Sentence examples for workers deputies from inspiring English sources
Similar soviets of workers' deputies sprang up in all the major cities and towns throughout the country, as did soviets of soldiers' deputies and of peasants' deputies.
This government's accession to power was made possible only by the assent of the Petrograd Soviet, a council of workers' deputies elected in the factories of the capital.
He became a leading spokesman of the St. Petersburg Soviet (council) of Workers' Deputies when it organized a revolutionary strike movement and other measures of defiance against the tsarist government.
As a result, when the Russian Revolution of 1917 brought an immediate freedom to organize, trade unions had to compete as centres of organization with less cumbersome factory committees and urban soviets of workers' deputies.
The soviet first appeared during the St. Petersburg disorders of 1905, when representatives of striking workers acting under socialist leadership formed the Soviet of Workers' Deputies to coordinate revolutionary activities.
The workers, on the other hand, created new institutions, the Soviets of Workers' Deputies: these, consisting of elected delegates from the factories and workshops of a whole town, organized the strike movement there, negotiated with the employers and police, and sometimes kept up basic municipal services during the crisis.
I progressed with my career, becoming a senior support worker, deputy manager and manager at various companies, across different sectors of social work.
The Kremlin rewarded Mr. Pugin by making one of his workers a deputy in the federal Parliament.
Andy Kerr, Communication Workers Union deputy general secretary, said: "We hope that Vodafone don't intend to asset-strip further at the expense of our members - their staff.
"This is a vote of confidence in the American economy, the American marketplace and the American worker," the deputy Treasury secretary, Robert M. Kimmitt, said.
But the latter's authority was at once contested by soviets, or "councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies," who claimed to represent the masses of the people and so to be the rightful conductors of the revolution.
