**AND TO THE FOOD COMMITTEES**

To All Councils of People's Commissars and Food Committees

Cases are again being observed of the unauthorized seizure by Councils of People's Commissars of food shipments following orders from the People's Commissariat of Food. This fundamentally undermines the planned provisioning of starving Russia and must be utterly destroyed. On the basis of the decree of May 13, it is hereby brought to universal notice that those guilty of these seizures will be immediately summoned to Moscow for trial before the Military Revolutionary Tribunal.418

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin*

*The telegram was also signed on behalf of the People's Commissariat of Food by N. P. Bryukhanov. — Ed.

Written October 14, 1918

First printed in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin