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 which are only now being born and have not yet consolidated themselves, not withstand the double attack and easily break up.

3. The tasks that face the labor movement of the East, except remain the same as heretofore: a) struggle with imperialism jointly with the national-revolutionary elements of the respective country, and b) struggle for the class interests of the workers.

Being numerically weak, the working class in all countries of the East must seek the fighting co-operation of the most proletarianized, conscious, and revolutionary elements of the peasants, (farmers' and artisans, in order to help in the fulfilment of these two fundamental tasks. The formation of workers' and peasants parties, leagues, committees of action, and other forms of co-operative action of the workers and peasants' parties are the best means of struggle in the fight of the working classes of the East for their national and class emancipation.

4. Concrete and understandable slogans that are near to the heart of the people, and a wise combination of legal and illegal work, are the fundamental methods of work in the East.

The comprehensible slogans, around which the work of organizing the strength of the proletariat must be circled, are: the right of coalition, the freedom of unions, meetings, and press, the right to strike, and social legislation, existing in practice almost nowhere in the East. These demands must be won by all means even by that of a general strike.

5. In view of the limitations of strength and the small number of functionaries it is expedient not to scatter the available forces over all industry, but to select at one time the industries that are most important politically and economically, such as transport, mining, and metal industries and to concentrate all organizational work there in the first case.

The elemental organizational forms which must lead to the formation of stable unions capable of action are: nuclei in the factories, in crafts, shops, mines, in the railway sections, on the ships, and the organization of delegates' meetings, shop committees, and representatives of tens, according to circumstance.

It will often happen that cooperatives, evening schools, union technical courses, clubs and other cultural and educational institutions will under the conditions of persecution of any union activity, be the centers around which the union work will be organized.

6. The adherents of the R. I. L. U. in the large centers of imperialism are obliged to give assistance by all means at their disposal to the union movemtntmovement [sic] in the colonies, maintaining the closest associations with them, assisting them with literature, with organizers and agitators, keeping alive the interest for the colonial problem, by means of the press, parliament, and public meetings, struggling with the imperialist and racial prejudices of the working class in the metropolis, and organizing demonstrations and systematic strikes. A special means of assistance may be the formation of labor unions of colonial workers in the metropolis in cases where governmental repression makes the formation of unions in the colonies themselves absolutely impossible. This especially applies to sailors.

This is all the more necessary since recently the imperialist and native capitalists have, together with their cruel methods of oppression, began to ply other "positive" methods of holding down the labor union movement, namely to form patriotic governmental workers' organizations