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the Union with other trade unions and industrial organisations are continually growing stronger. The members of the Union take an active part in the Councils of Trade Unions, in party organisations and in Soviets, thus contributing to the constructive work begun by the Soviet Government.
In 1917 there were four All-Russian Unions of Workers of Public Communications: 1. the All-Russian Union of Post and Telegraph Workers, 2. the All-Russian Union of Technical Workers in Post and Telegraph Offices, 3. the All-Russian Union of Workers of the Railroad Mail Service and 4. the All-Russian Union of Radiotelegraph Workers. Between those unions serious controversy arose. Only in October 1918 did the Unions of the Post and Telegraph Workers, of the Technical Workers and of the Workers of the Railroad Mail Service unite under the name of the „All-Russian Union of Post, Telegraph and Telephone Workers“. In 1919 the Radiotelegraph Workers Union joined it. and thus the All-Russian Union of Workers on Public Communications was formed. The following sections of a consultative character were organised: the technical, the railway mail service and radiotelegraph. Their work was very insignificant, while the Union itself was continuously widening and growing; finally, at the 3rd. All-Russian Congress they were dissolved. Thus in a period of three years of Revolution we succeeded in creating an industrial Union of Workers of ant Public Communications: about 140.000 post telegraph, telephone and radiotelegraph workers of Russia, Siberia and the Turkestan, Ukraine and the Caucasus are members of this Union. Membership is compulsory.
This regulation was unanimously confirmed at the All-Russian Congress in 1917 and further confirmed at all following Congresses. Nobody protested against it.
