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 couraging dangerous illusions. They are being used to deceive the workers and lull them into a false state of security. But the capitalist politicians and employing interests are no longer able to hide the fact that new armaments are being built up, greater than before and more deadly.

There is but one power that can save mankind from being plunged into another universal catastrophe. There is but one power which can defend the workers of all countries against political and economic oppression and tyranny. There is but one power which can bring freedom, welfare, happiness, and peace to the working class and to humanity. That power is the working class, if well organised, properly disciplined, self-devoted, and determined to fight all who would oppose and prevent its complete emancipation. The working classes, if united nationally and internationally, would constitute an insuperable barrier to capitalist oppression and an unbreakable bond of peace and economic security. The workers are able to defeat all those who by their reactionary tendencies keep the workers divided. So long as the capitalist system continues there is danger of war. The merciless struggle for supremacy between the conflicting vested interests of competing groups of exploiters will, as in the past, eventually provoke a new crisis plunging the workers of the world into another disastrous war.

"For the above reasons the British and Russian trade union representatives reaffirm the agreement made in Moscow between representatives of British and Russian organised labour to promote international goodwill amongst the workers as a means of more adequately safeguarding the interests of international peace.

"As a result of the discussions at this London Conference and of the agreement reached there, joint efforts, as provided in the procedure laid down in the British declarations, will be made to induce the Amsterdam International, in all goodwill, to agree to a free, unconditional, and immediate conference with representatives of the Russian Trade Union Movement.

"We also jointly place on record our determination to maintain and weld closer the friendly relations of the British and Russian Trade Union movements by taking such joint action as is provided for in the agreements arrived at by this Conference.

"The representatives of the British and Russian Trade Union Movements herewith declare their intention to do what