The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, MONDAY, DECE. LETTERS FROM i- S HOPS THE SHELL OI MAKES BiG PROFITS BY FIRING WORKERS Standard Oil Boing the Same Thing (By a Worker Correspondent.) MARTINEZ, Cal—Here is a more complete report on the mass firing of workers now taking place at the Shell Refinery. Eighty-one workers got the gate the week of October 19-26; 107, the week of October 27-Noy. 1. Twenty more were laid off November 6 and from reliable sources many more are to go. Over 250 have been fired since October 1. These men are perman- ently fired under the “New Economy Plan” of the Shell Co, Even the plant superintendent admits it will be sev- eral months before even a few are taken back. Bigger Surplus The Shell Co, “explained” these mass lay-offs by saying it “has no money.” In reality, the’ Shell Co. has decided to cut the workers off the payroll as they can increase their profits in this way. The company publishes the fact that its net in- come for July to October is over a million dollars less than for the per- iod of April to July. But in actuallity the surplus increased from $24,735,000 to $25,293,000 from July to October and the gross income increased from 69 million dollars to 691 million dol- Jars at the same time. Why does the Shell Co. lie that it is poorer? The workers left on the job are speeded up more. They are all in immediate danger of being fired or of getting further setbacks (pay cuts). The Standard Oil Co. of California 1s likewise making more enormous. profits. At the same time it is slash- ing the workers off the payroll. Near- ly 1500 have been fired at the re- finery at Richmond, Cal., recently, and the rest are viciously speeded up on the three day week. But Stan- dard Oil of California has jugt de- clared an extra dividend of $2 per share! Think of it, oil workers! We are thrown out to starve or be half-killed on the job, but the companies grow richer from our misery. It is plain we must organize and fight. Become an organizer for the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union! CAMDEN RADIO TOILERS FREEZE Layoffs, Short Time Ads to Misery (By a Worker Correspondent.) CAMDEN, N. J.—The Victor-RCA Radio Co. fake parade is over. The workers of the Victor-RCA last Sep- tember 19th marched in the fake parade to boost up the so-called world centre of the radio industry. The workers tired from long march- ing had to stand up and hear the fake speeches of the bosses. But to- day we proved to the workers that within a short time, after they have been speeded up, the workers are facing the miseries of lay-offs, short time, etc. ‘The RCA workers in Camden are facing the winter with no coal. The coal company will not trust any more. Many grocery stores are going out of business, lack of credit, ete. The Courier-Post, Camden local paper, is boosting up another of the city fake “relief fund” for the unemployed workers by selling tickets for 50 cents. Big-Hearted Bosses Fire Old Workers and Hire the Young Ones (By 2 Worker Correspondent) MARTINEZ, Cal.—Contra Costa County, of which Martinez is the cen- ter, is firing the old workers for at least half of each week in order to take on young and strong local talent to build roads at $4.00 a day, three days a week. The big-hearted county officials want to “give every honest man a chance to make a living.” These $12 a week jobs are big pub- licity for our kindly politicians—be- sides you can work a man harder each day for three days straight than for six. Believe me, many of us would rather fight for $25 a week unemploy- ment insurance than slave for $12 a week (if it doesn’t fain) “living” handed out by our loving politicians. CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK ©AMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.Y. 84-Hr. Week Is Prevalent in Restaurants (By A Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill—The restaurant bosses are certainly making the work- ers bear the brunt of the crisis. I am a mechanic and when I can’t get a job in the factories I have to take anything. Twelve Hours a Day I have worked in about fifteen res- taurants during the last year. The most of the jobs were only for a day or two, about half a dozen were stea- dy. But I could not stand them more than a couple of weeks due to the long hours, rotten food, poor ventila- tion and the extra work on account of reducing the number of help. In most of them the kitchen is very small. They make the dining room as large as possible. There is always something cooking on the stove which fills the kitchen with smoke and makes the air very warm. Although they got a fan to draw the smoke out they are so cheap it is hardly ever turned on. When you work 12 hours you feel like a wet rag, in the winter time you catch cold very easily. Cut Down Crews About three years ago I worked in restaurants also and although condi- tions were pretty bad then they are twice as bad now. Then they had two full crews working the two twelve- hour shifts and paid the kitchen help about $2 