The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-13
By H. KORETZ.

ZION Program and Principles by the so-called
former Minority of the GE.B. of the N.T.W.
III. under the spiritual guidance of Love
stones microscopic Majority Group of the
C.PA. 1t aims to rescue" our Union from
destruction at the hands of the "Burocrats,'
who have instituted regime of bossism that
puts to shame the regimes in the reactionary
unions (Gitlow).
Hitherto their opposition was based on
"Hooverian Prosperity" Their song was:
Under the Lovestone Regime Our Unions have
prospered lead mass strikes, everything was
hunky dory, but now with the removal of the
best advertised leaders, Gross, Zimmerman,
Steiner, Zirlin, etc. the N.T.W.IU. has be-
come totally isolated. Hence-fight for the
only capable leadership of Lovestone, the de-
fender of the feminist Line" No mistakes
ever committed, Absolutely infalible. But
since they have failed with this stuff they
have tried luck with Real Program"
In the Counter Revolutionary Age of May
81, we find "Clarion Call" for Genuine
Militant Unionism' by B. Gitlow and side by
side with it the feminist Line in the Needle
Trades-eXcerpts from the declaration of the
so-called minority, which presented to our
Second National Rank and File Convention of
the N.T.WIU. and received crushing defeat.
We propose on the basis of these two to make
an analysis of the Line"
First Mr. Gitlow He appeals for Leninsm
versus Losovskyism. The policy of the TU.
I'LL played havoc in the U.S.A. Where mass
struggles were yet conducted as was the case
in Gastonia, it was under the leadership of
LoVestone. The new Unions are in state of
collapse. (This is a carefully considered state
ment-Gitlow). 1t will take years of pain
full work under the most difficult circumstances
to repair the damage that has been done to
establish the prestige and influence of the
communists among the trade union masses and
to build left wing-says Gitlow. His reason
of course, is
1.-THE ultra left sectarian policy of TU.U.L.,
a policy of organizing simon-pure revolutions
airy unions in stereotyped fashion, with all
the nonsense of the third period phantasies
in trade union organization"
Not a word is mentioned as to what is to
be done with the existing new Industrial
Unions Not a word in their defense. Build
the left wing" is the call of Mr.. Gitow. No
splitting ever in the most reactionary Union
Only by these means, concludes Mr.. Gitlow,
will the Communists accomplish their basic
trade union task that of organizing the I'M
organized. "Only thru a United Front tactic
on the issue of trade union unity against the
burocracy and the bosses can we establish
that trade union front of the organized and
unorganized masses that will make it possible
for US to organize the unorganized into genu-
inc unions under left wing leadership" con-
cludes further Mr.. Gitlow.
What mess? No wonder we had such mess
struggles in the A.C.W. under hiss leadership.
A maze of phraseology covering up a definite
right wing opportunst line. And as is usually
the case, the renegades call to their aid Com
rade Lenin, in order to deceive the masses of
their real objective.
Gitlows Style of Quoting.
Mr. Gitlow in quoting Lenin, states the fol-
lowing, "Lenin continually warned the Com
munists that they must work in the most re-
dictionary unions and that it is against the
policy of the Bolsheviks to split even the most
reactionary trade union organizations"
What a distortion of Leninism! 1t is
tainly daring piece Of charlatanism and
renegadism What do the Thesis on Labor
unions presented to the Second World Congress
of the CT, under the direct leadership of Com
rade Lenin, say?
Paragraph 5, dealing with splits, reads as
follows:
Placing the object and the essence of
Labor organization above their form, the
Communists ought not to hesitate before a
split in such organization, (meaning I.P.A.
uniOns) if a refusal to split would mean
abandoning revolutionary work in the labor
%. unions and giving up the attempt to make
of them an instrument of revolutionary
struggle"
So Lenn did approve of splits, the problem
involved only, is that of time and tactics, and
on the thesis further states:
But even if such split should be neces-
sary, it must be carried into effect only at a
tinc, when the Communists have succeeded
by their incessant warfare against the OPP
portunist leaders, and their tactics, by their
most active participation in the economic
struggle in persuading the wider masses of
workmen that the split is occurring not be-
cause of the far away and as yet incompre-
hensbe aims Of the Revolution, but on ac-
count of the concrete immediate interests of
the working class in the development of its
economic struggle
But Mr.. Gitlow does not recognize yet that
the A.C.W, as well as all reactionary needle
trades unions, ceased to be organs of defense
even of the most elementary needs of the
workers such as wages, hours, etc. Mr.. Gitlow
does not accord them yet full recognition as
company unions. Hence--build left wing
in these unions How? Thru a United Front
Tactic the issue of Trade Union Unity
Is not this gem? And on this there is COM