The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-02
ARTICLE TX
Protection of Labor

127 The protection of life health and labor of
persons engaged in any economic activity is entrusted
10 the labor inspector-the technical inspectors and
the representatives of sanitary inspection.
l2s. Tie labor inspection is under the jurisdiction
Of the PEOPLES Commissariat of Labor and its local
branches Departments of Labor and is composed
of elected labor inspectors
l29. Labor inspectors shall be elected by the
Councils Of Professional Unions.
Note l. The manner of election of labor inspect
shall be determined by the Peoples Commissariat
Of Labor.
Note IL In districts where there is no Council of
Trade Unions. the LEGAL Department of Labor shall
summon conference of representatives of the trade
unions which shall elect the labor inspectors.
190 Ir performing the duties imposed upon them
concerning the protection of the lives and health of
wage earners the officers of labor inspection shall
enforce the regulations of the present Code. and
DEGREES, distinctions orders and other acts of the
Soviet power intended to safeguard the lives and
health of the workers.
13l. For TIE attainment Of the purposes stated
in Section 130 the officers of labor in pection
authorized
(a) To visit at any time Of the day night
all the industrial enterprises of their districts
and all places where work is carried on, as we'll
the buildings provided for the workmen by
the enterprise Grooming houses, hospitals asylunls,
baths ec.(
(b) To demand of the managers of enterprises
or establishments we'll as of the elective or.
gans OF the wage earners (wOrks and similar com.
mittees) Of those enterprises establishments in
the management of which they are participating,
to produce all necessary books, records and in.
formation:
(c) To draw to the work of inspection repres.
entatives of the elective organizations of employ.
ees, as we'll as officials of the administration
(manaGcrs superintendent, fOremen, etc);
(d) 10 bring before the criminal court all
Vlolators OF tho regulations of the present Code
or OF the dccrecs instructions, orders and other
acts OF the Soviet authority intended TO safe
guar1 T the lives and health of the wage earners
fha do
mlttees in their efforts to ameliorate the labor
condition in individual enterprises as well as in
whole branches of Industry
152 The Officers Of labor inspection are author
lied to adopt special measures, in addition to the
measures mentioned in the preceding section for the
removal OF conditions endangerng the lives and
health of workmen, even if such measures have not
been provided for by any particular law or regulation
instructions or order of the People Commissarat of
Labor CT of the Local Department of Labor
Note. Upon taking special to safe.
guard the lives and health of wage earners as
authorized by the present section, the officers of in
spection shall immediately report to the Local De.
partment of Labor, which may either approve these
measures reject them.
l33 The scope and the forms of activity of the
organs OF labor inspection shall be determined by
instructions and orders issued 10y the Peoples Com
nissariat of Labor
1874 The enforcement of the instructions, rules
and regulations relating to safety is entrusted to
the technical inspectors.
l35 The technical inspectors shall be appointed
by the Local Departments of Labor from among
engineering specialists; these inspectors shall perform
within the territory under their jurisdiction the duties
prescribed by Section 81 of the present Code.
1885, The technical inspectors shall be guided in
their activity besides the general regulations, by the
instructions and orders of the Peoples Commissarat