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the supply of food and basic necessities to consumers who remain on state supplies. ( Izv. No. 198, S. U. 62‐453 ).

Article No. 453.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

Taking into account that the implementation of decrees on consumer and industrial cooperation, exchange, lease of enterprises, handicraft and small‐scale industry opens up for a part of the working people the possibility of providing food and basic necessities not at the expense of state resources, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars decides:

1.                   Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars of April 30, 1920, on the introduction of labor food rations ( 1920, No. 34, article 165 ) and the decrees and instructions issued in the development and addition of this decree to be canceled.

2.                   Establish the following main groups of the population subject to the supply of food and basic necessities by the state: a) the red army and navy, b) workers and employees of state functioning institutions and enterprises, railway and water transport, c) members of the families of persons listed in paragraph “ b ”, subject to their incapacity for work, the absence of other means of subsistence and their condition dependent on the first, d) persons who are on state social security, such as: disabled people, students, etc.

3.                   All other groups of the population are removed from government procurement.

Note 1 . With regard to baby food, the Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars of July 22, 1921 ( Collection 1921 No. 57, Art. 358 ) remains in force . The decisions of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense on the collective supply of workers and employees of certain state institutions and enterprises also remain in force.

Note 2 . The Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food, in agreement with the

Peopleʹs Commissariat for Military Affairs and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Social Security, is invited to revise all resolutions of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense on the provision of food using the Krasnaya Zvezda cards, both in relation to the circle of persons and the Stars ”and submit a draft of the corresponding general resolution to the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars within 2 weeks.

Note 3 . Remuneration with food and basic necessities of organizations and persons carrying out state assignments and orders can be made partially only in exceptional cases with the consent of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and on the basis exactly stipulated in the contracts concluded with them.

4. Issuance of foodstuffs to workers named in paragraph “b”, art. 2nd, must be made for a certain production result or for the days worked and days established by the rest rate.

5. The supply by the state must be made regardless of the additional supply received by those specified in Art. 3 groups through cooperative and private activities.

6. Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance, the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Justice, the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food, All‐Russia Central Council of Trade Unions and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of the Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ Inspection, within a month to review the full Council of Peopleʹs Commissars of the Ordinance of 7 December 1920 on the free distribution of food products to the population ( No. 93, art. 505 ) and on December 17, 1920 on free leave to the population of consumer goods ( No. 99, art. 531 ) in order to harmonize them with this decree and determine food items and consumer goods that can be sold for a fee, as well as the size of this fee and the order of their delivery to the population.

7. The implementation of this decree and the development of instructions necessary for this is entrusted to the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food: the establishment of norms, order and priority of supply of consumer groups named in paragraphs ʺbʺ, ʺcʺ and ʺdʺ, Art. 2 nd, as well as the precise definition of the persons assigned to each of the indicated groups, is entrusted to the Central Commission for the Supply of Workers under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food.

8. This decree shall come into effect no later than October 1, 1921.

Signed by:

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

For the Administrator of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V.

Smolyaninov.

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

September 6, 1921.

Published in No. 198 of Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets on September 7, 1921.