The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 6

Pu 1sth Street, ished by the Comprodaily New York City Address and mail all checks to the Daily e Publishing Co, Inc. dafly, except Sunday, at 50 East N. Y¥, Teléphone Algonquin 1956+7. Cable: “DAIWORE.” al Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York./N, ¥ C " ~NEW INTERVENTION PLOT AGAINST SOVIET UNION By ALBERT INKPIN. (International Bureau, Friends of the Soviet Union.) The indictment published in the Soviet press ageinst the counter-revolutionary plotters as- sociated with the so-called “Industrial Party” reveals in a striking way the international ram- ifications of this organization and the plans laid fer an armed intervention in the Soviet Union by the imperialist powers. This organization consisted for the most part of;engineers and former factory and mine-own- ers who were unable to emigrate at the time of the November revolution in’1917 and still re- side in the Soviet Union, and'a group of di: possessed Russian industrialists and higher bou gecisie living abroad and having their head- quarters in Paris. Under cover of their promises to co-operate loyally with the Soviet Government, its members in the Soviet Union secured ‘Important posi- tions in the different economi¢ organizations of the Soviet state, even réaching as far, up as the Supreme Economic Council itself. Their task was to use their influential positions in order to’ sabotage on a well planned and organized ale from within. Their sabotage took many and varied forms. By false and misleading es- timates they tried to bring about a state of con- fusion and doubt as to the possibility of fulfil- ling the‘ Five Year Plan. By creating difficul- ties in the supply of raw materials to the fac- toties they endeavored to retard and reduce the preductivity of the workers. By restricting the supply of fuel to the railways, by eliminating setviceable locomotives, and in scores of other Ways they sought to disorganize’transport, often Isading to the wastage of huge quantities of food-stuffs.. In the field “of agriculture they ayetematically sabotaged ‘the ‘collectivization of the peasant holdings and ehdeavored to prolong the retention of the Kulak’system. In hundreds of cunning and subtle ways they worked to pro- duce’ a chaos in which the whole economic Ufe of the Soviet state would break down At the same time their fellow conspirators in Euroze, in addition to supplying them with funds to: the-extent of one and’‘a half million rubles andpriming them with i.istfictions and advice, were intriguing with the inmerialists and plot- ting to advance the cause of armed intervention against the Soviet state. The object was that the’ “crisis” created in the Soviet Union should coincide with the moment of the anticipated in- tervention of the imperialist: powers, with France at-the head, which was timed to take etfect in the. spring of 1932. : , The plans for the military jntervention have been revealed in the confessions of leading part- icipants in the plot who ate amongst those ar- rested. The armed intervention was planned to start with Rumania seeking a pretext—for in- stance a minor border conflict—which would pro- vide a suitable atmosphére: This was to lead toa declaration of war-against the Soviet Union by Poland, with the assistance of Rumania, Lithuania and Finland, smd) @ march of the | | White Guard troops, of General Wrangel thru Rumania, The plan was for England to co-oper- ate with its fleet 1) on the Black Sea, thus cut- ting off the oil district of the Caucasus, and 2) in the Bay of Finland in support of the operat- ions against Leningrad. tached to fomenting a rising in the Ukraine a result of which the connection between Mos cow and the Donetz district would be broken, The whole plan was to culminate in a combined attack against Moscow, supplemented by a se ond offe.isive against Leningrad and a march of the southern army along the yight bank of the Dnieper, and was to coincide with the in- ternal crisis created by the activities of the counter-revolutionaries from within. The revelation of this plot, which was discov- ered by the workers’. sure arm of defense, the revolutionary G. P. U., has caused a storm of indignation to sweep throughout the Soviet Union. In mass demonstrations, in meetings in the factories and workshops, in town and vil- lage Soviets the workers and peasants are de- manding the most extreme penalties against these self-confessed traitors to the workers’ state. But this cunning and well organized plan to disrupt the Soviet Union from within coinci- dently with armed intervention fro. without has not only a significance for the Soviet workers and peasants against whom it was directly aimed. It has a supreme significance also for the