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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO A. I. POTYAEV AND NOTE TO SECRETARY

( Check address with Meisner at Glavryba)

Glavryba Chairman Potyaev

Astrakhan

9.X.1921

Received your letter of
21/9. [1] Give description of new methods to the press both in Astrakhan and Moscow.
Telegraph to C.L.D. proposals concerning cooperage.

Lenin

Chairman, C.L.D.

Replied by telegram on 9/X.

Check Potyaev’s reply and introduce in the C.L.D.

9/X.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A letter from A. I. Potyaev of September 21, 1921, reported
a sharp increase in the fish catch as a result of new forms of wage payments to fishermen. He wrote: “Every fisherman delivers
the fish to us at 1913 prices (in gold currency) with sonic
adjustments (according to the market) and receives a special order which
he realises in our store or shop... We have established a
piece-rate scheme for the workers engaged in fishing.... Strict commercial
accounting has been introduced both for the goods in the stores
and the shops and for fish products.... It is my deep conviction
that we shall manage to overcome difficulties and achieve a
maximum of productivity only by giving the fisherman, the
worker, the employee, direct material incentives in the results of
his labour” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).