V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL
JUNE 25, 1919

1
ON STEPPING UP THE PRODUCTION AND COLLECTION
OF WAR MATERIEL

(a) A commission is to be set up under the Defence Council.

(b) The commission is instructed to step up the production and collection of war and quartermaster materiel, bringing it up to the quantity required for the existing and forming units of the Red Army. This commission is instructed to utilise the resources and stocks of all localities and all departments of the Russian and Ukrainian Republics.

The commission is instructed, in the first place, to devote attention to the manufacture of gun-locks and rifle cartridges in the Ukraine.

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

Comrade Lenin is authorised to sign, on behalf of the Defence Council, those decisions of the commission under the Defence Council which are adopted unanimously.

If the commission adopts decisions affecting the competence of the Commissariat for Food and the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, the commission must submit these decisions for the opinion of the above-mentioned departments.

If within 12 hours the Commissariat for Food and the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions fail to submit their opinion, the decisions of the commission shall be considered unopposed and Comrade Lenin shall be authorised to sign them on behalf of the Defence Council.

2
ON THE PROGRESS OF WORK IN REPAIRING RIFLES

1) The Small Defence Council is instructed to give priority consideration to the question of increasing the supply of rifles to the army.

2) The War Department is instructed: (a) to strengthen measures for the protection of rifles being dispatched, and (b) to make a special investigation of the case, reported by Comrade Lunacharsky, of a wagon-load of rifles and cartridges being seized by the Whites and deserters.

The report of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic on the fulfilment of this decision is to be placed on the agenda of the Defence Council in a week’s time.

Chairman of the Defence Council,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the minutes of the Defence Council meeting No. 50, June 25, 1919.