MEMORANDUM TO M. P. TOMSKY, V. V. SHMIDT,
A. D. TSIURUPA and V. P. MILYUTIN
[May 29, 1920]
I propose that a commission be urgently created from representatives of:
the People's Commissariat of Labour (or the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions)
the People's Commissariat of Food the Supreme Council of National Economy
and a member of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee, Comrade Paikes, to discuss the question of the possibility of immediately transferring unoccupied industrial workers from famine-stricken areas to Siberia for food work and the food army (for the summer and autumn of 1920), and perhaps even transferring one factory.
Deadline for report to the Council of People's Commissars – Tuesday, June 1.

Chairman
Council of People's Commissars