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HE Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. hears with great indignation of the cruelty of the Fascist reaction toward the proletariat and labor union movement in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian government, which is composed of public executioners and murderers, a blind instrument of the capitalist clique, has dissolved the labor unions, confiscated their archives and funds, closed the labor clubs, is cruelly persecuting the labor press, does not permit any meetings and sessions of labor organizations, deprives the workers of all possibility of legal self-defense and struggle. More than that—after the severe beatings inflicted upon some of the leaders, during the suppression of the September uprising, and subjecting others to unheard-off tortures in prisons or driving them into exile abroad,—now it resorts to new mass arrests and political murders. The telegraph brings every day reports about inhuman atrocities perpetrated by the Bulgarian government upon the labor and peasant masses.

Strongly protesting against the unheard-of terrors and cruelties to which the Bulgarian workers and peasants are subjected with the active and passive participation of the Mensheviks and Amsterdam adherents, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. appeals to the revolutionary proletariat of all countries to protest most emphatically against the atrocities which are perpetrated in Bulgaria, and to lend their aid, moral and material, to the Bulgarian proletarians who are fighting for their self-defense and emancipation.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. sends its warmest brotherly greeting to the revolutionary Bulgarian workers and peasants who at the risk of their lives courageously continue to struggle against the bourgeois Fascist regime,—and declare that the R. I. L. U. is wholly on their side in this unequal, but glorious combat.

Forward, Bulgarian Proletarians, on the Road of Struggle!

You are not alone! The revolutionary international proletariat is with you. Victory will inevitably be on your side, although at the price of many and costly sacrifices.

Down With the Bourgeois-Fascist Regime!

Long Live the Heroic Struggle of the Bulgarian Proletariat!

Long Live International Proletarian Solidarity!

Long Live the Proletarian Revolution!

HE Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. vigorously protests against the persecutions levelled against the revolutionary organizations of Turkey by the Kemalist government.

The Congress expresses deep sympathy for the proletariat of Turkey, and pledges its utmost support in their struggle for liberation from the yoke of capitalism.

HAT this Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. protests against the persecution of our Egyptian comrades on trumped-up charges of conspiracy against the Egyptian constitution. This supposed communist