ABSTRACT
Considering that a number of workshops have been abandoned by those who ran them in order to escape their civic obligations, and without any regard for the interests of the workers;
Considering that as a result of this cowardly desertion, numerous activities essential to civic life have been interrupted and the livelihoods of workers compromised, DECREES:
The workers’ federations are summoned to set up a committee of inquiry which will:
1 Draw up a list of abandoned workshops, as well as a precise description of their condition and of the tools and equipment which they contain;
2 Present a report establishing the practical possibilities of immediately putting these workshops into operation, not by those who have abandoned them, but by co-operative associations of the workers who were formerly employed there;
3 Draft a constitution for these workers’ co-operative associations; 4 Appoint an arbitration panel which will determine, on the return of the
owners of abandoned workshops, the terms whereby the workshops will be permanently ceded to the workers’ co-operative associations and the amount of compensation to be paid by the associations to the former owners.
