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OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS

proceeded with its work of attempted destruction of organized labor in all countries. In a recent publication entitled—"Two Months' Activity of the International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions," (the official title now assumed by the new Internationale) we read:

"The organization of the propaganda of the Council"—thus states the pamphlet—"has been started and manifestos have already been issued to the organized workers of Great Britain, America, Germany, India and France. … The Council is making arrangements for the establishment in each of the countries of at least one central propaganda committee with its members drawn from the revolutionary unions, where possible, the Communist Party. They will not hesitate to form more than one National committee where these are necessary. These committees are to undertake extensive propaganda throughout the unions by means of the publication of manifestos, the use of labor papers, by conferences of the unions, by controversy in the press, by the organization of speakers, distribution of our literature and general agitation throughout the labor movement."

In Great Britain the British Bureau of the International Council of Trades and Industrial Unions has been formed under the leadership of notorious pro-Bolshevist British unionists, whose names are known if not yet officially published. Two resolutions are being proposed by this "Council" in trade union locals in Great Britain and America and other countries, as follows:

1. To withdraw from the Amsterdam Federation of Trade Unions.

2. To join the new Internationale and send delegates to a world conference at Moscow pledged to sup-