564. To A. I. SVIDERSKY

Written in March, not earlier than 24, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 362

Comrade Svidersky,

The following desperate position of factories has been brought to my notice:

Works Management No. 6 of Kaluga Gubernia, the Troitsk– Kondrovo and Polotnyany factories, formerly V. Howard and Goncharov Co.

Howardovo station, Syzran-Vyazma railway, and Polotnyany Zavod station.

Workers approximately .... 2,500–3,000 Office workers ................... 200 persons Mouths ......................... 12,000 ”

On February 28 this year militarised.

In December assigned Red Army rations. They are receiving nothing.^[1]

Please think of some kind of special instruction for food to be issued to them and send me your reply.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Underlined by Lenin.—Ed.