Letter to V. A. Smolyaninov, September 1, 1921

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This assignment arose from a letter sent in by B. P. Pozern, Chairman of the Central Textile Administration, concerning the organisation of work of textile mills. Pozern’s letter of September 17, in reply to an inquiry from the CPC and CLD Managing Department, said that supplies were earmarked only for the best organised textile mills. In September 1921, the SEC Presidium allocated funds for the Central Textile Administration to buy food and fuel and carry out capital repairs at enterprises.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original.

Comrade Smolyaninov:

This question has to be prepared for introduction in the CLD (who is Bogdanov’s deputy? Sapronov? This should be agreed with him).

It is not clear whether only the best mills have been brought out. Has the number of mills been properly reduced?

Or perhaps the “requirement” is earmarked for a heap of sickly and hopeless mills?

This and other questions should be clarified with greater precision.

1/IX.

Lenin


Written in connection with the receipt of the text of a concession agreement concluded by the government of Georgia for the working of the timber resources in two areas of the Republic. On September 30, the CLD decided to accept the agreement. The People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade was instructed to collect information on the credit-worthiness of the concessionaires.

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.

Comrade Smolyaninov:

There is need: (1) to find out whether the Georgian comrades have abided by the condition (there has been one, hasn’t there? a Party one?) not to sign any concessions without our consent?

(2) To study whether the terms of this contract (in particular, who is the super-arbiter?) are in substance advantageous. To do this, appoint 1 to 3 experts through the CC, and instruct them to submit an opinion in writing.

Do the one and the other (through the CC).

Lenin

1/IX.