V. I.

Lenin

776

To:   THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PERM GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

October 20, 1922.

The American tractor team, led by Comrade Harold Ware, which is working in Okhansk Uyezd, on the territory of
Perm Gubernia, has achieved considerable results, although
it has been working only a short time. Altogether, up to
1,500 dessiatines has been ploughed up, of which almost
1,000 dessiatines has been sown to winter grain crops.

But for the usual drawbacks in our practice, the said group would have undoubtedly succeeded in achieving even
greater results.

Your report, however, mentions the shortage of gasoline
and lubricating oil, and the shortage of building workers,
but says nothing about what the Gubernia Executive
Committee has done to straighten things out.

It is absolutely intolerable that such a useful undertaking does not meet with every possible support, especially
on the part of local organisations, which are in a better
position to analyse any obstacles and help to remove them.

Please give the maximum support to this group, and, in particular, help implement their proposals for the efficient
use of tractors, supply of gasoline, establishment of a
repair shop, housing construction, etc.

The assistance being extended to us by the American agricultural groups is most desirable and timely. Our task
in all this is mainly to help them carry out their ideas
with the least possible delay.

Please inform me of the results of your measures through
Comrade Smolyaninov, and also of any specially important current needs which you are unable to meet yourself.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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