V. I. Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE NIZHNI NOVGOROD DISTRICT MILITARY COMMISSAR *
[18 July 1919]

Do not call up Red Army men for the present. To unload the timber, organise compulsory labour of the entire population. Take all measures to ensure the speediest unloading. Telegraph daily how much has been unloaded and what has been done. [765]

Chairman, Defence Council, Lenin.

* When the question “of the state of timber floating” was discussed at the meeting of the Defence Council on July 18, 1919, the reporter on this question, G. I. Lomov, was instructed: “To take the most energetic measures, jointly with the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, to mobilise the workers and the entire population in Nizhni Novgorod for unloading timber” (Min. D.C. No. 56, Item 12, of July 18, 1919).— Ed.