LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
factory, will render the work of the gendarmes 
extraordinarily easy. Our Polish comrades have 
already passed through a similar phase in their 
Own movement, when everybody was extremely 
enthusiastic about the organization of workers’ 
funds; but these ideas were very quickly abandoned 
when it was found that the funds only provided 
rich harvest for the gendarmes. If we are out for 
wide workers’ organizations, and not for wide 
arrests, if our purpose is not to provide satisfaction 
for the gendarmes, we must endeavor to leave these 
organizations absolutely loose and unformulated . . . 
But will they then be able to function? Well, let 
Us examine what the functions are: “...... to 
Observe all that is going on in the factory and keep 
a record of events” (§2 of the Statutes). Must 
that really be formulated? Could not the purpose 
be better served by correspondence conducted in 
the illegal papers and without setting up special 
groups? ‘“.... to lead the struggle of the workers 
for the improvement of their workshop conditions” 
($3 of the Statutes). Here again formulation is 
not required. Any agitator with any intelligence 
at all can gather what the demands of the workers 
are in the course of ordinary conversation and 
transmit them to a narrow—not a wide—organiza- 
tion of revolutionaries to be embodied in a leaflet ] 
“.... To organize a fund . . . . to which contribu- 
tions of two copeks per rouble should be made 
€39) .... 10 give the contributors monthly reports 
on the funds” (§17) “. . . to expel members who 
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