The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
.SOviets Vote
To ReOrganize
Trade Unions
Division intO Small
Groups Resolved
Upon at Moscow
Especial to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW. Sept. 9 (By Wireless)
The meeting Of the All-Union
Central Trade Union Council ended
here yesterday after adopting q
resolution to divide trade unions
into smaller units and reorganize
them.
The question of reorganization of
the Soviet trade unions arose in
connection with the successful full
fllnent Of the First Five Year Plan
and the great tasks of the Second
Five Year Plan.
Along with the growth Of Socialist
economy. the trade unions increased
numerically, and are still increasing.
Among forty-seven trade unions in
the US.SR., nineteen have 100000
members, while three have over
1,00O,0 900 members.
The metal workers trade union
unites 104 factory committees in the
most varied regions of the South
and Central European part of the
Soviet Union, in the Urals and in
Siberia.
The coal miners union unites
8,5O7 mine committees. The union
Of workers in the general machine
construction industry, which ha1
1,032,000 members, unites 1,425 fac
tory committees, etc.
The trade unions require a more
differentiated and concrete APP
proach to every branch of economy
for serving the needs and require
ments OF the various professions
and groups of workers and en-
ployes. But the enormous size of
the trade unions makes their work
complicated, and binders every day
contacts of the trade union leaders
with the masses of members
Therefore the question of the re-
construction of the trade unions
was mainly in the direction of the
further reduction in size. Instead
of the existing forty-seven unions,
it was decided to form 154. Some
trade unions were divided merely
according to sub-branches of in
dustry.
Thus for example, instead of
union of Transport Machine Con-
struction, there will be a union of
Transport Machine Construction
and Union of Shipbuilding Works.
Another part was reduced accord
ing to territorial principle. Out of
the Union OF Workers in Heavy
Metallurgy viii be formed three
MISUNDERSTANDING of the South,
East and Center.
The central committee of sixty
five trade unions will not be in
Moscow, but directly at the place
Of concentration, on a productional
basis. This will unite the workers.
Regional and town committees will
be liquidated in forty-three unions
and their central committees will be
connected directly with the factory
committees.
The Educational Workers Union
will be split into eight unions-five
unions of workers in the elementary
and secondary schools of the various
Republics of the Soviet Union, a
Union of Workers in the Universe
ties and Scientific Institutions, a
Union of kindergarten Workers, etc.
These will not be midget unions.
Life is moving rapidly in the
U.S.S.R. The growth of culture in
the country is giving rise to new
professions. One hundred and
twenty-siX thousand persons are oc-
cupied in Kindergarten work alone
The number of teachers in the
country now reaches 100000.
In addition to reducing the size of
the trade unions it was also decided
to form professional sections inside
Of each union, for example, a sec
ton of enginemen in the railway
mems union.
Characteristic is the fact that in
spite of the increased number of
trade union members, the paid en-
ployes of the trade unions has been
reduced. The center work in the
trade unions has been transferred,
attracting voluntary activists from
among the workers unions who full
fill their social functions in trade
unions in their spare time.