The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-20
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munist Government to restore control the Factory
Soviet system and the the Revolution AS
Germany and Italy, the Factory
agement from the and the technical staff AS Russia
the former saboagng
Revolution this But would have had in time
very bad production the began
claim that they factories thus converting the
workers into body of private shareholders This of
course all wrong The leaders OF the Revolution accord
ngy turned to the Trade Unions of enforcing
onazaton and of protecting production The Factory Com
mttee was gradually reduced to onehrd of the membership
of the Management Commtteethe remaining members being
Council Finally the Third Trades Union Congress in 1920 de-
clared that the Factory Committee had nothing TODD with the
management and began the movement back towards expert
management
At the same time another of Factory Committees
was checked in the interests of the movement
committees had started Central Councils Perogad
large towns which rapidly ousng the Trade onions
d9l out was not finally stopped until the First Trades Union
IN January 1918 which put end to the Central
Trade Union by applying generally and compusor the prin
in factory whatever his occupation joined union to
which the factory belonged For example, machine tool
factory not only the carpenters and bckaers employed
factory repairs made join Union but
SO also the cooks In the railway repair shop
join the Metal workers Union '''''@i9
This principle Factory One Union" has become
permanent part of the Soviet system One result of it the
getting rid of all overlapping and competition between unions
another is the division of unonism into % national industrial
unions winch are permanent and not as elsewhere constantly
matchmaking and seeding.
was war measure and the stability of the State
storm and stress of foreign invasion and domestic
undoubtedly due to the strength thus obtained
the State being as perched Leg that of para
menary representation. the propped by
tpoda representation through Soviets through
the Trade Unions and third leg that fully grown
Co-operatves The next step was to make membership of
union compulsory and suppress the opposition
by the Menshevists as late as 1920 But unfortunately
this done than the began official organs
to lose contact with and the confidence of the of
partisan workers.
AS the Trade Unions became organs
controlling production their Central Executives grew
eminent OF the first Importance The first of these
the Council of Labor Control which, State ownership deve
oped became the Supreme Council of National Economy
change which expressed changed
Trade Unions responsibility This
mssaries Political the Central
ecuve Of the Trade Unions themselves and still is the
Central ARussian Council of Trade Unions created in july
During this period Trade Unonsm and Communism were
practically the The Third Congress in April 1920 of
whose 1929 delegates 949 Communists passed
ton the effect that the Trade Unions should conform their
(c) Recent Reconstruction Economic Pol
ICY coming into force in the winter 192O2 the be
played by the Trade Unions still under dispute between the
Boshevist policy Of Trosky who wished mahe Trade I'm
ions into organs which should actually themselves
run the industries and the Trade Union point of vew
ed by Lenn that the unions should look
the workers The Trade Unions and enin And the New
Economic Policy as adopted relieved the unions of much of
national production them their original duty
regulating work and The first this direction
December 2St 1921 and adopted by the Central Council
Of Trade Unions in February, 1922 BY the time the Fifth
Congress Of Trade Unions September,
policy already the Congress
TO reorganize the unions their present basis.
The restoration of the unions to their usual functions
though it reduced their numerical strength
their moral status the workers organization Village
and Home Craworkers Kustarn dropped from the I'm
ions, and membership fell almost by half from 100000 in
July 1921 to 100000 in October 1922 which again
began to increase The of restoring the unions
voluntary and contrbutory basis thereafter continued
without further loss of membership Collective voluntary
bershp introduced in 1928 then individual membership
finally individual payment of contributions Individual
membership and payment the rule for 76 per cent
The membership in January 1924, was 56460oO and in
October 6o34o0o the membership having increased during