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

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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 ).

Article No. 2 38.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

In development of clause 5 of the Resolution of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars dated March 24, 1921 (No. 30, art. 164 ), the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars resolved:

1.                   All personnel, inventory and credits of the Central Department of Labor Protection of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor of local administrations of Labor Protection, Labor Departments are transferred to the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and local associations of trade unions no later than June 1, 1921.

2.                   All employees of the Labor Protection Departments remain in their places and cannot leave the service without the permission of the AllRussian Central Council of Trade Unions, Provincial Professional Councils and the District Professional Bureau by affiliation.

Note . Those groups of workers who, according to the existing regulations, could be dismissed only with the permission of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor, can leave work only with the permission of the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.

3.                   The rights granted by the existing legal provisions to the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor (in particular, the Labor Inspectorate) in the field of preventive supervision and control over the implementation of labor legislation and sanitary‐technical working conditions, as well as on the issuance of mandatory regulations on occupational health and safety and housing workers, remain in force with the transition of these bodies to professional organizations.

4.                   Decrees and instructions in the field of labor protection, issued by the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and its local bodies within their jurisdiction, are binding on all persons, organizations and Soviet institutions.

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 12, 1921.

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

Committee of Soviets dated May 18, 1921.