WHAT IS THE RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOUR UNIONS?

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(A short record of the 5th World OosgrW*)
!lobe results of the 5* World mess of the Red Is-
teraattonsl of Labou S ribs held at Wosoew &4r August
sad Sop#eshs~r of 1930 show" to wide assses of workers
thro out the world what thO R. I. I.. B. , what the 'Prof in-
tern', is, the "Prof intern" is se ledger a foreign world
to the workers, it aaaast beoise a nilitsat ra *d* r for
Raab worker should see now that the Red International
of Labour t ions is the only trade union IsteR atleaal
uniting the revolutionary T.W. organisations of the whsle
world; that it is the only int. ahattonal whisk, wader the
leadership Of the 00U1ntera, is fighting for St ever
interests of the working olass, fighting for the aohiese-
nest of that historiesl task to prepare the proletariat to
destroy the capitalist order and establish the Proletarian
Dictatorship.
The R. I. L.U. has over 16 Million ads is all parts
of the world, in several hms of cosatries. She revolution y
workers a[ all countries belong to it - white, black, yellow,
red. This was clearly sees during the hares. itself, in
the ooaposition of the delegation.
It was
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it was plain to every partioipator in the t o-agrs.s,
even at a snrfaoe glaaoe, that rank and file workars,
trot the factories and workshops, prodouinated at the
Congress. The report of the Xmtdatowyr owmj"so only
proved this, when it announced that the Ooags`oes was
attended by 409 workers and 89 ofttoe Workers (the eoas-
position of the Ocugress was 636 ambers; 489 sea and 7'd
wsoaan). industrially, the eeoaapo aition was t 3,33 metal
worke*s, 64 transport workers, 5$ textile workers, 46
aluere, 39 agrioultarrsl labourers, 29 build r s, toy
eheatioai workers, 34 leather vorkears, 21 priatagrs, 17
wood-workers, 14 olething workers, 11 food and drink
ilsskers, 10 4Aid+aiat'isasl wo rk o",6 auntaip" workers,
and 4 genord labowrerrs. here wee 17 Negro delegates
(fire* et`r ie s, U.S.A., east Indies and South Amoriea) .
gut of 638 delegates 464 ware elected at the factories
sad Weftsk#s, 36 em s1ooted at trade 1nlea rsetlags,
and only . 30 wore: e404ted by the oestral t. U. organs.
xeg . delegates took an active part in the d4iberra-
tieas of the O egress; a Negro Oesaission was convened
*tek discussed the problasa of the segro workers
aade oe rote paroposalw to the Congress an work among
lope workers. These proposals were adepteo by the 006-
gross, (1n a later issue of the Sea oval rte will publish
the sperms and oe sets of the Segue delegates to the
Congress. Miter.)
The Aoagress acrd up the results of the work and
struggle of the international revolutionary t ade union
ioveno ant singe the Fourth Oeupess. it reviewed and
appraised the conditions in which the struggles of the
international
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international proletariat during this period has taken
place. It appraised the economic oriole of o"Itallm
which developed during this period, a oriole of over..
production, of lowered output during the last year, inw-
crossed unemployment, and drop in international trade.
The crisis has affected the various countries to a varying
extent, and is a WORLD economic crisis of oapita,isa,
The Congress drew a clear picture of the path along
which the capitalists are seeking for a way out, to u ms.
feat the cost of the crisis to other shoulders. This path
is that of intensified exploitation of the workers, speed.
tug up labour, worsening the worths' cenditions, lowering
the living standards of the working class. The Congress
pointed out that this precisely is the main line of the
offensive conducted by eapitaliem against the working
class. It drew a picture of the position of the working
class in the various capitalist and colonial countries.
with the direct or concealed support of the reformist
T.U. machinery, the capitalists and the governments are
waging a struggle to lower benefits, to narrow down-the
circle of persons eligible to benefits, to prolong the
term making workers eligible to insurenot too and
to transfer the cost of social insurance to the workers.
The Congress showed how the world economic crisis
is sharpening the contradictions between the capitalists
of the various countries < oontradiotio>s over markets
which they require for their goods, which they all re-
quire so as to procure cheaper raw materials, or which
they require as the most profitable source for investing
capitals. Congress shower bow, in the face for this,
with the support and assistance of the reforaists, under
the
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the cloak of pseudo disarmament oontermoes, ssssments
are being increased, one oountry striving to outarace the
other and be beat eked for the struggle to redivide the
markets, for the struggle against- the Soviet th4on, in
which the imperialists see a Tast market, and whioh spells
for them the evere-strsngthening tortrsee of the world
ravelutiecn.
