1) For the purpose of ensuring planned supply of the population with foodstuffs and articles of prime necessity, there is hereby established the All-Russian Interdepartmental Extraordinary Commission for the Protection of Railways, composed of the People's Commissar of Communications, the Chairman of the Central Committee for Army Supply, and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Supply.

2) All presently existing organizations for the protection of railways shall pass under the jurisdiction of the Interdepartmental Commission.

3) For organizational expenses, the Interdepartmental Commission is appropriated five million rubles.

4) The Interdepartmental Commission shall immediately proceed to the organization and instruction of Commissars and military-supply detachments and to their urgent dispatch to the localities.

5) The protection service shall be charged in particular with a merciless struggle against speculation and the unauthorized transport of cargo.

The Council of People's Commissars instructs the C.P.C. to present a decree forbidding free travel, with the exception of one journey home for demobilized soldiers.

To draft a decree within 24 hours on the introduction of martial law.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars:
V. Ulyanov (Lenin).*

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