[May 1, 1921]

1) Instruct the Central Committee of the Metalworkers' Union and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions to pay
special attention to the more rapid implementation of the plan to
close as many unworkable enterprises as possible in order to concentrate production in a small number of the bestequipped enterprises.
A report on the exact plan, on the calendar program of closure,
and on actual implementation, to be presented by Shlyapnikov
and Medvedev in one month or their deputies, by Kubyako,
and by Goltsman + Andreev to the Council of Labour and Defence.
2) Instruct Shlyapnikov: to develop more concretely the most
important and quickly implementable proposals from Shlyapnikov's draft.