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fail to pay their contributions" (§10) and so forth. Why, this is a very paradise for the police; for nothing would be easier than to penetrate into the conspiracy of a "central factory fund," confiscate the money and arrest the best members. Would it not be simpler to issue one-copek or two-copek coupons bearing the stamp of a well-known (very narrow and conspiratorial) organization, or to make collections without coupons of any kind and to print reports in a certain agreed code in the legal paper? The object would thereby be obtained, but it would be a hundred times more difficult for the gendarmes to pick out the threads.

I might go on analyzing the statutes, but I think that what has been said will suffice. A small tight kernel, consisting of reliable, experienced and steeled workers, with responsible agents in the chief districts and connected by all the rules of strict conspiracy with the organizations of revolutionaries, can, with the wide support of the masses and without any formulation, fully perform all the functions belonging to a trade union organization, and perform them moreover in the manner desired by Social Democrats. Only thus can we secure the consolidation and development of a Social Democratic trade union movement, in spite of the gendarmes.

It may be objected that an organization which is loose to such an extent that it is not even formulated, and which has even no enrolled and registered members, cannot be named an organization at all.