V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v24
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek); AI-translated.

NOTES ON THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF AUTOMOBILE ORGANISATIONS.
[Not later than 27 April 1919]

Remind me today at the Council of People's Commissars, with Rykov.¹

2nd All-Russian Congress of Representatives of Automobile Organisations.
(opens 27/IV. Until Saturday*)

How to form the board?
The specialists (they have the majority) want for themselves...
very few communists
The trade unionists... out of 27—7,

¹ On the reverse of the document is the following reply from A. I. Rykov, written by him, apparently, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars: "At the congress, an inter-departmental commission will be decided upon instead of a board, since the 'departments' are afraid to hand over the matter immediately and completely. Alongside such a board of three, which will conduct the whole affair, it will be necessary to organise a board of 7–9 persons to guarantee all and sundry interests, on condition of the unconditional unification of repair and accounting. There are no major specialists, organisers of the automobile industry, in Russia; there are either professors (Brilling) or petty adventurers. It is necessary to make use of both, but the matter cannot be handed over to them. Composition of the narrow board: 1) a representative from the Supreme Council of the National Economy, 2) from the specialists, 3) from the trade union."

* The 2nd All-Russian Congress of Representatives of Automobile Organisations was held in Moscow from 27 April to 7 May 1919. The central issue before the congress was the reorganisation of the country's automobile economy.