weak
sections in our work, and the gaps in our line,
if and providing the entire work of prepara-
ton is effected along political lines.
The Fifth Congress of the Red international
If Labor Unions meets in a setting that is
iarkened by a steadily extending world crisis
and increasing unemployment that contrasts
most markedly with the developing advance
If the revolutionary movement 1t gathers at
time, when a steady progress is going for
ward at both poles, it were, of the capt.
,alist world, which is responsible for the
emulation of vast amount of fighting ener-
" and the mobilization of all available forces
or the coming class battles that will be Of
uch decisive importance.
In this setting of developing class strug-
yles. the preparations for the Fifth Congress
olidate our organizations locally, in their DIFF
erent countries, and must be made means
pherewith to 'actvize' all the forces of the
world revolutionary trade union movement.
These preparations must be used to
strengthen the R. |. L. U. in every possible
way as the fighting staff of the trade union
movement and as possible means of. paving
he way for enabling the world revolutionary
rade union movement to meet and lead the
movement of the masses in complete readi-
Tess, and to lead them to victory with the
ewest losses.
Criticism-Self- Criticism
For this reason, the whole preparations
ampaign must he so constructed as to sum-
arise the results of the activities carried on
the revolutionary trade union organiZa-
ons in their respective countries, while they
the same time summarize the results of
he r. l. L. u. activities and discuss the chief
uestions that will be considered by the Fifth
sonUraee