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 achieve complete success within national and state boundaries. The organization of simultaneous joint action on both sides of the boundaries is therefore the principal task of the revolutionary unions.

For this purpose it is advisable to create joint committees (Franco-German, German-Polish, German-Czech, Franco-Italian, Franco-German-British, Russian-German, Russian-Polish, etc.), of the workers of the most important industries for the joint conduct of campaigns and other activities.

Already the first congress of the R. I. L. U. raised the slogan of "ONE UNION IN EACH ESTABLISHMENT AND IN EACH INDUSTRY." The struggle for the re-organization of the craft unions along industrial lines is the most important task of the R. I. L. U. adherents in every country. This struggle should aim to re-organize the entire union movement, and not to make attempts to create local industrial unions isolated from the labor movement of the country. The organizational forms of the labor unions are important only if they have a revolutionary content. The form itself does not possess any mysterious power which might take the place of our revolutionary activity and struggle. THE STRUGGLE FOR INDUSTRIAL UNIONS BASED UPON THE SHOP COMMITTEES should be the slogan of the entire revolutionary labor movement. The attempts to create One Big Unions with industrial sections should be thoroughly studied. The Third Congress re-affirms the warning of the Second Congress against putting too much faith in the idea that this form of organization can become the prevalent form right now. Of all the attempts made along this line, the experience of Czecho-Slovakia is the most interesting. The congress calls upon the workers of all countries to study the experience of the Czecho-Slovakian comrades who will themselves very soon make the necessary correction in their organizational form in order to win a majority of the working class into one revolutionary organization.

The struggle of the revolutionary unions for entrance into the International Labor Secretariats should be continued unabated. The Third Congress re-affirms the decisions of the first and second congresses in this respect. THE INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA COMMITTEES WERE FORMED FOR THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF LABOR UNITY ALONG VERTICAL LINES, and as long as revolutionary unions will not be admitted, no matter what the reasons, into the International Secretariats, the International Propaganda Committees must and will exist. As soon as the Industrial Internationals take in all the unions of the various tendencies, as soon as the revolutionary unions obtain the opportunity freely to advocate their ideas within these Internationals, the International Propaganda Committee will be dissolved.

Traditions, particularly bad traditions, have great power. We observe this in the national friction existing even among the revolutionary unions. This must be put an end to. THE REVOLUTIONARY UNIONS MUST NOT FORM SEPARATE UNIONS BY NATIONALITIES, and where such unions exist, they should be merged as soon as possible within the boundaries of the state. The same principle should be en-