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 minorities and to the Federation of the Knights of Labor in the performance of this work.

PON hearing the reports of the Dutch delegation and after full discussion on this question had taken place, the Dutch Commission lays the following resolution before the Third World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions for acceptance:

1. The Congress greatly regrets that in the last few years a dispute has arisen between the N. A. S. (Workers' Secretariat of the Netherlands) and the Communist Party of Holland, which caused much harm to both organizations, and is of the opinion that in the future a close collaboration of all the revolutionary elements is absolutely necessary for the winning over of the working masses for the revolutionary movement in Holland.

2. Co-operation and close contact between the revolutionary opposition and the Communists in the reformist, neutral and other trade union organizations, will be best established and practically realized by the formation of joint committees or commissions.

3. These commissions ought to be created locally and centrally, and for the individual branches of industry and trade, and will have to work out special principles on which to act.

4. The tasks of these committees are:

5. The aim of the revolutionary activity of the opposition is not the splitting and breaking up, but the unification of the trade union movement in order to carry on revolutionary class war. This must be sharply emphasized in opposition to the criminal tactics of expulsions, and splits, which the Dutch reformists are beginning to employ.

6. In Holland as elsewhere opposition work in the trade unions pre-supposes the winning over and revolutionizing of the working masses, as well as the creation of the proletarian united front against the offensive of capital which is becoming daily more acute, against the reduction of wages and salaries, lengthening of working hours and increased exploitation in the public services, state and industrial establishments, against the increasing terrorism of Fascism and nationalism.

7. The Third Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions expresses the hope that the sympathies of all the members of the N. A. S. will soon so deepen as to enable the fractionless and complete organizational affiliation of the N. A. S. to the R. I. L. U. in the near future and before the fourth congress of the R. I. L. U.