The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-28
Union Movement

together to go into the fight for these demands.
Only then will the entire working mass in the
factory be under the leadership of the revolu-
tionary vanguard and will herocally fight for
the demands up to the very end when they will
know that these are their own demands. We
must clearly and directly explain to the masses
and underline it with all our behavior that the
united front is not a skilful maneuver but a
question Of mutual action, it is a problem of the
methods of work for the defense of the common
daily needs and interests. This can be considered
a vancouver on-v in that sense that the tactic of
the united front has for its aim the directing
of the entire will the entire discomfort the entire
militant determination of the working class
against the capitalists and their agents within
the working class, who aim at sitting the joint
vigorous struggles of the proletarian masses. The
supporters of the revolutionary trade union
movement must be the initiators the guiding ele-
ment in the establishment of the united workers
front from below. Having taken the initiative of
the united front, by no means reject the
struggle against the reactionary leaders We do
not cease to expose the strike breaking activities
of these leaders, but we must constantly explain
to the masses why the reactionary leaders are
not capable of fighting for the interests of the
workers. We must prove by means of fact and
document how closely these leaders have merged
We must show whose interests they are defend
ing and warn the workers that the reactonary
leaders will break the vigorous militant battles
of the workers, warn them that these leaders will
pretend to be friends of the workers and even
declare strike with the aim, however of quickly
breaking it and worsen the conditions of the
workers, that unity can only be achieved, not
with the agents of the capitalists not with
strike breakers but only with the rank and file
members of the unions in opposition to the re-
siStance of the reactonary leadership. We must
however, struggle with all our determination
against the tendency to create uNited front at
all costs at the expense of giving up our princi-
pal position, giving up the agitation in time of
strike for joining the revolutionary trade unions
ETC. Such an unprncipled united front, one that
leads to the breaking of the struggle to the sub
ordination Of the movement to the reactionary
trade union bureaucracy one which facilitates
the betrayals by the reactionary leaders. such a
united front must be opposed by the supporters
OF the revolutionary trade union movement. They
must set up against this united front united
front of workers created on the basis of concrete
demands on the basis of consistent class strug-
gle program. We must with special energy and
determination expose the cleft" maneuvers of
the Music group and the renegade group of Love
stone who as it was demonstrated by the miners
strike in Illinois and the textile strike in Pater-
son, attempt to come out with hypocritical pro-
posals for united front for the purpose of caus-
ing disintegration in the ranks of the fighters
to rob the demands of the strikers of their revo-
lutionary content, to SOW the illusion among the
workers that they want and are able to defend
the interests OF the workers, to place themselves
in the role OF the champions of the united front
to paralyze the leading role of the revolutionary
vanguard, Thu same kind of hypocritical chatter
as that of the Musteites and Lovestoneites about
the unifcation of the unions and the creation of
one union, for example, the furriers We must
not only set up against it slogan of the crea-
ton OF the single class union on the 3asis of
consistent revolutionary c,a5s struggle under
revolutionary leadership which would carry
through the concrete program of struggle and
would guide its activity by the will Of the masses
but it is also necessary that the revolutionary
trade union should not lag at the tail end and
should themselves come out with the direct ini-
tiative for united front in the organization of
single class union. The reactionary clique in the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, saturated with
corruption, exposed in the use of gangstersm
against the active workers. exposed in taking
graft, in open strike breaking policies in direct
collision with the bosses, discredted through the
shameless clique fights feeling that the working
masses are slipping from under their influence
ard becoming pernested with the tendency to-
ward unity, it is because of this that they place
in the forefront the left" allies and agents from
the groups of Music and Lovestone hoping that
through this they will save their little shop from
complete collapse True, though somewhat late
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union
adopted correct stand with regard to the posi-
ton of the Musteites and Lovestoneites on the
question of the single union against the vague