COOPERATION AND TRADE

1 The draft was approved at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on March 16, 1919. Published in "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" No. 60 of March 20, 1919. For details on the circumstances of the drafting and adoption of the decree, see Len. Coll. XVIII, pp. 292-293.
2 P. A. Chegodaev - member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Justice.
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TELEGRAM TO THE YAROSLAVL PRODCOMMISSAR

Yaroslavl
To Prodcommissar Vishnevsky
Copy to the Gubernia Food Committee
March 28, 1919

The Board of the Yaroslavl
Union of Consumer
Societies accuses Vishnevsky of issuing a regulation on reorganization that is ruining the Rostov cooperation as a technical apparatus.
Send me a copy of this regulation and the opinion of the workers' cooperation, as well as the Gubernia Food Committee.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
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NOTES ON A LETTER FROM I. I. SKVORTSOV 1
[March 28, 1919]
All-Russian Council of Workers'
Cooperation, at its session of March 26, unanimously elected Comrade A. I. Rykov as a member of the temporary board of the All-Russian
Economic Center of Workers' Cooperation. Informing you of this, the Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Workers' Cooperation
requests you, in view of the particular importance of the tasks falling to the economic center, especially in connection with the decree of the Council of People's Commissars
on consumer communes, to enable Comrade A. I. Rykov to actually join the aforementioned board in the very near future.

Comrade Rykov! Your opinion? Lenin.

1 I. I. Skvortsov was the deputy chairman of the All-Russian Council of Workers' Cooperation.