## DIRECTIVES

30 June.

Work on publishing textbooks intensively begun for the start of the school year—unexpectedly halted in its full course: the piecework payment for printing work introduced on the basis of a decree has been forbidden, they will not pay for work already done, and a work stoppage has begun again at the printing house. The way out that Rykov indicates—collective supply.

But: first, collective supply does not provide such drives for urgent work as piecework payment does. Second, the workers do not trust proper supply with products. Third, the piecework payment introduced costs less than collective supply. (I can present the calculation)...

Under the conditions in which we have now placed the workers (minimum piecework rate 12⅛ thousand rubles per working day), we have achieved an unprecedented increase in productivity—higher than the pre-war level.

The capacity of the printing house allocated for our work—15–20 sheets of typeset per day (2–3 million printed sheets per month)—while all the possibilities of all Moscow for Gosizdat amount to about 20 sheets of typeset per month.

With greetings, E. Litkens.

Comrade Gorbunov! Clarify whether it is possible to help and in what way. Help in every way. (Has this printing house been included in the number 6, where Rykov is introducing collective supply? Will Smolyaninov not visit it?)

Lenin.

¹ The notation was made on the letter of the Deputy People's Commissar for Enlightenment G. A. Litkens.

[6 July 1921]

2) Adoratsky is asking me for 4 volumes of the Marx and Engels correspondence—you can take them from my desk.

¹ The document is dated 6 July because, as is evident from the secretary's notation, Lenin permitted the books to be handed over to V. Adoratsky on 6 July. In translating Marx and Engels letters for Lenin at his request, V. B. Adoratsky made use of Vladimir Ilyich's books. The translations were delivered to Lenin on 29 July.

13 July [1921]

Enukidze:

Entrust to one member of the CEC measures for assistance?

Lenin.