20/XI-20

Comrade Anikstu, I request that you arrange for tomorrow a meeting with representatives of:

Proizodezhda

Glavugol and Chuso* and Glavodezda for an investigation (in accordance with Comrade Trotsky's telegram of 20/XI-20 No. 69/5) of the reasons for non-fulfillment of the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense concerning the supply of the Donbas,25 and for the adoption of emergency measures to expedite the execution of the assignment.26

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

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