V. I. Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. {1}

Following an exchange of views on the question of rehabilitating railway transport the Council of People’s Commissars
resolves: that Comrade Nevsky be instructed, on consultation with
colleagues who strictly pursue a Soviet, truly socialist, and not
syndicalist, policy, to submit to the C.P.C. in the near future practical
proposals of measures for combating syndicalism and indiscipline, measures
for disclosing and prosecuting those who contravene Soviet policies,
measures defining the exact responsibility of every official in the
effective discharge of his duties, and measures for enlisting the services
of comrades capable of carrying out administrative work.

The appointment of a Board in the Commissariat for Railways to be
postponed in view of non-publication of the decree. {2}

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Notes:
{1}
This draft was adopted the same day by the C.P.C. following the report
of Deputy People’s Commissar for Railways V. I. Nevsky. On June 18 the
C.P.C. endorsed a 9-man Board consisting of 4 Bolsheviks, 2
internationalist Mensheviks and 3 Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

{2}
Lenin here refers to the Statute on the Management of Railway
Communications in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic approved
by the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on June 8, 1918, and
published in Izvestia No. 122 on June 16 (see Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. II, Moscow, 1959, pp. 365-67).