The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
WIDEN SCOPE OF R. LL.U.
CONGRESS PREPARATIONS

weakest most
able points in our work, and Transforming the
revolutionary trade unions and minority move
ments into really mass militant revolutionary
trade union organizations.
The preparations must be used to make of
these unions and minorites fighting mass or
CARNATIONS not in name alone and not only in
regard to the tasks they set out to solve, but
in their essence, in their inner content and
working methods as used in carrying on their
activities from day to day.
1t is important that the delegations to the
Fifth Congress of the Red International of
Labor Unions should not only get chance
once again to probe into the weak points
in their work, into their mistakes, and any
falling away from policy they may have al
lowed, but also to enable to tell us what they
have already done during the period of Con-
gress preparations to improve their activities,
to carry out the authoritative decisions of the
Sixth Central Council Session, to apply in ac-
tual practice the policy steering for the in
dependent leadership of economic struggles,
to recruit new tens and hundreds of thousands
of members, and to carry on the struggle to
win the most important sections of the work
ing class.
For An Accounting.
While developing the preparations for the
Fifth Congress and the Tenth Anniversary of
the RILU, taking stock of the road that has
been left behind in the heroic struggle of the
proetariat, checking up the "pluses" and
"minuses" in our work, and discussing the
practical tasks of the revolutionary trade
union organizations at the present stage of the
movements forward advance, it is essential at
the same time to take careful note of the
way the policy and practical guidance of the
RILU has been twisted this way that, in
all activities locally, to bring to the fore in
L. IL.
labor movement, thoroughly to analyze the
happenings of the last few years, Especially
of the recent past, in connection with the
world crisis, the offensive policy of the capt.
taIsts, the new wave of capitalist rationaliza-
ton, and the shiftings that have taken place
inside the working class, to make the excep-
tionally rich international and national exper-
fence gained in the struggle, the common
knowledge of all and to ponder over what
must be done to consolidate the revolutionary
trade union organizations locally, to increase
their specific gravity to transform them into
genuine militant organizations of the masses,
as we'll as to secure the all-round consolida-
ton of the RILU as the fighting center of
the international trade union movement
Preparations must be carried out not only
in the urban and industrial centers alone. 1t
is important that they should also be devel-
oped among the agricultural workers as we'll
From what information we already have to
hand it is not to be seen that this part of the
findings taken by the Sixth Session of our
Central Council in regard to the Fifth Con-
gress preparations has been given proper con-
sideration and applied in practice.
Yet this is Job that acquires the greatest
conceivable significance at the present day
when the imperialsts are making feverish pre-
parations for an armed attack upon the USSR
for the purpose of crushing the first country
in the world to know the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
The land workers happen to be that huge
reserve on which the bourgeoisie will draw to
fill up draft after draft of soldiers for their
imperialst armies. More today the workers
on the land are being subjected to perfect
spate of fascist agitation and propaganda 1t
is from their midst, too, that the fascists are
recruiting fighters for their sem-military
bands.
For this reason, our preparations campaign
must be made the jumping off point for en-
deavors and rally wholehearted efforts to rope
in the enormous mass of the organized and
unorganzed land workers, to get them brought
within the orbit of the influence welded by
the revolutionary trade union organizations,
and to stamp out what influence is held among
the rural workers by the fascists and the So
cial-fascists.
Link City to Farm Workers.
It would be good idea, and most advisable,
to organize special workers "brigades" from
the industrial workers which could be sent to
the countryside to establish contact with the
farm workers, hold mass meetings there, re-
cruit members and supporters for the
revolutionary minority movement, organize the
election of delegates, and so on.
Again, we may ask whether it is possible
tiyrnI1 70 opJ
tional preparations a broad basis for the
coming congress of the RLL.U.'s tenth ami
versary unless something is done to mobilize
your revolutionary trade union press and your
shop papers to this end and the fullest use
made of them.
AS far as can be judged from the revou-
tionary trade union papers and factory papers
we receive, barring "La Vie Ouvriere" and
the illegal organ of the Italian GEL, the
"Battagle Sindaca" our press has failed so
far to begin any broad campaign of prepare
tions for the congress. More has not thrown
anything like real strong light on the most
outstanding decisions of the Sixth Session of
the RIL,U. Central Council
What About It-LabOr Unity?
Surely it might be taken for granted that
the first thing the revolutionary trade union
press ought to have undertaken without fail
was the job of effecting broad mobilization
of working class public opinion around the
Fifth Congress, to set discussion going in it's
columns, to get the workers at large to take
part in this discussion, and to get the men
and women workers CORRESPONDENTS of the
movement to contribute their items on the
suhiact