a day or night. Doubling Up You work seven days a week in almost all places. Now where they keep the full crew they cut the wages down to $1 and $1.50. The cooks also got cut $5 and $10 a week. During the last year a lot of them cut out the night dishwasher and made the night cook wash the dishes. The day dishwasher has to mop up the place, peel potatoes and do other work that the man that was laid off did. Also when you start to work in the morning there is always a pile of dirty dishes and at night when there is a big supper you have to work after 7 o'clock which makes nearly thirteen hours a day. The last job I had paid $12 for 84 hours and- the other dishwasher got the same. He told me he paid the job agency $5 for it. He said they wanted $8. The same conditions exist in the factories—long hours and low wages. And the speed up is so intense that it is impossible to last very long. OLD, SET ADRIFT TO DIE OF HUNGER But Will Fight With Unemployed Council (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—I am a work- er who worked in the mills for 18 years. I was getting old so the mill bosses thought that I am too old and slow to work in the mills and they think the best job for me is walking the streets in Pittsburgh looking for work. One day I was sitting in the park and a worker passed me. I said, fel- low worker do you have a cigarette on you. He looked at me with a sad face and said the big bosses have my cigarette and said they are saving them for me when Hoover's pros- perity comes back. Lives on Stale Bread. I told him to sit with me and tell me how come you don’t have a job. After he was thru telling me his his- tory he ended up this way. “I lived in the jungles for 8 months. The seven Baker Bros, of Pittsburgh gave us between 300 and 400 loaves of stale bread to eat. We all thanked them very much. “But these last couple of months. they tried to make us workers pay them 5 cents a loaf of that stale bread, We all said-no money and they said no bread then and took it away. “The Baker Bros. hired myself and six other workers to work around the plate, clean the garden and other different things around the plant. Our boss comes up to us and says here is your pay. Just imagine readers, he got 20 cents for working 4 hours, 5 cents an hour and we bought 4 loaves of bread. We asked him to gtve us some more bread for it looked like it was 3 months old.” After he was through talking I saw he had tears in his eyes and I told him, don’t cry and don’t try to end your life. But let’s get all the unem- ployed workers together and get the Pittsburgh Unemployed Council to fight for work or wages and unem- ployment insurance, PRAGUE.—The Independent Wood Workers Union under liquidatorial leadership has now followed the example of the liquidatorial Red Trade Union Federation (1. A. V.) and opened up negotiations with the reformist Woodworkers Union with a view to bringing about an amal- gamation. Considerable sections of the membership support the revolu- trade union opposition which PHONE 731 expelled by the liquidators, By WILLIAM WEINSTONE (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 30.— Under Kry- lenko’s piercing interrogation process, unmaking of the capitalist war pre- parations continues this morning. Sitnin, technical expert in the tex- tile industry, confirmed the fact that he visited America and received bribes from cotton merchants for the purpose of the wreckers’ work. Fyedotov confirmed the statements regarding payment by British cap- italists to the “industrial party.” He stated that from 1925 to 1927 the commission was one half of one per cent of the purchase given by the British textile machinery manufac- turer. One big order produced a bribe of about 50,000 roubles. He roubles altogether, not for personal purposes, but for use in his wrecking group. Prevented Returns ‘When, asked for examples of con- the ideologist of the group was re- sponsible for the textile group. He gave orders to build new factories while neglecting measures to utilize the existing works. This resulted in locking up capital on long schemes of construction, not producing imme- personally recived 3,000 to 4,000| crete wrecking work he said he as| . diate returns. Thus, Soviet capital | the conspirators intended the cap- italists to use after the overthrow of the Soviets. Meanwhile, the effect of non- working, existing plants was to create a shortage of products, thereby creat- | ing discontent among the population, and preparing the ground for inter- | | vention. the great capitalist war scheme is thus strikingly demonstrated. The} role of the wreckers once again was ation shows that while adherents of | reaction, they stuck to their jobs| convinced (happily falsely) that the Soviet economic system was imprac- ticable and that collapse was immin- ent, these sabotagers turned imme- | diately towards the white emigres land foreign capitalists, | Friends of Poincare These were friends of Poincare. | Corruption made them easy tools of | foreign capitalists. One dynamic