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A report on the activity of the Central Bureau of the Russian Trade Unions was presented by Tomsky. He pointed out that after its appointment in February, 1919, the Central Bureau had to face the extraordinarily difficult problems of re-organising the Trade Union movement in the Ukraine which had been crushed by Denikin. He then traced the further work of the Bureau dealing particularly with the efforts made by the Bureau to rouse the Trade Unions of other countries to action in defence of the Russian revolution, and the attempts made to get in touch with the various sections of the European Trade Union movement.

After Tomsky's report the Congress voted the following resolution: "Having heard the report presented by Comrade Tomsky on the activities of the Central Bureau in the course of the year the Congress declares:—