V. I.

Lenin

October 15

Comrade Avanesov, Should not part of the shock transport works be handed
over by the Supreme Economic Council to the People’s
Commissariat for Communications (in connection with yesterday’s
question)? [1]

The consumer must be given an incentive.

Think it over.

With communist greetings, Lenin

As regards storage. Let’s decree:

Workers in stores receive a bonus for clearing 1/8, 1/4,
1/2 of the store if they dispatch (deliver) its contents
directly to state productive enterprises (factories, state farms,
and the like).

The same bonus is given to those drawing these materials
from the stores for delivery to the same factories, etc.

Unless there is personal interest, no damned thing will
come of it. We must find a way to produce incentives.

But Troyanovsky is not clever. You will answer for such
a “chairman”, you personally. Bear that in mind.

You need a clever man on this job.

Lenin