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 day, why they put up no fight for the eight-hour day when it is menaced by the capitalist offensive. All the statements and declaratioins of the Amsterdamers in defence of the eight-hour day are nothing but pitiful demagogic phrases which are not backed by any serious desire for struggle.

This is made perfectly clear by the resolution on the eight hour day adopted by the Council of the Amsterdam International on January 12th and by the Vienna Congress of the Amsterdam Trade Unions, held at the beginning of June 1924. The deceptive nature of the Amsterdam resolution on the inviolability of the eight-hour day is manifested particularly by the activity of the German proletariat to the German capitalists. The approval of the experts' plan by the Amsterdam labor leaders, a plan which is based upon a proposal to shift the entire burden of reconstruction of the war ruined nations upon the backs of the working class, and particularly of the German workers, is further convincing proof of the fact that the reformists have no intention of fighting for the eight-hour day.

The conditions of the experts’ plan can be fulfilled by the German capitalists only if the German workers are forced for a long time to work longer hours. This, however, will make it impossible for the workers of the other countries successfully to protect the eight-hour day against the encroachments of their employers. The struggle of the German workers for the regaining of the eight-hour day is a struggle against the execution of the experts' plan. This struggle can be successful only if conducted by revolutionary methods. But this struggle is at the same time a struggle of the widest international significance which makes it necessary for the workers of all other countries to join it.

The struggle for the eight-hour day can never be successful if conducted by parliamentary means or by strictly trade union methods. The reformist "struggle" for the ratification of the Washington convention, for the eight-hour day legislation, for the introduction of an eight-hour day by means of a so-called national vote, is nothing but a base attempt to evade the real struggle for the eight-hour day. The Red International of Labor Unions not only rejects these methods as entirely ineffective reformist methods, but declares them to be definitely counter-revolutionary. The eight-hour day can be won only by an unceasing and unconditional class struggle, and its consolidation is possible only through the establishment of workers' control over industry, through the proletarian dictatorship.

In view of the above, the congress of the Red International of Labor Unions proclaims the following militant slogans: