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N the last few years the International Workers' Relief has mobilized the economic resources of the world proletariat and all sections of society sympathizing with its aim and in this way has been able to render signal service to the workers attacked by hunger and want and to the militants fighting the battles of our class. Wherever the broad masses, as a consequence of economic fights or catastrophies of a cataclysmic character, have been affected by mass misery and suffering and where this suffering has in any way been a danger to the general revolutionary development, there help and assistance has been given. This assistance has been especially useful in bringing to naught all the efforts of the capitalist class to use this mass distress for the attaining of its own reactionary ends.

The Red International of Labor Unions has always recognized the urgent want supplied by the activities of the International Workers' Relief and has helped to develop the spirit of international solidarity through the practical assistance rendered by its organizations.

After having splendidly helped the victims of the catastrophic famine disaster in Russia in 1921–1922 and later on the victims of the Japanese earthquake in 1923, the International Workers' Relief gave broadly and well-organized aid to the hunger-stricken German working masses in their tremendous strike movements and gigantic lock-outs during 1923–1924. The I. W. R. has thus been an important factor in the economic and revolutionary fights of the working class and in the coming struggles will have to fulfill tasns of increasing importance.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. is firmly convinced that at the present moment the continuance of the relief work begun by the International Workers’' Relief on an international basis is of fundamental importance. The congress herewith places on record its opinion that the International Workers' Relief has contributed to the strengthening of the militant workers in their fight and has strengthened and deepened the spirit of international solidarity among the workers of all countries.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. exposes to the working class of the world the dastardly attempts of the social democratic party and the Amsterdam International to break up and have suppressed the International Workers' Relief, this organization of true international solidarity, at a time when it was rendering brotherly aid to millions of German social democratic workers during the period of hunger and strikes.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. urgently appeals to all work-