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 (Turkey, Japan, China), and bringing in Amsterdam to neutralize revolutionary workers' movement (Japan, India).

8. Connections of the labor union movement of Eastern countries with R. I. L. U. must be no less close.

The Bureau formed in Canton must serve as an organizational link uniting the various countries of the East among themselves on one hand, and with the R. I. L. U. on the other. But the Bureau in Canton is not sufficient. The R. I. L. U. must form new support bases in the chief ports of the Near and Far East in the immediate future. All these bases must be furnished with the necessary literature in suitable languages.

9. Periodical conferences of Near and Far Eastern countries called by the R. I. L. U. must also have the same end of linking and co-ordinating the activities in the labor union movements of the East.

10. From the viewpoint of the labor union movement the negro question has its own peculiarities, demanding special study. A special commission is to be appointed for this purpose, which, on the foundation of a detailed acquaintance with the question, must put concrete proposals before the next congress of the R. I. L. U. But without waiting for this the adherents of the R. I. L. U. in America, South Africa, and in other countries where there are negro workers, must immediately commence work among the negro working masses, endeavoring to secure the fusion of parallel organizations of whites and negroes, wherever such exist.

AVING heard Comrade Antzelovitch's report on the question of the work among the land and forest workers, and of the relations with the farmers' organizations, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. considers that the experience of the class struggle, the successes of Fascism in a number of countries, and the interests of the social revolution dictate to the organized proletariat, especially to that part of it which is organized in labor unions, the necessity of taking into account in the everyday work and struggle the exceptional significance of a militant union between labor and the farmers.

The farming class which in most countries represents the most substantial portion of the rural and general population is not uniform in its social composition. The agrarian crisis in a number of countries and the impending crisis in the other, accelerate the process of differentiation, increases the number of poor farmers and encourages the development of a revolutionary spirit among the farmers.

The well-to-do section of the farmers, (the village exploiters) who use hired labor, is definitely hostile to the labor movement and to the working class as a whole. The working class is faced with the task of organizing the everyday struggle against the exploitation of wage workers in the village, which is possible only by organizing the farm workers in powerful unions.

However this does not exhaust the tasks of union work in the village as a substantial section of the village population consists of farmers living by their own labor and hiring land from the rich farmers and