Out of the million workers, nearly 800,000 are actually at work, notwithstanding the terribly difficult conditions prevailing in industry. There were 691 enterprises closed down, at which 170,000 workers should have been occupied. Details are lacking concerning 1248 enterprises occupying 57,000 workers. These are comparatively small enterprises.
In the autumn of 1919, the nationalised undertakings actually at work, and combined into “chiefs” or into “centres,” were as follows:
I. Mining and kindred industries (under the general management of the Mountain Soviet).
- Chief-coal (chief administration of coal production).
- Chief-mines.
- Chief-petroleum.
- Chief-peat.
- Chief-slate.
- Chief-salt.
- Chief-gold.
II. Metal industries (under the general management of the Department for Metals of the Supreme Economic Council).
- Gomza (portmanteau word for State machine shops).
- Chief-aviation.
- Centro-copper.
- Chief-nails.
- Motor-car manufacture.
- Group of Malzov workshops.
- Group of Kaluga and Ryazan workshops.