V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Defence Council’s Fuel Commission [1]

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1) Radchenko, as chairman of the 5-man Fuel Commission,
devotes no more than 2 hours a day to the Peat Commission.

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2) With regard to the red tape in issuing money [2] the Timber Board is to be ordered to lodge a formal complaint
this very day.

1) The Timber Board to be directed within 2 days to make
arrangements with the Military Department

a) for a law granting deferment of military service to
woodcutters and wood transporters

b) for a law mobilising the population for logging
work.

2) The Commissariat for Agriculture to be ordered
immediately to carry out the instructions of the S.E.C. and under the
control of the Timber Board, to issue not later than tomorrow, 3.XII,
regulations governing the assignment of cutting areas and the issue of
felling licences.

3) The Central Forest Department of the Commissariat for
Agriculture to be warned that in the event of further red tape or a single
further complaint on the part of the Timber Board, the personnel of the
Department will be arrested and prosecuted.

4) The Timber Board to be given the right to inspect the
stores of all departments for saws and axes (i.e., to be allowed to examine
books and warehouses).

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

2/XII.