"The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in RussiaSpargo, John
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"The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia
Spargo, John
Communism -- Russia
(5) Side by side with the Workmen’s Supreme Council of the
Labor Unions, committees of inspection comprising technical
specialists, accountants, etc. These committees, both on their
own initiative or at the request of local workmen’s organs of
control, proceed to a given locality to study the financial and
technical side of any enterprise.
(6) The Workmen’s Organs of Control have the right to supervise
production, to fix a minimum wage in any undertaking, and to
take steps to fix the prices at which manufactured articles are
to be sold.
(7) The Workmen’s Organs of Control have the right to control
all correspondence passing in connection with the business
of an undertaking, being held responsible before a court of
justice for diverting their correspondence. Commercial secrets
are abolished. The owners are called upon to produce to the
Workmen’s Organs of Control all books and moneys in hand, both
relating to the current year and to any previous transactions.
(8) The decisions of the Workmen’s Organs of Control are
binding upon the owners of undertakings, and cannot be
nullified save by the decision of a Workmen’s Superior Organ of
Control.
(9) Three days are given to the owners, or the administrators
of a business, to appeal to a Workmen’s Superior Court of
Control against the decisions filed by any of the lower organs
of Workmen’s Control.
(10) In all undertakings, the owners and the representatives
of workmen and of employees delegated to exercise control
on behalf of the workmen, are responsible to the government
for the maintenance of strict order and discipline, and
for the conservation of property (goods). Those guilty of
misappropriating materials and products, of not keeping books
properly, and of similar offenses, are liable to prosecution.
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