On the procedure for issuing advances.

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Appendix No. 16 to p. 63/42 pr. PB No. 140.

On the procedure for issuing advances.

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated 26 . VI .1933 g .

The Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee believe that the main reason for the breakdown in a number of areas of last year's grain procurements in the first months was the chaotic, disorderly, gratuitous issuance of advances and the predatory waste of bread on the so-called "public catering", as a result of which threshed bread for at least a month - a half and a half went to a lesser part of the procurement, and for the most part not even to the bins of collective farms, but was squandered and taken away by idlers to the detriment of good collective farmers, which caused damage not only to state interests, but also damage to the collective farmers themselves, who ended up in certain places in a difficult situation with regard to the supply of bread. This circumstance sharply reduced grain resources and created from the very beginning the situation of taking away grain instead of fulfilling the grain procurement plan in the first place.

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee oblige all regional committees, regional committees and Central Committees of the National Communist Parties, regional and regional executive committees to the Council of People's Commissars of the republics, as well as the secretaries of the regional committees and forerunners, as well as the heads of the political departments of the MTS, from the very beginning of harvesting, to organize the issue of advances to collective farmers in such a way that these advances are issued in a strictly organized manner and not higher than those norms that are established by this resolution, namely:

1) Establish deductions from the amount of threshed grain crops (wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, etc.) for intra-collective farm needs, pending full fulfillment of the obligations established by the law on grain supplies, in the amount of 10% of actually threshed grain so that this percentage increased to 15 for good collective farms, working conscientiously and having a good harvest.

2) To oblige all the above-mentioned party and Soviet organizations within these limits to establish a certain percentage of deductions from the amount of threshed grain for intra-collective farm needs for each collective farm separately, taking into account the characteristics of the region. This fund should be used both for handing out collective farmers according to the workdays they have worked out, and for distributing fodder for socialized livestock.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR - V. Molotov (Scriabin) .

Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) - I. Stalin .