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On measures to improve      the material situation of transport workers. ( Izv. No. 221, S. U. 67‐526 ).

Article No. 526.

Decree of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee.

On measures to improve the material situation of transport workers.

In order to improve the financial situation of transport workers, the Presidium of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee recognized it necessary:

1.                   To oblige the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food to have a firm plan for the state supply of transport workers, for which to establish for them in the general scheme of distribution of food resources of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Food the first stage of execution after the Red Army and the capitals.

2.                   To establish for transport workers the issuance in the next month (but not cancellation) of the unfulfilled monthly plan of supply, and in the absence of food resources from the Food Commissariat, compensation for the shortfall or in the form of exchange values or credits. The values and sums obtained should serve the purposes of additional preparation by the transport cooperation apparatus.

3.                   Allow the Central Transport Workers Supply Department to organize international distribution bureaus to store advance stocks.

4.                   Invert all the surplus of goods generated as savings from the previous appropriation of 1918‐20. and located both in the warehouses of the Central Supply Department of Transport Workers, and in the field, for the exchange of food products.

5.                   To oblige the All‐Russian Central Union of Consumer Societies to provide transport cooperation with additional areas for additional procurement up to the limits of the state supply.

6.                   Impose to the All‐Russian Central Union of Consumer Societies the use of local procurement apparatus of transport cooperation in the procurement activities of the Provincial Unions. In case of refusal of the Provincial Union to fulfill the task of the transport cooperation, the All‐Russian Central Union of Consumer Societies takes measures to carry out these tasks through its offices.

7.                   To recognize that transport cooperation has the right to participate in local funds of the Provincial Councils of Trade Unions and Provincial Workersʹ Cooperative Committees in proportion to the number of transport workers in the given province.

8.                   To oblige the Central Workersʹ Cooperative Committee within a month to transfer the advance payment of the state fund to the transport cooperatives in the part due to the share of transport workers. In case of difficulty of the Central Working Cooperative Committee in the implementation by his apparatus of the fund provided to him, transfer the outfit to the Central Department of the Supply of Transport Workers for their direct implementation by the apparatus of the latter.

9.                   In order to strengthen the monetary resources of transport cooperation, it is allowed to widely use commodity loans, mainly for seasonal goods that are not suitable for trade, for which to oblige the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance to complete the development of the procedure for issuing commodity loans within two weeks.

10.                Propose to the Commission of Use to release through the AllRussian Central Council of Trade Unions to the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication ‐ fabric, tarpaulin and butt for sewing by means of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication and handicraftsmen of items of cotton uniforms, as well as industrial clothing and linen in quantities by agreement with the All‐Russian Central Council of Professional Unions.

11.                To organize production for the needs of commodity exchange, propose to the Supreme Council of National Economy to transfer to the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication, with the participation of the Transport Commission, necessary for this enterprise.

12.                The Peopleʹs Commissariat of Ways of Communication is invited to enter the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense in the implementation of the above measures with draft resolutions and report on the implementation within a month.

Signed by:

Chairman of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee M. Kalinin .

Secretary of the All‐Russian Central Executive Committee A. Yenukidze .

September 30, 1921.

Published in No. 221 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated October 4, 1921.