TRADE UNIONS IN RUSSIA.
The creation of 154 trade unions to replace the 47 at present existing has been decided upon by the Council of the Trade Unions, the object being to bring leaders into closer contact with the rank and file to make the unions stronger and more efficient, states the Manchester Guardian. The change which is supported by Stalin, follows the new policy of the general decentralisation of economic and industrial orgnaisations in Russia. For the first time geographical as well as occupational divisions are to be recognised in trade unions. The present organisations are unwieldly, some having more than a million members, with the result that it is difficult for the leaders to keep in touch with the members. In some cases the reorganisation will create as many as six unions where one has existed before. Severe reductions in the paid personnel of the unions have been ordered to reduce the high costs of organisation. It is expected that voluntary workers will replace those dismissed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 2
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168TRADE UNIONS IN RUSSIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 2
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