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 to avoid unnecessary home tasks. Further, the Trade Unions without attempting to create special organisations tor women should encourage the participation of women in the fixing of wages, protection of labour, social insurance, public education, etc.

In order to hasten the further development of the Trade Union movement, and with a view to creating stable and powerful industrial organisations by the fusion of allied Trade Unions, the Congress decided that the Trade Unions of railwaymen and transport workers should thenceforward form one single union of transport workers; the trade unions of fire-brigade workers and hairdressers should merge into the Municipal Workers' Union; the domestic employees union should merge in the unions of the Municipal Workers and of public food supply; and the unions of brushmakers, wood cutters, pharmacists, glass workers and cement workers should merge respectively in the unions of tanners, agricultural workers, workers in public health services, chemists and building workers.