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 co-operative, commercial, industrial, state and other establishments and enterprises.

2. Abolition of piece work.

3. Abolition of different wage-calculations which disguise lower wages for women.

4. Application of female labor in all branches of industry except those which are particularly injurious to health.

5. Raising the skill of the working women by means of drawing them into existing technical schools and courses.

6. Abolition of night work and over time work.

7. Protection of women labor (protection of motherhood and babyhood, obligatory eight weeks' leave before and after childbirth, with full pay). Place and time for child feeding to be accorded.

8. Fight against dismissals at time of pregnancy and child feeding.

9, Fight against the reformist demand of dismissing married women from the factory (so-called "correct selections of those to be dismissed").

10. Struggle for equal unemployment relief for men and women,

HE sport and gymnastic movement has assumed large dimensions in every country, especially after the war.

The main cause for this is the drawing of broad masses of the people into industry which makes it necessary for them to seek in sport and gymnastics a recreation after the harmful monotony of the factory work and a means of securing normal functioning of the human body.

The greater the industrialization of the country, the more widespread is the sport movement. On the other hand, capitalism fully realizing the colossal importance of sport and gymnastics for the greater exploitation of the workers, for subjecting them to its ideology and diverting their attention from political and labor activities, and for developing a chauvinist and militarist spirit, has been cultivating sport in its class interests.

The R. I. L. U. must make every effort to influence the working class and to further their revolutionary education.

The sport and gymnastic activity of the world proletariat in which several million workers are taking part, and the activity of the culture societies of the proletariat, (such as musical, singing, sanitary, excursion and other circles), if properly directed and systematically guided, may become one of the most effective means of the revolutionary education of the working class, a means of raising the proletarian culture, a means of proletarian self-defense against Fascism, and of preparing the proletariat for participation in the revolutionary struggle. They will also be instrumental in rallying the workers around the unions.

At the present time this activity of the workers is in most countries materially and organizationally dependent upon the bourgeoisie, which keeps it under its ideological influence and uses it for the class interests of the bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie is assisted in this by the Amsterdam International, which, under the cloak of neutrality of sport, adjusts the sport and gymnastic movement of the proletariat to the interests of the bourgeoisie,