whole international working class, and par- ticularly for the workers of France and Eng- lana whose leading political, industrial and mili- tary circles are implicated in the plot. The fact that the French politicians, Poincare and Briand, and the former chief of the French General Staff, General Debeny, are unable to deny. that they were parties to the plot, and that the notorious “Colonel” Lawrence, Mr. Leslie Urqu- hart, of Russia-Asiatic Consolidated Ltd., Sir Henry Deterding, the oil magnate, and the well- known armaments firm of Vickers are all alleged to be implicated, is.at the same time an evidence of its wide ramifications and a clear call to the French and British workers for mass activity in face of this international conspiracy to plunge Europe into war and to destroy the first workers’ state In the organization of this mass activity the Communist Party and the “Friends of Soviet Union” must take a leading part. By street dem- onstrations, by meetings in factories and work- shops, by discussions in trade union branches, co-operative guilds, etc., vy leaflets, by articles in the press and factory\sheets the facts of this damning indictment of the imperialist conspiracy against the Soviet Union must be made known to the working class. New groups of the F. S. U. must be formed for the defense of the Soviet Union and against the threatened inter- vention of the imperialist powers. Here is clear evidence of the sinister war preparations against the Soviet Union of which we have spoken and written so much. Here is clear proof that’ the war danger is a living danger in every vital sense of the term. If the Enemy Does Not Surrender By MAXIM GORKL ‘HE energy of the advanced ranks of the work- ers_and peasants has been organized by the teachings of Marx and Lenin to lead the masses ef toiling people in the Soviet Union to a des- tination which can be exptessed in four simple words: create a new world. ‘In the Soviet Union, even the Pioneers, the children,’understand that to create a new world, to set up new conditions of life, it is necessary: 'To make it impossible for’ Andividuals to amass riches which are always Squeezed out of the sweat and blood of thé workers and peasants; to abolish the division of people into classes, to abolish every possibility of the exploitation of the creative energy and the Jabor of the ma- jority by a minority; to expose the poisonous liés.Of religious and national prejudices, which disunite people, making them ‘hostile and in- cotriprehensible to each other: to cleanse the lives of the workers from the savage and filthy habits of life which have been forced on them by centuries of slavery; to destréy-everything which, hy hindering the growth of ‘the consciousness of the single purpose of their life interests among the working (People, allows the capitalists to cre- ate human Slaughter houses, t6 drive millions ot workers to fight against ‘each “other, to wars which’ Hiave always one single purpose: to strengthen the bandit rights of the capitalists, to increase their senseless passion for profits and for power over the workers. “In the long run, this means to’ set up condi- tions for all people and for” each individual, under which they can develop’ their powers and abilities, to make it possible for ail to reach the heights which have been atfainéd with a use- lass. experiditure of energy only, by exceptional, ®e-called “great men.” . In this’ fantastical dreaming, forancing? No, it.is reality. It is the enethies of the workers peasants who describe this mass movernent for the building of a new world as fantastic ro- mancing,- people who, as a “Russian woman” re- orm @ “thin stratum of thinkers,*-and who, as she. writes, are convinced that ““intelligence be- Jongs to’ the few, and cannot be found among the -masses. - Culture is the ereation of a few highly. “pitted people. tn thése words, the “Russian woman” crudely but correctly expressed the whole philosophy and poverty of bourgeois ideology, .expressed every- thing et bourgeois philosophy can bring for- ward in opposition to the spiritual renaissance ike P masses. The spiritual renais- s of the proletariat throughout the world is indisputable reality. The working class of ra Soviet Union, marching ahead of the prole- of all countries, well confirms this new reality, It has set itself a grandiose task, and is ‘successfully carrying it out’ by’’concentrated energy. The difficulties “wl sien rn are enor- but where there’ ohere’s a way. it without , drove out of their of the Eu- oops of the ' tor e construc- -@.small num- intermingled ane ange bs — Destroy Him! [” example, mise not only their comrades but science itself, working in an atmosphere of the hate of the world bourgeoisie, and the sneers of the “mechanical