Legal bases of material support of militia workers of the Ukrainian SSR in the 20s of the XX century

Abstract

The scientific study is devoted to the peculiarities of the legal regulation of the militia workers' material support of the Ukrainian SSR in the 20s of the twentieth century. The objectives of the scientific work are to establish a list of legal acts that regulated the conditions for the militia workers' social security and to analyze their norms. It is necessary to determine the specifics of fulfilling the requirements of the legislation on the material support of militia officers. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that a significant number of archival documents have been used in scientific circulation for the first time.
 The legal acts of the Ukrainian SSR, which established the conditions and amounts of social security and remuneration of militia workers, were studied. Archival materials have been studied, which reflect the state of fulfillment of the requirements of the legislation on the material support of militia workers. Archival documents make it possible to establish the specifics of fulfilling the requirements of legislative and by-laws on the material support of militia workers in various provinces and districts of the Ukrainian SSR.
 The remuneration system of militia workers in the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s is analyzed. The conditions for bonuses to militia workers, the grounds for assigning bonuses to wages, payment for overtime work have been studied. The peculiarities of clothing and other types of security for militia workers are established. The wage taxation specific of the militia workers is reflected. The characteristic of the implementation peculiarities of those norms of law that established the conditions for the militia workers' material support in the study period is given.
 It is concluded that the conditions for the material support of militia workers in the early 1920s were established based on the norms in force for the army. In the middle of the studied period, the conditions for remuneration and social security of militia workers were determined by the requirements of labor legislation. Since 1930, the conditions of material support for militia workers had been equated to the standards of the State Political Administration of the Ukrainian SSR.