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 XIII. The Joint Committee of the unions of Zemstvos and of towns for the supply of military equipment and munitions

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THE ZEMGOR 281 Engineering works. These werks were equipped with macuinery of the Dvinsk professional school which had been evacuated to Mos- cow. Special departments were established for lathe work, carpentry, ironwork, and a blacksmith shop. They produced gauges for ma- chine guns, gun rifling machines, machines for the making of nails, and other articles. In addition to the regular work, these works finished about two hundred shell cases a day. The gauge factory. This factory supplied with its products the factories and works engaged in the production of munitions and shells. We may also mention the works organized by the Zemgor for the production of pyrometers, sulphuric and nitric acid, benzol, barbed wire, horseshoes, screws, and many other articles. The list given above is far from being complete. The Work of the Zemgor at the Front. In the preceding pages, we have had occasion more than once to speak of the trench workers. The retreat of the Russian troops made it necessary to construct a complete network of trenches and other earthworks in the rear of the new front line. The army authorities had failed to obtain a sufficient number of volunteer workers and had therefore to requisition for this work the local population, men as well as women. Their efficiency was very low. Hundreds of thou- sands of men were digging lazily and leisurely, complaining of hunger and cold and lack of proper shelter, and cursing the authori- ties who had dragged them away from their personal affairs. An attempt was made to enlist the services of the Zemstvo Union in organizing the food supply of these vast armies of labor, and very soon the Union was providing food for about 300,000 men scattered along the front. This, however, made only slight improvement in the situation. As soon as the cold weather set in, the trench workers, who often lacked warm clothing and proper shelter, began to desert, even at the risk of severe punishment. At times the army engineers in charge of the work themselves thought it necessary to give permis- sion to groups of trench workers to return to their homes, seeing that it was impossible to make the conditions of their existence tolerable. As always happened in hopeless situations, the authorities at the front now conceived the idea of appealing for help to the Unions of

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