The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-12
General Secretary Red International Of Iabo
Unions).
BY A. LOZOYSKY.

Umons).
This is the second instollmcu Of an article
o., problems and tasks Of the RLL.U. 1rhich
must be discussed at the coming 1coria con-
gress. In the first iaStolmept Losor5bg
told of the Fourth Congress as q historic
turning point of revolutionary trade amjou
Increment, from 1chich an upsvrgc started
He criticised some right acuq dcUiatiouS and
pointed to the great Importance giren unioa
organisation by the Bolsheuh Party cucR
during czarist times. 1t ends 1cth discus
sion of the increment in Latin America and
Pacific coast countries.
Continued
The Fifth Red International of Labor Unions
Congress will take place in conditions of the
developing forward surge of the labor move
ment. With regard to the upsurge, the Trot-
skyites and Right Opportunists have, as is
well known, their special stand. They are Of
The opinion that the upsurge has been sin
vented" in Moscow, especially for the purpose
Of splitting Brander, Trotzky and Co.
No one issue of the opposition papers in
France of the "Verite," La Lutte des Classes"
La Revolution Proletarenne," or the "Oppo-
stion Bulletin issued by Trotzky; no issue Of
the Lovestone paper in the U.S.A. or the Or
gan of the Rights in Sweden and the papers of
the German Rights and so-called "Lefts," which
should not attack precisely the basic line of
the Comintern regarding the upsurge which
has now started although this upsurge is
today an indisputable fact and it is rather
difficult to argue against facts. A character
site popularity of the present stage in the
development of the international labor move
ment consists in the upsurge being evidenced
everywhere though not alike in all countries
There are two examples which emphasize the
correctness of the line taken by the Comintern
and RLL.U. in connection with this question.
In kilograms received from Australia, we see
that the miners have set up two self-defense
corps. These self-defense corps are called in
the bourgeois press "the Red Army" One of
the corps consists, according to the papers,
Of 400 persons, and the other of $50 How
ever, also another figure is named-2000 mem
oers of the self-defense corps. Some of the
bourgeois papers, speak of two armies num-
boring 5000 and 5000 persons. Hence with
out the aid of the Communist Party, the work
ers themselves in Australia-in New South
Wales-are organizing under the leadership
Of some of the ex-soldiers, former soldiers in
he imperialist war; self-defense corps. And
for what purpose? In order to struggle against
he Labor Government. Facts of a partisan
war in such q far-off country like Australia,
bear witness to a great deal
The Correct Line.
Here is another fact, already from another
angle, speaking of the correctness of our policy
in Germany. The Opportunst Evert sent
declaration to the Central Committee of the
German Communist Party in which he COM
pletely recognizes his mistakes and incorrect
policy: both in connection with the question
the general limo of +be pop+N- +bo IL
union question, with regard to his stand toward
The factory committee elections, concerning the
question of he upward surge, etc. What does
his mean? 1t means tia, the upsurge has
even been recognized by the most backward
elements. AT one time the bourgeois and So
nal-democratic press having heard of the capi.
tulatlon of Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky, wrote
that the latter were compelled" to capitulatc
by means of threats in view of the fact that
here is terror" reignng in the U.S.SR, that
there is dictatorship here. But what forces
The opportunists to capitulate in GERMANY
Why, over there there is the dictatorship of
he bourgeoisie 1t is clear they capitulate
because facts go against them. The meaning
ess and slanderous explanations of the Right
opportunists to the effect that our Rights AMI
'onciliators capitulated because of fear" tel!
nothing But, on the other hand, the fact of
,apitulation Of the concilators in Germany
prove clearly and wildly that the correct line
IF the Communist International compels those
who do not desire to break with the revolu-
ionary labor movement, at least today to come
out frankly and honestly admitting their mis-
axes believe that this fact, taken from
altogether different view, also bears witness
% the upsurge and relentless class struggle
Agenda of the Fifth Congress.
The Fifth R.LLU. Congress, as | said above.
confronted with the task Of on the one hand,
summing up the past battles, and on the other.
% point out forms and methods for the future
struggle
The agenda of the Fifth RLL.U. Congress
S not very extensive: ~ Report of Executive
Bureau and Tasks of the International Won.
m Workers Trade Union Committee, the RI
~. Youth Secretarat, and the lnternationa
Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
(2) Struggle against danger of new imperial
is wars. 81 Role of the Trade Unions in the
socialist Construction of the U.S.S.R U)
Tasks Of the Trade Unions in the Colonial and
'em-Colonial Countries. 90 Problem of
Cadres in the Revolutionary Labor Movement
" Elections.
. seems as if the agenda is "short" In
tctual fact, however, it embraces vast num-
'er of questions, it embraces all political and
'rganizational problems of the world revolu
ionary trade union movement; the results of
he work carried out by our trade union or
carnations from the point of view of self