personality, Ramsin, who worked ceaselessly to make adherents, con- verted the Technical Instittue into a center of conspiracy and espionage, was used to produce factories which | under the existing government, When | U.S. and English Capitalists Showered Bribes on Wreckers and the rendezvous of French secret agents. Further insight into the characters of these workers was pro- vided by an examination of Sitnin. On Krylenko’s request he had given |@n account of his career without, } mentioning corruption. Then in | these moments Krylenko fired ques- | tion after question to him regarding his financial circumstances resulting in the final admission that 7,500 The unity of the whole actvity of roubles in gold were found in his| | flat when it was searched by the GPU. (State Political Administration) | | As director of the textile trust in| revealed as an instrument in the | 1922 he sold textiles in NEP (New| hands of foreign capitalists, Examin- | Economic Policy)) traders, receiving | a commission which he converted | through a special agent into Czarist | gold roubles. | ‘Thus the corrupt character of these |friends of Poincare and Churchill is | being dragged into the daylight be- |fore the masses of workers. The ef- fect by the intense sensation among | |fect may be judged by the intense | | Sensation among thousands of work-~ ers’ representatives thronging Trade Union Hall, Their answer is a de- | termination to fight! Professor Mam- | sin is now being examined on the relations between “industrial party” with the industrial and commercial committees in Paris. (Continued from Page One) prisals, for instance, and the puni- tive expeditions would be in propor- tion to the resistance of the prole- tariat. Finally Professor Ramsin ad- mitted he personally disbelieves the historical possibility of the realiza- tion of the bourgeois democracy. The most reactionary monarchist engineer, Meighes, would become an instrument of the French imperialists after the overthrow. The “left wing,” which aimed at “only” a military dictatorship and the temporary retention of the eight- hour day, and a great supply of mer- chandise to pacify the masses, would be pushed aside. Thereupon the cross-examination of Larichev continued. Further cross-examination uncov- ered still more the defendant’s under- standing of the significance of the military dictatorship for the workers. Under the impression of Professor Ramsin’s involved statements, Lari- chev admitted membership in the “industrial party,” and stated that he not only understood clearly the real significance of the military dictator- ship but deliberately aimed at re- prisals connected with it. This was expressed still more clearly by the next defendant, Kalin- ikov. Answering the question about the pre-revolutionary political atti- tude he declared he was a cadet (a constitutional democrat). His atti- tude after the introduction of the NEP (New Economic Policy) was that he hoped the pressure of the dictatorship of the proletariat would lessen. ‘The successful socialist construction towards the end of the restoration period strengthened his antagonistic attitude and prompted him to under- take wrecking work. Although the defendant tried to lessen the signi- ficance of the military dictatorship clause in the program he stated it was suggested and forced from “out- side.” He admitted that the military dictatorship was synonymous with white terror. Answering Kdylenko's question, he admitted this result was logically clear to him—‘a man remote from politics.” He agreed with Krylenko, when the latter characterized as Political hypocrisy, Ramsin’s denial of the clear understanding that the military dictatorship was synonymous with the most extreme white terror. Answering the question of one of the judges, Antonov, Ramsin, Lari- chev and Kalinkov described the methods of recruiting new members. Recruiting was done through the help df making careers, through financial support, intimidation that in case of overthrowing of the Soviets “the loyal” engineers would be punished by the new government. ‘ The defendants admitted the syste- matic hindering of the rising young Scientists in the State Planning Commission, particularly Commu- nists, The progress of the trial, particu- larly characteristic of the atmosphere wherein it occurs, strikingly contra- dicts the claims of the enemies’ press that the trial is “a sham play.” The tone of the statements and attitude of the defendants, likewise prove that they are not “petty” but big calibre counter-revolutionists. Their attempts to pose as lost sheep, in spite of all their admissions made in the first statements, was frustrated by cross-examinatton. The conscious, cynical speculation on white terror and the greatest bloodshed accompanying the over- throw under the leadership of the French imperialists, through the leaders of the “industrial party” clearly was established. The session was adjourned with the cross-examination of Kalinikov. * * * MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—Cross-exam- ination