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1) In an especially urgent shock, revolutionary order,
lean on immediately on the collection of pilot in
Moscow] Gubernia (rye has already been reaped). Mobilize for this purpose specifically Moscow]
workers to help the food organs.
2) In general
mobilize more workers for food work, drawing from
People's Commissariats, according to yesterday's decision
of the Politburo (take an extract)
5.
3) Send once again precise orders to the Ukrainian] and Si
berian] People's Commissariats of Food.
4) Delegate an emergency expedition (together with C[entro-
Soyuz]) to Podolskaya
Gubernia, where, they say, there's a ton of bread and it costs 6000 rubles with Soviet] money.
(In general, my impression is that the People's Commissariat of Food is yawning [falling behind] disgracefully with purchase and commodity exchange. There is no initiative.
There is no vigorous work).
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Please answer me 11 / VII.
1 This concerns the distribution department of the People's Commissariat of Food.
* Svidersky A. I. — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food.
я Vyshinsky A. Ya. — in 1921 was head of the distribution
department of the People's Commissariat of Food.
4 Lobachev I. S.— member of the presidium of the People's Commissariat of Food.
5 On July 9, the Politburo adopted the following decision on the issue of "Strengthening Food Work":
"To confirm to the Orgburo the necessity of sublation of
the maximum number of communists and, as an exception, other especially valuable comrades from their work for transfer to food
work, not stopping at the closure for a time of at least
a whole series of departments of the institution and even whole, not absolutely important People's Commissariats."
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TELEGRAMS

A l l l * l - ; . l l l - S JULY 7, 1921
TO
M. I. FRUMKIN AND S. D. MARKOV IN ROSTOV-ON-DON.
Rostov-on-Don. To Frumkin, copy to R. N. * Markov.
Very urgent. Out of turn.
[April 12, 1921, 0 hours 35 minutes]. **
The formation of shock routes is proceeding extremely unsatisfactorily. Instead of the seventy cars to be transferred [to]
* R. N. — conditional railway address. Ed.
" On the original telegram, in addition to the date and time of dispatch, there is
signature: "Art. Khalatov." Ed.