Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. The Central Committee of the union of Zemstvos in the third year of the war

Collection:: Economics Books

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 243 upon payment in foreign currency for orders placed abroad, so that such orders had to pass through a large number of departments be- fore being authorized. Lastly, transport by rail was carried out, or, at all events, was supposed to be carried out, in accordance with a definite schedule; yet in practice it depended entirely upon the rather arbitrary decision of a number of departments. These and other obstacles greatly complicated the work of the Union. In February, 1916, the Central Committee of the Union accepted from the Army Supply Department orders for winter clothing and inderwear, on the assumption that its own institutions would re- quire for the year, as heretofore, about 10,000,000 articles of cloth- ing. The estimates, however, which were received in May of the same year from the front and the interior called for 39,000,000 articles and the Union was compelled to apply to the Army Supply Depart- ment for the necessary materials. Permission was obtained to use factories that had contracted to work for the Government. The sup- ply of materials, however, developed very slowly and did not reach the stipulated volume until September. Another difficulty was the shortage of labor. The Central Committee, therefore, instructed the committees of the front to organize an independent production of underwear. It also forwarded to them cloth ready cut, but not yet made up into clothing. In this manner the committees of the front were able to complete about 5,000,000 pieces of clothing. In the in- terior the manufacturing of clothing and underwear for the Zem- stvo Union was organized in eleven provinces so that, in addition to the 82 issuing offices situated in Moscow, 243 different institutions, including 181 codperative societies and "70 charitable societies were now engaged in making underwear and clothing and the number of women so employed was about 50,000. Only 21.8 per cent of the Union’s output was intended for the use of its own institutions, whilst the remaining 78.2 per cent went to the Army Supply De- partment. The last government order on record came in J uly, 1917: the Zemstvo Union was therein requested to supply 2,670,000 short fur coats, 1,133,000 felt boots, and 2,000,000 pairs of socks, repre senting a value of about 70,000,000 rubles. With a view to retaining a certain independence in making pur- chases abroad, the Central Committee of the Union obtained the authorization of the Government to open current accounts in for-

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