The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
VIII Not SIacken Fight for United
action, Communist Party Tells S. p.
C. P. ANSWERS SOCIALIST EXECUTIVE ON

issues is possible between Social
lists and Communists except on
the basis which also gives hopes,
of ending fratricidal strife within
the trade union movement"
This sentence, in our Judgment,
requires further Qualification, be-
cause it admits of two opposite in
terpretations.: If the sentence is
understood as call to end fratri-
cidal strife between Socialist and
Communist members and followers
in the trade unions for united &C
ton on concrete issues, then we
can only give our wholehearted en-
dorSement to such an objective. We
are firmly of the opinion that the
united front means that Socialists
and Communists should fight
shoulder to shoulder within the
trade unions upon an agreed plat
form. We believe that this would
furnish a unifying influence that
would extend far beyond the
boundaries of the membership of
the two parties. Further if the
statement is directed towards an
effort for the unification of rival
trade unions within a given field,
we are Fundamentally in agreement
with this. If it were not for the
present rotten and Servile leader
ship, openly pro-capitalist and
tools of the capitalists, at the head
of the American Federation Of
Labor, there is no doubt that
during the last eighteen months it
would have been possible to have
built unified trade union move
ment with ten to fifteen million
workers in its ranks. The workers
could then have had a powerful
and Solidified working class weapon
with which to wage the struggle for
their daily bread. This is what
the Communists fight for in every
union in which we work-the A.
F. of L., T. U. U. L., or independent
unions. 1t is our aim to establish
powerful trade union movement,
embracing all workers, a trade
union movement with real workers
democracy, free from gangsterism
and corruption, organized on an in
dustrial basis, guaranteeing COM
plete equality to the Negro toilers.
Another Possible Interpretation
But there is another possible and
opposite understanding of the SEN
tence quoted from your letter.
This opposite Interpretation is that
to end fratricidal strife really
means to end the struggle con-
Quoted by Communists and other
revolutionary workers, as we'll as
broad circles of non-party work.
erS, against the policies of the Elk
ecutive Council of the A. F. of L.
and its constituent international
unions. Such an Interpretation
demands the acceptance without
opposition of the expulsion and de-
portation policies recently promul-
gated by the A. F. of L. Executive
Council. 1t demands uncondi
tional submission of the miners to
that corrupt bureaucrat, John L.
Lewis, and the voluntary liquida-
ton of such independent organiza
tons as the Progressive Miners in
Illinois. 1t demands the uncondi-
tional acceptance of such brazen
treachery as William Green's
stab in the back of the San Fran
cisco General Strike, as well as the
betrayal of that strike by the local
Central Labor Council leaders. 1t
demands submission to Green's Ear
bitraticn" sell-out proposal for the
heroic textile strikers. 1t demands
surrender of the New York painters
to the gangster and racketeer, zaus-
ner. 1t demands uunquestioning
support to the notorious sell-out
agreement negotiated in the steel
and auto industries. 1t demands