YOUR THE COMMUNIST The Communist Party and Industrial Unionism.
of rights TO Ideas the BY ZINOVIEY.
FOREWORD and poor peasants, bus created entirely bex cod.
The following thesis on tho Communist ditions for all the workers 01gkalzations, ano Party and Industrial Unionism, mund by the pecially for the Industrial Unions. Under the changed conditions, the lodustrial Executive Committee of the Communist Inter.
orkabization CAD no longer be regarded as the national, particularly.
valuable. In thlo advace guard of the Aght put up by the worker country where the of iu siling aimself to the employer. The empyos er atill find favor with number of clans. conaci. who used to buy labor power of old, cins DO Inore. It is no longer necessary for the Unions workers both Ous within and without the Com.
to collect strike funds or to organize strikes.
muniat movement it It clearly defines the the Kope THE PRESENT FUNCTION OF RUSSIAN of activities of Industrial unionism befor and TRADE UNIONS.
during the proletarian dictatorship, and What are the real functions of the industrial preves that unless the industrial unions work OT ÇAnizations in Russia today?
under the guidance anddirection of the Com.
The same resolution of the First All Russian Congress of Industrial Unions says on this point: munist Party. they tend to pernicious forme The n Dust now trabafer their conter of syndicalism which hamper the revolutionary of gravity to economic reconstructions movemnet To explain what an industrial organization really is under the conditions now obtaining in In this connection it. important to Russia, one is Srst obliged to make clear that:mention that the ONE BIG UNION MONTH An Industrial Union in Russia today is a LW of the Wbrazenly accept what permanent union of all the workers in a given this thesis calls the worrt features of syn.
industry: It represtui. Le of the principal bases of the organization of tbe Dictatorship of the dicalismº as ito own position Proletariat The Industrial It is also interesting to mention the in.
Uplon today (under the guldance of the Communist Party) transfers its ternal controversy going on in the center of gravity to the domain of economic arent political parties and Industrial unions as organization, by making its aim an energetic the leaders in the revolutionary labor moveparticipation in all the efforts of the workers for ment. The editor of their official organ.
a Communist reconstruction of society and for the abolition social classes. This participation cently resigned because he disagreed with the takes the folowing forms: position on this question (1) General co operation in the organization thus creating a veritable tempest in the lat. of production on Communist basis.
ter organization. 2) The re establishment of the productive power of the country, which was destroyed by This thesis, as well as the thesis on the the war and the internal crisis.
ROLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES, print (3) The calculation and redistribution of ed in a previous issue thould go long way labor for the entire country. 4) The organiza:lon of the excbange in clarifying this issue to the membership of between town and country.
the Communist Party. But, make. our (5) The introduction of the obligation to agitation effective it is necessary that thomerwork bers of the party should spread this idea in (6) Helping the State Departements to provide food their shops and unions, particularly in the. 7) Helping to solve the fuel crisis and and independent industrial oter difficulties unlona. 8) Giving general aid to the formation of (Editor Communlet)
the Red arty. 9) Defending the economic incercet of the workers and at the same time fighting against THE PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE OF the individualist tendencies and the short sighted INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION.
views of that section of the workers wbich, beTo arrive at a clear understanding of the cause of its ignorance, still retains the habit o!
proper relationship of the Communist Party and regarding the Proletarian state of today AS the workers industrial organizations, one must though It were the old employer.
first examine the purpose and structure of in.
dustrial organization. Because the industrial organization of to.
