Letter to V. A. Avanesov on Shock-Transport Factories and Warehouse Affairs
Письмо В. А. Аванесову об ударно-транспортных заводах и о складочном деле
Date: 1921-10-15
Source: Lenin Miscellany 8, p. 56
Translated by: AI (Claude)

October 15, [1921]

Comrade Avanesov! Should we not transfer part of the shock-transport factories from the Supreme Economic Council to the People's Commissariat of Railways? (in connection with yesterday's meeting).

We must interest the consumer.

Think it over.

With communist greetings, Lenin.

Regarding warehouse affairs. Could we not resolve:

Warehouse employees receive a bonus for clearing 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 of a warehouse if they dispatch (deliver) its contents directly to production enterprises of the state (factories, state farms, etc.).

The same bonus is received by recipients from warehouses for delivery to the same factories, etc.

Without personal interest nothing will come out. We must be able to create interest.

And T. – is not intelligent. You will be responsible for such a "chairman," you personally. Keep this in mind.

An intelligent person is needed here.

Lenin.

*) It was not possible to establish exactly what is being discussed here.
"Chairman" – chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense commission on organizing warehouse affairs, formed October 14, 1921.