V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ON THE ORGANISATION OF A COMMISSION OF PRACTICAL WORKERS.
D e c r e e o f t h e C o u n c i l o f P e o p l e ’ s C o m m i s s a r s ( S N K ) .
[December 28 (15), 1917]

The Council of People’s Commissars proposes to the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh) to organise immediately a commission of practical workers, which shall be charged with collecting from all departments, institutions and organisations orders for useful products, transmitting these orders to the unemployed and to factories being closed down, and verifying the extent to which the presentation of these orders and their fulfilment are being carried out.

The commission must, guided by the general economic plan of the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh), propose to the Council of People’s Commissars revolutionary measures for the urgent fulfilment of its task, and submit a report on its activities twice a week.

¹ Adopted by the SNK on December 28 (15), 1917, when discussing the question of the suspension of work at the Putilov Works (see Minutes of the SNK, No. 26, item 4). Published in the *Gazette of the Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government*, No. 35, December 30 (17), 1917, under the heading: “On the Organisation of a Commission of Practical Workers.”

* 
The document is followed by: “People’s Commissars: J. Dzhugashvili (Stalin). L. Trotsky. Managing Director of the Council, Vlad. Bonch-Bruyevich. Secretary of the Council, N. Gorbunov.” — Ed.