16534

RESOLUTION ON A. M. LEZHAVA'S NOTE¹

To the Little Soviet

I request that this matter be considered urgently, summoning the People's Commissar of Foreign Trade and the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs or their deputies².

16/XII [1920] Lenin

¹ In his note of December 13, A. M. Lezhava wrote that the head of the Danish seed firm Theodore Jensen sent an Appeal to the Council of People's Commissars in the name of V. I. Lenin in connection with the non-payment by the Soviet government to this firm of a debt since 1918.

² On December 20, 1920, at a session of the Little Council of People's Commissars, a commission was established, which included representatives of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs; the commission was to prepare this question for the next session of the Little Council of People's Commissars. On December 27, the Little Council of People's Commissars unanimously adopted the decision: "The petition of the firm T. Jensen is to be recognized as not subject to consideration, in view of the fact that the very consideration of this question and the clarification of all disputed circumstances of the case is possible only with the existence of a duly authorized representative of the RSFSR in Denmark, which could verify on the spot all disputed circumstances of the case and establish mutual claims." This decision bears the signature of V. I. Lenin.

25896

REMARKS ON THE DRAFT DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS ON THE ORGANIZATION OF CRIMEAN HEALTH RESORTS FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE¹

[December 18, 1920]

To the Introduction

a) The tsarist and capitalist dachas, palaces,
+  By agreement with the Crimean Revolutionary Committee and the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars

b) 5000 by January 1 and May 1; 300,000

1) Commission of trade unions
2) send a commission there from workers of Petrograd, Moscow + Ivanovo-Voznesensk
3) appoint for the first period for workers²

In view of the exceptional importance of the liberated Crimea for the treatment and restoration of the health of the working people and Red Army soldiers, the Council of People's Commissars resolves:

1. Oblige the People's Commissariat of Health to take measures for the speediest opening of Crimean sanatoriums.

2. The People's Commissariat of Food Supply shall immediately provide the sanatoriums with food suitable for sanatorium treatment, ensuring a constant monthly supply of it.

3. The People's Commissariat of Transport shall expedite, in emergency order and at the first request of the People's Commissariat of Health, sanitary trains directed for the delivery and evacuation of the sick.

4. The Chief Fuel Administration shall immediately direct to Crimea a sufficient quantity of fuel for the entire winter period.

5. The Motor Vehicle Section of the Supreme Council of the National Economy shall place at the disposal of Crimea, by agreement with the People's Commissariat of Health, the necessary quantity of automobiles for the transportation of the sick, food, etc.

6. The People's Commissariat of Land shall provide the Crimean resorts and sanatoriums with dairy farms, as well as vineyards and kitchen gardens, both for the implementation of a labor regime in the sanatoriums and for the improvement of nutrition for the sick.

7. Not a single building on the Crimean coast suitable for sanatoriums or health resorts or for their servicing may be occupied by any persons or institutions without the consent of the People's Commissariat of Health.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Secretary
Manager of Affairs

¹ The draft decree on the organization of a health resort for the working people in Crimea was submitted at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on December 18, 1920. The Council of People's Commissars adopted the decision: to submit the draft decree to a commission, which within a 2-day period was to rework the decree in accordance with the instructions set forth at the session of the Council of People's Commissars, and to coordinate it with the interested people's commissariats, to edit the decree and authorize Lenin to sign it on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars.

² The remarks of V. I. Lenin were taken into account and were reflected in the decree of the Council of People's Commissars on the use of Crimea for the treatment of the working people, adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on February 15, 1921. In the introductory part of the decree it was stated: "The beautiful dachas and private houses which were formerly used by large landowners and capitalists: the palaces of former tsars and grand princes must be converted into sanatoriums and health resorts for workers and peasants.

For the implementation of this, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, by agreement with the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the Revolutionary Committee of Crimea, resolves:

1) Oblige the People's Commissariat of Health to open sanatoriums in Crimea in the shortest possible time, calculated so that by January 5000 beds would be opened, and in spring—25,000 beds.

Supervision of the selection of sick workers, as well as of their placement in sanatoriums in Crimea, is entrusted to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions jointly with the People's Commissariat of Health, instructing them to attract to this work representatives of the trade councils of Petrograd, Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kharkov, and the Donbas."