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The units of the Union's organisation is the Local Committees of Employees, which are elected in each institution, office etc. by a general meeting of particular office employees. The legislative authority at each given place is the general assembly of all the workers, employed at that place. In the „goubernias“ (government) the general assembly is substituted by this „Goubernia Congress of Delegates“ which Congress elects the Management Committee for the Goubernia (government); in between congress meetings the Management Committee or Board is responsible for its actions to the conference of local committees of the chief town in the district. Finally, at the apex of the Union organisation stands the All-Russian Delegates Congress, which elects the Central Committee, the organ directing all the Union’s work along the lines laid down by the Congress.
Side by side with these purely Trade-union organs there are organs of a different structure, on which are represented both the Union and the Managements of institutions. Such are the local and central commissions
1) on employment, which engage Employees, appoint them and transfer from one grade to another and keep a record of all the employees.
2) on wages, which decide upon all the questions of remuneration and define the conditions of work.
3) controlling or inspection commissions, which oversee the compliance of the established rules in regard to conditions of work and discipline.
4) arbitration commission—a central one—which settles all the disputes between the Union and the Administrative organs.
The exact statement of all the rights and duties of Treasury Employees, as well as of conditions regulating the relations between the Union and the Institutions in which Union members are working, is to be found in a
