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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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1919, No. 51, art. 501

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

On the mandatory registration of employees.

All institutions and enterprises, state, public and private, without exception, undertake to register all employees in a uniform manner and in the manner established by the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Labor in agreement with the Central Statistical Office.

Note . Employees are all persons employed in institutions, as well as all hired administrative and technical and clerical and auxiliary personnel of the enterprise.

Signed by:

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

Head of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Bonch‐Bruevich .

Secretary L. Fotieva .

October 17, 1919.

Published in No. 234 of the News of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated October 19, 1919.