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6. The disorganization of the working class is very favorable to the development of Fascism. The disunion is stimulated by the Social Democrats, who adopt the tactic of passive resistance and of sectional struggle, or even of open collaboration with the bourgeoisie. Therefore it is necessary to concentrate all efforts upon the establishment of a united front of the entire working class, not excluding the Fascist workers.

7. One of the most effective means of achieving unity of the proletariat and of mobilizing the working class for the struggle against Fascism and reformism, is the prosecution of an exteinsive campaign for shop committees. Only by means of energetic work among the working masses on the spot may we achieve the reconstruction of the class unions broken by the Fascists.

In cases where the State demands obligatory membership in the Fascist labor unions, and recognizes them as the sole legal organs of the working class, it is the duty of the adherents of the R. I. L. U. to organize a solid opposition of the revolutionary elements, in order to explode the Fascist unions from within.

The R. I. L. U. adherents must give special attention to the organization of immigrant workers to counter-act the Fascist propaganda carried on among them.

The congress urges the necessity of collecting all material on the Fascist movement and of carrying on an extensive propaganda campaign against it.

The most desirable means of propaganda is the publication of small striking leaflets, exposing to the international proletariat the crime of Fascism.

APITALIST exploitation causes the emigration of the workers of different countries. Beggarly wages, bad conditions of labor and political persecution are the cause of the emigration of workers from many countries.

On the other hand, the prospects of a good wage and better living conditions, which are the r@ult of propaganda and shameless advertisements used by the capitalists of the countries of immigration, enable the latter, in their struggle against the proletariat, to execute a double manoeuvre:

1. To obtain a foreign labor force, which, because of the lack of