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O the All-Indian Trade Union Congress, Lahore.

Comrades, the proletariat of the West sends you its enthusiastic good wishes in the fight which you have been waging during the past year for the economic amelioration of the Indian working class. The Fourth Congress of the Communist International sends you heartiest greetings.

Comrades, in assuring you of our sympathy and in promising you our utmost support for the victory of your cause, we must at the same time remind you that yours is a very great cause, which should not be restricted. The Indian working class is fighting not only for "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work." The economic emancipation of the Indian workers and peasants depends upon the political liberty of the nation.

No amelioration of living conditions is possible while imperialist exploitation exists. It is for this reason that you will play an important part in the struggle for national independence. Prepare for this historic rôle. The advanced proletariat of fifty-two countries represented at this Congress is entirely on your side. Beware of the false friendship and the misleading advice of labour leaders that are subservient to imperialism.

With fraternal greetings.

HE Japanese and Chinese Delegations at the Fourth Congress of the Third Communist International propose the following resolution on the question of the occupation of the Russian section of Saghalin by the Japanese imperialists:—

"The Fourth World Congress of the Third Communist International sends greetings to the working population of the Russian section of Saghalin and of the Far East, as well as to the working class of Japan, and strongly condemns the Japanese imperialists who, during the last four years, have tormented the workers and peasants of Siberia.

"The evacuation of the imperialists from the maritime and the Amur regions, and finally also from Vladivostock, is the result of the heroic resistance of the working class population of the Russian Far East, and especially of the proletariat of the maritime region, and also the result of the ever-growing indignation of the wide working masses of Japan against the intervention and the government.of the Mikado.