The Living Age Volume 305 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...of the Supreme Council of National Economy and its local agencies. The direction of agriculture should stav under the control of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture. But the Soviet of Labor and Defense should bring about such a transfer of resources and labor power in the industrial field as it recently accomplished in connection with our workingmen's-peasants' defense. This explains why the Main Committee on Labor Service, which in the opinion of our Commission should consist of representatives of the People's Commissariat of Labor--from the latter's section on registration and distribution of labor--must work in close touch with the trade unions, with the People's Commissariat of the Interior, and with the mobilization board of the All-Russian General Staff of the People's Commissariat of War. Bringing the military department into this work is so obviously necessary as to require no proof. Up to the present our military department is the only branch of the government which has had experience with a general registration of the people for the purpose of mobilizing troops, with the practical details of conducting such a mobilization, and with the employment of compulsion when necessary to accomplish it. We must employ the machinery already in existence, though we may find it difficult to decide just how the organization controlled by the People's Commissariat of Labor will be coordinated with the Mobilization Section of the Army Office. Questions of personnel and the like still remain to be solved, but they are matters of secondary importance. We shall have to create similar local agencies in the provinces, cities, and districts, consisting of representatives of the labor office, of the local administration, and of the army office. This group of three w...