The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
Resolution Adopted by the Sixth Congress G
the RILU Central Council.

which precipitated the great Stock Exchange
crash and which in turn transformed the de-
preston into deep economic crisis, results
through wage cuts, speed-up unemployment,
government fascist attacks, etc.-in accelerat-
ing the tempo of the rehabilitation of the
masses and in giving it a more definitely
revolutionary character. The working class
will increasingly go over from the defensive
to the counter-offensive, as eXempified by the
Illinois miners strike. This crisis has dealt
deathblow to the bourgeois-Lovestone theo-
ries of American "exceptionalism," has shat
tered the illusions Of continued prosperity"
of American capitalism, and has confirmed the
correctness of the policy of the Fourth Red
International of Labor Unions Congress on the
American question.
H. The Economic Council" formed by
Hoover is in reality War Council directed
against the working masses. Hoover's plan"
to overcome the crisis is plan to further
enrich the capitalists and degrade the work
ing masses This plan is cloaked with
phrases of class peace, Of relief for the I'M
employed, for continued prosperity" and is
intended to create new illusions among the
masses, while the real aim of the plan is to
take advantage of cheap labor for construc-
tons in connection with war preparations, to
crush strikes and further intensity rational
ization. In these capitalist attacks, the work
ers will have arrayed against them the triple
alliance of the government, the employers, and
the social fascist leaders of the ALL. and
the SIP. The ALL. as part of the employers
and state apparatus has already in its no
wage-increase agreement with Hoover begun
to put into effect its expanded strike breaking
wage-cutting program
III In the present period of sharpening
class struggle, the most dangerous obstacle
in the way of the development and growth of
the revolutionary unions are the so-called
left demagogues of the. Music type who are
but a shield for the ALL. and the SP.
bureaucracy Their use of radical phrases
enables them to more effectively deceive and
mislead the workers and keep them tied up
to the ALL. bureaucracy. These elements be-
come specially dangerous with the develop
ment of a strong eftward drift among the
workers. They are part of the strikebreak-
ing apparatus of the employers and must be
fought mercilessly. At the same time the
adherents of the RILU must combat most
theoretically all Right opportunist elements
of the Gitlow- Cannon type who hinder the de-
veopment of disciplined, centralized mass
revolutionary trade union movement and who
work into the hands of the enemies of the
RILU.
w. The new situation in the U.S.A pre-
sents highly favorable opportunity for the
growth of the TUUL and its affiliated unions.
The great task of the TUUL is to mobilize
the masses of workers in order to smash the
offensive of the capitalists. The TUUL must
come forward more and more as the leader
of all the workers in their struggles, indie
pendently of and against the social fascist
leaders and their cleft" Musteite supporters.
1t must become the true leading revolutionary
trade union center
" The Sixth Session of the RILU Cen
trail Council notes with approval the success
of the Cleveland Convention and the establish
ment of the revolutionary trade union center.
1t also notes the carrying through of num-
Der of partially successful strikes by the Red
Unions The Gastonia strike has revealed the
revolutionary spirit even of sections of the
working class considered until as "most
reliable" by the bourgeoisie. But this is only
a start The revolutionary unions should be
strengthened. They must fill up their ranks
by means of intensive and well planned or
ganizational campaigns and strike struggles
based on the burning needs of the workers.
The organization of the unorganized into the
revolutionary unions is the most urgent task
confronting the new revolutionary unions.
This work must be concentrated in the basic
industries which now, owing to the crisis are
opening up particularly favorable prospects
for the work of the TUUL such as OIL chemi-
Gals, food (packing house,, automobile, steel,
etc. and especially in those of war charac-
ter without, however, in any way relaxing its
activities in the mining, textile and other in
dustries. The TUUL must take up the work
of organizing the large number of exploited
agricultural and lumber workers.
VI The orientation of the TUUL must be
upon the organization of the most exploited
sections of the working class-the unskilled,
Negroes, women, youth, the Latin American
and Oriental workers, etc. In this way the
TUUL must become the representative of the
economic interests of the whole proletariat in
the industries.
VII. The Sixth Session takes cognizance of
the progress made in drawing Negroes into
the revolutionary unions and the beginning of
actual struggle against the Jim Grow System
(Belleville, Bicknell, etc.. The Gastonia strike
has historically demonstrated that the barriers
between black and white workers cultivated
assiduously by the bourgeoisie, especially in
the South, can be smashed, and the workers,
irrespective of, race, mbbilized for common
struggle against the employers. Life itself
has shown the incorrectness of the proposal
for the formation of separate Negro locals of
the revolutionary unions. The RILU at the
same time points out the failure of the TUUL
to sufficiently raise support the slogan of
self determination in it's Negro work as well
as the still inadequate organization Of the
Negro workers. A relentless struggle is nee
essary against white chauvinisIn from which
the new unions are not free.
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