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 spread labor organs. Therefore, the first condition for the preservation of the unity of the labor organizations and the development of revolutionary fighting preparedness of the adherents of the R. I. L. U. (opposition) is, that they should lean upon the revolutionary industrial councils and closely collaborate with them.

It is necessary to conduct energetic activity to the end that all labor unions should become real revolutionary organizations of the class struggle, leaning upon the revolutionary industrial councils. It is their particular duty to struggle:

The entire work must be conducted on the basis of a general programme of action, containing the most important immediate demands of the workers. Those are:


 * 1) Struggle for an increase in wages and an improvement of the conditions of work.
 * 2) Struggle against the attacks upon the eight-hour day and for the introduction of a Summer 14 days' rest with full pay.
 * 3) Struggle against the reactionary bourgeois legislation concerning the industrial councils, and for establishment of revolutionary industrial councils.
 * 4) Struggle against the reactionary bourgeois arbitration courts and the obligatory character of their decisions.
 * 5) Struggle for workers' control in the enterprises thru the revolutionary industrial councils.
 * 6) Struggle for the organization and protection of the unemployed, for giving them work at regular rates. A campaign for the organization of public and other work for the unemployed.
 * 7) Organization of fighting labor detachments in all factories and mills throughout the country.

In Denmark and Iceland, in which the organization of the revolutionary proletariat in comparison with reformist organizations is relatiivelyrelatively [sic] still weak and not quite formed, the same is applicable that applies to the other Scandinavian countries. The revolutionrwrevolutionary [sic] proletariat must immediately begin to form a revolutionary opposition within the reformist unions, modelling it on the type of Sweden, and to carry on more systematic and active work within the reformist organizations against the reformist leaders. The R. I. L. U. and its revolutionary activity must become known to the wide laboring masses.

7. It is necessary to call periodic conferences of the revolutionary opposition in the labor unions of the Scandinavian countries, in order to work out practical organized means of struggle in those countries.

8. The Executive Bureau of the R. I. L. U. is charged with the duty of giving organizational form to the united work of the revolutionary opposition and of the unions in Scandinavia.