TELEGRAM TO ALL PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES 452

Copy to the People's Commissariat of Railways

In view of the particular importance of repairing the river and sea fleets, all provincial executive committees, under the responsibility of their chairmen, are requested, discarding unnecessary formality and red tape, to provide the water transport bodies with all possible assistance in supplying them with materials, food, labor, and premises.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin