V. I. Lenin

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

ON THE FINANCING OF THE CENTRAL TEXTILE COMMITTEE

1) Weekly report on the quantity of products shipped from each chief committee and from each large factory to the localities, and also distributed to the population.
2) Control of “commodity exchange” over the shipment of the product and its delivery to the consumer.
3) Personal responsibility of former capitalists or former owners of enterprises in all chief committees and centres (imprisonment, former capitalists to be shot, their families arrested).
4) Instruct the Committee for Food Supplies to give definite practical assignments in the sphere of distribution of products, as the weakest sphere, to the Union of Commercial and Industrial Employees, as a union, under the collective responsibility of the entire membership of the union.

The document printed here is a draft of a speech and a draft of a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars in connection with the discussion of the report of the representative of the Central Textile Committee on the financing of the Central Textile Committee at the meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars on December 14, 1918. Judging by the minutes of the Council of People’s Commissars (No. 234 of December 14, 1918), the discussion of the question of financing the Central Textile Committee proceeded according to the plan outlined by Lenin. The decisions of the Council of People’s Commissars on this question were formulated on the basis of Lenin’s proposals.

The text of points 1 and 3 was crossed out by Lenin. A comparison of this text with the decision recorded in the minutes gives grounds for assuming that in the text of his draft Lenin left only those points which were adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars.