V. I. Lenin

Draft Decree on the Institution of an All-Russia Evacuation Commission {1}

An All-Russia Evacuation Commission shall be instituted to
effect the speediest and planned evacuation of military and other freights
to new points of destination (the general object of evacuation being the
demobilisation of industry and satisfaction of the needs of the reorganised
national economy, and by no means only military requirements).

Thecommission shall work according to a plan approved, amended and
supplemented by the Council of People’s Commissars. This plan determines
the destination of the main classes of freight and the comparative urgency
of their evacuation.

Thecommission shall be headed by an agent extraordinary invested with
dictatorial powers. The members of the commission shall have a consultative
voice and the right to introduce questions in the C.P.C. (if voted for by
no less than one-third of the membership).

Themembers of the commission are: the deputy agent extraordinary with
the post of chairman, and representatives of the Military, Naval, Railway,
Food and Labour Commissariats and the Supreme Economic Council.

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Notes:
{1}
This text, with slight amendments, was incorporated in the Decree on
the Institution of an All-Russia Evacuation Commission adopted by the
Council of People’s Commissars on April 19, 1918.