TELEGRAM TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SIMBIRSK PATRON FACTORY
PATRON FACTORY
May 12, 1919
Comrade Kirill Orlov—Extraordinary Commissioner for the Tula Factories—is hereby dispatched by the Council of Defense to the Simbirsk Patron Factory for a comprehensive inspection of its operations and for the adoption of measures aimed at promptly boosting cartridge production. The factory management, as well as all Soviet institutions, trade unions, military authorities, and railway officials, are instructed to render every possible assistance to Comrade Orlov.
Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin