Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on Sending Groups of Workers Out on Food Transportation Jobs

Written in the second half of March, not later than 28, 1919 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the manuscript. · page 131 · Translated by Bernard Isaacs

In view of the extreme danger threatening the Republic as a result of the aggravation of the food and transport crises, the C.C., R.C.P. resolves:

to charge Comrades Kamenev
Zinoviev
and Stalin

with organising groups of influential workers and forming trains by arrangement with the People’s Commissariats for Food and Railways as well as with the Central Executive Committee, and sending them out on food transportation jobs.^[1]

Lenin

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[1] The need for sending the best workers out on food and transportation jobs had been dealt with by Lenin in his speech at a joint session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and the All-Russia Trade Union Congress on January 17, 1919 (see present edition, Vol. 28, pp. 403-04).Lenin’s draft was adopted by the C.C. of the R.C.P.(B.); it was signed also by C. C. members L. B. Kamenev, G. Y. Zinoviev, J. V. Stalin, Y. D. Stasova, N. N Krestinsky, M. F. Vladimirsky, N. I. Bukharin, V. V. Schmidt and F E. Dzerzhinsky.