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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: self-preservation from the police, and hiding their character
as class organizations by electing more or less Liberal
managers and employers as "honorary members." 1905,
however, settled their revolutionary character. In September
of that year there was a Conference at Moscow, where it
was decided to call an All-Russian Trades Union Congress.
Reaction in Russia made this impossible, and the most they
could do was to have another small Conference in
February, 1906, which, however, defined their object as that
of creating a general Trade Union Movement organized on
All-Russian lines. The temper of the Trades Unions then,
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