IN FOOD PROCUREMENT DETACHMENTS.
[August 4, 1918]
1. All Gubernia and Uyezd Soviets, all Committees of the Poor, all professional organizations of workers, together with local bodies of the People's Commissariats of Food and Agriculture, are instructed to immediately begin organizing harvesting and harvesting-requisitioning detachments, to utilize, for the purpose of harvesting the new crop, detachments of workers and peasants from the famine-stricken Gubernias sent to requisition grain, and to immediately begin organizing new detachments from local peasants and workers for these purposes.
2. The task of these detachments consists of: 1) harvesting winter crops from the fields of former landlord estates, 2) harvesting grain in frontline areas, 3) harvesting grain from the fields of known kulaks and wealthy people, 4) assisting in the timely harvesting of all grain in general and the storage of all surpluses in state warehouses.
3. All grain collected * by harvesting and harvesting-requisitioning detachments is distributed on the following basis: first of all, to allocate the absolutely necessary quantity to satisfy the food needs of the poorest strata
In the printed text: "all grain collected." Ed.

of the local rural population. This part of the grain is not subject to immediate and unconditional surrender to collection points. The distribution of this grain is carried out by the Gubernia Food Committees upon instructions from the People’s Commissariat of Food.
Members of harvesting and harvesting-requisitioning detachments, if they are not compensated on the basis of previously issued decrees (as, for example, the decree on preserving the places and average earnings of volunteer workers who are sent to the Front and to food detachments), are compensated, first, by in-kind allowances, second, by monetary compensation determined according to local conditions, and, third, by a special bonus for the successful and rapid completion of work on harvesting and storing grain. The amount of compensation and bonuses is established by the Gubernia Food Committees on the basis of instructions from the People’s Commissariat of Food.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars:
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
1174:5
Decree No. J.