men” the small mistakes, shortcomings, defects, work- ing under conditions of the difficulties of which they themselves have no clear idea—in these hellish ‘conditions the working class has devel- oped an absolutely stupendous concentration of genuine revolutionary and miraculous energy “Only the heroic courage of the workers and, of the Party which expresses the mind of the revolutionary could have made such advances under these unfavorable conditions, such as, for increasing industry by 25 per cent in who gloatingly advertise all | Great hopes were at- | 1929-30 instead of the 22 per cent in the’ plan, cultivating 36 million hectares in the collective farms instead of 20 millions! In addition to all this, while expending their energy on the con- struction of industry, while guiding the re-or- ganization of the villages, the working class and the peasants are continually appointing from among their massive ranks hundreds of talented administrators’ shock brigaders, worker corre- spondents, writers, inventors and new intellec- tual forces in general. Within the country, the cunning foe is or- ganizing against us a shortage of food, the ku- laks are terrorizing the collectivized peasants by murders, incendiarism, by all kinds of crimes, against us are ranged all who have outlived their historical age, and this gives us the right to consider that we are in the midst of a civil war. Hence, the natural conclusion to be drawn is, if the enemy does not surrender, destroy him. From without, European capital is directed against the creative work of the Soviet Union. It has also outlived its age and is doomed to destruction, But it still wishes and still has the power to resist the inevitable. It has connec-, tions with all those traitors who are carrying o1 their work of wreckage within the Union, and so base are they that they assist the attempts of the bandits. Poincare, one of the organizers of the Euro- pean slaughter of 1914-18, with the nickname “War Poincare,” the man who almost lost the war for the capitalists of France, the late social- ist Briand, the famous drunkard Lord Birken- head who recently died, and other faithful lack- eys of capital are preparing a bandit attack on the Soviet Union, with the blessing of the head of the Christian church. We are living, under conditions of ceaseless war against the whole bourgeois world, This compels the working class to make real prepara- tions for self-defense, in defense of their historic role, in defense of all that they have created for themselves or for the instruction of the proletarist of all countries during the course of thirteen years of heroic, self-sacrificing work on the constrvetion of the new world, ‘The working class and the nts must arm themselves, remembering that the strength of the Red Army was able to bear the pressure of world capitalism without arms, hungry, ragged, bootless and led by their comrades who were not well acquainted with the stratagems of war, We | have now a Red Army, an aymy of warriors, ‘every one of whom understand’ what he will fight for. And {f, absolutely panic stricken in their terror of the inevitable future,-the capital- ists of Europe @eversheless dare to send against 4UBSCRIPTION RATES: KEEPI x WARM A Doctor Tells of the Soviet Union By E. REED MITCHELL Dr. E. Reed Mitchell has just returned from the Soviet Union, where she taught English to workers and to the Red Army soldiers. On her return, confronted by the articles on the Soviet Union in the N. wrote the following in regard to Knickerbocker author of the Post articles. Pointing out the absurdity of the Post's special description that Knickerbocker travelled in “the Ural Moun- tains of Caucasia,” Dr. Mitchell commented also, ih an interview with the Labor Research Association, on the fact thatthe Post fakes its by-lines, Knickerbocker is really in Berlin, Germany, while the New York capitalist paper puts him in Moscow one day and in Nijni Novgorod the next.—Ed. Y. Evening Post, she What a wonderful ad the N. ¥. Evening Post | is giving the U.S.S.R.! Every reader has a chance to know of the success of the different lines of | the 5-Year Plan—thaé is, if the readers get past the headlines, which often distort what follow “Soviet oil ‘field passes program of 5-Year Plan’—But read on: “The unique characteristi of Soviet petroleum is that they won't play with the rest of the world” which is “trying to restrict production to keep prices up to a profitable | In the United States there used to be | level.” a law against combination in restraint of trade, but if it is world-wide, keep prices up. We tan enjoy the illustrations, too, even the one of Nov. 26, of convicts returning to their prison. This is considered such an “unusual photograph” that it was not