Soviet Archives - Collection of Government Documents on Workers

From the Collection of enactment and decrees of the government for 1921, Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

Download PDF this collection

On improving the organization of social security for workers, peasants and families of the Red Army. ( Izv. No. 106, S. U. 48‐236 ).

Article No. 2 36.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

On improving the organization of social security for workers, peasants and families of the Red Army.

I

As a result of the introduction of the food tax and the abolition of the internal redevelopment, the Red Army and low‐power farms lost their previous compulsory assistance from the stronger farms.

The Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ Power cannot leave the Red Army and low‐powered farms without help, thereby dooming them to ruin and exploitation.

Therefore, abolishing the forced redevelopment carried out by the Food Authorities, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars, along with deepening the currently practiced state aid to the peasantry, workers and families of the Red Army soldiers, considers it necessary to organize mutual assistance of the peasantry itself in every village and volost.

Therefore, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars decides:

1.                   In order to improve the organization of social security for the peasantry and families of the Red Army and taking into account the need to involve broad peasant masses in this matter on the basis of mutual assistance, as well as in order to develop their initiative and initiative, to form peasant Committees of Public Mutual Assistance under the Village Councils and Volost Executive Committees ...

2.                   The range of activities of the peasant Public Mutual Assistance Committees includes the organization and conduct of mutual assistance in case of crop failures, fires and other natural and social disasters affecting individual farms, villages and volosts, through internal self‐taxation, distribution of funds provided to them for this purpose by the state, food products and basic necessities, the

organization of public labor assistance, as well as assistance to State authorities in the organization of social security institutions and comprehensive assistance to the families of the Red Army and those mobilized for labor service, the disabled and citizens in need, as well as the clarification of the rights and protection of the economic and legal interests of those provided (control for the correct allotment of forest and meadow lands, for the non‐resettlement of the families of the Red Army, etc.).

Note . To provide economic assistance in case of natural disasters, the peasant Committees of Public Mutual Aid do not form their own apparatus, but operate through the corresponding rural and volost Soviet bodies, as well as through the apparatus of the Cooperation.

3.                   The activities of the peasant Committees of Public Mutual Assistance are determined by the instructions of the Peopleʹs

Commissariat of Social Security.

II

4.                   In order to bring the matter of social security of workers and employees directly to the masses, the fight against bureaucracy in the matter of social security and the implementation of mutual control over the prevention of labor desertion and parasitism, covered by fictitious disability, to involve workers and employees of the Labor Protection Commission in work on social security.

5.                   General management of the Commissionʹs activities in the field of social security is carried out by the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Social Security in agreement with the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade

Unions.

III

6.                   Taking into account the exceptional importance of helping the peasant and working population, as well as providing for the families of the Red Army, create a natural social security fund, for which to establish, as a rule, that food items, basic necessities and agriculture confiscated by court and administrative order, as well as ownerless property is subject to transfer to the natural social security fund. The nomenclature of items to be credited to the social security in kind fund is established by the Utilization Commission on the proposal of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Social Security.

7.                   To oblige the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food to establish, by agreement with the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Social Security, a certain percentage deduction from the in‐kind tax to the social welfare fund in kind.

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

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

Secretary L. Fotieva .

May 14, 1921.

Published in No. 106 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated May 18, 1921.

On the transfer of the Central and local Labor Protection Departments to the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and local associations of trade unions ( Izv. No. 106, S. U. 48‐238 ).