December 26, 1918

Report on the creation of a commission for the distribution and use of loaders, the names of commission members and members of the board of the loaders' professional union.

Announce to them, in accordance with the decision of the Council of Defense, that their personal responsibility is placed for the proper and undeviating conduct of unloading work and for attracting the necessary number of workers. Any steps on the part of loaders directed at obstructing outsiders from participating in unloading work will be considered a crime, and the guilty will be subject to responsibility from a monetary fine equal to a week's earnings to deprivation of liberty for up to one year.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.