Written: Written on May 27, 1921
Published:
First published in 1956 in the journal Istorichesky Arkhiv No. 4.
Printed from a telegram copy.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 540.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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To three addresses 1) Regional Economic Council,
Petrograd
2) Avdeyev and Uglanov, Petrograd
Trade Union Council
3) Mikhailov, Executive Committee,
Petrograd Soviet
In view of Comrade Mikhailov’s complaints about food bonuses not being issued to workmen on electric ploughs,[1] I request that, considering the importance of manufacturing twenty electric ploughs for the autumn ploughing, the question be settled urgently and agreed. May 27.
Let me have an exact reply.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
[1] An apparent reference to the non-fulfilment by Petrograd organs of the decision of the Council of Labour and Defence of January 28, 1921, on “Bonuses to Industrial and Office Workers Engaged in the Making of, Electric Ploughs” (see Istorichesky Arkhiv [ Historical Archives], 1956, No. 4, p. 18).
L. M. Mikhailov was chairman of the commission set up under the Petrograd Soviet with the task of distributing orders for electric ploughs among the Petrograd plants and organising their production.
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