Draft Decision for the CPC on Potato Purchases

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This draft decision was adopted by the CPC on November 18, 1919. —Ed.

The draft of the Food Commissariat and § 4 of the SEC draft[1] shall be accepted as a basis.

A commission to be set up to work out the whole draft in detail in order to establish with absolute accuracy both the separate districts (in Food Commissariat’s §§) and the concrete measures to reinforce the Food Army at definite centres, enlist the co-operation of the workers, determine the amount of necessary and possible deliveries of spirit and starch, and so on.

The commission shall precisely formulate the Food Commissariat’s responsibility for fulfilment of all emergency measures and their enforcement in a revolutionary manner so that this responsibility can be taken into account in the CPC’s future policy.

The commission to consist of Scheinman (+2 F.C,[2] )

Rykov

Schmidt

Kamenev

Avanesov (or a Vecheka man)

Markov

The commission to be given 2 days and the CPC to meet on Friday.[3]

  1. ↑ Simultaneously with the draft of the Food Commissariat the CPC discussed the draft of the Supreme Economic Council on the same question. Point 4 of the SEC draft read: “The starch and treacle factories shall be allowed to make contracts with the peasants for the delivery of potatoes, and to issue 1 pound of produce for every processed pood” (Lenin Miscellany XXIV, p. 140). —Ed.
  2. ↑ Meaning two representatives from the Food Commissariat.—Ed.
  3. ↑ The decree on potato purchases drafted by the commission was endorsed by the CPC on Saturday, November 22, 1919, with amendments proposed at its meeting.—Ed.