of the defendant Fyedotov continued, Fydedotov personfies the complete degeneration of certain circles of the old Russian intellec- MOSCOW TRIAL REVEALS MILITARY DICTATORSHIP PLANS OF BOSSES tuals. His material condition before the revolution was splendid; he was the leading employee of the well known textile magnate Morosov. Fyedotov earned finally 60,000 doubles ($30,000) yearly. He posses- sed landed estates valued at 40,000 roubles cash ($20,000); he had 30,- 000 roubles ($15,000) in the bank. He was an active member in the Con- stitutional Democratic Party (Cadets) and belonged to the “left wing.” He contributed articles to the “Russkiye Vedomosti”, often called “toothless academic liberalism.” Professor Fyedotov brags of having prophesied in May 1927, the historic inevitability of the Proletarian Dic- tatorship. He remained true to the Cadet Party, even when he claims he recognized the “ideal Bolshevism.” He entered the ‘employ of the Soviet government in 1918 because he “rec- ognized Bolshevism.” But he admit- ted that at the same time he greeted Denikin’s advance in 1919, consdeir- ing joining him in case he reached Moscow. Lopatin recruited Fyedotov for the wreckers’ group in 1925. He alleged that the group aimed then at the improvement of the social conditions of the engineers. His vacillation be- tween the old Bolshevik textile spe- cialist Nogin and Lopatin’s group, Fyedotov hcearatcerizes as “my life drama.” The counter-revolutionary wreck- ers’ worked more actively as a wrecker. Cross- examination further re- vealed the circumstances of Fyedo- tov’s joining the counter-revolution- ary wreckers’ work. ele Wee. (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—In the con- tinuation of the cross-examination by the Soviet prosecutor Krylenko, the defendant Professor Fyedotov at- tempt to pose as an “honorable gentleman” who failed, and striking- ly illuminated the Russian emigres’ careerist and thieves atmosphere, Supplementing his statement about the London trip, Fyedotov described Kresteovnikov’s call on him. The subject of the conference was the question of forcing British firms contribute to the Paris emigres’ treasury a higher percentage on Soviet purchases. The astonished public learned that part of the val- uable Soviet gold was contributed by manufacturers to white emigres. Krestoxnikov, on behalf of the Paris idlers, demanded an increased percentage of from one to five per cent. Fyedotov said that the total sum for “relief” then paid to the emjgrants was 200,000 roubles. Be- sides, Krestovnikov refuted Kupria- nov’s information that the Kono- valov money lost influence. This is more true regarding Riabushinsky, The reason for this is that Riabus- hinsky and company robbed the treasury of Wrangel's “government.” Here Krylenko interrupted: “It means that Poincare was receiving common thieyes?” Fyedotov: “One can say that.” Ramsin was then recalled for fur- ther examination by the President of the Court, Vishinsky. He reaffirmed his former statement showing that Fyedotov defended monarchist senti- ments in the discussions of the cen- tral committee. The “honorable” professor stands like a whipped cur. His unmasking was completed when Krylenko un- covered the circumstances of the payments by British manufacturers of one half of one per cent to the counter-revolutionary engineers from the sale of a sum of a textile ma- chinery. Fyedotov received 4,000 roubles from the total of 50,000. fthou-fiftyshm (ifour50. ‘t heweisnd Answering Vishinsky’s question: “For what?” Fyedotov attempted first to speak about the usual “courtesy”, and was finally forced to admit it was an ordinary bribe. After this influence won out. Fyedotov | crushing revelation, the greyhaired | gentleman was shown up as an} ordinary scoundrel. Likewise his denial of having taken the initative in the textile wrecking collapsed. Ramsin was recalled and confrmed the meetings of the central commit- tee the initative of the wrecking work in the textile industry belonged to Fyedotov. The cross-examination of the next defendant, Ochkin, clearly reveals the cold and calculated cynicism with which Ramsin, misuing his influence as a teacher and friend, “drew” his secretary in and made him “ripe” for wrecking work. Equally cynical appears the readiness of Ochkin to turn from alleged sympathy for the Soviet power, of years standing, and in a few months take up active work preparing intervention. Pose as favoring only the immediate aim of the engineers’ organization, that is, to help to transform the Soviet system into state capitalism, plus freedom for petty and middle capital. Cross-examination forced him to withdraw his former claim that he was not a member of the “industrial party” and knew nothing about in- tervention. He was compelled to answer affirmatively Krylenko’s three questions: “Were you a wrecker?” Did you know of the intervention plan? Did you assist in its prepara- tion? The collapse of his pose was | brought about by reveeling a receipt for