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 political and social rights, is placed in a worse position, than the local workers, and therefore more easily exploited.

2. To fight successfully against the demands of the native workers, by means of the competition of foreign workers.

Sometimes the authorities and employers even grant to immigrant workers certain illusory advantages, but that is done exclusively for the pose of provoking hostility towards the foreign workers among the local laboring population. For instance, the Polish agricultural workers imported into Germany, do not pay the 10 percent tax which is deducted from the wages of the local workers.

3. Emigration was greatly developed yet before the war, particularly among certain peoples—the Germans, Spaniards, Italians Austrians, Chinese, etc. Already at that time the United States, South America, France, the colonies and dominions received this stream of immigrants.

But the war, having upset the political and economic conditions of the capitalist countries, brought about an enormous development of the emigration movement. In some countries, such as Italy, Spain, Poland, HngaryHungary [sic], Bulgaria the violence of reaction and fascism drove the revolutionary workers from their native country. On the other hand, the economic situation created by the shattering of the capitalist system and the reaction is so terrible, that the workers emigrate to other countries en masse. Unemployment, which has particularly developed in Germany and England, also causes emigration, which will increase.

4. Thus, millions of workers annually come to the countries of immigration. At the present time the main centre of immigration is France. Three millions of foreign workers were imported into France for restoration work in the devastated regions, for the supply of labor power necessary in industry, and in order to compensate for labor deficits due to the lower birth rate. Brazil, the United States, Argentine, also receive large contingents of immigrants. Besides, many English and Dutch workers move to the colonies and the dominions. It is also necessary to note the fact that the agricultural crisis which is extremely acute in South America, causes an influx of a considerable number of agricultural workers into the industrial centers, who augment the number of unemployed. A similar situation, somewhat less acute, obtains in some European countries.

The revolutionary labor unions must strive to free the laboring masses from the illusions born of misleading advertisements of international capital. They must warn the workers who intend to emigrate against the dangers arising for the proletariat from leaving the currents of emigration movement to the sole control and influence of capitalism; they must show to the working class that emigration and immigration are only the outcome of capitalist exploitation, phenomena of the same order of unemployment and over-production.

5. In order to protect the interests of emigrant workers under the capitalist regime, in order to conduct among them the same revolutionary propaganda as among the labor masses of the local population the R. I. L. U. and its sections must develop an intensive and incessant activity and create organs necessary for enlisting into the unions those laborers who are torn from their native land and subjected to cruel exploitation. To achieve this purpose, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. considers necessary the practical realization of the following proposals:

ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE, the establishment inside of the Latin Bureau, of an International Emigration Office, whose task will be: