V. I. Lenin

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LENIN MISCELLANY

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(3) What measures, when and by whom, have been taken to stop such a clearly incorrect and impermissible distribution of work.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars, B. Ulyanov (Lenin).

AMENDMENTS TO THE DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS ON THE ORGANISATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE¹

[April 16, 1918]

In view of this, for the purpose of renewing the administrative machinery of the Post and Telegraph Department, [replacing] eliminating [coordination with the work] interference of local organs of authority in the life of the department and subordinating their activity to the general [system] system of the work of the latter, and also for the purpose of finally suppressing attempts by individual groups of post and telegraph employees to hamper the work of renewing the department, we decree:

At the head of the Board for the administration of a post and telegraph district shall be a Commissar [elected] appointed by the People’s Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs from among candidates submitted by the regional or gubernia organ of Soviet power; b)

The other members of the Board for the administration of a district shall be appointed by the People’s Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs from among candidates submitted by the respective organisations of post and telegraph employees [or] and the local Soviet, these organisations having the right of a motivated [challenge] protest against the candidates submitted for appointment.

8 ............ The procedure for receiving and dispatching both postal and telegraphic correspondence, the execution of budget appropriations, the staffs and salaries of employees, the hiring, dismissal and transfer of the latter shall be regulated by definite rules established for the entire department as a whole, and these rules must precisely specify the cases in which the local organs of Soviet power are to be called upon to decide the said questions.

Apart from these [instructions] cases, any interference by the local authority in the activity of post and telegraph institutions, without prior communication with the authorised persons of the department, is absolutely impermissible.

The word “we decree” is not given in the printed text. Ed.