These committees were varied in origin and purpose, at times acting in a supervisory role over management, in other instances engaging in matters of collective bargaining and worker representation, and in some instances acting as rudimentary organs of workers' control.
The managers, engineers, generals, mechanics, foremen had reason to believe that the workmen would wreak their vengeance on them, and they had disappeared.
)Through the factory committees workers dealt primarily with immediate economic questions, such as planning production and allocating compensation for work.
Nearing the October revolution, factory committees continued to grow in size and scope, attracting (and influencing) working class.
In the ensuing Dispute about Trade Unions, the Bolsheviks managed to eliminate this threat to their monopoly on power.