**Under threat of immediate arrest of the entire Executive Committee, I order the cessation of the expulsion of agents and workers of the Stromat Society and the Mariinsky Partnership. Instruct that no obstacles be placed in the procurement of firewood by the aforementioned organizations. A Commission for the investigation of this matter is departing from Moscow.**

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written September 6, 1919

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the typescript signed by V. I. Lenin