June 18, 1918

Two employees in our telegraph (Kremlin, Council of People's Commissars) are requesting transfer.

One application is here.

Could the other not be taken up in the telegraph office.

Your conclusion?*

*Commissar of Postal and Telegraph Affairs V. N. Podbels'ky replied: "This employee is a Morse operator, of which we have an excess, so to fulfill his wish with a transfer to Simbirsk Province costs nothing. The second employee has already been appointed to Murmansk".*