To All Soviets and Food Committees.
October 14, 1918

Cases continue to be observed of Soviets arbitrarily seizing food shipments that have come with requisitions from the Food Commissariat. This fundamentally undermines the planned provisioning of starving Russia and must be completely eliminated. On the basis of the decree of May 13,* notice is hereby given to all that those guilty of these seizures will be immediately summoned to Moscow for trial before the Military Revolutionary Tribunal.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
For the People's Commissariat of Food Briukhanov.