dirty bribes he got for delivering textile goods to private trade. The Soviet currency he thus received was exchanged illegally for gold, through agents. His 7,500 in gold roubles ($3,750) was confiscated. The court was then adjourned until tomorrow, Veet Re (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—The court proceeded with the examination of the 8 accused engineers regarding their relations with the industrial and commercial committee in Paris. The examination proved conclusively that three parties were preparing in- tervention: The “industrial party,” the industria] and commercial com- mittee (composed of former Russian capitalists in Paris) and the French government. The decisive influence in hastening and strengthening the preparations for intervention proceeded under di- rection of the French government, under the personal participation of Locheur, Poincare and Briand. The first beginnings of active and prac- tical work was undertaken by the French general staff, who elaborated plans for intervention. The indus- trial and commercial committee fixed the final date for intervention at 1930, and the “industrial parsy” was to carry out its whole wrecking ac- tivity with the object of internal preparation for the ground for French intervention on that date. Professor Ramsin described ex- haustively the conversations with Rabushinsky in 1927, and with the industrial and commercial commit- tee in October, 1928. Exact details of this meeting were confirmed by Larichev, another of the defendants. This leaves no doubt as to the reality of these statements. Locheur’s role appears in a new light. According to Rabushinsky’s statement in 1928, Locheur provided the first decisive connection with the French government circles. Questioned regarding Rabushinsky, whose existence is denied by the for- eign emigree and socialist press, Pro- fessor Ramsin stated that that per- son was Vladimir Rabushinsky. Kry- lenko, the Soviet prosecutor, called for the reading of the article in the Russian emigre newspaper “Voz- rojdenye” on July 7, signed by Vladi- mir Rabushinsky. In this article en- titled “That Necessary War” the author develops elaborately the econ- omic advantages to an imperialist military conquest of Russia. Professor Fyedotov, another of the defendants, confirmed this article, which strengthens the already rec- 1, 1930 Fyedotov, finally admitting that in| The defendant Sitnin attempted to | Startling News of Growing War Plots Against Soviets ! Smash Bosses’ War Mov INTERNATIONAL | NEWS SOCIALISTS CHEER | Berlin Red Councilmen Many Clashes Between attempted to introduce various ing cl tatorship of Berlin’s finances: ¢ The chairman of the City Council | prohibited the Communists from} | speaking, expelling one member after | | another. Finally, armed police ejected the whole Communist frac- | tion of 56 members by the use of their clubs. The socialists cheered the ejecting of the Communist mem- bers of the City Council. Thereby 740,000 workers were robbed of their representation in this Council. | Yesterday night a fierce fight took |place between socialists and fascists. The fascists disturbed a socialist meeting, and were ejected. Bloody | collisions followed in the ante-room, | whereby 25 persons were seriously | injured. Another collision took place yes- terday between Communists and fas- cists. Two were wounded, including | a fascist. In Cologne, fascists attacked a Communist demonstration. Bullets wounded four. One fascist was shot through the lungs. ognized character of Rabushinsky as | the chief protagonist of war. Ramsin went on to describe ex- haustively the meeting with the in- dustrial and commercial committee in October, 198, as a representative of the central committee of the “in- dustrial party” with the object of obtaining precise explanation and | proof of the concrete intentions of this committee and the French gov- ernment regarding the carrying out of intervention. At Ramsin’s express request for “tangible” proofs and real relations with industrial and commercial com- mittee with the French general staff, Denissov, Russian capitalist under the Czarist regime, promised to in- troduce him personally to the offi- cers of the general staff. The introduction took place the following day with the French Colo- [nels Joinville and Richard. This proof sufficed to convince Professor Ramsin and Larichev of the serious preparations for intervention through the French general-staff, with the express support of Poincare and Briand. Further proof of the information the establishment of a special com- mission on military questions regard- ing intervention in Russia under the presidency of General Janin was also brought out. Here Krylenko de- manded the reading of extracts from the Siberian diary of General Janin at the time of his presence in com- Tiand of the reactionary troops un- der Kolchak as representative of the French government. The extracts showed that General Janin has al- ready had great experience in inter- ventin and war on Soviet