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 categories of labour from the simplest unskilled labour to the highly skilled engineer, doctor and professors of all educational establishments. At a first glance it would seem impossible to unite all the varieties of modern industry in such a small number of unions, but it only seems so. If one starts out, not from the point of view of the interests of a group or a craft, but from the interests of the whole, from the interests of production—and production is the means of constructing our socialist society on a sound foundation—then the number of unions can be reduced to the minimum we have established.

Thus as a result of the decision of the third congress the following trade unions will henceforth exist in Russia:

1. Employees and workers in medical and sanitary services (doctors, nurses, hospital nurses, hospital porters, hospital attendants, pharmacists).

2. Transport workers (railwaymen, sailors, stevedores, chauffeurs, etc.).

3. Miners.

4. Woodworkers.

5. Land and forest workers.

6. Art workers (actors, choristers, musicians, artists, theatrical, circus and cinema employees).

7. Workers on public feeding and housing.

8. Leather workers.

9. Metal workers.

10. Workers and employees in communal service (drains, water supply, militia, fire brigade, bath employees, laundry employees, hairdressers, street lighting employees).

11. Workers in Education and socialist culture (public teachers, professors, high school and university staff, porters, etc.).

12. Employees in public communications (post, telegraph, telephone and radio).

13. Printers.

14. Workers in the paper industry.

15. Workers in the food industry (bakers, confectioners, sausage makers, flour millers, etc.).

16. Builders.

17. Workers in the sugar industry.

18. Soviet employees (in co-operatives, shops, commissariats, etc.).

19. Tobacco workers.

20. Textile workers.

21. Chemical workers (Soap, perfume, explosives and match factories).

22. Workers in the clothing industry (outer and under garments, hats, etc.).

23. Employees in taxation, finance and control departments.