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 villages, to unite the land and forest workers and particularly the wage workers of the rich farmer.

The Congress attaches serious importance also to the drawing into the land and forest workers' organizations of the toiling intelligentzia of the village (agronomers, surveyors, foresters, etc).

Directing the Executive Bureau of the R. I. L. U. to offer their utmost support to the movement of the land and forest workers, the Third Congress believes that the land workers' unions can and should become a most important link in the connection between the workers and the revolutionary section of the farmers, so imperatively necessary for the success of the class struggle.

However, this task can be carried out by the farm proletariat only in the measure as its organizations and class education grows.

The Congress considers it inadvisable to create permanent joint organizations with the toiling farmers and emphasizes the necessity of having independent class organizations of land and forest workers.

The Congress also opposes as inadvisable and harmful, organizational amalgamtion of the land and forest workers' unions with the unions of other industries, considering that this hinders the development of the work among the land and forest workers.

The Congress also considers it specially important to establish unity in the movement of the land and forest workers which has been prevented by the reformist heads of the International Federation of Land Workers affiliated to Amsterdam.

The Congress directs the Executive Bureau of the R. I. L. U. to give special attention to the support of the land and forest workers' movement and to its revival in countries where it has been crushed by Fascism and reaction (Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Spain, Poland, Esthonia, Bulgaria) and to the organization of class unions of land and forest workers in the Eastern and colonial countries.

The congress emphasizes the importance of drawing Negro farm workers into the land workers' organizations of America.

HE Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. reaffirms the basic resolution of the Second Congress of the R. I. L. U. on the organization question (in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh clauses).

As a development of the basic principles of the above resolution of the Second Congress of the R. I. L. U. and considering the changed conditions of the present labor movement, manifested in a general enlivening in the chief capitalist countries, the Third Congress finds that the immediate organizational tasks of the revolutionary unions are as follows:

1. It is Necessary to Get Under Our Control the Spontaneous Action of the Working Masses and to Assume the Leadership of these Actions.

This will become possible if the revolutionary unions will always know in time what is going on in the thickest of the working masses, if they enjoy prestige even among the most backward workers, if they are militant enough always to be able to give definite expression to the demands of the working masses. It is necessary to strengthen the forming of nuclei in all the establishments and labor oranizationsorganizations [sic] un-