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 All questions arising amongst the rank and file, and demanding co-ordinated action on the part of the workers of the various establishments should be settled at shop committees conferences. The conferences should be convened on a territorial, national and district scale, and according to industries, trusts, combines, etc. Such conferences would facilitate the establishment of close relations between the shop committees and would create conditions for joint action.

To establish close connections between the shop committee and the workers outside the factories (unemployed, war invalids, housewives, over-aged workers receiving pensions, etc.,), their representatives should be drawn into the conferences and meetings of the shop committees so that the united front of all the workers, irrespective of whether they are working in the factory or not, could be established.

The Congress charges all the R. I. L. U. adherents with the duty of taking the most energetic steps in particularly organizing the shop committees and revolutionizing them.

HE Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. states, that the whole activity of the I. P. C.'s during the period from the second to the third congress, the considerable strengthening of their connections with organizations affiliated to them, the energetic and well-co-ordinated struggle for the united front, all this has unquestionably shown their place in life, and their adaptability for the tasks dictated to them by life. None the less, the activity of the I. P. C.'s must be greatly intensified and developed, with the energetic support of the revolutionary union centers.

2. The further work of the I. P. C.'s must develop along the lines of still more intensive aggregation and consolidation of all actively revolutionary elements of the labor union movement in each branch of industry, for the purpose of struggle against disruption and for unity on industrial lines on a national and international scale.

3. The struggle must be carried on for a united front on an international industrial scale, for the entry of all revolutionary unions into the international secretariats, and for the formation of united fighting internationals, built on the industrial principle and uniting all unions holding the point of view of the class struggle.

4. The entry of the revolutionary unions, among them the Russian unions, into the international secretariats must by no means connote a concession of principle, or renunciation of their right to express their point of view within the international on all cardinal problems of labor and union policies.

5. The revolutionary unions, once in the Industrial Internationals, must, in accordance with the process of internationalization of capital, unremittingly struggle for the transformation of the international organizations from Bureaus of Information and Connections into fighting internationals, into organs of international class activity, for the direction of the economic offensive of the workers. They must energetically fight for the acceptance of all revolutionary unions not yet accepted into the international organizations. The work of the revolutionary unions must be based on a concrete program of action, rendering possible the uniting