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3. To create red labor factions in the bourgeois sporting societies and clubs for the purpose of widening the agitation and propaganda for labor sport.

4. To demand the merging of sporting circles formed by the employers in the factories and mills, with the existing labor sporting and gymnastic organizations.

5. To form red factions in all reformist labor sporting societies and clubs.

6. To form red labor sporting organizations and to affiliate them to the Red Sport International.

7. To draw the sporting labor factions and organizations into the struggle against Fascism and against all other counter-revolutionary organizations.

To carry all this out, the labor unions of all countries have to work out a program of sporting activity.

In that program, first place must be given to the methods of mass agitation for the transformation of the labor sport movement into a general revolutionary class movement. The forms of revolutionizing the sporting activities of the working class should be mentioned in this program. The organization of contests, the working out of programs and plans for them, the selection of organizers, coaches, and instructors, capable of transforming the labor sport movement into a real revolutionary movement—all this should occupy a conspicuous place in the program.

In the countries where there are already labor sport societies in existence, the organizations affiliated to the R. I. L. U. must insist upon their members leaving the bourgeois sport organizations and entering into the workers' organizations.

The red unions must direct all their efforts toward merging the dual labor sport organizations, and struggle for the creation of a united labor sport international through the holding of an international unity congress.

N order to transform the co-operatives into useful tools for the class war, systematic work must be continued inside the co-operatives according to the principles outlined at the Second Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, since they have proven their full practical value.

The most important slogans, however, which must be proclaimed to the workers in more energetic fashion than has hitherto been done, are:

a. Join the co-operatives.

It is the duty of all trade unionists to be at the same time member of the co-operatives and to take an active part in the work of the revolutionary fractions within the co-operative movement.