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A NOTE ON THE TEXT OF THE LAWS
Owing to the suspension of regular communications with Soviet Russia, the Code of Labor Laws has reached us not in the Russian original, but in an imperfect English translation published at Petrograd by the People's Commissariat of Justice. We have endeavored, as far as possible, to improve the language of the official translation; we did not, however, feel at liberty to make any editorial changes affecting the subject-matter of the laws, where the language appeared to us ambiguous.
These laws and the introduction originally appeared in "Soviet Russia," the Laws in Vol. II, No. 8 (Feb. 21, 1920); the Criticism and Answer in Vol. II, No. 14 (April 3, 1920).2
