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ted the unaccustomed character of the work in question, it is easy to understand that big mistakes have been made good later on by Union's policy of revision. The scale was revised thrice—once in 1918 and twice in 1919–1920,—and this revision, together with decisions reached at special conferences of Wages Commissions, served greatly to enrich Union's experience in regulating remuneration.
It has, however, to be stated with regret that the policy of Soviet Government creates the difficulties in the way of making popular the ideas of regulating renumeration amongst the masses of our members. This policy is placing the public servants into an inferior position (if compared with that of industrial workers) and differentiates on political grounds—without any attention being paid to the role of additional supply of foodstuffs in determination of real rates of wages and groups of workers in regard to rationing them. At present the Union begins to introduce a „payment by results“ system (premium system), in view of a big drop in productivity and critical material conditions prevailing among the Union's Members. The Union has no illusions as regards the beneficial results to be obtained from this reform, as the rationing policy of the government disorganised everything.
As watchwords of the Union in regulation of remuneration may be? the following remarks:
a). To every worker according to his work;
b). Remuneration must depend exclusively on degree of worker's skill and and must include the payments by goods as well as money payments;
c). No privileges must be created for some groups of workers, and particularky no privileges for industrial workers in contradistinction to the employees.
d). The most complete coordination of renumeration, rationing and financial policies.