In the reports made by ?owrade Losovsky, the General
Secretary of the R.I. L. U. , and Osarade eahWWS&k, the
80eretary of the Soviet 0.0. T. U. , as well as the numerous
speeches by the delegates, the Oongress showed how the
Soviet UMon, where the working class; having overthrown
capitalise, taken the some of production into their own
hands, and having eetabiiahed the Proletarian Dictator-
ship, is following the pailk of the storeg- gtolft of
socialist c onstru tion in industry and agriemlture, and
likewise improving the working and living conditions of
the workers, standing out in sharp contrast to decaying
capitalism, which is affected by a dsep*going and relent-
less economic oriole. The Gongress clearly showed, and
this was confirmed by the shock u troopers' , representatives
of the largest plants in Moscow, Kharkov, Leningrad and
other towns, who spoke at the pmngress, that the five
Year Plan is being carried out with the greatest of
enthusiasm; and that it will be more than carried out.
VIhilst the call to carry out the rive, Year Plan in four
years is plain to every Russian worker, cash delegate to
the Uongsess, whether from capitalist or colonial country,
has now departed with this as the chief slogan.
situation
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Situation of the Workers cad Peasants is
the soviet iMion
The gross output of industry in 1929.1,930 was no
lose than 180% and the yield of agriculture was 114% of
prewar.
The increase in the gross output of industry in 1929.
1930 over the gross output of 1928?.1929 is 37.5%.
The guess output of indnstsy, already s0Wrtsee 53%
of the gross output of the entire national ei.nony, i.e.,
already predominates over the gross yield of agriculture.
The reconstruotion of S prioulture. The formation
of big State grain farms, already in the oureent year have
190600000 Heotares under cultivation,
0m May 1st 1930 to 50 per cent of the peasant farms
in the main grain producing dist?taes were organised in
the oolleetivs farms, whilst Is the Spring of 1928 only
were oolleotivieed.
The area under cultivation in the ooileotive farms
last Spring increased from 1 1/2 million Heateres in 1929
to nearly 35 millions Heotares.
The gross grain yield in the collective farm during
the thaw years has increased 5O fold, and the marketable
grain yield has increased more than 40 fold.
T'he area under cultivation this year was 7.4 million
heotaaes more than last yeas.
Already in the current year the collective fares will
give more than half the total marketable grain.
Distribution of the National Inoone
Whilst the share of the exploiting olaoses in the
national income in the most mooed capitalist oountties
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I f appro:itately 50'% and even more, in the Soviet Union
the share of the exploiting classes In the national Inoome
Is not more than .
During the last year the national income increased by
20%.
During the five years wages have increased more than
Tom, being 139% of the pre-war level of real wages, whilst
if the eootalised part of wages be taken Into consideration,
wages are 167% of the prewar.
tAnesloyment
According to figures for June let, 1930, . fit
has been rechaoed by more than 700, 000.
Shoe thou 100,000 us-eall loyed have been sent to
classes for training and tenediately upon completion will
us sent to work. The 200,0?0 adolescents among the ups.
e cloyed are insufficient to cover the number required
for the factory training schools In the current Autumn.
In way trades there is a shortage of labour power
(turners, fitters, mechanics, stone masons, palacnters,
ele?tro..tecbnioans, etc.) .
Social Insurance
The social Insurance budget, guaranteed by the State
and the ecployers, h ,-x increased from 940 million roubles
In 1927 to 1,400 million roubles in 1939??30, and to esti--
mated at 1,800 million roubles for 19.?31.
During the last two years the benefits paid out for
ineapaOitatlon amounted to 647 million roubles, and a am
of 440 million roubles is assigned for this purpose in
1930-31.
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The etas spent on benefits to completely t1apaeitated
workers, and the families which have lost the breadwinners
is 308, 7-80, 000 roubles, whilst it is proposed to spend
39394"#000 for this pose in 1930.-33..
Dearing the last two years 13,907,000 roubles were
spent On old-age pensions, and it is intend to pay out
37,911,000 roubles for this puss in 193031.
It is proposed to extend the old.*ge psnsioru for
workers to all branches of industry, the pensions to be
raised freer 50% of the aferags wagon to M%1, and the ago
to b o lowered (at present 55 years) .
Deering the last throe years 494 million roubles hayi
been spent on maternity and ohildlA*od protection; orechee,
kindergartens, 304 Million roubles; during the last two
wars the am spent for medical insurance to insured
workers was 489,985,000 roubles, and it is proposed for
1930>31 to assign 433,1?8, o00 roubles.
