FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENCE
JUNE 19, 1919
ON MEASURES TAKEN TO INCREASE THE PRODARMIIA [Food Army]
a)
To instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to issue an order through the military department on the immediate dispatch of all persons rejected due to professional mobilization to the prodarmiia.
b)
To instruct the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions, in agreement with the military department, to send five thousand workers-textile workers from the mobilized workers to the prodarmiia as a matter of urgency.
c)
To instruct the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions to take the most vigorous measures to recruit 5,000 people by mobilizing and sending out circulars explaining that, if the above-mentioned number of workers and peasants from starving areas is not received into the prodarmiia, complete famine threatens in July.