The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-03
Methods of Fighting
The Opposition

9. While showing irreconciliubi-
lily in matters relating to the poll
teal line of the Communist Party
an mercilessly exposing the coun-
ter-revolutionary role of the re-
forn1ist leaders, we must have
comradely approach to socialist
workers and members of the re.
formist unions. In the revolutionary
T. U. organizations we must create
an atmosphere from top to bottom
SO that the non-Party workers and
the cicl-democratic workers will
feel themselves to be members on a
level with the Communist and SYM
pathizers.
The struggle against the OPPOSE
ton in revolutionary trade unions
must be carried on by different
methods from the struggle against
the right or cleft" opposition in
side the Party. First of all, in the
struggle against the trade union
opposition, there is no need to in
troduce the, question of Party dis
cipline, difference of opinion on
the Party line, etc. The Who'll e
struggle must be carried on only
on the questions of the trade
unions, and the question of dis
cipline must be kept within the
limits of the statutes of the T. u.
movement (Which naturally pre-
suppoSes decisive struggle along
Party lines against members of the
Party who work in trade unions
and resist the application of the
Party Gne). In the trade unions
more than anywhere else we need
a stubborn and patient campaign
OF explanation among the masses
and a struggle for each individual
worker, etc. On the other hand,
the internal life in the revolu-
tionary T. u, organizations must
be organized in such a way that
every member of the revolutionary
T. U. organization who disagrees
with majority decision should be
able to defend his views further
within the limits of the rules. The
struggle against breaches of T. U.
discipline must above all be car
ried on by patient convincing.
Disciplinary measures ei1ould be
applied only in the most extreme
cases and always on the basis of
trade union democracy. Therefore
in the struggle against the opposi-
ton in the midst of the revolu-
tionary trade union organizations,
we must more than anywhere else
separate the leaders from the
masses. The task of convincing
the masses and isolating the lead
ers cannot be solved by sweeping
charges of reformism or anarcho-
syndicalism, but by insistent and
patient explanatory work.
In giving these additional in
structions to the decisions of the
second international organizational
meeting on the work of Commu.
mist fractions in the trade unions,
the Presioi;m of the E. G. G. I.
instructs the c. C.'s to bring them
Immediately before the members, to
organize their thorough discussion
and popularization in the party
press, at Party meetings and in the
Party schools and courses. In ad.
dition, all Party committees (be.
ginning with the G. O. and fac-
tory nuclei must make concree
decisions on the basis Of these
instructions regarding their strict-
est and most systematic checking
up on the fulfillment of these di.
receives and the decisions Of local
Party organizations which make
them concrete. At the same time
the Presidium of the E. G. G. I.
demands a most decisive struggle
to be carried on, and the use Of
organizational measures against
those organs Of the Party leader.
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