462 463 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA by the Soviet officials; and it is a task, international complications aside, upon the success of which depends the immediate success of the proletarian revolution and the Socialist Republic in Russia.
The proletarian revolution in Russia initiates the epoch of the international Social Revolution. Not alone in the tactics and policy used in the conquest of power by the proletariat are the Bolsheviki the masters of the revolution, the symbol of the emerging revolutionary Socialism of the international proletariat; in their measures and tendency of action after the conquest of power, the Bolsheviki are teaching the international proletariat how to use power after its acquisition, developing the administrative norms of the oncoming Socialist Republic.
INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE Decree of the Council of People Commissaires establishing organs for Workers Control of Industries. 1) In order to put the economic life of the country on an orderly basis, control by the workers is instituted over all industrial, commercial, and agricultural undertakings and societies; and those connected with banking and transport, as well as over productive cooperative societies which employ labor or put out work to be done at home or in connection with the production, purchase, and sale of commodities and of raw materials, and with conservation of such commodities as well as regards the financial aspect of such undertakings. 2) Control is exercised by all the workers of a given enterprise through the medium of their elected organs, such as factories and works committees, councils of workmen delegates, etc. such organs equally comprising representatives of the employees and of the technical staff. In each important industrial town, province, or district, is set up a local workmen organ of control, which, being the organ of the soldiers, workmen and peasants council, will comprise the representatives of the labor unions, workmen committees, and of any other factories, as well as of workmen co operative societies. 4) Until such time as workmen organs of control hold a congress, the All Russian Workmen Council of Control is to be set up in Petrograd, on which will sit representatives of the following organizations. Five delegates of the executive committee) of the Council (Soviet) of Workmen and Soldiers delegates of Russia; five delegates of the of the Peasants Council of Russia; five delegates of the Labor Unions of Russia; two delegates of the Central Committee of the Workingmen Co operative Societies of Russia; five delegates of the Factory and Works Committee of Russia; five delegates of the Engineers and Technical Agents Union of Russia; two delegates of the Agrarian Union of Russia; one delegate from each Workmen Union in Russia having not less than 100, 000 members, two delegates from any union having a membership of over 100, 000, two delegates, from the of the Labor Unions. 5) Side by side with the Workmen 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 organs of control, proceed to a given locality to study the financial and technical side of any enterprise. 6) The Workmen 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 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 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 Organs of Control are binding upon the owners of undertakings, and can not be nullified save by the decision of a Workmen Superior Organ of Control. 9) Three days are given to the owners, or the administrators of a business, to appeal to a Workmen Superior Court of Control against the decisions filed by any of the lower organs of Workmen Control. 10) In all undertakings, the owners and the representatives of workmen and of employes 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 offences, are liable to prosecution.