MOPR AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS' MOVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01226R000100120024-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 24
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. MOPR AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
WORKERS' MOVEMENT
2 Too
Approximately three years ago at our Second Congress
I also had to make a report on the work of the Executive
Committee.
Consequently my task consists of telling you what the
Executive Committee has done in the course of these three
years.
Here we must record positive and quite considerable
results.
Those present who were at the Second Congress perhaps
remember that we then indicated that we had to make a
report at the Fourth Congress of the Red International of
Labour Unions, which approximately coincided with our
Second Congress.
In the name of our organisation, one of the secretaries
of the Executive Committee greeted the Congress. Then
on the basis of our proposal a resolution was adopted which
obliged all trade unions adhering to the Red International
of Labour Unions to give every possible support to our
organisation, both by individual membership as well as by
the entire organisations.
The Sixth Congress of the Comintern as you know took
place in the same year of 1928. We instructed the Commu-
nist fraction of our organisation to organise a commission
at the Congress. This commission consisting approximately
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of 70 people met and worked out all questions which
interest comrades from foreign sections. Then the proposal
of the Commission was introduced into the Presidium of the
Communist International which adopted a resolution obliging
our organisation to increase its work in colonial and semi-
colonial countries, paying increasing attention to the
persecution of Negro workers in the United States of America,
to struggle against lynching and persecution of Chinese
workers by the Kuomintang.
First of all, instructions were given to all Communist
Parties that they must give the utmost support to the
MOPR organisations and to remember that the latter are
independent organisations and not departments of the
Communist Party, and finally directives were given that, on
the one hand, we must limit the sphere of our activity
from other mass organisations of the working class and of the
revolutionary movement, and on the other hand -- to work in
contact with them in order tnat one organisation should not
interfere with another in its every day activity.
Then the Fifth Congress of the Young Communist Inter-
national took place in September of the same year of 1928.
The Executive Committee of MOPR entrusted me with making a
report and then on the basis of this report a resolution was
worked out appealing to all Young Communist Leagues and
obliging every member of the Leagues to be a member of the
International Red Aid and to give every possible support
to our movement.
Further, in August, 1930, on the instruction of the
Executive Committee I had to make quite an extensive report
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at the Fifth Congress of the Red International of Labour
Unions.
On the basis of my report a commission was called at the
Congress which in essence was transformed into a conference.
This was the largest of all the commissions of the Congress.
There we worked out a resolution which undoubtedly
stimulated the work of the Red Trade Unions in the sphere of
International Red Aid (MOPR).
As you see we have not a few achievements, but
undoubtedly these achievements place further responsibilities
on the Executive Committee of the International Red Aid and
compel it to broadly develop its work.
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