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 affiliated to the R. I. L. U. The work of these nuclei should be coordinated with the respective revolutionary unions, which should keep in close contact with the local Communist organizations.

2. It is Necessary to Embrace the Broad Working Masses by the Revolutionary Organizations of Workers.

More than ever must the revolutionary organizations, together with the minorities of the reformist unions, struggle for the organization of all the workers in revolutionary industrial unions. Special attention should be given to the development of the work of the shop committees, to delegate and general meetings of the workers in the establishments. The shop committees and the workers' meetings should be foremost in drawing the unorganized and the passive workers into activity and into the struggle of the revolutionary unions. The revolutionary industrial unions should be based upon shop committees and upon the broadest initiative of the rank and file. During strikes and other action, the shop committees should be the principal starting points of the movement.

In every combine or trust the workers should be organized into a single shop committee, conducting the struggle against the exploiters. These shop committees should direct the movement of the workers in the undertakings of the particular combine or trust, irrespective of whatever they produce or of the trades of the workers.

From among the workers of each establishment, control committees should be elected to establish workers' control over production. The control committees are to work under the general guidance of the shop committee.

3. The Workers Should Be Organized Into Militant Industrial Unions, Nationally and Internationally.

At present the separate isolated unions, disconnected from the other unions of the particular industry, are too weak to conduct a victorious struggle against modern organized capital, against the trusts or combines. The trade unions should be welded together into industrial unions and the industrial unions should be united by groups of important industries. The industrial unions of the various countries should be united on an international scale, and this unification should be carried out from below in the process of joint struggle. The joint struggle should be directed mainly by the I. P. C's and by specially organized committees of action.

4. Organization of Economic Reconaissance.

The struggle against the powerful capitalist associations of the modern times is very difficult and requires an exact knowledge of the forces of the enemy. All the union bodies must organize economic reconaissance. This reconnoitring machinery of the unions will have to keep track of the real forces and the intentions of the capitalists. The revolutionary unions and minorities should immediately take up the organization of such a reconnoitring system in the form of the present committees of workers' control. Into this work should be drawn in, through the trade unions, the employees of banks and administrative undertakings as well as the employees of the institutions and organizations which regulate industry.