Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on
The Setting Up of a Water Transport Management Board^{1}

Written: March 4, 1918
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 66.2.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) © 2003 Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

That comrades Milyutin, Shlyapnikov and Aprelev be charged with organising, not later than tomorrow, a Board in pursuance of § 3^{2}, each special function to be handled by a specially authorised agent answerable to the Board as a whole and to the C.P.C.

That in pursuance of § 3 any six Board members at the choice of the Supreme Economic Council and representatives of the regional councils be replaced by representatives 01 the all-Russia trade unions.

That two comrades, one from the Water Transport Union and one from the S.E.C., shall be appointed immediately and report not later than tomorrow to Spunde in order to have the currency notes dispatched without delay.^{3}

Notes

{1} The reference is to § 3 of the Decree Concerning the Administration of the Merchant Marine and Inland Water Transport adopted at a meeting of the C.P.C. on February 27, 1918 (see Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. I, Moscow, 1957, pp. 501-02).

{2} This refers to the allocation of funds for repair work on the Volga and Mariinsk system.

{3} Lenin’s motion was adopted at the meeting of the C.P.C. on February 27, 1918.

§13 of the “Treaty Between the Russian and Finnish Socialist Republics” stated that “The Russian Federative Soviet Republic grants all the political rights of Russian citizens to Finnish citizens residing in Russia who belong to the working class or to the peasants who do not employ other people’s labour, if they live on the territory of Russia for the purpose of engaging in labour occupations

The Finnish Socialist Workers’ Republic, for its part, undertakes to give citizens of the Russian Federative Soviet Republic in Finland every facility to enjoy political rights, special consideration being given to the interests of the working population who have no permanent domicile” (Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. I, Moscow, 1957, p. 508).