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 forced in the case of the workers of various races. NO SEPARATE RACIAL UNIONS, ALL THE WORKERS OF A PARTICULAR ESTABLISHMENT, IRRESPECTIVE OF NATIONAL AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES, MUST BELONG TO ONE AND THE SAME UNION. In countries such as the United States, where the labor bureaucracy categorically refuses to admit colored workers, the R. I. L. U. adherent should create Negro unions, making the chief point of their program the struggle for the amalgamation of all the unions of the same industry.

The nationality question is closely connected with the question of the immigrants. In some countries (United States, France, etc.), this question is of immense importance, and a wrong solution of it may retard the development of the labor movement for many years. A classic example of it is the United States, where the bourgeoisie and the labor bureaucracy take recourse to every possible means in order to split the labor movement along this line. THE WORK AMONG IMMIGRANTS IS THE FOREMOST DUTY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LABOR UNIONS. This work is the more important since the rights of all these "foreign" laborers are limited to a much greater extent than the rights of the native workers, this circumstance being utilized by the bourgeoisie for the purpose of lowering the wages of both groups. A RESPONSIVE, ATTENTIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE FOREIGN WORKERS MUST BE AN ELEMENTARY RULE AMONG THE REVOLUTIONARY UNIONS. NO UNIONS OF IMMIGRANTS, ONE UNION FOR ALL. It is necessary to make every immigrant see in the revolutionary union his protector and representative; thus the immigrants would be attracted into the revolutionary struggle of the country.

The struggle against Fascism and its attempts to penetrate the labor movement must be waged with increasing energy. Fascism in its most developed forms, Italian Fascism, has begun to crack. We must widen this crack. We must give special attention to the category of workers connected in any way with the Fascism, THE ORGANIZATION OF LEGAL NUCLEI IN THE FASCIST UNIONS IS THE BEST MEANS OF DISINTEGRATING THE FASCIST ORGANIZATIONS. Everything that leads to driving out Fascism and the Fascisti from the labor organizations should be utilized.

The revolutionary unions, in spite of the decisions adopted by the Second Congress on this question, pay little attention to the workers' co-operatives. We must make it a rule that every member of a red union shall be a member cf a workers' co-operative. THE R. I. L. U. ADHERENTS ARE EXPECTED NOT MERELY TO BE PASSIVE MEMBERS OF THE CO-OPERATIVES, BUT TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN THEIR WORK, IN ORDER THAT THE WORKERS' CO-OPERATIVES BECOME A WEAPON OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF THE PROLETARIAT. It is necessary to establish close connection between the revolutionary unions and the co-operatives and to secure their regular assistance in all the economic and political struggles of the proletariat. This will be possible only if the R. I. L. U. adherents will be organized in special groups within the co-operatives.