15. Regarding the Russian labor-union movement as one close proletarian class organization, having one common class aim—to win and organize the socialist system, one must admit that _any member of any industrial union_, affiliated with the all-Russian or local union council, who is fulfilling his duties as such, being at the same time a member of the All-Russian General Vocational Association, upon being transferred from one industry to another, _joins the proper union with the rights of an old member_, without paying any initiation fee. No one must be at the same time a member of two unions. 16. This latter rule wholly applies also to the group transfer of whole establishments from one union to another—_no payments are to be made out of the treasury of the unions, nor are to be made either to the members who leave it or to the union into which they are transferred_, by the first union. 17. Endeavoring to better the economic conditions of all the workers, regardless of whether they are members of the union or not, the unions taking upon themselves the responsibility for the proper functioning of an establishment or institution, for the labor discipline among the workers and the enforcement of the union regulations of wages and standards of production, the unions must endeavor _to introduce compulsory membership_ in all the establishments and institutions entering into it, _through resolutions adopted at general meetings of the workers_. 18. Recognizing _the necessity of a united plan for the construction of all trade unions_ as the only condition insuring right relations between the individual local organizations and their centers, also insuring the enforcement of union regulations and union discipline, the second Congress thinks it necessary, for the purpose of creating unity of activity on a local as well as national scale, to adopt a united scheme for the structure of the industrial unions and their combines. 2. THE STRUCTURE OF THE TRADE UNIONS AND SOVIETS: 1. The highest directing body of the all-Russian labor union movement is the All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions and the All-Russian Central Soviet of Vocational Unions operating from one Congress to the other, on the basis of principle regulations adopted by the Congress. _Note._ A conference is called only in case it is impossible to call a properly organized congress. 2. All regulations of the All-Russian Congresses, Conferences and the All-Russian Central Council of the Industrial Unions are compulsory not only to all the unions, affiliated with the All-Russian Vocational Association, but for every individual member of a union, as well. 3. _Violation of the rules and disregard of the same on the part of individual unions_ carries with it expulsion of such a union from the family of the proletarian unions.