The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1980 Startling News ot Growing War Plots Against Soviets! Smash Bosses’ War Moves! Page Three MORE LAYOFFS IN ean Poles’’ Is\600 CHILDREN ON |Krylenko Demands Death BOWERY MILKLINE Penalty For 8 Wreckers in Final Speech at Trial CANTON PLANTS; NewSbeedupon FOOL THE JOBLESS Buttalo Paber (By a Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. ¥.—A worker in the |press-room of the Buffalo Courier- |Express told me today what bless- | ines the new building of this’ Brass} Check hewspaper has brought to the CANTON, O.—The Howard Dental) workers who put it out. As soon as Chair Co., of Canton laid off 25 work- | |the paper moved to its big new ers November 26th,.and we were told pyiiding on Main Street 13 or more they did not know when they would | workers received their walking papers. start again. There are still six work-| (They'}] help pay for the new home ers, working in the machine shops but by pounding the pavements they don’t expect to work more than|the owners of the Courier- a couple of weeks. Then they expect | save 13 salaries weekly.) to lock the doors. | ‘The speed-up, of course, is in- On December Ist, at the Canton |hyman, ‘The rest of the workers in Tinplete there were around 2,000 men | this newspaper plant have to do the trying to get work. There was an ad) work of the disemployed 13. ‘They've in the bosses’ press that they were| oot the remaining employes sliding starting up Monday, December Ist.| Gown “fire poles” from floor to floor Fight for Unemployed Relief Now! By A Worker Correspondent while express and would need around 100 men. Some of the workers waited from six in the morning until ten. “The workers be~- gan to get restive when they saw how the bosses lied. So the watchman called for the police and three cops were sent out to quiten the workers, | and clear the gate so that the fat bosses could drive through. After waiting for hours in the cold a few! workers were picke out and hired. I wish to correct a mistake that I made in my last letter. I said all the workers at the Republic Steel re- ceievd a wage cut of 25 percent, but all of them did not get the wage cut, aot yet as they are still laying off men. MARCUS GARVEY |continue to earn profits for new buildings, and they'll continue to slide down poles at the sound of a bell. IN NEW RACKET Election Campaign | Brings Fortune By H. BARNES. KINGSTON, Jamaica, B. W. Dec. 1—Under the disguise of run- ning for office, Marcus Garvey, dur- ing the early part of this year, de- veloped one of his many schemes for relieving Negro workers of part of | their hard-earned wages. Garvey sent letters throughout the United States, Central America, West | Indies and South America to every | Negro worker whose address is in his possession, telling them that the whole future of the Negro race de- pended upon his election to the legis- lative council of this colonial slave pen. These letters added a tidy for- tune to Mr. Garvey’s bank account. Up to six months after the election the money is still pouring in. In spite of this response of work- ers in other countries the robbery of employes still continue at the Garvey headquarters here. the election several of the workers were Owed ten weeks back wages and were roundly cursed out when they asked Garvey for their money. The | same night he left his parish and | went to another sixty miles away and ry The night before | |to get around more quickly! | rationalization experts of the news- {paper business discovered that i |takes too long to get from floor to | floor by using the steps, so they've installed a system of bells to call the members of the skeleton force from one place to another as they're need- ed, and when a worker is called to a | floor below he slides down in a rush. The workers, “organized” in A. F of L. “unions” are appealing to their leaders to “do something about this | unbearable slave-driving.” From past |experience, we can tell these workers | that whatever might be done will have to be dons by themselves, under militant leadership such as that of the Tf. U. U. L. Until they organize The in real fighting unions the bosses will a) did not return until five hours after’ the polls were closed It is not surprising, then, that his henchmen were unconcerned during the voting. His mon at the polling stations had to beg bredkfast from the henchmen of the opposing candi- date. Therefore, when Garvey said’ he had lost his ‘seat because of rum, rice and peas, intimating that his | henchmen had sold him out, it was absolutely untrue. Garvey's only intention in running for office was to satisfy his tremea- dous ego and amass a fortune out’ of the pox of the poor people, then leave them to their fate. After being defeated for the legis- lative council, Garvey managed to scramble into the Kingston Corpora- tion, and, on the basis of this, his Ane Blackman,” constantly to him as Councillor Garvey, deliberately giving the false impres- ‘kers outside of Jamaica that he was elected to the legislative | council, they not knowing the differ- ence between the Kingston Corpora- tion and the legislative council. The Daily Worker complete circulation |tables each Wednesday. them. Study them. discloses the Situation in Watch for} 4,000 Daily Workers Spread Over Chicago in Red Sunday; Boosters’ Club Worries Cops Four thousand copie copies of “Gatieaagin issue of the Daily Worker were sent to Chicago for city-wide distribution and sale during yesterday's Red Sun- day. E. Thomas, District Daily Worker representative, Chicago, writes of the ‘ffect of the Daily Worker Boosters Zlub on the Chicago cops. He says’ We arranged a meeting of the | Daily Worker readers anc sympa- | thizers to organize a Daily Worker _ Boosters Club. The meeting was — called for 8 p. m., and at 7 p.m. | the Red Squad was there, repre- sented by seven detectives. It was on the south side where the Ngro | workrs live. As soon as any one came he was at once questioned and threatened with everything unéer the sun, Everyone who show- ed up was searched and terrorized. “The place of the meeting, South | Side Center, 4848 South Ashland Av- enue, was searched and leaflets and other things taken. They stayed on until ten o'clock. Another meeting at the Beosters Club is called for | dext Ww Kuch orters fer Wednesday's edi- tion of the Daily Worker contain- ing the full indictmont by the state nrosecutor of the eight wreckers. Let the Daily Worker 1931 Calen- | dar help you in the fight for 60,000 sirculation. Free with each 6 months subscription or renewal, Kansas City Expects Gains From Mel Wermblad, Daily Worker representative of District 10, Kansas we got this report: hove started a campaign to Dei'y Worker at factory well as on the streets, We { @ touse to beive | “n. Cord getns should be made during the next few weeks.” Paul Cline, district organizer, also writes: “We reiterate-our promise to jack up Daily Worker circulation # few notches.” 4 Hae’ | the shark infested Sixth Avenue trom 7 em netroots Parade por Daily Here are three comrades from Sec- tion 2 illustrating a novel and effec- tive way of advertising and selling The Daily Worker on the streets. Section 2 organized shock troops and divided them into four groups. Par- ticipants were equipped with sand- wich boards carrying slogans beost- ing the Daily Worker. The four groups together covered twenty-five blocks, parading along 3rd street to 46th street. They were enthusiastically received by the un- employed workers. A total of 150 papers were sold. One unemployed worker after having read the Daily, came back end donated fifty cents to the emergency fund. Spokane to Help In 60,000 Drive Frank Sellman, Spokane. writes: “Send 25 Workers for ten days. We here in Srokane have decided | to try to hetp the 69,900 eireulniion | avive atong to the best of our abil- ity. Comrade Burr Leach, who is out of work at present, is willing to take a bundle of Workers every day and try his damndest to sell them te stimulate s demand,” RAGGED, STARVED, Children, Get Into the} Fight for Relief (By a Worker Correspondent. ) NEW YORK.—A line of children about 600 strong waited in front of | (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—On what does our proof rest? In the first pl: upon the confessions of the accused, attempts abroad to discredit the con- fessions by casting/various suspicions. Is it conceivable that the whole se- ries of people “indiscriminately” were {jects of the sabotage of the various | spheres, the sabotagers concentrated | their activity in the Donbas fuel, | Moscow coal, and Kuzbas coal. Pro- |duction was retarded everywhere, | railway development was prevented. All evidence combined with statis- tics show the effects of the sabotage, the Salvation Army, 345 Bowery, two | arrested by the GPU, and were then giving the uniform picture of the hours today (December 4th) to get the | miserable slop they give them in the | form of watered milk. After being} shoved and knocked around by the} bloodsuckers of the Salvation Army | Conceivable’? The agreement of the similar picture was shown delivery truck they were finally helped to a miserable pitcher of corn| ment with the declarations and docu-| 1 the last two years the Sov and water called milk. | The children looked ragged and pitched faces, and shoes torn One of uor hundred per cent blue-| coat legionnaires of the Mulrooney's police department came along and| shoved them brutally in line with the remarks “Git in line you damn brats”, This is the way the school children | of the working class get treated. This is the meaning of Hoover's Child Con- ference, recently held, in this the rich- est country in the world. —Harry Williams WORKERS’ LIVES | ARE IN DANGER! U.S. Government Has) Armed for War | (Continued from Page One) of the U. S. Army has drawn up war plans, ready for instant action! Against whom, workers? You, the | workers, do not know yet, your “enemy” will be pointed out to you} by the capitalist newspapers, They are already pointing out the “en- emy”! Look papers: | over the capitalist news- Everywhere you will see Hes | about the Soviet Union! Lies about “Soviet, dumping,” lies about how “terrible” conditions are in Soviet | Russia—as though America itself did | not have 9,000,000 jobless workers starving with their families—while in | Soviet Russia there is no unemploy- ment and wages are increasing, the seven-hour day is in effect and work- ers work four days then lay off_the fifth day of their Five Day Week! | The capitalists fear the Soviet) Union because it is building up a real Workers’ Socialist industry. They fear that you, here, will do the same | | | thing, overthrow the capitalists by | revolution and take government pow- er—build your own indusiry, your) own government, for the benefit of all who work, and not for parasite | share-holders. | Workers! Is it not clear that all the | capitalist governments are preparing war against the Soviet government! | It is being proven in the great trial of plotters in Moscow that the war is being made ready to begin next | year, in 1931! That is why the capitalist govern- | ment of this country js preparing war plans! That is why the stinking | “Fish Committee” is attacking the} “reds”, the Communists! Because they know that only the Communists are organizing the workers to defend | themselves against wage cuts, long| hours, the speed-up! Because they | know that the Communists will ex- plain to you workers that war against the Soviet Union is at the same time @ war agaainst you, the American workers! Answer the war makers, workers, | by organizing in your shops under | Communist leadership, to defend your living standards, to get real unemployment relief, to defend the workers of the Soviet Union. If the capitalists start a war, the workers will fight, for their lives, for bread— but not against Soviet workers. They will make it a civil war against the | capitalists who starve and oppress | them here, against the capitalists who are planning, as Major Quinton | shows, for a “General Mobilization” to send you to die on the battle- fields! COMRADE CHRYSSOS, EMPROS EDITOR, DIES NEW YORK.—The working class movement of New York, was shocked by receipt of news from Colorado that Ellis Chryssos, former editor of the Communist Greek language pa- per in America, “Empros,” had died quite suddenly there on the night of Dec, 2. Comrade Chryssos joined the Communist Party (the Workers Par-}French agents, construction of trai- ty) in 1922. His devotion and activ- ity caused him to be elected first secretary of the Greek federation of the Workers Party, and then editor of Empros. Constant overwork and sacrifice of personal welfare made him subject to tuberculosis in 1926. ‘He left the sanatorium in 1927 to again assist Empros, and relapsed, so that -in 1929 he was again in a sana- torium. Even to his dying day he continued to agitate for Communism, and to urge the workers in the hos- pital to read Empros. t Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- wewal, os jhad no knowledge jdeny the meeting with Poincare, | sarabia and Poland” coincides with | separately given statements pletely in agreement? com- Is.such a gigantic “coordination declarations strengthened by agree- ments of an historical character such ; |as information given by Krassovsky | Bome-were bareheaded | while under arrest since April, 1928, | | and results of the investigation of | | the conditions of the railways pub- lished this year. What could have} induced the accused to make state- ments. Extortion by torture is clear- ly excluded here. The statements as @ whole give the key to the psycho- logical coincidence of the confessions. They are “heroes of sabotage.” No idea unites or supports them. ‘Today's proceedings opened the exposure of the role of money in the} wreckers’ work, showing their deep! moral decadence. The accused had} no alternative but to speak. Further proof of the objective character of | the confessions can be found in the| detailed agreement of the witnesses Mikhaelenko, Sirosinsky, Zeidler, and Yrovsky. No contradictions were dis+ | closed despite the fact that the ex- amination showed that the witnesses of the whole wrecking activity and that they’ were only acquainted with part of the leading figures. Let us test the cred- ibility of the detailed statements of the accused regarding the foreign re- lation of the Torg Prom, and the par- ticipation in the leading circles of France, and the French general staff. According to their own statements in speeches of the tenth anniversary of the White Russian college in Paris, no doubt remains regarding the Torg Prom’s actively hostile attitude to- ward the Soviets, and the relation of the counter revolutionary armed forces with the object of the over- throw of the Soviet Power “in a few months.” Deterding’s speech on the eleventh of June, 1930, and his letter on the fourteenth of the same month show his close relations with the Russian emigres. Both docu- ments forecast the “approaching overthrow of the Soviet Power in a) few months.” Riabushensky’s article | confirms the intention of the emi-| gres to hasten the intervention. The org Prom’s press statement does not | doubtless for