V. I.

Lenin

Remarks on Draft Regulations Concerning The Bureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Group at the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions [2]

1) Both Comrade Tomsky and the whole Bureau of the
All-Russia C.C.T.U. group (this Bureau must be endorsed by the Central
Committee of the R.C.P.) are to be invited without fail to the meetings of
the Organising Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P. when any question concerning the
trade union movement is under discussion.

2) The bureau of the A.C.C.T.U. group works out a detailed
charter of its relationships with the Orgbureau of the C.C. This charter to
be endorsed by the Orgbureau.

3) The "Regulations on the R.C.P. Group of the A.C.C.T.U."
to be amended as follows in § 1 the word "guiding" to be thrown out [3]
in

§ 3 [4] and ? the word “C.C.” (of the unions)
to be inserted. Revise everything relating to the wording of the
different paragraphs [1] revise in the above order, accepting the draft
as a basis, and making only editorial corrections.

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Notes:
[1]
The text from the world “amended” was crossed out in the manuscript
by Lenin.— Ed .

[2]
Lenin’s remarks were used as a basis for the decision of the
Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) which discussed the Draft Regulations
at its meeting on December 27, 1919.— Ed .

[3]

§ 1 of the Draft Regulations stated that the R.C.P. group at the
A.C.C.TU. was the guiding Party organisation of the entire Russian trade
union movement. — Ed .

[4]

§ 3 of the Draft Regulations read as follows:

"“With a view to co-ordinating the actions of all the all-Russia industrial unions and
carrying out the line of the Communist Party in the trade union movement in
a more effective and organised manner, all existing and newly created Party
groups in the all-Russia industrial unions shall be directly subordinated
to the Party Group at the A.C.C.T.U.” — Ed .