The Daily Worker

DEVELOP THE T.U.E.L. INTO THE MASS MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT WING IN THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT

THE enemies of the left wing and progressive movement in the trade unions have been attacking the Trade Union Educational League. In several trade union papers controlled by the reactionary bureaucracy there have recently appeared articles declaring that the Red International of Labor Unions has repudiated the Trade Union Educational League. These stories have also made ridiculous allegations that the Workers (Communist) Party has ceased to support, or in some manner has disavowed the Trade Union Educational League.

These reports are plain fabrications propagated by the reactionary bureaucrats, to mislead the rank and file of the workers and to destroy the left wing.

It is the duty of a Communist Party to support the militant workers struggling to build up the trade unions into fighting organs of the class struggle. In the United States, this struggle has brought into existence the Trade Union Educational League, a militant organization not merely of Communists but of the left wing and progressive trade unionists—the American section of the Red International of Labor Unions. Therefore, the Workers (Communist) Party supports the Trade Union Educational League today more vigorously than ever before, to the utmost of its capacities.

We warn all workers not to allow themselves to be fooled by these maneuvers of the bureaucracy whose primary purpose is to destroy the Trade Union Educational League as an effective organ for uniting the various elements comprising the left wing into a mass movement against the reactionaries in the unions and to transform the trade unions into organs of real struggle against the capitalist class. Fearing the growth of the Trade Union Educational League, the reactionary officialdom is working overtime spreading rumors of the above character calculated to undermine the confidence of the workers in the left wing.

The Workers (Communist) Party is now concentrating especially on strengthening the T.U.E.L. and working for its development into a mass movement of the left wing. The Workers (Communist) Party considers the Trade Union Educational League activities as of primary importance and unreservedly supports the Trade Union Educational League and categorically repudiates all the rumors that it has disavowed the Trade Union Educational League.

Statements have also recently appeared in the capitalist press making ridiculous attacks upon Comrade Foster and implying that his connection with the Communist International has been severed.

In denial of these slanderous rumors, we can only emphatically reaffirm our declaration of November 27, 1925. Comrade Foster is not only a member of the C.E.C. of the party, but he is a leading member of the political committee and is, at this moment, engaged as actively as ever before in a leading capacity in the party's most important work.

CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA,
C.E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary.