V. I.

Lenin

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

The Council of People’s Commissars endorses the estimates
of the Commissariat for Post and Telegraph temporarily, for two months, in
order that immediate steps be taken in the meantime to revise and adjust
the rates of pay and salaries for all professions and all areas in the
country.

This revision to be made by the Commissariat for Labour by arrangement
with all the other commissariats and workers’ organisations.

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Notes:
[1]
The question of salaries for post and telegraph employees was examined
at a meeting of the C.P.C. on January 16 (29), 1918. Lenin’s draft decree
on this subject was adopted by the C.P.C.