Union of Treasury Employees.
1. The Organisation and the General Character
of the Union’s work.
The „All-Russian Union of Treasury Employees“ unites all the workers employed in financial departments of Russia's economic activities and also the persons employed in various control institutions. The development of the Union's scheme of organisation has been following the change in the structure of the particular branches of activities themselves.
First attempts to organise Treasury Employees have been made in 1905 when a revolutionary wave had brought to the forefront of public life the dormant tendency of Russian Labour to find their own mind, and to organize themselves. At that time, here and there sprang up rudimentary, loosely-knit organisations of employees who had neither clearly defined class-consciouness nor comprehension of the method of class-war. These attempts have however, been soon repressed by political reaction taking an upper hand, and for a long time the class-conscious trade union movement of Russian Workpeople was dead.
It was only the March revolution that brought back to life the oppressed Russian Workers—and the Treasury Employees reappeared simultaneously on the stage of Russia's political life, and took their place within the ranks of the Labour Movement generally.
