Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

392V. I. LENINpresenting all shares to the State Bank and submitting tothe local Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’Deputies weekly reports on their activities.3. State loans, foreign and domestic, are annulled(abrogated) .4. The interests of small holders of bonds and all kindsof shares, i.e., holders belonging to the working classes ofthe population, shall be fully guaranteed.5. Universal labour conscription is introduced. Allcitizens of both sexes between the ages of sixteen and fiftyfiveshall be obliged to perform work assigned to them by thelocal Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies,or by other bodies of Soviet power.6. As a first step towards the introduction of universallabour conscription, it is decreed that members of the wealthyclasses (see §2) shall be obliged to keep, and have entriesproperly made in, consumer-worker books, or worker budgetbooks, which must be presented to the appropriate workers’organisations or to the local Soviets and their bodies forweekly recording of the performance of work undertakenby each.7. For the purpose of proper accounting and distribution offood and other necessities, every citizen of the state shallbe obliged to join a consumers’ society. The food boards,committees of supplies and other similar organisations,as well as the railway and transport unions, shall, underthe direction of the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’Deputies, establish supervision to ensure the observanceof the present law. Members of the wealthy classes,in particular, shall be obliged to perform the work to beassigned to them by the Soviets in the sphere of organisingand conducting the affairs of the consumers’ societies.8. The railway workers’ and employees’ unions shall beobliged urgently to draw up and immediately begin to carryinto effect emergency measures for the better organisationof transport, particularly as regards the’ delivery of food,fuel and other prime necessities, and shall be guided inthe first place by the instructions and orders of the Sovietsof Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies and then ofthe bodies authorised by the latter, and of the SupremeEconomic Council.