WORLD : Cede Mine Assets, Soviets Told
Miners from across the Soviet Union today passed a vote of no confidence in the Communist Party and called for the party to relinquish its assets. They also agreed to form an independent union.
“We are workers, but we do not consider the Communist Party of the Soviet Union our party,” said the resolution. “We call for a mass exit from the party.”
The resolution demanded that the party relinquish its control over large state enterprises and give up holdings including property and bank accounts filled with members’ dues.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 308 to 116, said Communists could no longer present themselves as champions of workers’ rights.
“The Communist Party is losing its authority,” said a resolution passed by the first congress of Soviet miners meeting in the Don Basin coal mining region of the eastern Ukraine.
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