TO THE SIMBIRSK, SAMARA, KAZAN,

PENZA, RYAZAN, AND UFA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
Copies to the Railway Executive Committees and Railway Political Departments***
of the Samara-Zlatoust, Syzran-Vyazma, Ryazan-Urals, and Moscow-Kazan Railways

The Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence confirms the necessity of rendering every possible assistance at the first demand of the railway authorities by all provincial, district, and volost executive committees for the loading of foodstuff cargo into railway cars, and also

* This concerns the trip of I. V. Stalin to the Caucasian Front. — Ed.

** The telegram was also signed by the Assistant Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council L. D. Trotsky. — Ed.

*** Railway Political Departments. — Ed.