the reason that they were anxious not to thereby preju-| dice the promises received at these) meetings. All this indicates the presence of, the active aggressive attitude of the Torg Prom against the Soviet Union and the intention to realize an in- tervention within the shortest length | of time. Janain was named by the Presi-| | dent’s commission to prepare the | | plan for intervention. As an officer with practical experience of interven- | tion in Russia, Janain clearly was the best candidate. The article of the/ forgers and the information given by the Communist deputy, Berons. in the French Piarlament, regarding the | military measures of the spring of 1930, proved actually the similar at- titude and tendencies of the leading political circles of France. Prepara- tion of the wrecking acts against the Soviet war industries, beginning the construction of military organization, are facts. Men now alive carried out these preparations, are in our hands, and speak. All these practical meas- ures of actions would be meaningless if not taken in closest relation with the French general staff. Equally credible information of the accused regarding meetings of the Torg Prom with Poincare. Poincare demands details “of the alleged” plan for intervention of the Soviet Union. His article of Febru- ary 28, 1930 in the “Excelsior,” gives the reply: his reference to the “dan- ger of the frontier conflicts of Bes- i the statements of the accused. Simi- larly Poincare's article written on October 30, entitled “Claws of the Soviet Union,” leaves no doubt of the author's malicious hatred against the Soviet Union and the intention of destroying it. In such an atmosphere relations with the Torg Prom which constitute the “unofficiel embassy of the Russian emigres in France” are more than probable. Poincare con- cludes his article “Enough of Jokes.” We also say “Enough of Jokes.” De- tailed preparations of dynamiting the war factories, extensive activities of torous military organization are no jokes. All it does makes the credj- bility of this part of the confessions of the accused completely certain. task now is to establish the in- dividual guilt in matter of service to the Torg Prom, French government, and general staff. . * o« (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 4--The activities | of the Industrial part ty are che. arncter- | ized particularly by the specialization | defendants’ systematic mischief done in the in- | terests of foreign powers. | Without the concrete intervention plan such sabotage was senseless. A in the metal industry, railways, and textile. | have repaired | border ‘railways damaged by the wreckers. Comparatively, record of | damage was done in the textile in- | dustry. The textile sabotage was begun early, hence a great variety of subtle methods of action and con- cealment were developed. The court even established the dirty personal interests of receiving a commission from English manufacturers covered up by theoretical arguments of the honorable professors, and building luxurious textile factories based upon the demagogic pro-labor arguments. Employment of such methods ex- the western railway | plains why the workers could so long continue their sabotage ynhampered. Combining the various measures caused defective the socialist con- struction. The discovery of the cen- tral leadership in the Gosplan en- abled the revelation of all the crimi- nal measures. Particulerly slick methods were used in a systematic public discus- sion accusing one another of “sabo- tage.” Investigation of the sabotage methods of the drainage revealed the extraordinary crimes, expressed by the preparation of the ground for] ~ intervention. Ramsin received instructions from R but concealed these. Eventually Ramsin confessed, knowing that the Soviet Government could bring Pris- oners Riesenkampf, Koenig, Sparro, and Michaelenko as witnesses. The closed session definitely revealed the military sabotage and the military organization connected with French agents. Living witnesses were avail- able concerning the central instruc- tions on this point also. The mysterious gentlemen R and K were identified as living persons. Authenticity of the defendants’ tes- timony in the role of these persons and the French general staff connec- tions were unquestionably estab- lished. After investigation of the interven- tion menace under the French lead- ership it was absolutely’ certain. . (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—To define the activity I repeat their aim: Intervention, according to a concrete plan. The leadership of the intervention was in the hands of the French general staff. The statements of the defendants show in detail the plan fully coin- |cides with the actual preparatory steps. Poincare wrote an’ article on | February 13 showing the great in- terest of the French in the Rouma- | nian and Polish Soviet border con- flicts. ‘The western border preparations were practically undertaken to pre- pare the ground for military forces to paralyze the local railways. The establishment of benzine dumps, and airdromes under the R’s direct instructions proved this. The witness Michaelenko exposed drain- age and plan landing the Krasenov’s Cossacks in the Black Sea territory. All the border activities were fixed for 1930, proving the truth of the testimony. The wreckers’ picture is quite clear now. Professor Ramsin is a typical in- tellectual exposed as the organizer of the wreckers’ center. He perform- ed the most responsible task connect- ing the Torg Prom with the general staff and the French agents. Ram- sin always was an irreconcilable en- emy of the Soviet Government and a counter revolutionary. His politi- cal conceptions play not the most important role. Ramsin is a typical, practical organizer. He had practi- cal ideas of substantial realization of political aims through sabotage, ex- pecting a ministeria] post. Only one judgment of the Soviet Government was possible in regard to Ramsin as the leading wrecker, spy and or- ganizer of terroristic acts and mill- tary work. Charnovski is an outspoken czarist seeking a cowardly exoneration. The trial exposed his leading role in the metal industry and the cold-blooded preparations to explode the ammuni- tion works. He supplied spy infor- mation and had personal contact with the agents. As afleading fig- ure, spy, wrecker, and arch-reaction- ary, Charnovski deserves the punish- ment which the Soviet Government will mete out. Klinnikov represents the old bour- geois element who enjoyed the So- viet Government's far-reaching con- fidence, which he grossly abused. He adnfitted participation in the spy commissions, the organization of the military bieh treason ard direct ccn- nections with French egents. The only method of apyroach to Klinni- kkov is liquidation of his sabotage ac- and extension of most of the impor- | tivity, tant branches of Soviet agen Larichev, an old engineer and 9 fuel, power, metal, transport, textile, parame early igre age sabotage ‘nd planning. The court hes thor-|in the coal Porinkee He participat- sughly investigated the peal 4 tn the decisive Paris, conference TOKIO-TRIAL OF MILITANTS OPENS “Dangerous Thoughts” | (Continued from -Page One) ri troops, building of factories for con- | Ch: _ version into arsenals, etc. | Marge Fyedotoy, the oldest defendant, was} } ee particularly histrionic, and in a long- TOKIO, Dec. 2—The trial ot 30) sued speech made eff i Korean work members of the . sympathy. tried to Both he and Charnoys. | Communis ‘ty - unist Party of Kore how that their past contains | cesar Reacts ne positive s to the working clas: These defendants are part of the| uclore 18i8 | Hyedstoy said, (1 thousands of workers, including the | Seal Si Korean and Chinese, arrested inioag| TiS leading member of the Cadet and 1929. Many of them have al-| Party. the party o : ready been sentenced up to 10 years big bourgeoisie, who in the Indus- i 3 trial Pasty, according to in prison and others deported to the f As bloody hands of Chiang Kai-shek. | ¥ored @ mona pictured him- | ‘The court room was surrounded | Self 88 2 person whose heart always | charged started by 200 policemen, who attacked a|thfobbed for the working class! All| demonstration of workers before the| the defendants, true to th aed court house and arrested 20. keeper's souls tried to Paresh with In spite of the terroristic atmos- |‘ Soviet Government and speculate phere, the defendants showed their |°" the need of technicians as a fighting spirit with singing revolu- [the Re of their physical anni- tionary songs and shouted “Long| Milation Live the Communist Party of Korea,”| Ramin gave (he cue and all sens “Down With Japanese Imperialism.”|the same tune. As always, there was The trial judge ordered that the|@reat calmness in the hail, ‘4 trial be conducted behind closed| Workers listened in a disciplined | doors, in order to keep out the thou- | fashion: but there isn’t a worker in| sands of sympathetic, militant Japa-|the entire Soviet Union who doesn’t agree with the concluding words ot! Krylenko that “everyone who can help our enemies must be wiped oft | nese workers. Thousands of workers are rotting in the jails of imperialist Japan with- out trial. Many have been impris-|the face of the earth.” | oned as long as three years. The| The court adjourned this morn-j courts have refused the demands for|ing till tomorrow when the judges a mass trial and insist on trying the {decision will be given, defendants in small groups in order} The American workers must com- | to facilitate their railroading and|bat the efforts of the bourgeois pres: conviction. to arouse sympathy fer the defend- | ants. Whatever the decision will b those who seek to wreck {building and to deliver the w list 1931 CALENDAR FREE! ifatherland to the impce invad- Historical data on big events of }jers with a resultant frightful the class struggle in the first an- |! slaughter of the toilers, must be nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free with six months sub or renewal. dealt with sternly. The acute danger of war demands | that all proletarian forces rally to the defense of the