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Notes at a Meeting of The Commission on Cartridges
On December 4, 1918, during the discussion of the question ofintroducing a third shift at the Tula cartridge and small arms factories, the Council of Defence set up a special commission to deal with this matter. The commission on cartridges met on December 5 and was attended y V. I. Lenin, L. B.Krasin (Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission on Red Army Supply), E. M. Sklyansky (Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic), Commander-in- Chief I. I. Vatsetis, and representatives of the Chief Artillery Board, the Tula Cartridge Factory and others-altogether 17 people. The commission passed decisions having the force of Defence Council decisions; they were based on the measures outlined by Lenin in his notes (see Lenin Miscellany XXXIV , pp. 55-57).
First meeting of the Commission on Cartridges December 5, 1918
Tula Cartridge Factory.
Measures for increasing output:
New management.
Bonuses.
Third shift (+2000 people).
Emancipation from the (Tula) labour exchange.
Extra equipment (from remaining stocks in Petrograd).
Production records and statistics: weekly.
Foreign samples.
How to muster in Russia highly skilled workers?
Inviting specialists from abroad.
Task to the Science and Technical Department
Keeping proper weekly records of production.
Cartridges per worker a day:
1916 : 240
1918 : 225
Factory’s output
maximum 1916 :35 million
1918: months XII-16-18-20
(perhaps 25-27) million
1919: I —16 —20
II —18 —25
III —20 —27
IV —22 —29
V —25 —31
VI —28 —33
VII —35
Within a month or two months introduce three shifts.