Addition to the Telegram to Arshak Yakubov, Joseph Stalin and Alexander Shliapnikov, June 11, 1918

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Telegram on food

1) Yakubov

2) Stalin

3) Shlyapnikov

Extraordinary Regional Food Committee

Tsaritsyn

In view of the events in Samara and Omsk, the interruption of railway traffic between Perm and Vyatka and the complete uncertainty as to the transport situation on the Perm– Ekaterinburg-Tyumen line, which have completely cut off Siberia, without waiting for your consent I am sending by water route the technical workers from Vyatka and Ufa gubernias about whom I informed you in telegram 363. Please receive them and put them to work immediately by distributing them among the places of grain procurement and, if necessary, among the places along the routes for dispatching and forwarding grain. Among those being sent are top-level people absolutely suitable for technical work in the centre and in the Extraordinary Regional Food Committee, and efficient organisers for grain collecting in the localities. To use these people, For whose honesty I am ready to vouch, is essential and inevitable, since no greater and better technical forces are to be found. Offer them to fix the rate of their remuneration themselves and, although I am sure of their being sufficiently modest, I recommend you not to stint payment for their work. Telegraph me.

Tsyurupa People’s Commissar for Food

I urgently advise you to receive the people sent by Tsyurupa and put them to work, since he vouches for them. It is extremely important to make use of experienced, honest practical workers.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars