245. TELEGRAM TO THE RYAZAN GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

245

TELEGRAM TO THE RYAZAN GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, page 186b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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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.