V. I.

Lenin

365

NOTE TO V. M. MOLOTOV AND ASSIGNMENT TO SECRETARY [1]

Urgent

Comrade Molotov:

In view of the extreme importance of this question and its (I hope) indisputable nature, I propose that this should
be circulated for reading by all members of the Politbureau ,
and approved by phone (I consider my amendments adopted, if they are not questioned either by the C.C. members
or the members of the commission: if they are questioned,
I suggest adoption without these amendments, so as not to drag things out ). Be sure to pass it also through the
All-Russia Central T.U.C. and to publish it on behalf of
the C.P.C. , with this obligatory indication: approved by
both the All-Russia Central T.U.C. and the R.C.P. Central Committee .

I am sending these theses to Oborin in Petrograd on
Monday, 5/IX, asking him to phone his opinion. It is important to have the opinion (and I hope consent) of the
Petrograd trade union functionaries.

Comrade Molotov : A list of these 30 persons should be obtained and kept at the C.C. archives together with
the date of this conference.

Lenin

4/IX.

Send urgently to Molotov after Lepeshinskaya’s entry of the amendments.

Lenin

4/IX.

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Notes:
[1]
Written on A. S. Kiselyov’s letter, saying that lie had sent
Lenin a draft of the “Basic Propositions on the Rating Question”
drawn up by members of the Narrow C.P.C. (A. S. Kiselyov,
A. A. Belov and Y. I. Gindin) and approved by a conference
of heads of the major production associations, attended by nearly
30 men. This draft was based on the directives of the R.C.P.(B.)
Central Committee. Having acquainted himself with the draft
theses, Lenin made his corrections, emphasising the direct
connection between remuneration for labour and the results of
production (see Lenin Miscellany XXIII , pp. 258–60). After an
all-round discussion by the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee, the C.L.D.,
at a joint silting of the bureaus of Party groups of the All-Russia
Central T.U.C., the Moscow gubernia T.U.C. and the Party
group of the S.E.C. Presidium, the “Basic Propositions on the
Rating Question” were approved by the C.P.C. on September
16, and published in Izvestia VTsIK No. 207, on September 17,