V. I.

Lenin

461

To:   L. S. SOSNOVSKY [1]

22/X.

Comrade Sosnovsky:

I have received your letter concerning Yezhov.

I very much doubt that we could afford to let 1,000– 1,500 warehouse and office workers get

1,250,000–1,500,000 ( Soviet) rubles a month.

Hardly.

I think: work out bonuses for rapid clearing of warehouse
in economic enterprise (state plant, factory, state farm,
etc.).

It is up to Yezhov to put through your other proposals (and a copy for me).

Let us have a precise and short draft.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written in reply to L. S. Sosnovsky’s letter, setting out his plan to improve the work of the S.E.C.’s state warehouses. Among the measures he proposed were: to secure a salary of from 30 to

50 gold rubles for 1,000–1,500 warehouse workers and employees, and up to 75 rubles for executive workers; to set deadlines for the storage of goods, etc.