Re Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on
the Composition of the Committee of Public Works^[1]

Written June 10, 1918 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI. Printed from the manuscript. · page 98 · Translated by Bernard Isaacs

The C.P.C. instructs Comrade Rykov, or the Board of the S.E.C., to publish the fundamental principles of our policy in regard to enlisting the services of engineers both for work in the commissions of specialists and for administrative posts, the conditions of publicity, criticism on the part of the workers’ organisations, and so on.

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[1] On June 10, 1918, the Council of People’s Commissars heard the reports of M. P. Paviovich and A. I. Rykov concerning endorsement by the presidium of the Supreme Economic Council of the composition of the Committee of Public Works (instituted by Decree of the C.P.C. of May 9, 1918). The present text constituted § 2 of the C.P.C. decision on this question.