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LENIN COLLECTION
24567
RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM FROM I. V. STALIN
June 24, 1919
Moscow People's Commissariat of Food Tsyurupa copy to Lenin Kremlin

The situation with bread in Petrograd has become extremely critical again.
The Army is growing. In recent days Sviderskii (the Petrograd Food Commission
has been forced to completely supply Tsyurupa)
supply the Sixth and Nineteenth Divisions, exhausting its last reserves. Over the course of
the last 40 days the Petrograd Food Commission has received
almost no bread. It is absolutely essential to supply Petrograd with bread at all costs.
Stalin

NOTES ON THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOOD REPORT

We have received such a telegram... Measures have been taken today to ensure that
Petersburg does not run out of bread. Resources for this are being made available: from the White
56 + 70 = 126 thou-
[region] two barges with bread are already on the way (telegrams from the last two days), one
sand poods. Only??
with 56 thousand poods, the other with 70 thousand poods.

To Sviderskii: this is far too little. Sound the alarm! By when will you deliver and how much?

4282
REQUEST TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC*
June 24, 1919

Is this correct? Where are these 33 thousand??

"order for the Sixth Division"—underlined twice by Lenin.
Lenin instructed his secretary, L. A. Fotieva, to communicate this to the Revolutionary Military Council
and to demand from it a response regarding the measures taken on I. V. Stalin's request.

* The request was written on a report from the People's Commissariat of War of Ukraine on the results of
mobilization of workers and officers. The report contained the figure of 33 thousand
mobilized workers, but without indication of when and where they were sent.

1919

24568
RESOLUTION AND NOTES
ON A TELEGRAM FROM THE VYATKA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
June 24, 1919

... We request that an appropriate order be issued to the Central Military Storehouse regarding the release of advances for the work of the Vyatka Military Storehouse
in the manufacture of military equipment, mass production of leather boots,
felt boots, short fur coats, greatcoats, gymnastic shirts,
underwear, carts, harnesses, and belt straps. We have repeatedly appealed by telegraph to the Central Military Storehouse to advance
us funds, but have received nothing thus far. All available funds of the Military Storehouse have been expended; if we do not receive
advances in the coming days, we shall be forced to shut down the factories due to lack of money Chair. of the Supreme Council
for the National Economy:
What has been done? It is necessary to obtain results, the release of
money, and to give [them] a dressing down, even to arrest [them].

for the payment of workers...

14783
FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
JUNE 25, 1919
ON THE INTENSIFICATION OF PRODUCTION AND COLLECTION
OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT

a) A commission is established under the Council of Defense.

b) The commission is entrusted with intensifying the production and collection
of military and supply equipment, bringing it to the quantity necessary
for the active and forming units of the Red Army. The commission is entrusted
with utilizing the resources and reserves of all localities and all departments
of the Russian and Ukrainian republics.

As a matter of priority, the commission is entrusted with directing attention
to the manufacture in Ukraine of gun locks and rifle cartridges.

The commission must submit weekly reports on its activities to the Council of Defense.