territory. ‘They also showed the appalling bru- talities committed by the white in- tervention group. Regarding the financing of the in- tervention, Ramsin stated that Den- issov expressly named the French war ministry as one of the providers | of money. Following their declarations re- garding conversations with the in- dustrial and commercial committee, Krylenko demanded a statement from the defendants on their attitude to- wards the committee’s statement of Nov. 30. In this statement, the in- dustrial and commercial committee declared, under the signatures of Denissov, Nobel, Konovoloff, Leoni- zoff, etc., that they never had rela- tions with the accused, never gave finances to the “industrial party” and that their statements were inventions of the G, P. U., or were extracted by torture. Concluding, the declaration of the committee stated they would carry on an untiring struggle for the restora- tion “of freedom” in Russia. The reading of this statement was received by the audience and the ac- cused with equal indignation, Pro- fessor Ramsin declared in tones of deep conviction that the industrial and commercial committee's declara- tion was a mass of shameless lies. The statements regarding the extrac- tion of confessions by torture, said Professor Ramsin, is particularly des- picable. The presence of the accused and their healty condition, obvious to all present, said Professor Ram- sin, is sufficient repudiation of this Ne, Professor Fyedotov and Otchink confirmed emphatically the emi- EJECT COMMUNIST CITY ALDERMEN Against Bosses; Represent 740,000 Workers Throughout Germany; Shots Fired | BERLIN, Nov. 28.—Stormy scenes took place in the City | Council of Berlin yesterday evening. The Communist fraction ss population, and in protest against the proposed dic- | ‘Red Star’, Organ of Red Army~ industrial and commercial | nently hygienic conditions of the prison and declared that they were healthier recently than before. Individually the accused confirmed their knowledge of the contents of the conversations of October, 1928, re- WHEN POLICE | Fought for Bread and. Fascists and Workers motions in behalf of the work- | Workers in Soviet Union Flock Into Communist Ranks |- MOSCOW.—In Dyneprope- trovsk 2,000 workers, all members of the shock groups, have joined the Party. In Novorossisk 200 workers of the local elevator and the cement works have joined the Party. One hundred and twenl workers of the repair works in Vologda have also joined up. Many workers of the “Northern Commune” works have also joined the Party. In Nizhni-Novgorod 1,500 workers, in Kasan 700 and in Voronezh 270 workers have joined the Party. Shows Up Geneva Rush to War French Imperialism Taking Lead in War Plot Against Soviet Un ion; Litvinov Tore Pacifist Mask From Imperialism MOSCOW.—The Red Star (Kras- snaya Svesda), the organ of the Su-| preme War Council, referring to the} sessions of the Preparatory Disarma- ment Commission in Geneva, de- clares that the commission is work- ing at a time when the intensified contradictions of capitalism can no longer be concealed by pacifist | phrases. The danger of a new world | war was steadily increasing. Even) prominent bourgeois politicians and/| journalists recognized the truth of this. The Geneva “peace apostles” pretend to be in favor of disarma- ment, whilst at the same time arm- ing for new wars, above all for in-| tervention against the Soviet Union. The imperialists were preparing war against the Soviet Union. The old “Soviet danger” had been re- hashed in order to deceive the masses, The date of the interven- tion depended on the success or lack of success of the counter-revolution- ary work in the Soviet Union. The mass of material obtained with the discovery of the so-called “Industry Party” showed the extent of the preparations being made by world} imperialism against the Soviet Union. ‘The material showed that prominent representatives of imperialist France had guided the activities of the trait- ors. "French imperialism was leading the anti-Soviet preparations. The trait- ors took up relations with French governmental circles, with the French General Staff, with the former own- ers in Paris and with the French rep- resentatives in the Soviet Union. ‘Their activity was to prepare the way for intervention, to create a crisis, food shortage and consequent suffer- ing for the masses of the Soviet Union and a reduction of the de- fensive capacities of the first Work- ers’ dnd Peasants’ State. The “Industry Party” revelations showed the acute danger of capital- ist intervention and confirmed the correctness of Soviet foreign policy. At the Geneva session of the Prep- aratory Commission Comrade Lit- vinov had exposed the hyprocritical pacifist phraseology with which the imperialists sought to conceal their feverish armaments. The fact that Comrade Litvinov’s speech went home was shown by the clumsy at- tempt of the Dutch tool of French imperialism, Loudon, to prevent the translation of Litvinov’s speech. The Manchester Guradian wrote: “The | terrible