The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
The Most Burning Question:
Unity Of Action
Bella XII N------
Member of the Presdium the Communist International
By BIHek

afterwards have lost the confidence of the COM
rades' but he discovers the enemy again
the Left Wing, which he writes:
ut is therefore greatly to be feared that the
Communist Party of Austria, upon instructions
from its International is repeating the old
of speaking very eagerly about unity and
the united front, but that it will pursue the end
of preventing qualification of the whole revolu-
tiCnary proletariat of Austria in ONE Party"
CONTRADICTS OBVIOUS TRUTH
What Otto Bauer says is in gross contradiction
to the obvious truth, Both the Communist Inter
national and the Communist Party of Austria are
eager-not in words but in deeds-that the Austrian
labor movement should be united. They want
trade union movement, the continuation of the free
trade unions single trade union movement,
their transformation into organs of the class
struggle the continuation of the Schutzbund the
common organ of struggle of the whole revolu-
tonary proetariat of Austria; they want party,
and lead the forces of the whole Austrian proIe-
tariat and of all t0iing and exploited sections of
the population for the overthrow of the fascist die
tatorShip, of capitalism for the setting up of the
proletarian dictatorship of Soviet power The Com
MUST Party of Austria has already rallied around
itself many of the most active fighters of the anti
fascist proletaran revolution in Austria Its doors
stand open to all who want to fight this battle to
the end. However, Otto Bauer's main worry is to
conStrue contradiction between the Communists
who were already on the right path before the Feb
ruary struggles and those who took this path during
the February struggles the basis of their ex-
periences with Social Democracy. Where is this new
argument of Otto Bauer's the unity of the labor
movement designed to lead us?
To put it shortly: To maintaining the split in
the Austrian labor movement to splitting it afresh
The Austrian working class is striving for unity
not on the basis of the Linz program where instead
of the struggle for the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat the threat of proletarian dictatorship was
included in the program. 1t does not seek union
on the basis of a program of former epoch which
was then in the time of Hainfed, a great step
forward, but which today cannot show it the path
and the goal. The Austrian workers are looking
not backward, but forward. Otto Bauer is once
again working for split in order to keep open
the way to union with those who desevedly lost the
confidence Of the working class and after the
February days. The union which Otto Bauer pro-
poses thus denotes the re-establshment of class
collaboration with the Austrian bourgeoisie.
What sort of unity is required in the labor
movement?
Unity of action is needed in every country unity
of action which unites the forces of the working
cass-no matter to what party organization the
workers may beong-for direct struggle against
fascsm in Germany, Austria and in all countries,
unity of action which rallies them together for the
defense of their interests against the offensive of
capital A unity of action which mobilizes the
working class against the bourgeosie, which gives
the working class strength to lead the middle strata
in town and country into the struggle against the
boureeoise side by side with the proletariat.
Such unity Of action opens the way to over
coming the split in the labor movement.
THE End