TELEGRAM TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD SOVNARKHOZ
December 26, 1918
Report on the creation of a commission for the distribution and use of loaders, the names of the members of the commission and the members of the board of the loaders' trade union.
Inform them, according to the decree of the Council of Defense, that they are personally responsible for the correct and consistent conduct of work on unloading and attracting the necessary number of workers. Any steps on the part of the loaders aimed at preventing outsiders from participating in the unloading work will be regarded as a crime and the perpetrators will be held liable, from a monetary fine in the amount of a week's earnings to imprisonment for a term of one year.
Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin
Printed according to the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.
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The order was written on a telephone message from the Leskollegia of the Supreme Council of National Economy
of December 14, 1918 (the date is underlined in the original by V. I. Lenin)
with a complaint about the delay by the Moscow office of the People's Bank of money
allocated by the Council of People's Commissars for the procurement of firewood.