In order to fulfil its tasks the War-Provisioning Bureau of the All-Russian Soviet of Vocational Unions: (_a_) mobilizes the labor power, selecting it from among the vocational unions and their organs (the shop committees, etc.); (_b_) promotes the workers into the positions of members of the colleges, provincial provisioning committees, district provisioning committees, and other provisioning organizations, appointing them to office through the People’s Commissariat for provisioning; (_c_) sends the workers’ provisioning detachments composed of the best forces into the villages to do the work of organization. The detachments are working under the leadership of members delegated by the War-Provisioning Bureau into the local provisioning bodies, and are to act as auxiliary organizations to those provisioning bodies; (_d_) it organizes the provisional expeditions with special tasks to aid the provisioning organizations among them in the localities freed from occupation; (_e_) it organizes the work of labor inspection, working under the control of the War-Provisioning Bureau, both in the field of provisioning and in the allied fields of transportation, etc.; the problems of inspection consist of the renovation, reorganization and the placing of the entire system of provisioning bodies on a proletarian basis; (_f_) it selects with the aid of the proper vocational unions specialists in different lines of the provisioning work, making them available to fill executive offices; (_g_) in its work the Central War-Provisioning Bureau is leaning for support on the auxiliary local war-provisioning bureaus of the Soviets of Vocational Unions, uniting the entire activity of the vocational unions for the betterment of the provisioning work. 2. From the point of view of unity of the general system of distribution of necessaries, the Congress deems it necessary to put into practice in full measure the participation of labor cooperation in the matter of distributing the products so that, in the course of time, and labor, all the united system of distribution may be organized after the pattern of a single type of consumers’ communes. Workers’ cooperative societies must become the chief distributors of products among the workers.