V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE TULA METALWORKERS' CONGRESS

Presidium of the Metalworkers' Congress , Tula (Copy to be sent to Melnichansky)

I welcome with all my heart the decision of the Tula
Metalworkers' Congress to increase tenfold the output of
arms, etc. [1] Please inform me monthly, by post or by messenger, exactly what actual successes are being achieved
on all your decisions.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In its telegram to Lenin of July 11, 1919, the Presidium of the
Tula Gubernia Metalworkers' Congress declared that the Congress
had voted for a tenfold increase in arms output (underlined twice
by Lenin), the military training of all workers and the forming of
reserve workers' regiments that would be ready at any minute to
go into action against the whiteguards. The Presidium asked Lenin
to convey to the Council of People's Commissars "the

metalworkers' socialist pledge to die or conquer all imperialists of this
country and from abroad".