first Workers’ Re- public and to combat the propaganda lies and slanders which are laying the basis for intervention. of oil magnates and French officers. He undertook and began building a military organization. Like Ramsin and Klinnikov, he concealed facts. He is a man who still hopes for the realization of his aims and deserves one punishment only. Fedotov perhaps is the most inte- esting figure in the trial. An active member of the Cadet Party, a rich man closely related to the old capi- talists who conducted a long time sabotage in the textile industry. Two Fedotovs are confronted in thg court: the honorable professor, eager for discussion and “theoretical” dis- putes, and the pitiful figure- receiv- ing bribes. He set pride in his po- litical and civil honor. The court can have no consideration for him. . (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—Kuprianov loy- ally served his old master for seven- teen years. He remained loyal after the revolution. His case is similar to the other branch of leading wreck- ers. However, he was not only the branch leader, but an executive mem- ber, knowing all the secrets, all the phases of the sabotage activity, ins cluding the intervention preparation details. He also participated in the mill- tary organization, and high treason. He deserves no better treatment than the rest. Otchkins may be briefly charac- terized as Ramsin’s secretary in the Soviet and Industrial party activity. He claims a lengthy period “of sin- (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—In this after- noon’s session of the trial the accused were given the right to address the court in their own behalf. Professor Ramsin spoke first. His speech again revealed his great intelligence and his concentrated will, which made him an especially dangerous wrecker. He rejected the prosecutor's state- ment about “pure mathematics” be- ing at the basis of the wreckers’ work. It,was not for material ends that he carried on the work, he said, but be- cause of actual conviction of the in- evitable collapse of Soviet economy, as well as the moral pressure of old engineering circles that led him into the path of the wreckers. There were only two ways open. Leftward with the proletariat to Socialism, or to the right, through Paris and the inferno of capitalist war preparations, sabot- age, espionage, and treason. He went to the right, said Profes- sor Ramsin. “I now know where this road leads, and since the complete perspective of this road at the same time the victory of Socialism ‘s be- coming clear, and nothing remains but openly to confess. “My last act could only be a reve- lation of those guilty in wrecking and war preparation. In these ten days I have felt the wave of hatred, con- tempt and condemnation of the So- cialist workers towards the accused cere Soviet activity.” Subsequently, he became one of the most active in the Industrial party, performing most of the important tasks. ‘The closed session established Ot- chkins’ important part of practical sabotage and spying. Finally, Sitnin: “Pro-Soviet” and trusted by Communists. He under- took and performed the importayt sabotage work. He aimed likewise to restore capitalism. The trial has @s- tablished his executive membership, though earlier he denied it, He truly deserves the title of an international grafter. His social value is nil, his social eyil is sufficientiv proven. His guilt is unquestionable. Our start- ing point is the defense of the So- viet Government against the counter- revolutionary onslaught. Our court is the proletarian dictatorship’s weapon against the counter revolution. This court is confronted by remnants of the crushed bourgeoisie. Lenin said that there are enemies temporarily conquerable but undestroyable by the World’s Revolution; millions of the workers and poor peasants. Are the defendants of this type? No! They have no mass following, but are the remnants of the dying classes. Le- nin asks: Is it possible for a revolu- tionary party not to resort to capi- tal punishment against counter rev- olutionary crimes at the moment of and towards me personally. Perhaps in the distant future this hatred will be to some extent ameliorated. My speculations were directed towards 1930. But it was this year that shat- tered these hopes. For three years I was the bitterest active enemy of the Soviet Union, My last wish is for myself to live to the time of the final victory of Socialism. Let the proletarian court decide whether my destruction or use is more necessary for the working class. “I promise, if granted life, to use all my powers for the service of So- viet construction.” ‘The statements of Charnoveki, Lar- ichev, Otchkin and Kalinikov were accompanied by symptoms of col- lapse. They consisted mainly in the repetition of the confessions of guilt. Charnovski and Larichev pleaded for mercy. Larichev and Kalinikov de- clared they did not dare to beg nercy but promised confession and repent- ance if their lives were preserved, and “honestly” to work for Socialism. Professor Fyedotov’s longer speech showed once more