1919
24511
TELEGRAM TO THE TAMBOV PROVINCIAL MILITARY COMMAND,
copy to the PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Urgent, outside all queue
May 24, 1919

You informed me that you sent 669 communists to the Southern Front and on the 22nd are sending 200. Meanwhile, only three hundred have arrived—verify and report immediately. It is necessary to strengthen the dispatch in the most energetic manner.

Head of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

14706
ON RED ARMY FOOD PARCELS
(RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, MAY 24, 1919)

Meeting the needs of Red Army soldiers of front-line units operating in grain-rich regions, with the aim of affording them the opportunity, without being diverted from their direct military duties, to send to their families in famine-stricken regions, alongside products permitted to other citizens, a certain quantity of flour or grain,—the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense, in development of point 4 of the decree of April 24 of this year, has resolved:

1. To charge the Central Committee of the Food Procurement for the Army (Tsekompromparm) with the formation, for the aforementioned purpose, on the Eastern and Southern Fronts of a special grain fund through the allocation of no more than 50% of the front-line grain procurements of Tsekompromparm, carried out in accordance with the decree of March 7 of this year.

2. To entrust Tsekompromparm, in agreement with the appropriate departments and central institutions, to urgently proceed with the development and implementation of a plan of practical measures:
a) for the organization of the sale of the aforementioned grain products from this fund to Red Army soldiers of the Eastern and Southern Fronts through the mediation of Red Army canteens, provided for by the decree of November 16, 1918, and b) for the provision through the mediation of those same Red Army canteens and other organizations of assistance to military units in the matter of the organized dispatch of army food parcels by mail or other means.

3. The issue of grain products to Red Army canteens from the special grain fund is carried out by the Eastern and Southern Front commissions of Tsekompromparm (Oprodkomvost and Oprodkomyuzh) and their army and divisional food procurement commissions in such a manner as not to undermine the possibility of systematic provisioning of foodstuffs to the troop units themselves as consumers.

4. To grant Tsekompromparm and its local organs on the Eastern and Southern Fronts the right to urgently strengthen their procurement apparatus through the inclusion in its composition of representatives of the interested troop units and the attraction to the work of cooperative and trade union organizations.

5. To entrust Tsekompromparm with the development and submission to the Council of Defense no later than June 1st a draft detailed instruction, determining the mutual relations and order of activity of all institutions and organizations involved in the implementation of the present resolution.

Head of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.

10241
TELEGRAM TO THE VORONEZH DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
OF WATER TRANSPORT

May 25, 1919

By resolution of the Council of Defense of the Republic, an order was given to transfer the steamship "Voronezh" to the Don Military Flotilla. If it has not been transferred up to now, transfer it immediately to the flotilla without delay and report on the execution.

Head of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from the typewritten copy.