V. I. Lenin

To the Trade Union Committee and all Workers of the First State Motor Works [1]

Dear comrades, Comrade Smirnov, Chairman of your Trade Union Committee, has
informed me of the production of motors and has invited me to
attend the ceremony on April 7.

Please accept my congratulations, comrades, on the success of
your efforts and the anniversary of the courses for mechanics. With all my heart, I wish you vigorous pursuit of
your work, in which you are sure to score further successes. They are of especial significance from the standpoint
of the whole mass of workers and peasants, because, the
development of motor production in Russia, with her abundant oil
resources, holds out the possibility of organising the supply of
peasant farms with efficient and low-cost machines. You must do
all you can to make motor manufacture an even greater success.

With best wishes and communist greetings, Lenin

Endnotes

[1] Lenin’s
reply to a letter from the Trade! Union Committee of the First
State Motor Works informing him about the production of motors
and inviting him to attend a ceremony on April 7, 1921. Lenin
sent his congratulations Wishing his message to be cabled to the
workers at the right time, he wrote; “To be sent at 12 o'clock.”