(_e_) financial report, (_f_) sample copies of such publications as the All-Russian Trades Union has published, and all other material shedding light on the character of the union’s works. 20. An All-Russian Trades Union may be registered with, and admitted into, the All-Russian Central Trades Union Council on the following conditions: (_a_) the by-laws and the structure of the union are to be brought into accord with the general principles of organization as adopted by the convention and carried out by the All-Russian Central Trades Union Council; (_b_) the character and activity of the union must not contradict the resolutions of the All-Russian Trades Union Convention or the general tendencies of the Russian trades union movement; (_c_) the payment of a corresponding initiation fee; 21. An all-Russian union may be expelled at a plenary session from the All-Russian Central Trades Union Council on the following grounds: (_a_) failure to obey the general rules of discipline obligatory to all trades union organizations; (_b_) failure to pay membership dues within three months, without any reasonable cause. 22. The All-Russian Central Trades Union Council, in cases where the central committee of the All-Russian Trades Union violates the decisions of the convention, conference, or All-Russian Central Trades Union Council, may dissolve the same, and must immediately call an All-Russian convention or conference of the given trades union for the purpose of electing a new directing body. November 7, 1919. THE FINANCIAL POLICY AND THE RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT OF FINANCE (1917–1919) I When the Soviet Government was first organized, a number of purely financial questions arose which necessitated the utilization of the services of the old financial-administrative apparatus in the form in which it existed prior to the October Revolution. It is quite natural that the first period of work in the domain of finance, that is, between the October Revolution and the Brest-Litovsk Peace, had of necessity to be marked by efforts to conquer the financial apparatus, its central as well as its local bodies, to make a study of its own functions and, somehow or other, to adapt itself to the requirements of the time. While in the domain of the Soviet Government’s economic and general policy, this period has been marked by two most far-reaching and important changes which, strictly speaking, had been prepared prior to the October Revolution—the nationalization of banks and the annulment of the government debt; the financial policy, in the narrow sense of the word, did not disclose any new departures, not even the beginnings of original constructive work.