necessary to men- tion that it was given somewhere else with some other article several years ago. How many readers noted the cheering con- trast between “Selmashtroy, new, neat, crowded | | with busy workmen and girls,” living in comfort- able new quarters, and the “old-squalid Rostov,” not yet teuched by the new order? When Americans ask me how I managed to live last year in “famished Moscow,” I ‘have to remind them that the ideal of collective life is a reality in Russia. Every organization, school, office, factory, has its dining room or buffet, for its workers and for any who happens in. There might be a shortage of meat in the retail co- operative, but I could at any time sit down with} my pupils to cold roast goose, pork or roast beef, Sausage, cheese, a vegetable salad,—of course tea, —at either of the two schools for the study of English where I taught. Russia takes care of its groups in its own way. I could not buy milk or eggs imthe government stores where they are sold cheaply for the child- ren only. But I bought them from peasant women, sometimes in return for my superfluous bread. I could not eat my allowance of bread (a pound-a day) unless I wanted rolls; as they are more expensive, one gets less in weight. One reads in capitalist papers about time wasted in queues, and in the same connection about high prices. If this is not deliberate confustion, it certainly produces a wrong impression. There ‘are queues in the regular stores where one buys cheaply; then there are high prices in the “open” market where there are no queues. The two don’t go together. ‘These queues are. considered largely due to bad management. The confessions at the trial now going on in Moscow suggest some of their reasons; |, Just what is “forced labor?” Would it include those down-and-outers that are being “rehabili- tated” by the New York Bowery Y.M.C.A. which takes from them a promise to accept “any job” offered them? us their workers and peasants, itis necessary that they should receive such a blow in words and deeds that it will be the last blow at the foolish head of capitalism which will cast it into the grave that has beau dug for it im by, history, Bah oy no doubt it is moral to | The Anniversary ot the First Intervention November 15 was the 12th anniversary of the commencement of the first intervention by French imperialists against the Soviet Republic. During the night of the French squadron with Serbian and Greex sol- diers oin board and also French colonial detach- ments, steamed out of the Dardanelles into the Black Sea en route for Odessa. Together with the troops of the interventionists, the Russian manufacturers and the die-hard landowners and all the priests and the wreckers of the present day, the Ramsins and the Larichevs, were striv- ing to gather together in Russia. Regiment after regiment disembarked at Od- essa, Sebastopol and Novorossisk, to the sound of the church bells rung in ‘welcome by the bourgeoisie and their S. R. and Menshevik brothers. Further South in the Caucasus and Turkestan, the English interventionists threw themselves against the proletarian revolution, their greedy eyes fixed on Soviet oil and other riches. The first intervention in South Russia lasted for half a year. The gold hunters from the Parisian general staff during this period had time to plunder a number of Southern towns and a small coast belt for 50-80 kilometres into the country. They shot hundreds of revolutionaries behind the walls of their barracks for carrying on agitational work among the occupation troops. But they could not carry out the orders of Clemenceau to restore Capitalism. They met the heroic resistance of the Red Army, supported by partisan detachments of peasants. The in- glorious end of this adventure was crowned by a mutiny in the French Black Sea fleet, com- menced by Marti and completed by the naval | squadron stationed in the Sebastopol roads. On 15-16 November, a | 1 | May 23rd, 1919 the French intervention ,faded out. The generals and admirals left the Soviet left the country in disgrace, trembling before their own soldiers, and accompanied by the gen- eral curses of the population. ‘The lessons of the first intervention must be specially studied by the workers at the present day, when the plot of the wreckers has exposed the danger of new intervention against the U.S. 5S. R. The first attempts of the imperialists to crush the October Revolution was smashed by the might and enthusiasm of the Red Army and the active solidarity of the Proletariat in other countries. During these 12 years, the defensive powers of the U. S. S. R. have grown tremen- dously and are continuing to grow owing to the general growth of its economic power and tech- nique. While preserving the noble traditions of