But the extreme disorganisation resulting from the war and the attack made by world imperialism, have compelled the Soviet Power to take certain steps backwards: to have recourse, in exceptional circumstances to overtime work, limiting this to fifty days in the year; to permit the employment of young persons from fourteen to sixteen years of age limiting their working day to four hours; temporarily to arrange that the month’s holiday shall be reduced to a fortnight; to increase the duration of night work to seven hours.[§129.]
The Russian Communist Party must conduct extensive propaganda on behalf of the active participation of all workers in the energetic enforcement of the measures for labour protection. To this end the following measures are necessary:
- The work of organising and extending labour inspection must be actively taken in hand. For this purpose, active workers, drawn from among the ranks of the manual workers, must be selected and trained, and this method of inspection must be extended to small-scale production and to home industry.
- Labour protection must be extended to all branches of work, including the building trade, land and water transport, domestic service, and agriculture.