"(3) A common offensive fight for the improvement of the conditions of the workers everywhere.
"(4) A systematic campaign against the conspiracy of British and American financial capital which has found its clearest expression in the Dawes Report.
"These aims … are simple enough. Now for the way to achieve unity, which is equally simple. What is required is a general world congress of all Trade Union organizations, with a full and adequate representation of the rank and file. …
"We cannot expect a world congress to be convened tomorrow. One important step, however, on the road to international unity can be taken at once. That is the affiliation of the Russian Trade Unions to the International Federation of Trade Unions. This should and can be achieved, without more ado, by a preliminary unconditional conference on both sides."[1]
World Labor Unity is no utopian dream. It is an immediate pressing necessity which awaits the will of the workers for its realization. The economic basis for its accomplishment is already laid. Upon the militants of the present generation rests the task of forging the scattered Trade Union forces of the world into one International Federation of Trade Unions.
- ↑ Labour Monthly, September, 1925, p. 528.
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