[End of November 1921]

Comrade Kuibyshev! The main thing now in the Rutgers affair is to try to improve the composition of the "Organisational Committee"¹.

I will try, through Kuusinen², to question the Finnish Communists. Try also (and Bogdanov), through comrades who know the American labour movement well, to find new reliable candidates. We will insert them into the "Organisational Committee]".

¹ The Organisational Committee was to direct the entire enterprise of the Rutgers group, according to point 5 of the contract finally approved on 26 November 1921.
² O. V. Kuusinen — Finnish Communist, currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.

# THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
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# NOTE TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV¹.
1. IX. [1921]

Comrade Smolyaninov! This question must be prepared for submission to the STO (who is Bogdanov's deputy? Sapronov²? It must be coordinated with him).

It is unclear whether only the best factories have been singled out? Has the number of factories been properly reduced?

Or is the "requirement" calculated for a bunch of feeble and hopeless factories?

This question and other questions must be clarified more precisely.

Lenin.

¹ The note was written by Lenin on the back of a letter from B. P. Pozern, in which the latter asked to be received to clarify the question of the further work of the textile factories.
² T. V. Sapronov — Chairman of the Central Committee of the Construction Workers' Union.

# NOTE TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE¹.
3. X. 1921

Comrade Ordzhonikidze!

I am forwarding to you for your information Comrade Frumkin's² communication and ask you to return it to me with your opinion³.

With communist greetings, Lenin.

¹ G. K. Ordzhonikidze — then leader of the Transcaucasian Party organisation.
² M. I. Frumkin — Deputy People's Commissar for Food.
³ The matter concerns the conclusion of the commission on the question of irrigating the Mugan steppe (Azerbaijan) for growing cotton.

# LETTER TO A. S. KISELEV.
To the Chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars, Comrade Kiselev.
Copies: to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, to the Chairman of the Chief Committee for the Textile Industry, to the People's Commissar for Food, Comrade Kolotilov, to the Chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Economic Council.
10. X. 1921

The Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Economic Council petitions the Council of Labour and Defence to reserve for it 40,000 food rations and 4 billion [rubles] monthly, for the purpose of starting up 22 textile enterprises and producing 80.9 million arshins of grey cloth + 127.9 million arshins of finished goods.

In view of the exceptional importance of the large-scale industry of Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia, both from an economic and a political point of view, it is necessary to exert maximum effort to satisfy the request of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Economic Council, even if at the expense of other regions.

I ask you to convene tomorrow, under your chairmanship, a conference with the participation of the Chief Committee for the Textile Industry (in agreement with the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy) and the People's Commissariat for Food, as well as representatives of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Economic Council, and, if necessary, by summoning a representative of the People's Commissariat for Finance, so as to submit the question tomorrow, 11/X, to the full Council of People's Commissars¹.

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

¹ The proposal to the Small Council of People's Commissars was submitted by Lenin upon receiving, on 10 October 1921, a memorandum from the Chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Executive Committee. The commission for improving the economic situation of Ivanovo-Voznesensk industry, convened the next day under the chairmanship of A. S. Kiselev, reserved the required quantity of rations.