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Lenin

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To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Comrade Kamenev:

I send this for your information. I have not read it myself. [1]

NB: We have been too hasty, hasty to no purpose with the law on bonuses in kind in the form of factory products
for exchange. [2] Mark my word: haste is harmful in this matter , and will lead to no good.

All possible delays and limitations of this measure could
still and should be put through.

Otherwise, you will be very sorry (and you yourself, above all, because the workers will curse you for the
“fraud”).

Yours,

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the letter and draft decree on improving the
conditions of workers and employees engaged in transport, industry
and the major public enterprises, sent to Lenin by E. V.
Luganovsky, head of the S.E.C.’s Construction Department.

[2]
On April 7, the C.P.C. passed a decree on bonuses in kind for
workers, which said: “To introduce, by way of experiment,
bonuses in kind for the workers of some of the most important
industries, by issuing to the workers a part of the products they
manufacture for exchange for agricultural produce” ( Izvestia VTsIK No. 76, April 9, 1921).