of consumers' societies, to the extent of the development of their technical-economic apparatus, towards the purchase, procurement, processing and production of goods, on the assignment of state supply organs and the Supreme Council of the National Economy, with their assistance and under their control.

During the session of the Central Committee [CITK] on April 9, 1948, in the discussion of the question of cooperation, Lenin made a record of the speakers' statements, with notation of the time of their statements. On the same sheet of paper, Lenin made a sketch of his own speech (see note 42, p. 274) and notes from the speeches of certain speakers. Final consideration of the question, in view of the absence of representatives from the Commissariat of Food, was postponed to April 10.