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On the staff commission at the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor. ( Izv.

No. 223, S. U. 68‐534 ).

Article No. 534.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

In development of his resolution of July 12, 1921 (note to clause 4) on the collective cash and in‐kind payment of labor of employees of Soviet institutions (1921 No. 55, Art. 336 ) and in amendment of the resolution of the 25th In April of this year, on the formation of a temporary commission under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor to implement the actual reduction in the number of employees of the Headquarters of the Peopleʹs Commissariats, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars decided:

1.                   The Temporary Commission for the implementation of the de facto reduction in the number of employees of the central institutions of the Peopleʹs Commissariats under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor is renamed into the Staff Commission under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor.

2.                   The composition of the Commission under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor is determined by three people: a representative from the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor, a representative from the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, a representative from the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ Inspection.

Note . The Commission involves in its work representatives of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance with a decisive vote on issues of a general staffing nature relating to the competence of these departments.

3.                   To the Commission in excess of the tasks specified in Art. 2 decisions of April 25, 1921, entrusted:

a)      Development of firm staffing for all R.S.F.S.R. Headquarters

b)     Development of model staffs of local institutions.

c)      Instruction and management of           the work of local state

Commissions.

d)     Resolution of issues arising from the process of state rationing.

e)      Overseeing the actual implementation of duly approved decisions of the Commissions.

4.                   All its assumptions on the rationing of states, the Staff Commission submits through the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor for approval by the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

5.                   The Peopleʹs Commissariats and other central institutions are invited within two months from the date of this decree to submit the states of their central and local bodies, as well as all the materials of the Staff Commission under the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor necessary for the regulation of the said states.

6.                   The Staff Commission, without creating its own apparatus, uses the technical apparatus of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor to carry out the tasks assigned to it.

7.                   The Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor, together with the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of the Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ Inspection, should issue appropriate instructions on the application of this resolution.

Signed by:

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

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

Secretary L. Fotieva .

September 29, 1921.

Published in No. 223 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee, Soviets dated October 6, 1921.