138. To N. L. SHPEKTOROV, P. L. VOIKOV, A. Z. HOLTZMANN, L. N. KRITSMAN AND V. G. GROMAN

Written on April 23, 1921 · First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from a typewritten text signed by Lenin. · page 130

I hereby issue a severe reprimand to the following persons, warning them that if this happens again the offenders will be prosecuted: 

Comrades Shpektorov (People’s Commissariat for Defence), Voikov (People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade), Holtzmann (All-Russia Central T.U.C.) for failing to attend the sitting of the C.L.D. Commission at 10 a.m. on April 23, a sitting of which they had been notified, personally or by telephone calls from the C.P.C. Secretariat, before 10 p.m. on 22/IV, 

and also to Comrade Kritsman, to whom the notification was conveyed through Comrade Holtzmann, 

and to Groman, Chairman of the Transport and Material Department, for failing to arrange for a duty roster in his Department, by reason of which it had been impossible to notify him of the Commission sitting.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars