The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-13
BN IOHN SCHMIES.

IUR immediate perspective as outlined in our
" program calls for more struggles and in
creased strike movement, along the whole front,
and yet we must seriously admit that our
Party and the red unions are not sufficiently
alive to the growing possibilities confronting
us. 1t is therefore the immediate task of our
movement on the eve of the Fifth World Con-
gress of the Red international of Labor Unions
to prepare to the maximum extent for the
practical application of our central slogan
organize and strike against wage cuts, and
the speed-up program Of the bosses.
1t becomes necessary to mobilize the entire
Party membership and our membership in the
rel unions for the immediate building up Of an
organization and strike fund of 100000,
The demands which are placed upon our
revolutionary movement, as stated above, the
broadening out of the increasing strike move
ments, campaign for unemployed insurance
must and will develop into a mighty working
class mass movement in this country.
Our Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Indus
trial Union has for its perspective the organ
ization of a general strike on a nation wide
scale in the mining industry. The program
of our metal. steel and auto movement calls
for the building up of broal Metal Workers
Industrial Union. Our textile workers union
is confronted with new tasks, and new respon-
shl.ies.
The militant spirit among the needle trades,
food ami shoe workers is increasing at a rapid
tempo The marine workers strike in New
Orleans; the open revolt amongst the rank and
file workers i'll some of the A. F. of L. unions
is presenting TO our movement greater possibil-
tiles. The masses of unemployed workers look
ing towards US for guidance and mass initiative
in the struggle against unemployment This
again brings to our attention sharper than
ever before. the role which our Party and the
revolutionary unions in this country must play
The Fifth World Congress of the R.IL.U.
demands from our movement to increase of
our daily organization work and to actually
become the mass leaders &C the American work.
ing class, because only on this basis will our
Party and the red unions, that is the general
Trade Union Unity League movement, be able
to win the decisive sections of the American
working class.
All this demands the most energetic mobil-
ization of all our forces, and the campaign
the eve of the Fifth W-rld Congress for the
bull ling up of this organization and strike fund
of 100000 by our revolt toinary unions is a
test of our leadership.
The success of this campaign first of all
will depend upon the capability of our general
Party movement, which must become the rev.
dictionary driving force in our T.U.U.L. and
its affiliated union, in order to throw into
this campaign many of hundreds and thousands
of unorganized workers.
This further requires that our Party district
leadership orientates itself in the sharpest way
towards the ma jor task of our Party, which is
the building up Of the T.U.U.L This further
requires the most rigid checking up on the part
of our Party district leaders, on the entire
Party and trade union apparatus.
Our comrades must raise the questions: What
must our orientation be? What are the deci-
sve industries in the different districts? What
is the Party doing in the coal mining district?
Is our Party ORIGINATING towards the steel and
metal sections in the respective districts? Are
we going to convince our Party membership
that they must become the active workers and
organizers in the T.U.U.L?
Why is it that we are so terribly slow in the
building up of our trade union fractions? which
means that instead of giving political and Or
ganizational leadership inside our red unions,
we find that our Party comrades are sitting
in the back seats, that is those who do attend,
and acting merely as many of the rank and file
workers in the trade union
Why is it that out of 800 Party members in
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union,
we are not moving with sufficient speed in or
der TO keep up with the growing possibilities
in the needle trades industry?
The building up of an organization and strike
fund of 100000 demands mass initiative and
mass action. it means that all Party members
who are slow, who are pessinnistic, who are
hesitating, must wake up and must begin to
appreciate the ever growing possibilities for
the building up of real, genuine proletarian
mass movement at this stage of the class strug-
gle, We must decide that instead of nessimisrn