The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02

elected leaders OF Cne new OfK demonstration
were very poorly attended.
At beat, such instances show an approach to
the whole question of leadership in the strug-
giles of the unemployed, the connection of the
unemployed movement with the building of the
class-struggle unions, that is non-bolshevik and
frivolous.
Unemployment Convention and the RI.L,U.
The National Convention of Unemployed in
Chicago, July AS, furnishes us a splendid OPP
portunity to make organic connection with
the Fifth R.IL.U. Congress and the fight
against unemployment. At the Chicago Con-
vention there must be made sharp turn in
the matter of popularzation of the Congress
and its order of business In the most con-
crete fashion the R.LL.U. Congress can be
brought forward as the next step in the advance
of the world struggle against unemployment
and the strengthening of all the forces n the
world leadership of the economic struggles of
the masses.
The same line must be applied in the prepara-
tons for August 1.-The International Day of
Struggle Against Imperialist War. The deep
ening economic crisis makes it not only neces-
sary but entirely possible to popularize the
role of the R1.L.U. and the Comntern; also
to make the clearest connection between the
drive against the living standards of our class
and tie preparations for attacks on the Soviet
Union, and new world war of imperialist con-
quest.
The detailed work of preparation for the
Fifth Congress must not cease with the cleo
ton of delegates. Through all the sessions
of the RIL.U. Congress resolutions and de-
bates must be brought to the attention of work
ers at every shop committee meeting, at every
conference and convention, at all mass meet
ings, ano always in connection with the issues
and struggles which arise here in the United
States. international working class solidarity
in the economic struggles through the leader
ship of the R.I.L.U.-by its correct revolution
airy line and its day-to-day direction; through
its sectic MS like the Trade Union Unity League
and its International Committees of Propa-
ganda ana Action in all industries.
Organized by the Trade Union Unity League,
with the huge March demonstrations, pow
erful factor in its organizations in spite of our
errors, with indisputable evidence of the wide
growth of the influence of the Communist
Party before our eyes, the Chicago Conven-
ton will mark big advance in the consoida-
ton of the struggle for Work or Wages and
for social insurance.
1t musst likewise mark big step forward in
the correction of our weaknesses in the prepa-
rations for the Fifth Congress of the RLi.U.,
and the serious undertaking of this work on
far wider mass scale than ever before. The
next big step will be the holding of mass con-
vention of the National Miners Union in Pitts
burgh or July &c, after which comes August
and the mass demonstrations against imperial
list war.
In all of these actions the preparations for
the Fifth Congress must be an integral part of
the agitational and organizatonal work.
Combine Everyday Struggles and Revolution
airy Program
Writing in the April-May edition of the Red
3 International of Labor Unions, Comrade Lo-
sovsky stated:
z 'The great thing in preparations is
to link up the preparatory work of the
Congress with the everyday struggle of the
workers, and the current problems with all
the developments and vital activities in The
given country. We must not separate
our preparations from the current ques-
tons, but link them together closer than
ever before; not campaign, movement or
serious event in the ranks of our Parties.
trade union oppositions revolutionary
unions should be isolated from the Con-
gress, which must prove an event of the
first importance for the whole revolution
airy trade union movement throughout the
world
This is the line we must follow in utilizing
the Chicago Convention for widening the mass
base of the preparations for the Fifth Con
gress of the Red International of Labor Unions.
The Chicago Convention will be greatly
strengthened thereby and its international sig
nificance brought home to thousands of our
class.
Of still greater Importance for the carrying
out of our immediate tasks is the fact that in
our fight for the exposure and defeat Of the
American Federation of Labor leadership as
the s tri k e breaking counter-revolutionar
agency of imperialism, in our struggle against
the traitorous socialist party and its Music
wing in the textile and coal mining industries,
in our struggle against these enemies of the
Negro masses, in our exposure of their role
as the supporters of white chauvinism in the
ranks of the working class, in the organization
of the unemployed side by side wit hthe en-
ployed workers in the class-struggle unions.
we must establish the Red international of La