its past victories, the Red Army is increasing its strength and confiden e for the inevitable wars with imperialist interventionists which are threatening by means of its ties with the broad masses of workers and the toiling peasants. To improve these ties, these contacts with the Red Army by thousands of new indissoluble links — chis is what is demanded by the lessons of the first intervention and the exposure of the crim- inal plot of the wreckers and of the imperialist general staffs. The second task is more widely to develop international contacts, in a.. ways strengthening international fraternal solidarity, so that when the hour comes in which the interventionists will feel the bayonets of re victorious Red Army, they will be struck in the rear by its allies, the workers and peasants of capitalist | countries, By mall everywhere: Ons year, 36; six months, 33; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; eix months, $4.50, By BURCK | Lee BY JORGE cece Lying as a Fine Art IMPATIENCE, untempered by good sense, haa been one affliction among many of the rene- gades from Communism, both of the Lovestone and Trotsky persuasion. A case in point has been their aggravation at the persistence of the N. Y. Times correspondent in Moscow, Mr. Wal- ter Duranty, in telling the truth about the bank- ruptcy of their respective but common causes in Soviet. politics. These worthies have every intolerance of a Czarist emigre, unmindful of the necessity in realistic counter-revolution, of the use of tact, In their injured annoyahce they’ thought the N. Y. Times did not know its own business, and eried aloud that the Times dismiss Duranty, this clever stupidity being disguised as an assertion that the Communist Party should put Duranty on its Central Committee. As though Duranty were in any ultimate or essential way, any different than any number of other artful bourgeois journalists, who know how to gain credence by writing the truth some of the time, particularly when the expected hour comes when fyndamental interests are at stake. The imperialists have planned to invade Sov- iet Russia by armed force in 1931, next year, mark that down, as they still intend to do that very thing. The criminals on trial at Moscow were aiding this intervention plan. Everybody, at least everybody in Moscow—with one excep- tion, apparently—is convinced of that. More than a million Moscow workers testified by dem- onstration that.they are convinced of that. The Soviet Government is clearly convinced of that and, in this critical situation, with the clouds of war swiftly gathering, is trying to show to the workers of all the world the facts and their enormous significance, And what does Mr. Duranty. write when this critical moment appears, a moment in which it is no longer a matter of readable chatter about what, to the imperialist masters, are matters of secondary importance, but of speaking seriously of things which cause the foreign offices of great world capitalist powers to make declara- tions, of exposing or concealing the motive forces and machinery of a new and bloody world war? At this moment Mr. Duranty comes forward, still writing cleverly, still ready to be partly truthful, but quite clearly playing the game of belittling the sinister meaning of the interven- tion plot, of making smoke-screens/of doubt, and casting forth the idea that, after all~the con- fessions of these plotters have no basis in fact. To this end Mr. Duranty, in the N. Y. Times of Dec. 3, wrote quite an article, of which the fol- lowing excerpts are fair samples: “Such evidence arouses doubts that tend to lurk in the mind of the foreign observer through- out this trial.” “The'acused have confessed they made a great big plot ... but whenever it comes down to just what they did with the money and how the conspiracy was organized and what it accomplished, their customary glibness .deserts | them and everything grows blurry and vague.” “They are unable or unwilling to explain just what they, did and how.” . | The Times “played up” this story, and “played down” another which, by chance, was printed on the same page, as an Associated Press dispatch from Moscow, wherein at least some of the de- tails which Mr. Duranty couldn’t see, were given in most explicit way. In the A. P. dispatch the prisoners, Kuprianov, Krassovski and Sirotsinsky, were noted as con- fessing how much money they got, where from, and what they did for it, Kuprianov’s group got 50,000 rubles graft from cotton machinery purchases “much from American concerns . « . there was a system whereby white Russians abroad got the 1 per cent and the anti-Soviet engineers got 4 per cent.” “At one time,” admitted Krassovski, “we had 96 per cent of the locomotives on these lines (near the frontier) out