According to Webb, the aim is to maintain day are the Communist schools of the proletar.
and increase the standard of wages Brentano ian and semi proletarian masses, they bave be.
and Son. bart say that the object lo to sub.
come, little by little, an integral part of the sidize the members in time of strike, and to sale general mechanism of the state. They are one guard their interests by increasing their wages.
of the organs of the state of working people who The Bolshevik. Party has never given ile subinit to the rule of the Soviets because the adhesion to these phrases. It has never approved Suviets are the vehicle indicat by history for tie Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
the formula generally accepted by the Second International. This was deflued by a well known THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE SOVIETS Austrian inilitant lodustrialist, Adolf Braun, as The Industrial Unions work in conjunction the organization of the workers in permanent with the Communist Party aud the Soviets. The craft or Trade nions of wage barners, with the activities of these three fustitutions are closely object of securing atheliorations of working con.
linked. To make clear the relations of these ditions within the limits of the capitalist system, bodies. It must be remembered that the Soviets and to fight within those limits to prevent con.
actually include larger masses than the Indus.
ditions TOSIDE worse.
trial Unions tbtinselves: also that the Soviets In the controversy with the Mensheviki in have taken over part of the functions of the 1913, the Bolshevik Party laid the rule down Industrial Unions.
that the workers should be organized in a The English Congress of the Russian Com.
Union covering the entire industry, not merely munist Party has given the following definition sectional craft trade within the industry.
of the party and of the Soviets: The Communist Party declared that the In.
The Soviets are the state organization of dustrial Unions should conduct the economic ngut the workers and poor peasants which effectunte of the workers, and should constantly collaborate the Dictatorship of the Proletariat during the with the workers polit! cal party in the working period when the state in all its formis is gradual.
class struggle for emancipation, the abolition of ly being extinguished. The Soviets unite within wage slavery, and the victory of Socialism.
their ranks ten million workers, and, little by For this reason the Bolshevik Party has ne.
little, must strive to include the entire class of Ter considered the Indutrial Union as an organ. workers and poor peasants, ization aspiring only to secure kone reforms and The Communist Party. On the other band, ameliorations of working conditions within the Is an organization which takes in ouly the ad.
limits of capitalist society. On the contrary, the vanced guard of the workers and poor peasants; Bolshevik Party. in complete accord with the only that part of these two classes which tights doctrine of Mary, bas always seen that the In.
consciously for the practical application of the dustrial Union is one of the most important Communist program. The aim of the Communist organizations of the working class; one that has Party La to obtain a preponderating influence been created for the fight for Socialism in in. and complete control of all the workers organ.
timate collaboration with the political party, ana Izations, the Industrial Unions, the Co operativet, one that in consequence. ls favorable to the the rural Communists, and so on. The Communist dictatorship of the proletariat, Party strives expecially to introduce its program Spre 1913 Important changes have come into the actual organizations of state the Soabout in Russia. The power has passed into the virts and to obtain complete control there No antin of the working clars. The bourgoldle bas doubt can exist that in the future that varlour berropriated: the works aro no longer existing crkanizations of the workers will be obliged to roll their labor power to the divers Anally united in one forn. It is uscious to speexploitin employers, culate today as to which form will prove the 11 we consider that fact, it immediately be Dost durable. Our present duty is to determine em clear to us that the functions of the In. precisely between the Communist Party, the In.
dustrial not in Rus are subject to import.
ustrial nions, and Soviets kit modifications THE THEORY OF THE EQUALITY OF RIGHTS STATEMENT BY THE ALL. RUSSIAN Even anonkut the more hopeful section of CONGRE68 OF TRADE UNIONS, the old International, the opinion was very pre.
The pilotson adopted at the First All Rus. valent that the Corninunist arty cibe one las Compres. of Trade Unions in 1918 u to. band, and thy Industrial Unions on the other lows: hand, wo Organizations of quul value baving The October Revolution, which transforod thu sanie rixho. Orkanizations which collaborated the upT from the tourganise the worken on Ini portant questions of all kinds, like two contre un parties. The Balist Party should Now the Communist Party Russia, control the political ide, while the Jadustria)
In controlled the economic Fid Thus, for. the German Social Deinderats Dakard trolotion. to seu by Augilet Bebel, statink that it it sled ver by Deer sary to employ the monpon of the general strike, this tion could only be dreided by a conference return the executive of the party and the Peneral committee of the Trade Unions, From the Communist viewpoint this opinion cannot be terorized The quality they has always been disputed by the revolu.
Lionary Marxiana.
From the revolutionary Marzlan viewpoint, the communist arty is the ultimate reunion of all jihases of the trusle of the working close for freedom from the capitsist yoke. The com.
Intanist Party makes use of a whole arsenal of ar to win this fight. The political struggle is indissolubly bound up with the economic truste, The Communist Party show the way for the economic as well as the political struggle The Communist Party is the advanre Ruard of tip proletariat. By the torch of Coinmunicio It lights up all the turning of the road leading to the emancipation o! the workers On this Recount, the york wbich the cominudists Are doing in the industrial Unions is but a fraction of the work which the Communist Party, as such, are doing During period of dictatorship like that we In Russia are no passing through. one can t1 crs think of any compromise Eitt the tiality of tights thicory. The least deviation in in this direction must be strenuously fougbt, in theory as well as in practice.
THE NOX. PARTY TRADE UNIONS The present industrial Unions are not neces.
sarily under the Communist Party. All worken both, men and women, are received into them ir.
respective of their party or creed. worker woo does not belong to the Party has the full ight to join our pdustrial Unions. But on that ac.
Cent. Coinmunists who work in the Industrial oious should not fall to pay attention to the conservative character of the members who do not belong to the Party. The Communists, and the Coinmunist group in the Industrial Uniona nist preach Coinmunism openly. The leaders of the Industrial Unions must COD santly drar the potention of the workers to this fact that the Encinics of Corninudist, not belonging to the Party, are ying to deceive then. Tbey should explain to the workers by the industrial Union.
ist. While they are not forinally bombers of our Party, always help the Communist Party. re.
cognizing the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and dełending the Power of the Soviets and the World Revolution.
THE MODERN TRADE UNION MOVEMENT.
The modern Industrial Unions are doing 15 eaorinous work, and they greatly facilitate the triggle for Socialism made by tht Communist Party and the Soviets. But at the same time tre is, during our trarisitious, dark side to the xcitvity of the Industrial niuus. For ex.
am;le, some branches of tht Dock Laborers Union on the role support the vase demands of their short sighted individual members (with.
oit even having helped the Soviets in their right rainst the incredille thefts which have been camitted by the dockyard workers. they pre they are very inucb bebind the times, and that they are incapable of rising above the narrow interests of their group. When certain associa.
tions o clerks and other similar conimercia associations introduce people into the Soviet in.
stititions, who are not fit to do the work which is entrusted to them, aud when these associations titie up the demands o? their members, forgettus that they no longer have to deal with employ. rs. but with the Proletarian State. they also Tove their Trade Unions narrowness. The ight against the gative parties of the working class Dortment is one of the chi dutis of the Cunmur. ists in the industriul Unions, At a time when the best elements in French Syrdicalism are abardoning their former errors, and moving towards Comunism in laying down the principle: All power to the Workers coun.
cils. there are working class groups and circles in Russia which are trying to revive the worst Features of syndicalism. The famous Left Wing Secial Revolutionary Party recently adopted a resolution demanding the transfer of the whole administration of industry and transport to the Central Committee of the Indutrial Unions. It further proposed that common action should be taken by that committee and the industrial organizations of the whole world for the entire management of the Social Revolution and the would control of industry and transport by a combine of Industrial. Unions. The Communist who work in the Industrial Unions should strongly oppose syndicalist tendencies of this kind.
SO. CALLED INDUSTRIALISM It is equally necessary to turn against the tendencies known by the name of Industrialism.
which are defended by fome meinbers of the Rus sian working class inorement who are members of the exceutive roinnittee of the All Russian Metallurgical Union.
The Industrialixt want to erect our entire ifice on the skilled workers and to put aside the whole maxs of unskilled workers. Doubtless the war mid the revolution have led to many fundamental changes in the social structure of the prol turlat fter. I no possible doubt about it. The factory worker of today to certainly the most developed of the prolitrint. But in no CHWA at it be the tank of the Coniuniita. Men of the working class, only to pleet skilled work.
TR. who forni a minority of the working class.
The Communist Ideas have nothing in comun with the propakation of the working CR nrls.
tocracy. On the contrary, the task of the Com. Sontinued on oko 7)