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TELEGRAM TO ALL TIMBER COMMITTEES AND GUBERNIA CHEKA

To All Gubernia, District, Regional and Railway Timber
Committees, to All Gubernia Cheka (Copies to the All-Russia Cheka and
to Comrade Avanesov, Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection)

Despite constant reminders from the Central
Administration of the Timber Industry, the timber committees
continue to delay their progress reports, or are submitting them incomplete or drawn up in the wrong form. It is high,
time that everyone should understand that the absence of
precise information on the replenishment of the firewood
and material stock greatly hampers the centre’s planning
and distribution work, and has a grave effect on every branch of the national economy, because wood fuel is the
basis for the operation of all state industry and the railways, while timber, apart from meeting the country’s acute
domestic needs, serves as a real basis for our foreign trade, without which the economic revival of the
Republic is impossible. This is a categorical order to all timber
committees at once to regulate their reports on the stocking, carting out and delivery of firewood, charcoal and
timber; all gubernia Cheka must see to the precise observance of the deadlines and forms laid down by the C.A.T.I.
Under the personal responsibility of all timber committee
chairmen I demand precise and speedy replies with a list
of all those personally responsible for the submission of
reports. [2]

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s
Commissars [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The telegram is also signed by V. A. Trifonov, deputy chief
of the Central Fuel Administration and K. Kh. Danishevsky, chief of
the C.A.T.I.— Ed.

[2]
The last sentence was written by Lenin.