The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: of labor and that the Trades Unions should be invited to
protect the interests of the conscripted. Finally, this
Conference approved the idea of using the already existing
military organization for carrying out a labor census of the
Red Army, and for the turning over to labor of parts of the
army during demobilization, but opposed the idea of giving
the military organization the work of labor registration and
industrial conscription in general.
On January 22, 1920, the Central Committee of the
Communist Party, after prolonged discussion of Trotsky's
rough memorandum, finally adopted and published a new
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