and murderous attacks upon the Communists. In Italy at the present time, thanks to the Fascist pogroms, there are probably not more than between 250,000 to 300,000 organized workers, 50 per cent of which stand on the platform of the Profintern.
Norway left the Amsterdam International yet has not joined the Profintern—she is on the road between the two and the question is not yet settled. Holland has now 200,000 members in the trade unions. Among them we have not many followers. In Poland there are 365,000 organized workers, about 50 per cent of whom are with us although it is hard to find our exact numbers there, thanks to the continuous raids on the Polish trade unions. In Sweden there are 313,000 members in trade unions, 15 per cent of whom are followers of the Profintern.
In Switzerland there are 225,000, and about 25 per cent of them are our followers. In Czecho-Slovakia the reformists unite 350,000 members and an equal number is united in the revolutionary unions. In Canada the Amsterdam International counts 164,000, and 40 per cent of them are our followers. Argentina and Peru are figured together with 100,000 members of reformist unions, and a good half of them are in the Profintern. And last, in South Africa, we have between 15 and 20 per cent of the 50,000 members of the Amsterdam unions.
Thus, if we estimate our forces, using the figures of the Amsterdam International itself, the number of its members who are ideologically or politically following us, we get between 30 and 35 per cent.
But we already know that the Amsterdam International does not embrace all countries. Thus, America is not represented, as well as many other countries. For a more correct estimate of our forces, I will dwell on those countries whose unions are not affiliated with the Amsterdam International.
From the European countries; in the syndicalist unions of Holland we have 15,000 followers; in Portugal, where the majority are organized in the anarcho-syndicalist unions, we have about 30,000 followers; in Roumania, the majority is on our side; the Esthonian trade unions are altogether for us.
In the United States of America, the American Federation of Labor is not affiliated with the Amsterdam International because the latter is "too left." But both within and outside that Federation the influence of our followers has definitely affected over 2,000,000 workers.[1]
- ↑ This estimate is based upon the number of organized workers that have, through action of Conventions and delegate bodies, been placed on record for the immediate program of the R. I. L. U. adherents organized in the T. U. E. L., such as amalgamation, the labor party, recognition of Soviet Russia, etc.
