V. I.

Lenin

489

NOTE TO THE SECRETARY [1]

Put on the agenda of the Council of Defence and instruct
Krasin (or Lomonosov) to immediately draft a decision (on withdrawals from the army) and reach agreement with
Sklyansky.

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Notes:
[1]
Written on a telegram sent from Ruzayevka by J. Kh. Peters,
Chairman of the Special Committee for Introducing Martial Law
on the Railways. It was received late in the evening on December
25, 1919, and contained a proposal for recalling skilled workers
of railway repair-shops and depots from the army, since locomotive
repairs had decreased almost everywhere, and in some places
dropped to a catastrophic minimum.

At a meeting of the Council of Defence on December 31, after
discussion of a draft decision put forward by L. B. Krasin “on
withdrawing from the army skilled railway repair-shop men and
workers”, = it was decided to regard the question as settled, in
view of Krasin’s statement that in practice it had already been
solved.