1920

This measure should be extended to the institutions of the military department and the Moscow Soviet.

Report on the execution to be scheduled in the Council of Labor and Defense in a week.

ON WORKS ON CLEANING THE FAIRWAY OF THE NORTHERN DVINA

a) Take note of the report.

b) Instruct Glavvod to take all dependent measures to deepen the bypass fairway in the area of magnetic mines on the Northern Dvina River.

c) Instruct Comrade Avanesov to check whether all measures have been taken to implement the new invention on catching mines.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from
Protocol A? 120 of the administrative meeting of the Council of Labor and Defense,
May 12, 1920.
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FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE
MAY 11, 1920

ON THE REPORT OF I. V. STALIN
ON SUPPLYING THE ARMY OF THE WESTERN FRONT WITH CLOTHING

1. Instruct the
Cheka to take the most decisive measures to combat speculation in items of military
uniform.

2. Persons guilty of concealing or selling both finished products and materials suitable for military uniforms,
should be held accountable on the basis of the decree on martial law.

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3. Instruct Comrade Bronstein, the authorized representative of the Council of Labor and Defense, to bring those guilty of releasing military uniform materials and finished products for non-military needs to the Military Revolutionary Tribunal.

4. Propose that Glavtop provide 184,660 poods of oil and 336,800 poods of anthracite within one year for the production of woolen cloth in three districts: Penza, Tambov, Simbirsk for diesels (without the right to use oil for heating and burning in furnaces and boilers), so that delivery begins immediately with the expectation of ensuring a two-month supply as soon as possible.

5. Instruct Glavtop to supply the Tambov, Penza and Simbirsk districts with 30,000 cubic meters of firewood for a six-month period of their activity. Glavtop must submit for approval to the Supreme Council for Transportation a plan for the transportation of the above-mentioned quantity of firewood, and this plan must be approved within two days.

Glavtop must submit a written report on the execution to the next meeting of the Council of Labor and Defense.

Instruct Glavtop to enter into an agreement with Glavkomtrud on the issue of providing forest transportation for the textile industry by horse-drawn means.

6. Instruct Comrade Bronstein to immediately inform Komprod of the nomenclature of goods approved by the commission of Comrade Stalin.

ON THE STATE OF PRODUCTION IN THE FIELD OF SUPPLYING
CARTRIDGES. RIFLES AND MACHINE GUNS

a) Point out to Chusosnabarm, the military department and the Council of Military Industry the obvious inaccuracy they discovered in weakening the apparatus for the production of cartridges and weapons, since they were not given appropriate instructions from the Council of Labor and Defense.

b) Create a commission under the chairmanship of Comrade Stalin from representatives of the Promvoensovet and the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, with the right to replace himself only with a specially authorized person fully competent in the issue of the production of cartridges and weapons.