V. I.

Lenin

491

TELEGRAM TO T. V. SAPRONOV

26. XII. 1919

Sapronov [1]

Gubernia Executive Committee or Gubernia Revolutionary
Committee
Kharkov
Copy to Vladimirov, Chairman of the Special Food
Commission of the Southern Front

The transport situation is so grave here that heroic efforts
are needed both for deliveries of coal here and even more
for stepping up repairs to locomotives. Put the best people
on this, check personally, introduce a bonus in grain for every locomotive repaired, restore the best
repair-shops, introduce work in two and three shifts. Telegraph
fulfilment.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence

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Notes:
[1]
At the top of the manuscript, Lenin wrote: “top priority, by
direct line. Inform me of the hour of delivery to addressees in Kharkov . Lenin .”— Ed.