FIREWOOD AND LUMBER
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9868.
NOTE TO A. D. TSIURUPA.
December 5, 1921
Comrade Tsiurupa!
You will see from the papers what the matter is.

Glavleskom [Main Administration of the Timber Industry] is weak with us. (Smilga's departure for treatment will weaken it even more).

Therefore, we must think about how to help the firewood situation, so that there is no collapse in the spring or by spring.

Lenin.

2969 TELEGRAM TO THE MINSK PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND PROVINCIAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL*.

Minsk, Provincial Executive Committee, Provincial Economic Council.

December 19, 1921

I propose immediately developing exceptional energy to assist all forest organs in fulfilling the tasks of intensified removal and harvesting of firewood and lumber during the intensive winter months, strengthening the volost labor departments in carrying out the fulfillment by the population of the norms imposed on them for logging and removal in the order of labor conscription and labor tax. Conduct an intensified agitation campaign in the countryside for the population to fulfill the task, applying, where necessary, measures of influence. Immediately organize and transfer part of the procurement to the means of the consumer himself, leaving for state funds the payment for the procurement and removal of firewood, lumber for the most urgent needs of the state, such as: railways, water transport, military department, large state industry, guided by the instructions of Glavtop, Glavleskom "No. 811-812. I point out the exceptional difficulty of fully supplying work from the center. Due to the depletion of reserves, I propose seeking to the maximum extent local funds for the payment of work. Under no circumstances should the monetary material resources allocated by the center for logging be diverted to other needs. Report to Glavleskom on the measures taken.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin.

* Printed from a typed copy. Ed.