V. I.

Lenin

Re Draft “Regulations on the Organisation of a Workers’ Food Inspection” [2]

1

Draft Decision Of The C.P.C.

Systematically

1) check concrete cases of urgent execution of definite,
clearly defined tasks of the Food Commissariat and food organisations;

2) establish contact with workers and working masses and
systematically enlist their co-operation in the work of delivering and
distributing foodstuffs, first as witnesses, then as members of the
inspection;

3) oblige all bodies of the workers’ inspection to give
weekly reports of their activities to the local and central trade union
bodies;

4) a consultative

voice…. [1]

2

Remarks on the Draft “Regulations”

This draft to be revised in the direction of (1) making it the fixed
definite task of the Workers’ Food Inspection not only to examine the
business correspondence of the food supply organisations, but chiefly to verify concrete instances of their
activities in connection with the purveyance, delivery and distribution of
food products; — further (2) obliging the Workers’ Food Inspection to establish
contact between the food policy and the workers and working masses and
enlist their services, one and all (through the participation of witnesses
as a first step), to the business of food administration.

(3)— making it the duty of the Workers’ Food Inspection to report
weekly to the broad mass of the working class and the working population
primarily through the trade unions.

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Notes:
[1]
Here the manuscript breaks off.— Ed .

[2]
The draft Regulations introduced by N. P. Bryukhanov were discussed at
the meeting of the C.P.C. on December 5, 1918. Lenin’s draft decision and
remarks in this connection were apparently jotted down during the
discussion, but were then crossed out by him. However, the amendments
adopted at the meeting and incorporated in the draft Regulations coincide
with his drafts.