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[p. 277]
The social danger of violations of labor discipline grew significantly in the years immediately preceding the great Patriotic War, especially after the threat of a military assault on the part of the German-fascist aggressors loomed over our motherland.

[p. 279]
Truancy is the absence of a worker from work at his appointed work time without justifying reasons, if that absence continued more than 20 minutes or took place 3 times in the period of one month or 4 times in the period of two consecutive months. It is likewise equivalent to truancy to appear at work in an intoxicated state.

[pp. 279-280]
(Sleeping or idling [at work?] are not usually treated as "truancy" under this law.)

[p. 280]
Justifying reasons
[«Izvestiya NKT SSSR»³ No. 36], 17 Dec. 1930[?], point 13

a) illness of the worker or serious illness of a family member or death of a family member of the worker, requiring his presence, if for that it was not possible to replace the worker with someone else

b) quarantine

v) disastrous misfortune (fire, flood, etc.)

g) fulfilment by the worker under circumstances prescribed by law of his civil or social responsibilities

d) summons of the worker by a court or administrative organ

e) interruption or slowing of communications as a consequence of flooding, snowfall, train wreck, etc.

Nevertheless, this list did not embrace, and indeed cannot embrace all the circumstances arising in life, which do not establish(?) responsibility for truancy and are acknowledged by judical practice as justifying reasons for non-appearance or lateness at work. Thus, judicial practice does not consider truancy:

[long discussion omitted]

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Notes

Note 1 -- PCJ
People's Commissariat of Justice
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Note 2 -- SNK
SovNarKom (Council of People's Commissars)
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Note 3 -- «Izvestiya NKT SSSR»
"News of the People's Commissariat of Labor of the USSR"
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