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prohibition of the Provincial Executive Committees and Economic Conferences to change the orders of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and the Central Commission for the supply of workers. ( Izv. No. 205, S. U. 65‐496 ).

Article No. 496.

Decree of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee.

Recently, the non‐execution of the orders of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food for export and intra‐provincial distribution has taken on a massive and widespread character, due to the fact that the Provincial Executive Committees and the Provincial Economic Conferences cancel the orders of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food they are given orders for the distribution of food and consumer goods among other groups consumers and other standards than those indicated in the relevant orders of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and the decisions of the Central Commission for the supply of workers.

The Provincial Executive Committees and Provincial Economic Meetings justify their actions by referring to the decree of the 8th Congress of Soviets on local supply funds (1921, No. 1, article 6 ). Meanwhile, the resolution of the 8th Congress provides for the establishment of local funds not by the orders of local authorities, as an agreement between the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

In view of the fact that the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food with the Supreme Council of National Economy did not have any agreements on the formation of local funds for food and basic necessities, the Presidium of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee finds the above actions of the Provincial Executive Committees and Provincial Economic Conferences unacceptable and disorganizing the work of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food in the supply of food and basic necessities. According to the resolution of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars dated March 21, 1921 ( No. 22, art. 136), confirmed by the Presidium of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee for accurate execution on July 7, 1921, the publication of all kinds of food orders was provided, in order to make the most systematic, expedient and economical in the management of the stateʹs food resources, exclusively to the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and the Central Commission for the Supply of Workers ; no other departments and institutions have the right to interfere with the management of food; The Provincial Executive Committees and the Provincial Economic Conferences should only monitor the expediency of the work of local food authorities and carry out certain food‐related measures agreed upon by the decisions and orders of the Center, but by no means contradicting them.

In view of the foregoing, the Presidium of the All‐Russian Central

Executive Committee, confirming the decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars of March 21 and its resolution of July 7, invites the Provincial Executive Committees and Provincial Economic Meetings to adopt these resolutions to the unswerving leadership.

Signed by:

Chairman of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee M. Kalinin .

Secretary of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee A. Yenukidze .

September 9, 1921.

Published in No. 205 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated September 15, 1921.