 An eight-hour working day was established and plant and factory committees ("fabzavkomy", from "fab"richno-"zav"odskiye" kom"itety"") and trade unions were permitted, as were conferences and congresses of workers and peasants.Soviet decrees were abrogated and all industry and financial establishments returned to their former owners, along with the freedom to pursue private enterprise.City dumas, zemstva and other municipal institutions were also reinstated.