In 192111.8H 547,000 persons stayed in the Health
Resorts, Sanatoriums and Rest Homes, and 871,000 in 19296
30, of which number were factory workers.
In addition the people's 0oaissarists for Health
sent 30,000 workers to the Health Resorts and sanatoritmlar.
Doh worker gets 14 days vacation on full paty, in
addition to the usual rost days,, and in harmful works they
get a month's vaoation,
More than 84 million roubles were spent on labour
protection 1928689, and 79 million roubles In 1988.30,
whilst 300 million roublee are assigned for this purpose
for 1930.31.
The
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The Workers' Wolfer* Fund (for additional requirements
to build workers' houses, oreahes, clubs, etc. y, in 193`7-39
received assignments to the amount of 83,984,000 roubles
in 1927.4$, and in 1926630 was assigned 221,900,900 rouubles.
During the three years 10880,000,000 roubles have been
spent on housing oonstruetion for the workers.
Working Hours
In 1927 already there was no worker working more than
8 hours a day, and by nay 1st, 1930, 7?% were already
working only 7 hours a day, whilst for workers in the
dangerous trades and for adolescents under 18 the working
day is of 6 houreAzratio*. In 1930-31 all the workers
will be put into the seven hour working day.
83.4% of the workers have already been put into the
five-Qay week, every fifth day being a rest day.
Trade Union Cultural Activities
In the current year the trade unions will spend
16,800,400 roubles for the stamping out of illiteracy and
50 million roubles for training T.U. padres.
The total expenditure for cultural catering to the
union membership will increase from 135 million roubles
in 1929.90 to 270 million roubles in the currant year,
and 383 million roubles is the sun laid down for 1930-31.
The workers and workers' children are ensured
scholarship in the vocational schools and universities.
The line has been taken that not less than 70% of the
students in the higher educational institutions be factory
work are e
At the present time more than 30,000 workers are being
trained at T.U. expense to enter the universities. The
unions this year assigned 36,100,000 roubles for this purpose.
In
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In 1919 26 million workers attended the various
political, general edeational, industrial, physical
culture, and other circles in the clings.
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The throwing Colonial Revolutionary Movement
The working masses of the ooloniss have entered on
the struggle against capitalism on a widespread scale,
for the economic crisis actually affects the ooloniSs,
where the already slave-like exploitation of the wormers
is now being intensified.
The revolutionary movement In China and I& India, a
number of nprisings in such colonies as Indo-tlhlaa, gypt,
and many others, - all these are directed, in their final
air, against the capitalist system.
The Congress stressed the international character of
the working glass sttruggle, pointing to the international
movements which have taken place since the Fourth A.I.t-.U.
Congress in 18U; May 1st, the international day of
struggle against use"loyme+nt on Nu-sh #th, 1930, day
of straggle against imperialist war, August lot. These
movements were oonduoted s xcoesafu lly despite the opposition
of the bourgeois as well as the sooisl.demooratio geve *
men's.
With regard to the revolutionary trade omen move-
ment in the oolgnles and semi-eoIbnies, the Congress
pointed out that the proletariat must gfter and organist
its forges there to fight for its national and glass in-
tereets. The revolutionary trade union movement in the
field is oonfronted with two most important tasks= the
struggle against the fore n taperialists and the struggle
for into rests of the working class against bourgeois,,,
landlord oppression.
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The Oongress pointed out the still great weWaeer of
the revolutionary trade anion cove eat in the soloatci,
the absence or last or oryst*] lisatioa of the rant end
file organisations, inch to inati in the Ott" %0VOZds
the national bourgeoiete and inability to fight for the
everyday requIreasents of the workers.
The tbngeesa gar* direction for work in all the most
iaportant coloflies and seaEtweolontes and dmli t in especially
great detail on Mina and India.
It stressed the eaoeptionslly- great 1"ortanee, of the
revolutionary trade union movement in Chiba? wbre the
bourgeons-landlord oamtS?.rerolutlG* is eo]lrpsing, share
the gale of imperialists is decaying and where the gsvolu.
tionary upsurge is rapidly gaining strength, where there
already a ,st a nolobef of Soviet districts, and where the
Red Ate/ 18 straat-gthening.
