Copy of provincial transport order, Volgoprod

A large salt caravan has accumulated in Nizhny Novgorod port, requiring urgent unloading. Approximately 5 million poods of salt are in the pipeline. Unloading is proceeding extremely slowly due to the shortage of loaders provided to Volgoprod, as well as low labor productivity, despite full satisfaction of basic rations. By decree of May 31, 1921, the Council of People's Commissars recognized salt transport as a matter of military-operational priority.