Note 5 — Chapter IV · ToC

To do justice to the German revolution I annex a schedule of measures passed by the Peoples Commissaries before the Weimar Parliament met and reaction set in. How far these are being at present enforced I do not know.

Unemployment provision—regulations of 13th November and 15th January. The cost is borne one-half by the Reich, one-third by the State and one-sixth by the locality. The rates must be reduced by April, 1919, to a maximum of six marks per day. It can be withdrawn on refusal to work for insufficient reasons.

Employment regulations of 4th and 25th January. Previous employés on demobilisation must be re-employed and persons employed in their absence only discharged under certain conditions.

Legislative regulations of labour. An order of 12th November, 1918, restored to force all sanitary and social regulations and restrictions suspended during the war.

Labour disputes. Settlement regulated by order of 23rd December, 1918, which sets up workmen's committees responsible for questions of wages, etc.

Prohibition of night baking, 23rd November, 1918.

Prevention of venereal diseases, 11th and 17th December. This measure penalises with three years' imprisonment those exposing others to infection even ignorantly and prescribes compulsory medical attendance.