TELEGRAM TO GUBERNIA FOOD COMMITTEES
.....................Gubernia Food Committee.
Copy: Gubernia Executive Committee, Authorized Representatives] of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
September 14, 1921
The general situation of the republic and the exceptional circumstances
indicated below, obligate food organs and the entire Soviet party
apparatus to set the collection of the food tax, shipment, and
economic use of potatoes as the second combat task after the fulfillment of the seed plan for the Volga region. The deadline
for the collection and delivery to the places of exportable potatoes, October 20,
was established by the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense, [with] calculation [of]
the normal onset of cold weather. According to received meteorological
information, early onset of cold weather is expected [in] the current year,
earlier than last year. In order to avoid repetition of last year's results of transportation and storage of potatoes,
which entailed a significant percentage of their loss, you are given
a completely concrete combat assignment, to finish by October 1 the
shipment of all potatoes designated [for] export [from] your gubernia, and the laying down of potato storages. The end of the collection of
potatoes, which you expect to receive [in] the autumn term, 134

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