THE WINNING OF THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKING CLASS rrJR
THE IMPENDING Vth 0I S IVE 8T RWGLl s 18 THE FOR=08T TAB[ or
THR R. I. L. U. We Mast not only have ideological., political,
influence over the Masses, it is most important to
erganisattonally reinforce than on our side, to orgenise
theat, to lead than in the offensive against G&pltallm*
Orgsalsational weakness to still the a hief defect of the
revolutionary trade unions. This is why the O ngTess had
to pay mat attention to questions of the REORGANIZATION
of the revolutionary trade union cerement THE TIM
OOS $S PUT MORE THE R.I. L.J, THE TAM OF TURNING THE
REYOLUTIMART TRADE UNIONS, THE REVOLUTIONARY T.U. OPPO.
8I T ION MOVEMENT, INTO $ TRC , mAss ORGAlI UTI C 18. The
Oongrese showed that the substance of the R. I. L.U. line
(the gist of the new t4W$14s) is $0 1 1. I MAD growing
diseattatsetton
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dissatisfaction; 2. TO GIVE YOFM to the conscious and
frequently unconscious dissatisfaction swag the ra.ssesj
3. TO QONSOLIDATE these on the basic of their a rte.
requi.rmosts; 4. To FIR*LY LI$X CAS' the struggle for the
eves '.day requires is With the etsuggle for final ob j eats;
5. TO RAISE each strike to a higher lerenl; 6. TO TUBE
every strike against the ENTIRE capitalist eyater; 7. TO
t AItIli the assses on the basis of the everyday struggle,
in order to PREPARE tt for the overthrow of eapitaltss
and the a etabl itbaent of the 1iletaartan fiolaaIsarsUp:?
The cress and the Negro hit
its African continent is 4equiring Increasing $apctrt-
enos as an object of capitalist exploitation. The is eislo.
lot powers are beginning to take increasing "interest* in
Equatorial Africa. Since the world war efforts for
capitalist exploitation of the African colonies have became
not only popular in the Imperialist oirales of Frame stud
Belgium, but are more and more gaining ground in ]gland,
which is energetically exploiting Kenya, ?sap ika,
Ugarnda, (East Africa), the Gold Mast# Ivory *mWt, Nigeria,
(West Africa). The United hates, in turn, are building
vast plans for the "peaceful" oonquest of certain term..
torte* in Africa; Liberia (rubber),, Abyssinian, Sudan
(gotten).
The intensified imperialist pressure on these colonies
is meeting with growing resistance from the toiling manses,
in particular from the labour movement (striker in t ambia,
cbngo, lttaodesia, Pnd elsewhere) .
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Vhe Conditions for the labour and trade union Move-
Men" differ very largely in these ooutrtes. In a number
of Afrioaa oolontes up till very reosatly the system of
slave y was Vary midesproad. Foreed labour is still very
widely applied. And it was only recently that ?free*
proxetartMs appeared, mad elmoltanoously the embryo of
the US" union movement (8ierre Leone, 0ango, ltrsasftgao).
The organisations, Wirer, are still very weak.
The oeatral task in these Countries should be to
organise the industrial proletariat which, despite its small
ni sabers, is nevertheless the main beano of the trade union
movement in these Countries. Leaning on these olass
orgsnisatiens of the proletariat, efforts must be exerted
to draw in the tnnions the day labourers and hendioaaft
workers, who ooaprise the greater majority of the urban
proletariat in these Countries.
The membership must be differentiated in the existing
craft unions by gradually sgnessing out the ate-proletariat
elements (in the fire* place the small owlners ), At the
same time the handicraftsmen and small traders should be
organised in Cooper*tiyec, which should be s ected to the
Constant Control of the trade unions.
It is neosssary to fight for the formation of unions
in which the native and foreign workers should unite.
The esistenoe of may millions of agriealtural labours
in these colonies makes it imperative to organise then
(first and foremost at the big plaantations). At the same time
close connections must be set up between the sgrioultvtral
workers and industrial workers to defend the interests of
the rem .proletariat elements In the villages.
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In view of the .ss of the proletariat leading
nuclei in the trade union mWeaftt of these amtnies,
and the danger arising them of the beds union aasre00
rat being distracted from the glass struggle towards the
nArsow pelloy of bourgeois nationalter and glass soilj&bgram.
tion, the revolutionary trade union trorrfteawatt of these
oonatrtes is faoed with the vital task of training and
creating proletarian cadres.
The central problem of the trade union movement in
South Africa was and still rem"" that of labour and the
hostile attitude which has bon set up between the orgsx4..
saflo-as of + kite, native and coloured workers who comprise
the overwhelming majority of the South Airless proletariat.
According to tradition the white workers look up n the
coloured w rkelyrs as scbs.
lOTZ' Be. also special resolution passed by the
congress on work amag iegre workers genera3l'. This
resolution has been running serially in our journal.
(mater)
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