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Rules for free travel of workers and employees of railway transport on the railways RSF.S.R. ( S. U. 68‐531 ).

Article No. 53 1.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

Rules for free travel of workers and employees of railway transport on the railways RSF.S.R.

1.                   Limit the travel of employees and workers of the railway transport and their dependent family members at their own need to 3 trips per year instead of the existing 6.

Note . The number of three trips includes the next trip of the worker and employee himself on vacation.

2.                   Reduce the free baggage allowance for persons specified in art. 1, from 4 poods to 2 poods.

3.                   Strengthen responsibility for the illegal transfer of tickets by establishing for this administrative responsibility, depriving oneself and family members of the right to use free tickets for a period of at least one year, and by collecting a fine from the person who transferred the ticket for the distance between the stations indicated in the illegally transferred ticket (for per annum ‐ from the place of permanent service to the place of detection of illegal transmission).

4.                   Strengthen control over those traveling on provision tickets by establishing the obligatory presentation of these tickets to the ticket office of the departure station for composting or the obligatory redemption of the next coupons of provision tickets before the train leaves.

5.                   To cancel the right of free travel for persons accompanying minor family members of workers and employees.

6.                   Limit the general rule of travel to the right of family members of employees and workers in cases where the family has several employees at the same time (the mother of 2 employees of children can use not 6, but 3 trips per year).

7.                   To exclude students who are children of employees from using free service tickets under this rule.

8.                   Establish a monetary fine, as for stowaway passengers, for the travel of employees and workers without identification cards established by the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication or with unpunched single tickets.

9.                   To instruct the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication to shorten the list of posts that enjoy the right of travel on annual free service tickets.

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs

Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin) .

N. Gorbunov, Administrator of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars .

L. Fotieva, Secretary of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars .

October 6, 1921.