V. I.

Lenin

Rough Draft for the C.P.C. Decision on Moscow’s Food Supply [1]

Rough Draft For The C.P.C. Decision

| | 1) Agreement to be formally signed [2] |
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| Labour rations? | 2) Daily reports to he reintroduced [3] |
| exact information re grain-collecting places and state of
transport | 3) Workers to be mobilised on transport |
| | task to he entrusted to

Moscow. Trade Union Council + Commissariat for Railways |
| | 4) Specially urgent: consider measures for transporting potatoes and controlling deliveries |
| | 5) Emergency issue (meat?) to be approved. |

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Notes:
[1]
The question of Moscow’s food supply was discussed at a meeting of the
C.P.C. on December , 1919, The Council’s decision on this question was
formulated on the basis of Lenin’s rough draft. —Editor

[2]
This refers to the agreement between the Commissariat for Rail-ways and
the Food Commissariat on the question of the transportation of grain from
the producing to the consuming areas. “The agreement,” stated the
Council’s decision, “should ensure regular deliveries to Moscow of such a
quantity of breadstuffs as was necessary for its class ration
distribution” (Central Party Archives, Institute of Marxism-Leninism of
the CC.of the C.P.S.U.). —Editor

[3]
This refers to the daily reports to the C.P.C. concerning the supply
of breadstuffs to Moscow and the movement of potato freights for
Moscow. —Editor