V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. [1]

Having decided to postpone publication of the decrees concerning the Food Council pending the food congress, and while
persistently urging all food supply workers not to leave their posts and to
avoid partial conflicts, The Council of People’s Commissars directs the All Russia Food Council
and the Commissariat for Food to send out more and numerically larger armed
detachments as well as commissars to take the most revolutionary measures to expedite shipments, collect and store grain, etc., as well as to wage a
ruthless struggle against profiteers, even to the extent of calling on the
local Soviets to shoot convicted profiteers and saboteurs on the spot.

The Council of People’s Commissars decrees that rations shall not be
increased and that the dispatch of through goods-trains shall be stepped up
and their progress carefully controlled.

Urgent steps shall be taken to clear the Petrograd railway junction,
the All-Russia Food Council to be made responsible for this work, The All-Russia Food Council shall report daily to the G.PC. on the
progress of food supply work and to submit a plan of food operations.