The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1925, Page 7

“Ty vot IBA bea! s0L* a STR BNE nk BO . the ‘East; because the labor movement “The idex becomes i power when it pene- trates the masses.” —Karl Marx. ee Trade Union and By A. LOZOVSKY. HE fight for the unity ofthe inter- A _nation@ trade union ‘movement ang: thecréation of a united .Interna- tlonal. embracing the--workers of; all Continents, has up to tecently encown- téred a great obstacle in the arrogance of the European labor aristocracy. Until the war Europe possessed the financial, industrial and political heg- emony of the world—a fact which found expression in the leading bodies of the socialist and trade union move ment, upon which the Internationals were based and which were entirely limited to Europe. These remnants of pre-war psych¢ logy dominate up to the present th« minds of the leaders of the reformist labor movement who do not like going beyond the confines of Europe. They intentionally refuse to understand that enormous upheaval which has come about as a result of the war; of the October revolution and the rise of real world Internationals, the Com munist International and the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. It: is only recently that, international refor- ~mism has designed to cast a glance at ‘of the Hast is assuming a revolution. _ary character and disturbing the plans of intért 4. reformism. - ; “ Yigr the. theantime’ the labor mo ‘ment. is growing in every corner oj the earth, and a number of interna- tional tasks are arising, which can only be solved by common interna- tional action. In connection with this a whole number of projects have re- serious attention, while it must be re- marked that the character of the three SPECIAL MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT THE DAILY WORKER. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925 <gijje 20 Pacific Countries PRIVATE KEEP OFF 19 = eee 6 ANTHR he ee ey em cong | making preparations to convene this ' conference immediately the “labor un- |Test in China has subsided.” When All these three projects deserve CITE MINER: “SO THIS IS PEACE!” undertakings, in spite of the scanti- ness of the news, is quite clear. With regard to Susuki’s proposal, cently arisen which are highly charac- teristic of the attitude of the labor movement of the new countries on the stage of international politics. Of such projects there are at present three: 1. The prominent Japanese refor- mist Bundshi Susuki (a Japanese bourgeois paper describes him as “Our Japanese Gompers”) spoke at the Con- ference of the International Labor Of. the unions of India regarding the con- fice, which is affiliated to the League of Nations, with representatives of vening ofa Pan-Asiatic Labor Confer- ence. According to the proposals -of Susuki, this Labor Conference is to be participated in by representatives of the trade unions‘ of Japan; China, Persia, Siam, Afghanistan, Baluchis- tan, the Philippines, India, Egypt, Pal- ‘estine, and Turkey. “= 2) Phe Trade Union Council of New South Wales has taken up the initia- tive is calling a ‘conference of the trade unions of the Pacific countries for the ist of May .1926.° As the Aus- tralian “Dally Standard” reports, the secretary of the trade pnion council, Garden, (he took part in the II. Con- gress of the Red International of La- bor Unions) has-sent an invitation to the labor organizations of China, Ja- ‘pan, Canada, the Philippines, the Ha-{ wali Islands, Singapore, India, South Africa and the United States, in which invitation it is pointed out that this conference is called to “discuss the questions of the Pacific.” 3. The same Australian newspaper, the “Daily Standard”, reports that the Executive Committee of the Austra- lian Labor Party has decided to ar- range a conference to be held in Hon olulu in November 1926, of the repre- sentatives of the countries of the Pa- cific. To this conference there are to be invited representatives of those trade union workers and kindred (1) organisations of all countries of the Pacific who stand for the maintenance of peace. in this respect the Japanese reformist is following the footsteps of Gompers, who for his own purposes organized the Pan-American Federation of -La- bor, and of the leader of the English railway workers, Cramp, who a few months ago put. forward the idea of the creation of a Continental Interna- tional, Bundshi Susuki at his interview with the representative of the “Japan Advertiser” said nothing regarding a colored International. He only intim- ated that he had decided to convene an Asiatic Labor Conference when the “labor unrest in China has subsided”, and its aim is “to raise the level of the Asiatic workers, so that they will be better prepared to take part in the work of the,International Labor Of- fice.” But as a matter of fact, Susuki is not arranging his projected Asiatic Conferefice for this purpose. The “Daily Standard” ‘adds the following words of Suguki regarding this Con- ference: = ; : “We representatives of. the col- ored workers have decided to create a colored International as a coun- terpoise to the white International.” Susuki’s projects therefore, go much further than the revival of the inter- nationalism of the International Labor Office: he wants to have his own Asia- tic International. What will be the political tendency of his International? Judging from the fact that it was undshi Susuki who instigated the splitting of the trade unions of Japan and the expulsion of the revolutionary elements from the Japanese’ Labor Federation, we see that for him jt is a question of setting up the new re- formist International as speedily as possible in order to fight against the revolutionary labor movement of Asia. It is not for nothing that Susuki is this means nothing else than the crea- | tion of an Asiatic International, and | | it is further remembered that Susuki | entirely forgets the existence of the trade unions of the Soviet Union which is also bordered by the Pacific Ocean, then the color of this Pan-Asiatic pro- ject will not differ from the child of |Gompers: the Pan-American Labor Fe- | deration, The project of the Australian Labor Party for the convening of a congress at Honolulu of “all trade union work- ers’ and kindred organizations of the countries of the Pacific” has a some- what different but likewise unique character. Here is to be seen an open attempt to convene.a pacifist con- gress, for otherwise there would be no sense in giving expression to such a@ vague term as “kindred organiza- tions.” The congress has as its ob- ject to bring together the supporters of peace in the countries of the Pa- cific, and as there are many suppor- ters of peace among the bourgeoisie who have set up all sorts of pacifist societies for this purpose, then it is obvious that these “kindred organiza- tions” will have a place at the con- gress. K is apparently, therefore, a | question of a Pacific edition of the In- |ternational Peace Conference at the || | Hague in December 1922, where there took place a fraternizing of interna- tional reformism and of bourgeois pac- ifism. But we are still awaiting par- ticulars regarding this project. The third project—the convocation of a congress of trade unions of the countries of the Pacific in Sydney— seems to us to deserve the most at- tention. To this congress only trade union organizations will be invited, and these will discuss the common questions of the countries of the Pa- cific, Although we possess no detailed information regarding the agenda of this approaching congress or regard- ing the proposals to be submitted to it, we consider such a beginning as very useful. Such a congress could serve as a stage in the struggle for the united international and for the SECOND SECTION This magazine supple ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. Developments in the Asiatic unity of the international trade union movement, if the conveners invite the trade unions of all countries of the Pacific and realize that the questions of the countries of the Pacific not only concern the workers of this or that country, but also the whole of the in- ternational labor movement. No matter what attitude is adopted to these projects, one thing is clear: they all mean a new era in the devel- opment of the international labor movement. The fight of the Com- munist International and the Red In- trenational of Labor Unions against European narrowness, for the unity of the labor movement of the whole world corresponds with the require- ments which have become historically ripe. There will be still much confu- sion, deviations and many attempts to create continental and colored inter- nationals, but all this..must’ not mis- of the new- countries, will gemipel the lead, us, All these attempts,— Ih express the growth of the prise labor movement of ‘Asia, and also of Australia and the countries of the Pacific, to overcome their own nar- rowness and to weld themselves into a united, fighting trade union Interna- tional based on the class struggle. 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