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 event of a big labor conflict arising in any of those four countries. According to the practice of the labor movement, those four countries should be looked upon as if they were one field of activity of the R. I. L.U. Iceland, too, may be included among them.

2. The influence of the R. I. L. U. has been strongest in Finland, where a majority of the workers take the position of the R. I. L. U. However, the white terror and repression practiced by the government prevented direct relations with Moscow and entry into the R. I. L. U. In Norway, also, more than half of the workers and even entire organizations sympathize with the R. I. L. U. Still, they did not actually join the R. I. L. U. In the labor organizations of Sweden, reformist leaders are dominating who are fervent opponents of the proletarian revolution. The leaders of the syndicalist organizations also are in sharp opposition to the R. I. L. U., but among the rank and file of the syndicalists the R. I. L. U. has adherents, particularly in the organizations which have relations with the Communists. The revolutionary opposition does not yet occupy the position which it could objectively achieve. In Denmark there are only isolated opposition groups. All that shows that the R. I. L. U. has in the Scandinavian countries a wide field of activity. This activity requires systematic methods and attention to the special conditions in each country.

3. The policy and tactics pursued by the R. I. L. U. in Finland have proved correct. The attempt of the social-democratic leaders to split the Central Federation of Labor Unions was frustrated, and the unity of the labor organizations preserved. But this is still insufficient. The preponderant majority of the workers are still outside any organization, and are still to be drawn into the class struggle. There are still many illusions and opportunistic deviations among the organized workers, and even among the revolutionary workers of the unions' illusions which originated partly under the influence of the government terror. In particular, participation in the International Labor Bureau of the League of Nations must be decidedly condemned. Greater attention must be paid to the factory and shop committees. With their assistance, revolutionary propaganda should be conducted also among the unorganized workers. Further, the social-democrats have only partly carried out the resolution of the last congress of the Central Federation of Labor Unions forbidding the labor unions to join any political party.

In a country with a preponderant majority of rural workers and poor peasantry, the victory of the proletariat is impossible without the support of the rural workers. Therefore, the urban and industrial proletariat has to give special attention to the organization of the rural proletariat. This work must be given ideological as well as material aid. Only a strong union of the workers of the city and village can secure victory and the rule of the laboring masses.

4. In Sweden, the organization and aggressiveness of the employers is becoming stronger. Not content with the existing strong employers' unions, the Swedish employers create strikebreaking organizations, which extend their influence over the entire country and evince frank Fascist intentions following the example of Finland and Norway, and the «employers already raise the question of the necessity of reducing production costs, which signifies new attempts to lower wages, while in some branches of industry (metal) unemployment is still prevalent.