Written: Written on November 20, 1919
Published:
First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 311a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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R.M.C. 3
Gubernia Commissar for Food
Perm
Commissar of Perm Railway
Gubernia Commissar for Food
Ekaterinburg
Copy to the Metals Department,
Ekaterinburg[1]
At all costs provide all workers of the Urals, particularly the Ekaterinburg district, Kizel and other coal-mining districts, with full supplies of essential foodstuffs. All army authorities and railway officials are responsible for unconditional fulfilment. Reply at once how many poods have been supplied, and where.[2]
Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence
[1] The words “Copy to the Metals Department, Ekaterinburg” are in Sklyansky’s handwriting.—Ed.
[2] The word? “how many poods have been supplied, and where” are in Sklyansky’s handwriting.—Ed.
[3] This telegram was written by decision of the Council of Defence, which dealt with the question of food supplies for the mining and metallurgical workers of the Urals at its sitting on November 20, 1919. Later, on December 15, Lenin sent another telegram to the same destination: “...regarding the supply of food for the Urals workers, only once has a reply been received—on December 15. Reports (how many poods are delivered) must be sent twice a month” = (Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 245). On January 14, 1920, a telegram signed by Lenin and Rykov was sent to the R.M.C. of the Eastern Front, the Ufa Gubernia Food Commissar, the Commissar of the Samara-Zlatoust railway, and the Special Food Commissar of the 5th Army, pointing out the necessity of supplying food to all workers of the South Urals factories, mines and pits (see Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 253).
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