1 An inscription made on a letter from a figure in the American workers' movement, secretary-treasurer of the committee for the defense of the organization "Industrial Workers of the World" W. Haywood to the Dutch communist engineer S. Yu. Rutgers with a request to appeal to the Soviet government for assistance to the committee to provide support to political prisoners who are members of the organization "Industrial Workers of the World."
26499

DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY
[July 4, 1920]

Remind me on 7/VII at the P. Bureau.

1 A resolution written on a report memorandum by G. V. Chicherin addressed to V. I. Lenin concerning the authorized representative of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee in Vladivostok V. D. Vilenskii (Sibiriyakov). Vilenskii was accused by the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of independent actions, speaking on behalf of the RSFSR without coordination with the center, and of ignoring the Far Eastern Republic by him.
14599

MEMORANDUM OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF TRANSPORT
[5. VII. 1920]

People's Commissariat of Transport
To the Head of the Auto Section

I request that tires be issued to driver Gil for the automobiles serving the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars:

tires 920 X 120 — 12 units tubes 920 X 120 — 11 »

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from a typescript signed by V. I. Lenin

1 The document bears resolutions from workers of the economic section of the People's Commissariat of Transport: "Economic Section approves issuing 4 tires 920 X 120 in reciprocal exchange" and "Economic Department approves for issuance 2 tires 920 X 120 in reciprocal exchange." "...L. P. issue whatever you have immediately."

S. K. Gil — party member from 1930. From 1917 to 1924 — driver for V. I. Lenin.
14616

MEMORANDUM TO N. N. KRESTINSKI
[1920, July 7]

1) I cannot accept [this].
2) I agree to remove Bokii, provided there is a candidate 2.

1 Written on a memorandum from N. N. Krestinski, secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b), apparently at a Politburo session discussing the composition of the Turkestan Commission, with a request to replace member of the Turkestan Commission G. I. Bokii with another comrade, along with information that the chairman of the Turkestan Central Executive Committee T. R. Ryskulov, Khodjaev and Ivanov, who are leaving in a day, are asking Lenin for an audience.

G. I. Bokii — party member from 1900. After the October Socialist Revolution — secretary of the Petrograd Committee of the RCP(b).

* There is a response from Krestinski offering a number of candidates in place of Bokii. Lenin placed signs next to each name: +, —, ?.
14666

MEMORANDUM TO G. V. CHICHERIN
[1920, July, later than the 12th]

Comrade Chicherin! Please forward to comrade Krestinski for the Comintern workers.

Lenin

1 The memorandum was written on a letter from M. G. Vronskii, authorized representative of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR on the affairs of prisoners of war in Austria, dated July 12, 1920 from Berlin, reporting his departure to Vienna and requesting that, if possible, he be utilized for work in Germany, as he could be of greater service there; the letter also raised the question of lack of coordination in the decisions and actions among Commissar of Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin, Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Estonia I. E. Gukovski, Commissar of Foreign Trade L. B. Krasin, and People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs worker V. L. Kopp regarding the RSFSR's purchases of goods abroad.

14658

ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS AND NOTATIONS
ON A RADIOGRAM BY G. V. CHICHERIN
TO D. CURZON
[No earlier than July 12 — no later than July 17, 1920]

...In the matter of reconciliation with Poland, the Soviet government considers it necessary to take into account, besides the interests and strivings of the Russian laboring masses, only the interests and strivings of the Polish laboring masses and considers it possible therefore to achieve peace with Poland only through direct negotiations with the Polish Government of Poland...

...The Soviet government cannot fail to take into account the circumstance that this border was established by the Supreme Council in a certain part under pressure from counterrevolutionary Russian elements, adherents of the fallen old regime of the bourgeoisie and landowners, and that, for example in the Kholm region, the decision on this question by the Supreme Council obviously bore upon itself the influence of these counterrevolutionary elements and followed in the footsteps of the anti-Polish policy of tsarism and imperialist Great Russian bourgeoisie on this question. Soviet Russia is prepared in general with respect to the conditions of peace in all the greater degree to meet the interests and wishes of the Polish state, the further the Polish people proceeds in its internal life along such a path as will create a firm foundation for genuine fraternal relations among the laboring peoples of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania and will create guarantees that Poland will cease to be an instrument of attacks and intrigues against the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia and other nations *.

Printed from a typescript corrected by V. I. Lenin

1 The note of the Government of the RSFSR to the Government of Great Britain, into which V. I. Lenin made corrections, was published on July 18, 1920 in the newspaper "Izvestiya of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee," No. 157; in 1959 it was included in the book "Documents of the Foreign Policy of the USSR," vol. III.

George Nathaniel Curzon — English reactionary statesman and diplomat. From 1919 to 1924 — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain. Was one of the principal organizers of foreign military intervention against Soviet Russia.

14911

RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM FROM MINSK
[1920, August 4]

Must call Smilga to direct wire  i m m e d i a t e l y  a n d  d e c i d e:  if we cannot provide bread and so on, then  m a k e  p e a c e  with Tariba.

Lenin

1 Written on a telegram from I. T. Smilga reporting that famine had begun in Vilno in connection with the blockade of the city by the bourgeois-nationalist government of Lithuania headed by Tariba. Smilga requested an order from the People's Commissariat of Food Supply to send 30,000 poods of grain and money to purchase food for the population of Vilno. Lenin makes underlinings in the telegram.

I. T. Smilga — was in the party from 1907. After the October Socialist Revolution held responsible military and Soviet positions. Repeatedly spoke against the general line of the party.

At this time — member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front.
14940

MEMORANDUM TO L. A. FOTIYEVA
[1920, August 7]

O n  f o r e i g n  w o r k e r s 1.

Lidia Aleksandrovna,

1) Check whether (my) paper [is ready] for Kurskii.
2) Remind me at the Council of People's Commissars.

1 The memorandum concerns the labor arrangement of foreign workers who came to Soviet Russia to work. The memorandum was written on a letter from the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet G. E. Zinovyev reporting on Norwegian and German workers in Petrograd and Moscow.

This question repeatedly came before the state authorities at that time (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 51, p. 193; Lenin Miscellany XXXVIII, pp. 322—325).

On August 5, 1920, the question of immigration of foreign workers to the RSFSR was discussed at a Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b); a number of concrete measures were adopted. The Plenum proposed that Lenin entrust People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR D. I. Kurskii to investigate all circumstances connected with the situation of Norwegian workers in Petrograd and Moscow.

On August 31, 1920, Kurskii wrote a detailed report memorandum addressed to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin. The memorandum detailed the conditions of life and work created for a group of Norwegian workers in Petrograd and Moscow.

15013

MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY
[1920, August 13]

1) If it does not work out today (3—4), then tomorrow.
2) S a m e  r e  L e  P e t i t 2 (through Abramovich) 3.

1 Written on a memorandum from K. Steingardt (Gruber), delegate to the II Congress of the Comintern from the Communist Party of German Austria, requesting an audience for himself and K. Tomann. They were received on August 14.

2 Lepti — worker, anarchist, active figure in the trade union movement of France. In 1920 he was at the II Congress of the Comintern as representative of the committee for the adherence of the left wing of the General Confederation of Labor to the Third International.

3 A. E. Abramovich — party member from 1908. After the October Socialist Revolution served in the Red Army, worked in the Comintern (until 1931). From 1932 — in party and subsequently pedagogical work.

15010

DIRECTIVE TO THE SECRETARY
[August 13, 1920]

Get in touch with Karakhan and set [a meeting] for tomorrow (12—4).

1 The directive was written on a memorandum from People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin reporting that a delegation of the Turkish government [continues...]