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In the Union there are nearly 7000 communists. In some of the provincial Departments about 16% of the members are communists, At the lead of the Union are members of the Communist Party. Only 2 members out of 21 do not belong to any party. In 12 provincial Managing Boards the majority of the members are communists: in 6 provincial Managing Boards there are only communists: in 1 the members do not belong to any party at all: in 6 others the majority does not belong to any party; we are insufficiently informed of the political views of the remainder.
In the leading organs of the Union ⅔ are communists and ⅓ of the members do not belong to any party.
Other parties have had no influence whatever in the Union.
The Union has attained considerable results in the political educational work of the masses and in awakening their self-consciousness even under the prevailing unfavourable conditions and the apathy and inactivity of they workers whose energy was crushed by the tsarist system. After 2 years of revolutionary work carried on by the Union the miserable passive officials, with their narrow bourgeois psychology became imbued by genuine proletarian enthusiasm. At present the Union of the workers on public communications go hand in hand with the Russian proletariat in its struggle for the final reign of communism.
Central Committee of the Union
of Workers on Public Communications.
Printing Works of the III Communist International, Moscow.
