The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
The Question and Answer.

The Question and Answer.
0UESTION:--How is the Railroad Workers Union
y ganzed in the Union of Soviet Republics?
A ANSWERING Railwaymens Union in the Union of
m Socialist Soviet Republics is constructed thru ap
preaching the of the workers at their places of
work: in depots workshops, railway stations, and dis
tricts.
Local committees are organized at the rate of
committee per Is employees. The number of
such committees was: 1887 October 1, 1925, 4348
January 1, 1926, and 4,5O3 on April l, 1926
In these committees and around them concen-
trated the active body of the unions membership
ssting of the members of the local committees Such
active members there 25204 January l, 1926,
and 26021 April 1926. There 1853 union agents.
Around the local committees organized and per-
manent commissions for the purpose of affordng the
best service and guidance in the various spheres of the
unions activity Such commissions of three kinds
organization and education, labor protection and pro-
duction.
On April l, 1926, there were upon the local
committees 4,79S organization and education commits
sons in which 1859 people participated 2091 produc
ton commissions, in which 121OO people participated,
and 1898 labor protection commissions in which 1920
people took part
One of the chief organs for attracting the members
of the union active work in the union is the Institute
Of Delegates These delegates elected at the place
of work. from 10 to l. according to the number of peo
pho employed constituting around the local committees
large body of active members who, preliminary to
the holding of general meetings of workers and en-
ployees, discuss all the important questions affecting
the life of the union and of the workers. On April
1926, there 48,1O4 union delegates.
The highest organ of the union at the place of work
is the general meeting of workers and employees which
receives all the important reports and from the
union and the administrative organs and renders deci
sons which obligatory upon the local committees.
Altogether from January until March, 1926, there
held the transport 22S30 general meetings,
tended by 1912 members of the union
The local committees elected by general meetings
of workers and employees for a period of from six to
twelve months, but they may be reelected before the
expiration of the period upon requston made by
less than onethird of the people employed given
enterprise, by order of the higher organs of the
union
Thus, the body of active members among the rank
and file of the membership, comprising the members of
the local committees the delegates and the members of
the permanent commissions amounted to about $4,000
people April 1926. AS rule, these active people
giving their service to the union voluntary unpaid
workers except the paid officials of the local commit
tees whose number the entire railway system was
3308 people.
The second linking organ, after the local committee
is the district committee, which is built the scale of
the traction district and is located at the place where
the principal depot is situated On April 1926, there
202 district committees the entire railway sys
TEN, with total of 3,406 members serving them.
The district committees elected for period of
year, at the district meetings of workers and
poyees while the delegates to such meetings elected
by meetings of workers and employees at their places of
work. in the various workshops, offices and railway
stations
The next higher organ above the district committee
is the line committee, which embraces the members of