V. I.

Lenin

Proposals on Measures To Improve the Food Situation in Petrograd

The Council of People’s Commissars directs the
Commissariat for Railways immediately to draw up and submit to it a draft
decree banning free travelling on the railways except one trip home for
every soldier returning from his place of service after
demobilisation.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

The C.P.C. instructs the Manager of the State Bank to dispatch to the
South immediately and without fail 200 million rubles at the disposal of
Yakubov’s expedition for supplying grain to the needy areas as directed by the People’s
Commissariat for Food.

The Food Commissariat is to urgently make arrangements with the
Military Commissariat for enlisting the services of the road units
operating at the front. These units are to be sent to the grain-producing
areas in the greatest possible numbers to take urgent measures for laying
down rails and other means of improving and expediting the transportation,
collection and storing of grain.

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