REPORT ON CONCESSIONS ON THE ALL-UNION CENTRAL COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS (AUCCTU) FRACTIONS

Georgia — Batum and its environs, and the fact that they lost a considerable number of Mensheviks who went to Constantinople. It turns out that the Georgian Revolutionary Committee is completely inclined to confirm a concession for coal mines, which had previously not been developed at all, and consider it extremely important. Two representatives of foreign powers were in Georgia and did not leave at the time of the Soviet coup – Italian and German, a circumstance of extreme importance, since it is desirable to develop relations with these powers, inter alia, with the help of concessions. Italy even has a concession agreement with Georgia, and Germany is in such a position that some German capitalists own a huge percentage of the Chiatura manganese mines.
9. The point is to transfer this property right to a lease or concession, i.e., to transfer to the same German capitalists, on a leasehold basis, the mines that they owned on a property right basis. Thanks to the change in the political situation in the Caucasus, concession relations may develop. And it is important for us to break through one window after another. The agreement with England was an agreement between a socialist republic and a bourgeois state, an agreement that placed a certain burden on us.
We gave the first state with which we concluded an agreement a much larger part of the gold fund than to others. But the consequences showed that thanks to this agreement we broke through a certain window. From this point of view, we must assess every concession.
Germany and Italy are forced by their economic situation to seek an alliance with Russia. For Russia, an alliance with Germany opens up gigantic
economic perspectives, regardless of whether the German revolution will win there soon. We can also negotiate with the bourgeois government of Germany, because the Treaty of Versailles dooms Germany to an impossible situation, and an alliance with Russia opens up completely different opportunities. Since Italy does not have its own sources of fuel, they took over the development of coal in the Caucasus, which no one had developed before them. It will not be surprising if the Germans covet other RSFSR concessions, because there is absolutely no fuel in Germany.
One of the comrades here said that the position of the workers will not improve from the concession in Kamchatka. This is completely wrong. And Comrade Ryazanov made a completely incorrect joke, saying that we will get stuck with Vanderlip. True, we made one mistake,