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 249 At the close of 1915 the Army Supply Department decided to abandon the primitive method of driving the cattle to the front on the hoof; the animals were now to be slaughtered in the interior. The result was that the supply of hides to the Union’s committees of the front was considerably reduced, whilst in the interior of the country there was a repetition of what had occurred at the front at the beginning of the War, that is to say, vast supplies of hides escaped altogether the control of the army authorities. Negotiations were now begun between the Army Supply Department and the Zemstvo Union with a view to inducing the latter to undertake the whole business of collecting, storing, and distributing hides through- out the Empire. In principle, the Central Committee of the Union accepted the proposal, but at the height of these negotiations, in November, 1915, a new institution, created by the Council of Minis- ters and known as the Committee for the Leather Industry, came into operation. This body was composed of government officials and a small number of representatives of leather manufacturers and merchants. Neither the Zemstvo Union nor the Union of Towns was represented on this body. The Government hastened to take the whole business under its own control in order to prevent the further expansion in this direction, of the work of the unions. The Commit- tee for the Leather Industry attempted to dispense altogether with the services of the Zemstvo Union, but without success, for in April, 1916, it found itself compelled to appeal to the Union for help, and requested it to communicate its plan for the collection, storage, and distribution of hides. The Government also desired to know on what terms the Zemstvo Union would be prepared to undertake the entire work. [t is unnecessary to describe here the protracted and tedious nego- tiations that followed, during which the Union was left for months without replies to its communications. At the end of J uly the Union learned from reports in the press that the Government had issued on July 7, 1916, a decree relating to the registration and distribu- tion of raw hides and leather goods. This left the whole business under the general management and control of the government com- mittee. All that the Zemstvo Union was asked to do was merely to deal with the collection of hides in private slaughterhouses through- out the Empire. The hides of cattle slaughtered for the needs of the Army Supply Department and of the Ministry of Agriculture, on

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