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the rise and fall of the international. l6l 
at was, not the increase of wages, but the abolition of the 
wages system by a radical transformation of the social order 
Combinations and strikes were only makeshifts, while awaiting 
someAing better. The following were the declarations adopted 
on this subject “ Strikes are not a means of completely eman 
cipatmg the labourer, but they are often a necessity in the 
existing conflict between capital and labour. It is therefore 
advisable to subject strikes to certain conditions as to organiza 
tion, opportuneness, and propriety. With regard to the organi 
zation of strikes, in those trades which have not, as^vet 
judge of the opportuneness and propriety of impending strikes ” 
This, as may be seen, was a complete plan of campaign. The 
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