245. TELEGRAM TO THE RYAZAN GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 186

12. I. 1919

Gubernia Executive Committee
Ryazan

What steps have been taken in connection with the large-scale profiteering discovered by the State Control in public dining-rooms?^[1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] In reply to Lenin’s telegram, Kornev, Chairman of the Ryazan Gubernia Executive Committee, reported that at a sitting of the Presidium of the Gubernia Executive Committee and the Presidium of the City Executive Committee on January 15, 1919, it had been decided to urgently organise a Department of Public Catering under the City Executive Committee which was to take charge of all Ryazan’s dining-rooms and tea-rooms.