Request by secret telephone message
Kharkov, CC CPU, Comrade Kon

The CC CPU has passed a resolution proposing that the provincial committees conduct at the provincial congresses of the Poor Peasants' Committees a 400-ruble contribution in favor of the starving [and] 50% of the provincial fund of the Poor Peasants' Committees. I request that you report whether this directive has been implemented locally.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Written September 19, 1921

First published in 1933 in the Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin