Nizhny Novgorod residents ask you to tell them (in confidence) in advance how much bread you will give them.

Otherwise de Comprodpost will encourage strikes. For it gives only after the strike and thus teaches the workers to strike.

[ tell them: 60 in June and we'll divide it into "dachas" 5, 16, 23.VI ]

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 24078 - autograph.

1V.I.Lenin received the following reply from the People's Commissariat for Food: "Answer: the Nizhny Novgorod people - Kaganovich and the gubprodkommissar - have been to see me and t. Yakovleva. They were told about the situation in the near future and finally agreed. They themselves are not working well. During May Nizhny got enough. The strikers are encouraging the Red Army rations. At the suggestion of Komprod, the Sormov factories will receive bread after the strike has ended. It was conspired with them and secretly. During May 506 were promised and 66 were given. Art. Khalatov.

My proposal [it was not possible to parse it further. - Ed.] is only wasting your time. V. Yakovleva.

We should have put the lovebirds in jail for 3 days so that they could think how to pump out bread in their province, which they still haven't done. A.Tsyurupa" (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 1, d. 24078)