Metadata: People’s Commissariat of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR; Khar’kov
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 2623
- Title:
- People’s Commissariat of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR; Khar’kov
- Title (official language):
- Народный комиссариат труда Украинской ССР, г. Харьков
- Creator/accumulator:
- People’s Commissariat of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR; Khar’kov
- Date(s):
- 1917/1933
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 8,799 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are memoranda of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour and the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars on pogroms perpetrated by forces under the command of Ataman N. Girgor’ev (1919); appeals and leaflets of Soviet organizations describing the Grigor’ev uprising as a pogromist phenomenon, and information on the mobilisation of forces to counter it; documents on labour conflicts looked into by the department of labour-capital relations that involved various Jewish organisations, including a conflict between the administration and seamstresses of a sewing workshop subsidised by the Ukrainian committee of the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews of Russia (ORT) (1919); information on the active involvement of foreign, and particularly Jewish, charitable organisations in anti-famine efforts in 1921-23: correspondence of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour with the Central Famine Relief Commission (Pomgol) on providing aid to famine victims; minutes of Pomgol sessions which took up the question of whether to allow the American Relief Administration (ARA), the Joint Distribution Committee, the Nansen Mission, and private individuals to provide aid to famine victims, and the form their involvement should take; reports on Soviet entities’ seizure of some packages from abroad, particularly some meant for Jews, to benefit famine victims (1921); Bulletins of the VUTsIK Central Famine Relief Commission (Pomgol); announcements of various Ukrainian SSR people’s commissariats regarding medical and food assistance provided by foreign organisations (information on the ARA’s provision of full-scale food aid); information on the charitable activities of the Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Evobshchestkom); minutes of sessions of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars, the People’s Commissariat of Labour, the VUTsIK Central Commission on National Minorities (TsKNM), and decrees on the need to improve the economic condition of Jewish towns; a survey program (tables, survey charts) on Jewish unemployment developed by the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews (ORT), and an explanatory memorandum thereto; reports of area labour departments on the course of statistical accounting on Jewish unemployment; reports of various Ukrainian SSR people’s commissariats on measures taken to implement a VUTsIK and Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars decree (15 May 1926) and the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars decree (16 December 1926) “On measures toward recruiting the Jewish toiling masses to productive labour,” including information on opening a network of Jewish professional-technical and trade-vocational schools in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, and opening Jewish departments at professional-technical schools to train the young people of towns, and a network of courses and workshops to retrain the unemployed; information on the allocation of stipends to Jewish young people; correspondence of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour with the commissariat’s provincial departments and city labour exchanges on job placement for Jewish young people; a draft agreement between the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour, the Ukrainian Committee on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (UkrKOMZET), and the administration of the Khar’kov Locomotive Factory on training and employing Jewish young people at this enterprise (1929); Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour orders assigning indigent Jews to jobs, and target figures for employing indigent Jews at enterprises and institutions of Ukraine; reports of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Farming (Narkomzem) on the state of and prospects for Jewish farming in Ukraine; information on UkrKOMZET funding of training programs for Jewish young people; a decree of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection on Ukrainian SSR people’s commissariats’ failure to implement the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars’ decree (26 February 1929) “On aid to the Jewish poor”; correspondence of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour and of area labour departments with the USSR People’s Commissariat of Labour and the KOMZET on organizing Jewish resettlement to Birobidzhan; and orientation plans and an expense budget for the resettlement of indigent Jews from towns.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The People’s Commissariat of Labour was established by decree (30 December 1917) of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK); it was based in Khar’kov until the fall of Soviet power in Ukraine in April 1918. It was reestablished as the People’s Commissariat of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR by decree (29 January 1919) of the Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine. In this period the commissariat was tasked mainly with accounting for and systematically distributing the republic’s labour force; it had several departments, including those of labour-capital relations, the labour market, labour protection, social security, etc. In the summer of 1919, after the fall of Soviet power in Ukraine, the Soviet government thereof was evacuated to RSFSR territory. Pursuant to a VUTsIK decree (1 June 1919) on military unity, the Collegium of the Plenipotentiary of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Labour and Social Services was established on 19 January 1920 (from 29 May 1920 on, this was called the Administration of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Labour’s Plenipotentiary in the Ukrainian Soviet Government). On 14 September 1923 this entity was reorganised as the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour. By decision (19 September 1933) of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars and the All-Union Central Council of Labour Unions (VTsSPS), the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Labour was merged with the All-Ukrainian Council of Labour Unions.
- Access points: locations:
- Birobidzhan
- Khar’kov
- Access points: persons/families:
- Girgor’ev, N.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Food distribution
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Birobidzhan
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Vocational training
- Famine
- Military
- Pogroms
- Poverty
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories in which files are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary