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the workers of Labour (Workers' and Peasants') Inspection (an independent organ of State Control) and the of amalgamation with the Union of.Civil Servants.
The Central Committee of the Union is of the opinion that a Union must be built up on the industrial basis—that is, according to natural limits of a particular branch of economic activity. In our case such a basis is provided by the scope of the country's financial activities which has every reason to exist independently of any other branch of the Nation’s activities until money is completely abolished and the money circulation stopped once for all. If such is the position, then the employees of various control institutions, having nothing in common with the financial operations, except inspection of the working of the financial (and other) apparatus must be excluded from the Union[1]. On the other hand the Central Committee does not consider it to be a rational and a benificial policy to create a single Union for all the Public Servants. At the present transitional State of economic reconstruction such a Union would inevitably be a weak and an unwieldy one, so far as coordination of the workers of the most divergent kinds is concerned.
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The structure of the Union, as a whole, is built up in accordance with the general scheme adopted by the whole Russian Trade Unions and also completely in accordance with the decision of the All-Russian Trade Union Congresses, It is only in some details that a difference in structure is to be found.
- ↑ However, the Central Committee does not insist upon this exclusion, having in view close touch between the controlling functions and those directly related to financial activity—both as regards the character and the methods of work.
