Communism -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
3. The working-class has much more interest in the proper and
uninterrupted operation of factories… than the capitalist class.
Workers’ Control is a better security in this respect for the interests
of modern society, of the whole people, than the arbitrary will of the
owners, who are guided only by their selfish desire for material
profits or political privileges. Therefore Workers’ Control is demanded
by the proletariat not only in their own interest, but in the interest
of the whole country, and should be supported by the revolutionary
peasantry as well as the revolutionary Army.
4. Considering the hostile attitude of the majority of the capitalist
class toward the Revolution, experience shows that proper distribution
of raw materials and fuel, as well as the most efficient management of
factories, is impossible without Workers’ Control.
5. Only Workers’ Control over capitalist enterprises, cultivating the
workers’ conscious attitude toward work, and making clear its social
meaning, can create conditions favourable to the development of a firm
self-discipline in labour, and the development of all labour’s possible
productivity.
6. The impending transformation of industry from a war to a peace
basis, and the redistribution of labour all over the country, as well
as among the different factories, can be accomplished without great
disturbances only by means of the democratic self-government of the
workers themselves…. Therefore the realisation of Workers’ Control is
an indispensable preliminary to the demobilisation of industry.
7. In accordance with the slogan proclaimed by the Russian Social
Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviki), Workers’ Control on a national
scale, in order to bring results, must extend to all capitalist
concerns, and not be organised accidentally, without system; it must be
well-planned, and not separated from the industrial life of the country
as a whole.
8. The economic life of the country—agriculture, industry, commerce and
transport—must be subjected to one unified plan, constructed so as to
satisfy the individual and social requirements of the wide masses of
the people; it must be approved by their elected representatives, and
carried out under the direction of these representatives by means of
national and local organisations.
9. That part of the plan which deals with land-labour must be carried
out under supervision of the peasants’ and land-workers’ organisations;
that relating to industry, trade and transport operated by
wage-earners, by means of Workers’ Control; the natural organs of
Workers’ Control inside the industrial plant will be the Factory-Shop
and similar Committees; and in the labour market, the Trade Unions.
10. The collective wage agreements arranged by the Trade Unions for the
majority of workers in any branch of labour, must be binding on all the
owners of plants employing this kind of labour in the given district.
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