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 Communist Proletarian Youth of German Austria, 1,000 members.

Communist Youth of the German Territory of the Volga, 1,800 members.

Social Democratic Youth of Czecho-Slovakia (District of Kladno).

Communist Workers' Youth of Hungary, 15,000 members.

Working class Youth of Roumania, 6.500 members.

Socialist Youth of Switzerland, 2,000 members.

Several affiliating organisations like those of Belgium, England, the United States, were not able to send delegates because of the actual difficulties of communications.

Thus, in the space of a few months in spite of obstacles opposed to the delivery of the message, in spite of the difficulties placed in the way of its propagandists, the Third International is grouping the whole of the organisations of the revolutionary proletariat. And the rallying of those who are still waiting to affiliate is only delayed because the masses are deceived by their leaders.

In France, the active forces of the workers' syndicates, and of the Socialist Party, are already affiliated to the Third International, and these forces grow daily in numbers. We have reason to believe that the hour is not far distant when their influence will pervade the whole organisation.

"We recognise one another," said the Communists assembled at Moscow, "as the continuators of the direct efforts, and of the heroic martyrdoms accepted by a long series of revolutionary generations, from Babœuf dozen to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg" May those workers and Socialists who recognise one another as the continuators of the work undertaken at the commencement of the last century by the first militant Communists, march under the banner of the Communist International, and recognise as their rallying point the purple standard on which shine the sickle and the hammer crossed, the emblem of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia.