The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
BY |. YUZEFOVICH.
CTke Tenth Anniversary CT RlLU)

Crke Tenth Anniversary CT RlLUD
July, 1850, marks ten years since the for
nation of the Red international of Labor
Unions. This new revolutionary center Of the
world trade union movement, established IN
July 1920, with the C.C.TU. taking direct,
tive and a most lively part in its organization,
at first went under the name Of the Inter
national Trade Union Council" and after
wards, at its First Constituent Congress- cor
vened on July 80 1921, was enamel the Rel
International of Labor Unions (RIL.UD.
In its appeal issued on August /, 1920, The
International Trade Union Council declared an
unconciliatory war upon all opportunist Gle
ments within the trade union movement and
marked down its principle line and policy
"The new General Headquarters Of the revolt
tionary trade union movement the appeal
reads embracing about 100000 workers,
which is now about to begin its activity calls
upon the trade unions throughout the world
to put an end to and sever all connections
with those elements who are carrying on
criminal policy of Cancellation with the bour-
geoisie and rally to the banner OF the relentless
class struggle for the liberation of the OPP
pressed peoples the world over.
From the very beginning of its activity the
International Trade Union Council came out
sharply against the Amsterdam Trade Union
International, waging bitter fight against 1t
"The International Council declares war. in
stead of peace, against the Council OF Trade
and Industrial Unions of the bourgeoise, and
thereby defines the substance of its activity.
Our program stands for the overthrow of the
bourgeoisie by force and the establishment Of
the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; for the
waging of merciless class struggle on an in
ternational scale; and the maintainence of
i
munist International
SANDER and Hatred.
The leaders of the reformist trade unions,
lined up under the banner of the Amsterdam
Trade Union International responded to the
formation of the revolutionary center of the
world trade union movement by means of SLAM
der and hatred. While on the other hand all
foremost revolutionary class-conscious elements
of the labor movement throughout the world
rallied to and closed up their ranks around
the militant banner of the Red international
of Labor Unions
Ten years of the RIL.U.-are years Of con-
tinuous struggle for the masses and against
the policy and practice of class peace and COL
laboration with the bourgeosie, against the
policy of industrial peace and Economic
democracy" advocated by the reformists,
against world reformism.
Ten years of the R.IL.U.-a period of de-
termined, relentless struggle against the anti
labor, anti-class policy, against class betrayals
of the reformist leaders, decayed to the bone,
who have sold themselves to the bourgeoisie
and are merging to ever greater degrees with
the bourgeois state apparatus and employers
associations, and making rapidly for the camp
of reformsm.
Ten years of the existence of the R.LL.U.--
are ten years of stubborn, educational activ-
tiles, aiming at freeing the masses from under
the influence of world reformism; ten years of
long imbuing the consciousness of the wide
strata of the proletarian masses with the idea
of the nevitability of the fall of capitalism
and the necessity of overthrowing the bour-
geoisie by means of socialist revolution and