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 14 capitalist masters, that it cannot maintain even its public semblance of unity; an "international" which, at its latest Congress, broke up in a scandalous brawl.

(c) Which is used as a tool for extending the power of Yankee Imperialism in Latin America; support the struggle of the colonial and semi-colonial peoples for freedom from the yoke of Wall Street; support a union of Latin-American workers for national and class liberation.

(d) Which has begun the unification of all workers in countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean (Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Soviet Russia, Philippines, etc.); support the magnificent struggles of the Chinese trade union movement; participate actively in the Pan-Pacific Congresses; carry on a systematic educational campaign regarding the problems of the Pacific, and the role of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat.

Organize the masses of workers!

Struggle against capitalism!

For a Victorious Working Class!

The Trade Union Educational League addresses itself to the masses of workers, to the working class. It is not a political party, nor is it affiliated to any political party; it includes all workers of every political tendency, who are really fighting against the employing class, who strive to make the trade union movement an organ of struggle for the benefit of the workers. It calls upon the workers to take control of their own organizations, to organize themselves more completely, to throw out the misleaders from office, in order that the above program may be realized through the power of the workers themselves.

Never was the need for such a program more burning! The miners' lock-out, the multitudinous injunctions, the anti-labor laws, the massacres of workers, the smashing of unions, threaten the labor movement with the greatest defeat in its history. The labor movement is in a crisis. The T. U. E. L. points out the way for the solution of this crisis in the interests of the working class for saving and rebuilding the unions, for the establishment of a victorious working class, holding power and wielding it for the upbuilding of a better life for the masses, for the reorganization of society upon a working-class basis.

Defeat the capitalist offensive against the workers!

Save the trade unions!

Organize the unorganized!

Form a Labor Party!

World labor unity against the war danger!