To Comrade Smilga, Chief of GUTU

Copy — Glavbum

Despite my postal-telegraph message of December 2 No. 1160* and the assurances given by Deputy Chief of GUTU Comrade Trifonov in telegram No. 15062 of December 3, that "with regard to the Kondrovskaya factory all measures have been taken and railway deliveries to the factory will be fulfilled in full" — according to a report from Glavbum — the Kondrovskaya factory stopped work from noon on December 8 due to lack of fuel.

I propose that emergency measures be taken immediately to supply the aforementioned factory with fuel, and that an investigation be conducted into who is responsible for the failure to carry out my directive of December 2 and for the submission to me of false information.

Send me a written report on the execution of these measures.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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Written December 14, 1921

First published in 1959 in Leninskiy Sbornik XXXVI

Reproduced from the typewritten