It is necessary to introduce individualisation of current work and responsibility
of all members of the State Planning Commission.

All members of the State Planning Commission, with exceptions established specially in each
case by decisions of its presidium, shall receive from the presidium assignments for systematic
study of all materials concerning the fulfilment of definite economic functions from the standpoint of planned rationality and actual fulfilment
of plans (for example, economy of fuel; its transport; underloading on the railways; closure
of unnecessary enterprises; distribution of food from the standpoint of
economising it and raising labour productivity, etc., etc.).

The same assignment may be entrusted to two or more members if the interests of the work require
study and verification of the plan from different points of view or by different methods.

Under such a system the Council of Labour and Defence will, by means of particular assignments, distract the entire State Planning Commission less from its general work, and, moreover,
greater productivity of the work of the State Planning Commission will be achieved and more precise responsibility of its members established.

I request that this proposal be placed on the agenda of the presidium and that its decision be communicated to me. 354

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Written on June 2, 1921

First published in 1939

in the journal "Krasny Arkhiv" No. 5

Printed from the manuscript