Whereas:

1.a number of facts testify to the extreme intensification of destitution
among the proletariat and also of its economic struggle (the lock-out in
Poland, the movement among the workers of St. Petersburg and
Ivanovo-Voznesensk against the high cost of living, the extensive strike
movement in the
Moscow industrial area, the urgent calls of the trade union organisations to
prepare for an intense struggle, etc.); 2.all signs go to show that these various manifestations of the economic
struggle are accumulating to such an extent that there is every reason to
expect mass, economic action all over the country, involving far larger
sections of the proletariat than before; 3.the whole history of the Russian revolution shows that all the powerful
upsurges of the revolutionary movement began only on the basis of such mass
economic movements; Thisconference declares:

1.that all Party organisations must pay most serious attention to
these circumstances, collect fuller information about them, and that this
question should be put on the agenda of the Fifth Party Congress; 2.that the greatest possible number of Party members must be concentrated on
economic agitation among the masses; 3.that this economic movement must be regarded as the main source and
foundation of the entire revolutionary crisis that is developing in Russia.