In each commune, workers, employés, and peasants, organized as much as possible in vocational groups, elect worker councillors, one for every 1,000 electors. These councillors have as their task, while awaiting the final organization of the system of Councils, the control of municipal administration. Their delegates constitute Local Councils (Kreisarbeiterräte); the delegates of the latter, in turn, make up District Councils (Bezirksräte). In addition, so long as the German Republic is still not united, there will sit in the capital of each state a Central Council (Landeszentralrat). These different organizations are respectively charged with the control of administration of each degree of the hierarchy. At the summit of the edifice, finally, sits the Congress of Councils, which controls all political power, and whose meetings must take place at least every three months. This congress elects a Central Council (Zentralrat) which appoints and controls the Commissars of the People. It is in a word a copy of the Russian system. Parallel to this political organization, there is created in each factory, shop, etc., a Factory Workers Council (Betriebsrat), elected by the workers and employés in the proportion of one delegate to 100 electors. Small factories and rural enterprises are grouped so as to form electoral units; the same with the professions. The Factory Workers Councils are charged with the defence of the interests of the personnel, and with the control of the enterprises in which they are employed. They co-operate in the application of measures for socialization. But their action, limited to the factory or the shop, cannot pretend to embrace all the problems of production. Germany is divided, therefore, into a certain number of economic districts (Wirtschaftsbezirke). In each of these districts the Factory Workers Councils of each branch of industry and of commerce designate a Council of Groups of this district (Bezirksgrupenrat). All the Councils of Groups in the same district designate delegates whose assembly constitutes the Economic Council of that district (Bezirkswirtschaftsrat). In the same way the district Councils of Groups of each branch of industry elect for the whole Reich a Council of Groups of the Reich (Reichswirtschaftsrat), to which is entrusted the general supervision of economic life, and which, in accord with the Central Council, determines during the transitional period the necessary measures for the maintenance of production and the application of the laws for socialization. The Economic Councils of the districts and the National Council may add to themselves, if they deem fit, experts, economists, etc.