Please organize a meeting under your chairmanship on the issue of empty cars for Ukraine and on the transportation plan, with the participation of the People's Commissariat of Railways, the People's Commissariat of Food, as well as Comrade Chubar, and also Glavtop and Bogdanov.

Given the extreme importance and urgency of the matter, I kindly request that the People's Commissars or their deputies attend in person, and not send secondary staff.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Ulyanov (Lenin)

* See this volume, document 295. Ed.