which inevitably harms production and deteriorates the general
position of the working class, the Congress considers one of
the most urgent problems of Soviet Government and of the Trade
Union organization to be established as the firm, systematic
and insistent struggle with labour desertion, The way to fight
this is to publish a list of desertion fines, the creation of
a labour Detachment of Deserters under fine, and, finally,
internment in concentration camps.

It is hoped to extend the system to the peasantry:

The defeat of the White Armies and the problems of peaceful
construction in connection with the incredible catastrophes of
public economy demand an extraordinary effort of all the
powers of the proletariat and the drafting into the process of
public labour of the wide masses of the peasantry.

On the vital subject of transport, in a passage of which I have
already quoted a fragment, the Communist Party declares:

For the most immediate future transport remains the centre of
the attention and the efforts of the Soviet Government. The
improvement of transport is the indispensable basis upon which
even the most moderate success in all other spheres of
production and first of all in the provision question can be
gained.

The chief difficulty with regard to the improvement of
transport is the weakness of the Transport Trade Union, which
is due in the first case to the heterogeneity of the personnel