V. I.

Lenin

Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on Sending Groups of Workers Out on Food Transportation Jobs

In view of the extreme danger threatening the Republic as a
result of the aggravation of the food and transport crises, the C.C.,
R.C.P. resolves:

to charge Comrades Kamenev

Zinoviev and Stalin with organising groups of influential workers and forming trains by
arrangement with the People’s Commissariats for Food and Railways as well
as with the Central Executive Committee, and sending them out on food
transportation jobs. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The need for sending the best workers out on food and transportation
jobs had been dealt with by Lenin in his speech at a joint session of the
All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and the
All-Russia Trade Union Congress on January 17, 1919 (see present edition,
Vol. 28, pp. 403-04). Lenin’s draft was adopted by the C.C. of the
R.C.P.(B.); it was signed also by C. C. members L. B. Kamenev,
G. Y. Zinoviev, J. V. Stalin, Y. D. Stasova, N. N Krestinsky,
M. F. Vladimirsky, N. I. Bukharin, V. V. Schmidt and F E. Dzerzhinsky.