the deep confes- sion of ideas of this typical represen- tative of the old, decayed Russian in- telligentsia. He showed complete hu- miliation, especially when he confess- ed his moral guilt in the matter of bribery. He begged for his life “in order to wash away this stain.” the most acute class struggles? The defendants are uilty of such crimes. Ruthless punishment also aims at stopping of ever vascillating petty- bourgeois intellectuals in engaging in counter revolutionary activity. ‘The trial proved the direct and co- ordinated activity for years of the defendants allied to hostile groups of international bourgeoisie and lead- ing imperialist circles for the over- throw of the Soviet Government. ‘This ended the speeches of the ac- cused and the court adjourned vo De- cember 6. The last words of the ac- cused which were heard in the deep- est silence destroys once more all the tendencious “psychological” state- ments as to the motives of the con- fessions of the accused which appear- ed in the hostile press of all capital- ist countries, Oe sae (Special to the Dajly Worker.) | diffictit-to es War Danger on U.S. S.R. Growing; 5 Sentenced to Die defendant's tap hg to his mas- ter passed on to Lopatin, represent+ ig Konnavalov's ‘interests when the tter_ fled. Lopatin was responsible for Kuprianov’s misfortune. He grad- ually and atically made Kup- | rianov a wrecker. The executive members of the “industrial par ty’ considered Kup- rianov not as a politican but as a cal man. Kuprianoy could not lea sabotage organization ow- group psychology and h the realization of the hope- lessness of the cause Braude maintained that Kuprianov Was no serious danger to the Soviet govérninent, The practice role and responsibility of the defendant was ablish since the actual 5 and instigators, the commer- and Industrial Committee in Poincare, the French General were not on trial cish Paris, Stafl The court, represe illions of work ould mercifully treat the valuable specialists, though the crime is unquestioned. Sitnin’s lawyer, Ozep, described the defendant's role as that of a tool. Taking precedents from the Shakhty trial and the “Uk- uni m and ljberation” ce Ozep said the full confession and revelations of the present trial ld moderate the sentence he success of the Five-Year plan convinced Sitnin of the hopelessness of the cause. His confession was sine and the Soviet government should provide him with the oppor- y to redeem himself by working rainian | for Socialist construction. The other defendants declined de- fense. Krylenko deemed a reply to the defense unnecessary. After a brief intermission the court gave the de- fendants the word. CUT CFF TALK ON USSR. IN SCHOOL Fill Students With Boss’ Poison (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.—In the local hieu school, there is a course known as oral English. This is sup- posed to serve several purposes, such as developing initiative, self-posses- sion in addressing audiences and im- proving their English. A few weeks ago one of the classes was instructed by their teacher to come prepared the following week, with the following assignment. Each student was to take out an article from any magazine and rewrite it in their phraseology, and be able to speak it before the class. A young girl whose entire family is close to the working class movement, spoke on the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union, -basing her talk on an article in the, November Labor Defender. She spoke simply from a purely im- partial standpoint merely telling of the industrial development. She was cut off and marked below. passing although she has always been an A Student in this subject. This. is an example of how the capi- talist class uses the schools, of how they develop initiative in the stu- dents. Workers, especially those who have not attended schools should awaken to the fact that day by day their children are being poisoned, against them. They should make every effort to draw their children into the movement. FIRST ANNUAL DAILY WORKER CALENDAR FOR 1931 Seven striking halftone pletures including : An unpublished ploture of Lenin addressing Moscow workers. 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Anyone aiding} thé hostile world in tre precent) alignment of forces for life or death struggle against the socialist prog- MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—In the after- P-oude. lawyer for the de- fens¢ spoke on behalf of the dfr-3- ent Kupriar Ina bril- lignt spee tha lawyer argued against the death sentence. Analys- ing closely the defendant's personal- | ity and social origin and his status noon session of the wreckers’ trial! | NITGEDAIGET VROBETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPAy THE PNTIRE YEAR” Beru‘'‘ul Rooms Heated dovnly Uga'ped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere O) $11 A WEEE M Public prosecution demands the/ he described him as “the master’s shooting of all the defendants with-| loyal servant,” Konnavaloy, ex-textile out any exception. manufacturer being his master, The a eam RT ETE