APPEAL TO THE RAILWAY AND WATER TRANSPORT ORGANIZATIONS, WORKERS OF METALLURGICAL PLANTS, AND THE PROFESSIONAL UNION OF RAILWAY WORKERS.
[May 29, 1918]
Having heard the representatives of the railway organizations, water transport organizations, representatives of the workers of metallurgical plants, and the professional union of railway workers,
— having heard the proposal of these comrades to allow their organizations, "Prodput'", "Prodvod", etc., to conduct independent procurement,
the Sovnarkom strongly draws the attention of all organized, conscious, and thinking workers and peasant laborers to the glaring irrationality of such proposals. It is clear to everyone that, by allowing separate independent procurements for "Prodput'", "Prodvod", "Prodmetyal", "Prodrezina", and the like, we would completely destroy the entire food supply system, destroy any state organization of workers and poor peasants, and fully clear the way for the victory of the kulaks and Skoropadskys.
All workers and hungry peasants must understand that only through joint efforts, by sending hundreds and thousands of the best workers into common food supply detachments, only by moving united, merged, common, mass forces of workers to fight for order, to fight for bread, can we overcome hunger, overcome disorder, overcome speculators and kulaks.
It is madness to believe those who ask for independent procurement for "Prodput'", for "Prodvod", without thinking that in every district of non-agricultural provinces there are tens and hundreds of thousands of hungry peasants, who for months have not received any bread at all.