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 principle" we do not deny the necessity of a separate organization of the agrarian wage workers.

D. It will be impossible! to limit ourselves only to general Councils of Peasants' Delegates, for the wealthy peasants are of the same capitalist class that is always inclined to injure or deceive the farm-hands, day laborers and the poorer peasants. We must at once form special organizations of these latter classes of the village population both within the Councils of Peasants' Delegates and in the form of special Councils of Delegates of the Farmers' Workers.

22.—Shall the people take into their hands the largest and most powerful monopolistic organizations of Capitalism, the banks, manufacturing syndicates, etc.?

A and B. Not by any means, since that might injure the landholders and capitalists.

C. Generally speaking, we are in favor of handing over such organizations to the entire people, tut to think of or prepare for this condition now is very untimely.

D. We must at once prepare the Councils of Workers' Delegates, the Councils of Delegates of Banking Employes and others for the taking of all such steps as are feasible and completely realizable toward the union of all banks into one single national bank and then towards a control of the Councils of Workers' Delegates over the banks and syndicates, and then toward their nationalization, that is, their passing over into the possession of the whole people.

23.—What form of Socialist International, establishing and realizing a brotherly union of all the workers in all countries, is now desirable for the nations?

A and B. Generally speaking, any kind of Socialist International is harmful and dangerous to capitalists and landholders, but if the German Plekhanov, whose name is Scheidemann, will come to an agreement with the Russian Scheidemann, whose name is Plekhanov, and if they can find in each other any vestige remaining