31.III. 1919 г.

Temporarily, until the reorganization of the Secretariat of the Council of People's Commissars and the establishment of a permanent board of secretaries, the following Bureau of the collective of employees of the Council of People's Commissars is approved, consisting of Y. Agranov, M. Glasser and M. Avilova and the candidate L. Fotieva. The functions of the Collective Bureau are to supervise the work, hiring, dismissal of all employees of the Office of Affairs and their allocation to the categories of tariff rates.

It is obliged: 1) to supervise the correct and quick work of the employees; 2) to check the recommendations of those accepted for service; 3) to investigate in each individual case the reasons for the dismissal of employees; 4) to find candidates to replace the unfit employees of the Department of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars with fully fit for the job, if possible, Communists or persons with the recommendation of old Party workers; 5) to examine the applications of employees about incorrect entries in the categories.

The Bureau of the Collective has the right to make a reasoned statement to the Business Manager of the Council of People's Commissars about the undesirability of one or another of the employees remaining in service in the Office of the Collective, both from among the persons newly recruited by the Business Manager and the Chancellery Governor and those invited by them earlier in addition to the Bureau of the Collective. In case of disagreement of the Director of Affairs with the opinion of the Bureau of the Collective, the matter shall be referred to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars for a decision.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars [Council of People's Commissars]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 9062 - original.

1The document has a note of the manager of the Sovnarkom VD Bonch-Bruevich: "For information and execution. V.B.B."