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 ought to have Communist factions in all the labour unions, and acquire by their means an influence over the labour movement and direct it.

1. The economic struggle of the proletariat for the increase of wages and the Improvement of the conditions of life of the masses, is developing more and more into a blind alley. The economic crisis, embracing one country after another in ever-increasing proportions, is showing to even unenlightened workmen that It Is not enough to demand an increase of wages and a shortening of the work-hours, that the capitalist class is less capable every day of reestablishing the normal conditions of public economy, and of guaranteeing to the workers at least those conditions of life which it gave them before the world war. Out of this growing conviction of the working masses are born the efforts to create organizations which would be able to commence a struggle for the salvation of the situation by means of workers' control over production, by means of shop committees. This aspiration to create shop committees, which is more and more taking possession of the workmen of different countries, must besupported most energetically by the Communist Parties. Therefore, It is a mistake to form the shop committees out of such workmen only, who are already struggling for the dictatorship