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2. To impose severe penalties for
the Withholding of the payment Of
wages. Along with this there must
be recognized the necessity of fully
compromising the worker for loss de-
irving from the fluctuation in the
value Of the Soviet note in all cases
of the Withholding of payment of
wages.
3. To forbid the payment Of bonuses
on the turnovers, and only permitting
the payment of bonuses on the net
profit and then only to particularly
conscientious and meritorious func-
tionaries with the consent of the
trade unions;
4. To improve the housing condi-
tons Of the workers, acknowledging
as an urgent task the insuring Of state
credits for the Soviet housing
schemes;
5. Special attention must be given
to the payment of insurance contribu-
tions in order, in the first place, to
insure that portion of the unemploy-
ment who constitute genuine probe
tartan elements and who are, before
all, to be absorbed into production
as soon as the latter is extended.
D. In the Sphere of Foreign Trade.
l. To adopt further measures for
consolidating the foreign trade mon
opoly;
2. To attract foreign capital for the
purposes of foreign trade, by promot-
ing mixed companies for carrying on
export and import;
3. TO carry out scheme of imports
and exports connected with the funda-
mental economic plans and insuring
favorable trade balance (preponder-
ance Of exports over imports) and the
supplying Of Soviet industry with raw
material, with materials and semi
manufactured goods;
4. The greatest possible develop
ment Of foreign credits for export
trade.
E. In the Sphere Of Home Trade.
1. Extending the subordinate trade
apparatus, in particular the network
of subordinate co-operatives, on the
basis of careful service in the inter
ests of the consumer (by Introducing
stocks of assorted goods indispens-
able to the mass consumers, etc.)
and regulation of the relations with
the private middleman in order to
subordinate the latter economically
to the cooperative and to the state
trade Thy regulation of retail
prices. etc.,.
2. Strengthening the regulation of
wholesale prices, before all of articles
Of mass consumption, in the first
place of those of peasant consump-
ton, extending the same to retail
prices by means of establishing maxi
mum allowances for profit to the CO.
operatives on the wholesale organs.
by means Of operating with certain
stocks of goods on the part of the
state IN order to reduce the prices in
certain areas, finally, by means of es-
tablishing credit policy aiming be-
fore all at serving the interests of the
subordinate trade organs.
3. The necessity must be recogniz-
ed of normalizing prices of salt,
petroleum and sugar in all categories
of trade cooperative, state and pri-
vate trade).
4. Modification of the existing sys-
tenn of centralized purchases on the
part Of the superior organs in the
direction Of promoting immediate con-
facts between the subordinate trade
organizations, the factory and work
associations and the wholesale and
retail stores, Transforming according
ly the systems Of the granting of
credits to co-operatiyes and state
trade.
D. The necessity must be recogniz-
ed of a revision of the existing sys-
tenn Of syndicates in order to abolish
those which cannot be economically
justified, limiting as a rule the COM
mercial activity of the remaining syn
dicates within the confines of whole
sale trade.
s. To revise the existing railway
tariffs with view to cheapening the
transport of mass consignments of
goods.
z. To adopt all measures for reduc-
ing the additional trade expenses by
means of reducing the number of
trade representations, both in the
capital and in the provinces, by
leans Of giving contracts to cooper
i've and state trade organs, finally
the reduction Of wasteful expendi-
ire personal conyeyances, office
luipment, advertising, etc..
s. Selection Of special reserve
saff OF functionaries for strengthen
lg the cooperative and state trade
rgans.
Q. The establishment OF an exact
nd punctual rendering OF accounts
IN the part of trade organs.
r. In the Sphere OF Finances.
/. Strictest observance Of the stipu-
ated annual budget, absolutely limit
ng the amount Of the deficit within
shs