The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-28
For a Decisive Turn in Our Revolutionary Trade

slogan of the "lefts" for the organization Of the
single union" on the basis of the individual de-
mands copied by the "lefts" from the reyolu-
tionary vanguard, the Industrial Needle Trade
Workers Union brought forward a concrete pro-
gram Of organization of single real class union
with revolutionary leadership on the basis of
concrete program for struggle for increased
wages and the betterment of the conditions of
work, against gangSterism, and for trade union
democracy, ETC.
The "LeftS" are trying to utilize our organiza-
tional weakness, our sluggshneSs, and our in
ability to carry through in practice at the right
time the tactic of the united front and they
hope in this way to earn for themselves politi-
cal capital
To take the initiative in the creation of a
single workers front in the struggle and in the
formation of the corresponding concrete condi-
tons Of single class union, to expose the hypo-
critical maneuvers of the LETS, to expose the
real character of the "lefts IS agents Of the
bourgeoisie in the reactionary trade union bu-
reaucracy, to apply on a wide scale in practice
the tactic of the united front, this is what is
necessary in order to isolate the reactionary
leaders and their Left" agents from the masses
and the transformation of the revolutionary
trade unions into real mass organizations.
1t is hardly possible to deny that in the sphere
of the unemployed movement we have loss in
tempo. The revolutionary trade union organiza-
tons h We not begun to work seriously in the
unempl, ed movement The direcdves given by
the Pr Iintern ON the question of the unenl-
ployed movement have not been properly re-
Elected in the work Of our revolutionary trade
unions. These drectiveS gave concrete 1nforma-
ton regarding the content, as well as the organ
national forms and methods of our work Spe-
cial emphasis is laid by these directives on the
formation of unemployed councils and whole
network of auxiliary organs with view to better
penetrate unemployed masses by means of all
these added links, to embrace organizationally
the masses and actiyize the entire movement.
We must, however, admit that there is very
sharp discrepancy between the activity of the
masses who are undsr our influence and the
organizational base OF the movement. Neither
the number of organized unemployed councils
nor the character of the everyday work and the
organizational structure of the councils can be
considered satisfactory. We face severe winter.
The discomfort among the unemployed masses
is growing The broad mass campaign which is
being organized by the Communist Party TUUL
and the revolutionary unions, which has for its
purpose the organization of gigantic marches
of the unemployed and the calling of confer
ence of the unemployed delegates in Washington,
must become the starting point for concrete I'M
dertakngs for the general strengthening of the
organizational base of the unemployed move
ment
We must first of al create flexible vital APP
paratus on the basis of the activity of the mass
es themselves, We must create apparatus
which will be III position to carry on planned
and systematic work in the defense of the small
est needs and interests of the unemployed mass
es, an apparatus which would be connected by
thousands al threads with these masses and
would give leadership to these masses by means
of the special auxiliary organs and the delegated
bodies. The unemployed councils in most of the
cases are top organs devoid of any support in
the lower ranks without any ties leading to the
masses. This circumstance does not permit the
councils of the unemployed to serve the minute
needs of the unemployed, to quickly mobilize
them TO raise and bring into motion the broad
est masses of the unemployed. The creation of
such belts in the form of special commissions
and subcommittee in strikes for organzational
problems trade union work, press, recruiting
members legal aid, fe ding of children the pro-
lection of the evicted, for the struggle against
overtime work in the Shops for work among
women and youth, this will assist in the intro
duction of normal life in the councils of the un-
employed, in the creation of a good active group
of unemployed, in the establishment of contact
between the employed and unemployed workers
All these commissions and auxiliary organs must
report regularly to the councils of unemployed
and the latter in turn must report at meetings
Of the unemployed. But what is of special i'm
portance is to insure direct initiative and indie
pendent action of the unemployed themselves
At the coming plenum of the TUUL, we must
place the question not only Of which measures
must be introduced for the successful preparation
and carrying out of mass hunger marches of the
unemuecyed but also the question Of measures
for The strengthening of the organizational base
OF Me unemployed movement. Of the drawing OF