(2) Convene a conference (Supreme Council of the National Economy + Petrograd Soviet Department + State Planning Commission, with invitations to other interested agencies) for the purpose of drafting within a week's time a draft decree of the Council of Labor and Defense regarding measures to accelerate work and to establish its proper organization 178 (perhaps on the model of the linen trust with expanded powers for Graftio?).

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Send me a report on the execution of this.

Lenin

2/IX.

Written September 2, 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript