Workers’ Control Abolished
Conference of Metal Workers, Resolution. October 18, 1918
Original Source: Metallist, No. 7 (1918), p. 18.
Having considered the question of the place which the organs of workers' control should occupy in nationalized enterprises, particularly in the State Combine of Metallurgical Works, the Conference hereby resolves:
The organization of the administrative bodies of these enterprises guarantees that the representatives of the trade unions of the proletariat and the regulative organs of the state will have a decisive influence in the management of the amalgamated shops; the need for the previously existing special organs of worker control is thereby removed.
In view of this fact workers' control shall cease functioning and its organs shall be dissolved as soon as the administrative organs of the amalgamated shops have been fully established.
Source: James Bunyan, ed., Intervention, Civil War, and Communism in Russia, April-December 1918 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), p. 413.