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Trade union tactics ranged high on the agenda of both congresses. The split of the labour union movement was evident for all, and voices were raised that communists should either join or form revolutionary unions. Still, the leaders of the Comintern and rilu stood firm behind their calls for trade union unity and issued a resolution denouncing the social democrats and socialists i. The Comintern Congress branded the leaders of the unions and the Amsterdam International, i.
Their core task was the extension of communist influence within the unions and, ultimately, to assume control of the union leadership.
The Congress urged its members to stick to the rilu programme and tactics. The communist vision of a unified trade union movement was to be achieved at a projected World Unity Congress of the rilu and the iftu. The itf General Council rejected the idea, and the itf cemented its negative stance towards admitting communist-controlled unions within its ranks at its congress, summoned in Hamburg 7 to 12 August The revolutionary transport workers organised their own conference from 12 to 15 August just after the closure of the itf Congress.
