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 them into the armies of active class fighters. All measures must be taken to stop the flight of the women workers from the unions.

The steady worsening of the situation of the women workers in production in all the capitalist satesstates [sic], is undoubtedly creating favorable conditions for revolutionary work among the women workers in industry and on the land, among the organized, as well as amongst those who have left the unions.

1. Work in the factories. The main field of our work is the factory where the working women must be surrounded by the revolutionary influence. "Working women's commissions" must be created in the factory. In those factories where the majority of the factory committee consists of revolutionary elements, the working women's commissions are part of the factory committee working under its direct leadership. Where there are no factory committees, the R. I. L. U. adherents are to create working women's commissions to work under the direct leadership of the revolutionary minority of the industrial union.

2. The tasks of the above commissions are to strengthen the revolutionary influence among the women workers, to support all actions of the revolutionary minority aimed at defending the demands and slogans of the red labor unions, to elect working women to the factory committee and its commissions, and also into all union bodies from top to bottom.

3. By no means should these commissions lead to the formation of special working women's groupings in and outside of the unions. Their task is to draw the broad masses of the working women into the revolutionary minority. These commissions are to organize and conduct lectures and conferences of working women, to spread among them political and union press publications, in which the working women should directly participate (working women correspondents).

4. In the Red Unions and in the revolutionary minorities. All independent red unions and revolutionary minorities should appoint a special comrade from among the members of the executive committee of the union to carry out the practical measures in the field of work among the working women. Where the majority of workers in a particular branch of industry consists of women, the work should be conducted by women as far as possible. The R. I. L. U. adherents must strive to gain the maximum of influence over the working women in those organizations which were especially created by the reformist labor unions for work among the working women (propaganda and agitation commissions).

The revolutionryrevolutionary [sic] minorities and the red labor unions must put forth concrete revolutionary slogans of struggle which are inseparably connected with the everyday needs of the entire working class in general and of the women workers in particular. The slogans, however, are not an end in themselves but only a means for bringing together the broad masses of working women in a revolutionary way and for drawing them into the general economic and political struggle. The red unions must fight for the following demands:

1. Equal pay for equal work of male and female workers in all branches of industry and agriculture, for all employes of city, communal,