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 the masses during strikes, the influence of the capitalists' organizations on the leaders of the trade unions, the part played by women in the fight, reformist methods of breaking up strikes, etc., must be collected with especial care. Not the slightest detail regarding the break-up strikes, ought to be overlooked.

5. The Congress calls upon all revolutionary unions to regard the question of strike strategy most seriously, for without a careful study all the experiences gained in strike warfare, without making the broad masses of revolutionary workers of each country acquainted with the experience of other countries, and without concentration of all the forces, and a well-planned, systematic preparation of all conflicts, great or small, against capital, the revolutionary proletariat will not be able to win the day against the concentrated monopolist capitalism, supported as it is by the whole might of the modern bourgeois state.

INCE the time of the second congress of the R. I. L. U., the situation of the working class and the condition of the labor union movements in all the countries of the East has become materially worse.

2. Notwithstanding the variety of the economic and political situation in the Eastern countries certain general causes of this worsening may be observed.

Those causes are as follows:-

As a result of the economic depression and the unemployment connected with it on the one hand, and the brutal repression on the other, the young labor union organizations of the Hast which often developed spontaneously in the years of national-revolutionary uplift following on the end of the war and the Russian October Revolution (1918–1920), and