LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
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 omne-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 revoluticnaries, 
can, with the wide support of the masses and with- 
out any formulation, fully perform all the functions 
belonging to a trade union organization, and per- 
form them moreover in the manner desired by 
Social Democrats. Only thus can we secure the 
consolidation and development of a Social Demo- 
cratic trade union movement, in spite of the gen- 
darmes. 
It may be objected that an organization which 
is loose to such an extent that it is not even formu- 
lated, and which has even no enrolled and registered 
members, cannot be named an organization at all. 
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