ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS IN THE TRAINING OF USSR TRADE UNION PERSONNEL

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• Publication Date: December 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS IN THE
'1'RA1NI G ON.USSR"TRADE"UNION"PERSONNEL-
Trade union colleges in Moscow and Leningrad, training personnel for the
All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and for trade union central committees
have graduated, in 1950, hundreds of trade unionists specializing in such sub-
jects as labor economics, mass education, and library work. Personnel are''trained
for union republic trade union organizations in schools in Khar'kov,`Minsk, Tash-
kent, and Sverdlovsk. Th. trainl supervisory workers of central and oblast committees
of trade unions, a permanent syatem of-3-months' courses of the All-Union Central
Council of Trade Unions has been set up in a number of cities; this year 2,000
persons will be trained in such courses. To increase thg ideological and theoreti-
cal knowledge of supervisory workers and assist them inthe study of trade union
organization, advanced courses 10 months long have been organized under the All-
Union Central Council of Trade Unions for chairmen and secretaries of trade union
central committees and councils and for workers of the All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions. Correspondence courses for trade union perdonnel have been organ-
ized at the Moscow College of the Trade Union Movement. There are seminars for `,
trade union organizers under factory and local trade union committees. In 1949,
about 1.5 million persons were taught in such seminars.
Despite these achievements, there are still serious defects in work with
personnel. 'Many trade union committees are continuing to select and place per=
sonnel without a thorough study of their political and fob qualifications, and
do not supervise their personnel enough on the job.
As a result of weak supervision of personnel work by the presidium of the
Central Committee of the Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers, there are people
in supervisory positions in organizations of this trade union who have insufficient
general and specialized education, who do not have the necessary experience in
trade union work, and who know little about the coal industry. For example4n the
Stalino Oblast Trade Union 6ommittee, most officials have no higher educatio1C
of secondary technical education. Among the technical inspectors of tie trade
union's central committee, more than a third do not have the proper technical'ed-
u cation and are not well acquainted with working conditions in the mined,. Parti-
cularly unsatisfactory here A? the selection of directors dD the trade union's
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cultural and educational institutions. Of 123 directors of clubs and halls of
culture, 60 have only grammar school education and many have no experience in
mass-education work. The trade union's central committee does not find able and
growing people, does not study them on the job, and rarely checks on the state of
personnel training and selection in'republic, kray, oblast, and rayon trade com-
mittees.
There are similar shortcomings in personnel work in the Central Committees of
the Lumbering and Logging Workers' Trade Unions and of the Leather and Shoe In-
dustry Workers' Trade Unions, and in the Estonian Council of Trade Unions.
Training of trade unions personnel is still not broad enough or on a high
enough plane. There is still primitive organization and oversimplification. The
Schools and Courses Division of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
has not prepared all the necessary programs and texts.
Not all courses and seminars have properly trained supervisors and teachers.
A careless attitude toward the selection of teachers and toward the organization
of teaching has uometimes resulted in the courses' being turned into a source of
income for peopl,: who will give lectures at any time and on any subject without
giving any thought to quality. '
We cannot tolerate there being people in central and oblast trade union
committees who are poorly trained, retarded in their growth, who lack principles
and ideological vigor, and who permit errors in their work and persist in those
errors. Frequently we still have an indulgent attitude toward nonadherence to-
state regulations, to manifestations of localism, and toward misuse of official
positions. Trade unions must raise the requirements for personnel, putting educated
and well trained persons in supervisory positions.-
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