To Bryukhanov and other members of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food.
(After August 8, 1918)

From your note I conclude that the People's Commissariat of Food incorrectly understands and applies the decrees.

"No particular desire is observed among the workers"... (to go into harvesting detachments).

Where is the evidence? Where is the appeal of the People's Commissariat of Food? From what date?

To which factories were they sent out? When and how many?

I fear that the People's Commissariat of Food did none of this (judging by the silence of Comrade Bryukhanov), but engaged in God knows what bureaucratic red tape? For without the help of the workers, the People's Commissariat of Food is nothing.

From the quote (from Nevsky's telegram of August 8) nothing bad is visible, for it doesn't touch upon the question either of the % of members of trade unions, or of the leading organization, or of participation in harvesting (§ 7 of the decree on collective trains) — i.e., the business questions are not touched upon.

What is bad in Nevsky's telegram besides the good? Nevsky calls on the workers: go and help (he is silent about the conditions, but we have outlined these conditions and outlined them well), and the People's Commissariat of Food nitpicks over the word (and nitpicks in vain).... and does nothing!

Either we raise the working masses into a serious movement for bread (and for the strangulation of the kulaks) — the People's Commissariat of Food does not do this.

— or no People's Commissariat of Food is needed at all.