Written: February 28, 1919
Published:
First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV.
Printed from the manuscript.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
2nd English Edition,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 42,
pages 127b-129a.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup:
D. Walters
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(2003).
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28.II.1919
In order to regulate relations between the Vecheka, the Railway Cheka and the Commissariat for Railways the following provisions are laid down:
Comrade Belyakov, from the Commissariat for Railways, to be delegated to the Transport Department of the Vecheka for permanent liaison and work.
The Commissariat for Railways to issue orders down the line that all complaints against the Cheka be addressed exclusively to C.R. Board member Belyakov.
The Cheka to be charged with supervising timely unloading of freights by the organisations and bodies concerned, and in the event of unloading work not being fulfilled in the time set by the Cheka, the guilty parties are to be called to account.
Local sections of the Railway Cheka to be given the right to use the railway telegraph (for payment) and made to bear strict responsibility for using it without need. Detailed instructions on the use of the telegraph and method of payment to be issued by the People’s Commissar for Railways and the Chairman of the Vecheka by agreement.
The former premises of the railway police to be turned over to the Railway Cheka, and a special order to this effect to be issued by the C.R. Comrades Dzerzhinsky and Sklyansky to issue joint instructions concerning the eviction of military guards from these premises.
Food rations to be issued in the usual way to the Railway Cheka from the supplies of the railway food organisations.
So long as martial law introduced on the railways by the Council of Defence continues, the district transport departments of the Cheka are to be given the right to apply capital punishment to persons found guilty of bribery, theft of freights and railway material, and systematic abuse on the part of officials.
28.11.1919
The points I propose have been approved at a meeting I had with Comrades Nevsky and Dzerzhinsky on 28/11.
Please have them signed by all the members of the Council of Defence, so that this extremely important agreement may be put into effect immediately.
In the event of serious differences please send me the text of amendments at once by phoned telegram.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of Defence
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