of repair, thus making } the fall of the Soviet easier if the revolt came.” Again, Sirotsinsky confessed:—‘We carefully se- jected a site for the plant (a chemical plant) on swamp land, and a big sum of money was spent “in its construction. Later the’ swamp was dis- covered and it was found necessary to construct a great dike all around the building to save it. Even now it is not sure whether the building eventually will not be a loss.” The moral of all this is not, of course, that .workers should believe the Associated Press ‘rather than\Mr. Duranty, but to regard all capi- talist correspondents with ‘equal suspicion, and to look for—and find—the reliable accounts of this and all other class issues in the Daily A Day at the Municipal “Employ- ment” Agency By L. BLUME, T 9 o'clock a line, composed of several thou- sand shivering‘ jobless, is standing at the doors of this “employment” agency. At 10 o'clock part of the crowd is allowed to go in. The rest are forced to wait in line till one o'clock. ‘Unless you wait in line you are not allowed to enter. Even at 1 o'clock only a fraction of those waiting get a “chance.” After mounting a filthy. staircase you come upon a hall filled with 5,000 victims of capitalism. Application cards are handed out and the jobless must keep them and come up early every day. The cards are never collected and are just so much paper. ‘The walls are covered with many inscriptions, the work of some militant jobless: “This is Hoover's prosperity”; ‘Under capitalism we will always starve; in the Soviet Union there is no unemployment”; “Fight for the Workers’ Un- aarilotaatt Insurance Bill.” Groups of workers are talking about the deep- ening crisis. Suddenly a fat slob, immaculately dressed, gets up on the platform and announces through a megaphone, “Job Number One—Sell- ing Potato Chips and Peanuts on the Streets.” A murmur of anger from the jobless. Not one moves forward to take this job, “Whassematter wid you boids? Don't you guys want to work? Step up and speak to the man over there. Find out what his proposition is,” growls the fat slob on the platform. “Aw, go sell 'em yourself,” is the answer of the unemployed. Some reply in a well known classical phrase, After a few minutes “Job Number Two” is an- scat at “Strong. Man Wanted to Work as a "rome wild rush to g fas soe The uniformed thug allows only four to reach the desk. After intensive questioning one of the four gets the job. “Job number three,” is announced after a long wait. “Colored , couple wanted as janitor of forty family apartment house.” As before only four men are allowed to apply: The rest are shoyed back, The Tammany “Employment” Agency will an- nounce in the papers, “One out of four gets jobs at Municipal Employment Agency. New record.” As the disappointed push their way out they encounter another group filing in. . . and one of them remarks, “I see Hoover's prosperity is rowing.” 8] 8. ie Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party, Name Address Pte e eee anes eneereeneesesseees, CITY. sisascecnseececscneeeeees State oo, Occupation Mail this to the ‘Party, 43 East 125th Worker. And just to make matters beastly concrete, we are informed that, at the news-stand in the co-operative in the Bronx, where there live 175 members of the Communist Party, there are 210 copies of the N. Y. Times sold daily, and just 77 copies of the Daily Worker. We Should Worry What a hullaballoo about -“Six Maniacs Es- caped.” In big heads all over the capitalist pap- ers. | Huh, why should we worry, Heywood Broun has been running loose all the time. But, “THEY'RE DANGEROUS,” the capitalist sheets shout. Huh, we're used to that! We meet Commission er Mulrooney's “courteous cops” most every day on the picket line. An Electric Ear Needed » The Westinghouse laboratory in Pittsburgh has produced “an electric ear” which is claimed “to reduce noise by setting one sound to kill another sound.” It is added: “When ‘an apple hits the ies the impact starts a series of complex broadcasts which in physics are represented as sound waves. It is entirely possible to produce silence by two sound waves which fit each other much like the teeth of two saw blades.” Somehow, we wonder if this has anything to do with the racket of selling apples. If there are 10,000 pushcart peddiers selling apples in New York, and 5,000 jobless men are kidded into the idea that they can make a living age) ap- ples, the sound waves don’t yet, jibe and the racket continues. But if 10,000 jobless go to” selling apples) the apnle racket stops. Als, word if Conggessman Fish isn't an “electric ear.” He's been Mace his worst to try. to drown out, with-lurid yarns of “Soviet dump- ing,” the reverberations of the Moscow nee 1931 war me gatas the Roviet Nd * Py