A HOSPITAL TRADE UNION
A Soviet missionary delegation, consisting of fifteen persons, recently reached Hamburg, and two of the delegates wejo allowed to go to Berlin to address meetings arranged by tho Communist narty. Tho "Times" correspondent in ISerlin reports that I.ossovsky, one of the delegates, explained the difficulties and backwardness of the trade union system in Soviet .Russia. It was not at present possible to form a union for each trade, and tho various workmen engaged in any one largo factory were enrolled undor tho union to which tho majority belonged. For example, in textile factories tho metal workers and engineers v.-ere obliged to join the textile workers' union. They had protested, but their •protests had betn "broken." lossovsky poured scorn, the correspond»nt continues. on-the Petrograd doctors, who, ho explained, had so far debased.thei:' j)ij;h (•ailing as to object to being onrollPd in the union of the washerwomen of their hospitals, as being the most numerous.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 10
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157A HOSPITAL TRADE UNION Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 10
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