picture of the present situa- tion in the whole world sketched by Litvinov is so true that it obviously made a deep effect.” Litvinov tore the pacifist mask from the face of imperialism and exposed the real dangers of war. The Geneva session did not even raise the question of disarmament as a whole. The League of Nations wires pullers limited the discussions to the agreement drafted in agreement with the General Staffs. The representa- tives of the imperialist states seek to sabotage the work of the Soviet Union and they reject all its pro- posals with the assistance of juri- dicial hair-splitting. That is the dif- ficult situation in which the Soviets Union is fighting for peace. ™, garding intervention and the direc- tion of the work of the “industrial party” towards the preparation of intervention, and protested ener- getically against the lying statements of the industrial and commercial committee declaration. After this dramatic climax the proceedings were adjourned until the evening. ~ 28 @ MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—There continu- ed the cross-examination of the de- fendants Charnovsky and Kuprianov. Incidentally, Kalinikov was recalled to the stand. Charnovsky tried to continue his role of a naive and only “passive” agent of the higher instructions of other leaders of the wreckers’ organi- zation. He was always guided by the idea of maintaining industry, he said. Cross-examination revealed him equally conscious of the counter-re- volutionary leading role he was play- ing. His appearance, an endeavor to create the impression of a modest “master”, the sharp contradiction in his statement, failed. It is evident that his real character would find better expression in a minister's frock. Charnovsky, worried by the Febru- ary revolution, feared the weakening defense of the country. He took an antagonistic attitude to the October revolution. His attitude towards Czarism was neutral or sympathetic. In 1927 he clearly recognized his task in the wrecking work, but did noth- ing pretending it to be beyond his ability. Already before 1927 he was informed about the plans for inter- vention. To the question of how the intervention was to be carried out and what the further program was to be, he answered: “It was not our busi- ness. This question will be settled abroad by France where the inter- vention plans are being worked out.” Knowing history, he said he re- alized that bloodshed would accom- pany intervention, but deemed it un- necessary to take a stand against it. He considered himself a passive in- strument, cacrying out the instruc tions from abroad issued by the French general staff. Kalinikov contradicted Charnovs- ky’s claim that in the spring of 1930 he spoke to Kalinikov against inter- vention. In this connection Kalini- kov declared that his plans aimed at preparing wrecking acts to paralyze the electric power industry, accord- ing to instructions of the French gen- eral staff, to paralyze the war indus- try in the c: of intervention. He was told that’the French interven- tionists would be able to restore the war industry. Charnovsky first de- nied a leading role in the wrecking work in the metal industry, but was finally forced to admit it. The next defendant, Kuprianov, for 17 years occupied a leading position in the textile industry, in the employ of the industrialist Konovalov. He earned one thousand rubles ($500) monthly directing three factories. He claimed that Lopatin was leading the action against the Soviet power from the beginning of the revolution. Ku- prianoy reported to Lopatin and other directors of factories that he sold on illegal exchange 19 shares in Kond- valov’s factories, valued at 50,000 pounds sterling, pocketed the money; in other words, he robbed his “old master” whereupon the relation with Lopatin was broken off. Kuprianov held in recent years a responsible position as technical lead- er of the entire syndicatedtextile ine dustry in the Soviet Union. He mis- used his post for the planful wreck- ers’ work in the textile industry. He knew of the intervention plans since 1925. He learned of them more ex- actly in 1927. He was sure of them in 1928. Following the instructions of the French general staff, Kuprie anov took up in 1929 the forming of a military organization in the case of war. He admitted the initiation of that organization in accordance with French instructions, as well as the formation of nuclei of former white guard officers in the textile industry. According to the French instruce tions it was Lecessary to create the came nuclei in all industries for the building of counter-revolutionary mil- itary forces and independently to unite them. Answering the attorney for the dee fense, Braudo, Kuprianov admitted that the news of the personal inter- est of Poincare and Briand in the intervention plan, and their sure promise of organizing the intervene tion, stimulated the activity of the wreckers and pushed direct espioe nage. Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- newal. :