The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 5

ee RRS Sabotage Work in Preparation for Intervention Against the U. S. S. K. In Two Sections (Section Two) Dail Central Orge (Section of the Communist eo Yorker the-Co Reunist Porty U.S.A. Detend the Soviet Union! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 193 INDICTMENT IN THE TRIAL OF THE COUNTER- REVOLUTIONARY “INDUSTRIAL PARTY” Accused: Ramsin, Kal'nnikoy, Lar't- | chevy, Charnovsky, Fyedetov, Kuprya- nov, Otchkin and Sitnin. Article 58, Items 3, 4 and 6 of the Code of Penal Law of the R.S.F.S.R. In the course of the last two years the efforts of the State Political Administration (GPU) have enabled, one sabotage organiza- tion after another to be discovered in a' large number of branches of industry. The exposure of the “Shakhty” group of sabot- agers was followed by the discovery of a sabotage organization in the People’s. Com- missariat for Ways and Communication. This again was followed by the exposure of sabotage organizations in the war industry, in the textile industry, in the shipyards, in the machine-building trade, in the chemical, gold, oil, and other industries. The Soviet Government has deemed it necessary to is- sue official statements informing the broad masses of the workers with regard to a aumber of sabotage organizations and the means takeli to combat them. The authorities instituting the inquiry, after encountering sabotage again and again in the most important and leading apparatus of the national economy of the Soviet Union, in the Supreme Economic Council, and in in the most important planning organ, the State Planning Commission, came system-. atically to the conclusion that the evidence furnished by almost the whole of the mater- jal of these cases pointed to the existence of a uniform organized, and leading centre , for the whole of the sabotage work. (The results of the inquiry in the Shakhty case also pointed to the conclusion.) ‘The large number of these organizations, the lengthy duration of their existence, their degree of inner organization and cohesion, and espe- cially that close contact with the counter- revolutionary organizations of the former owners of the nationalized undertakings, now refugees abroad, a contact which has been ascertained by the inquiry in almost every one of these affairs, the relations to international capital, and finally, the parti- cularly close connéctions with the espionage activities of the military staffs of foreign states —all this has long since caused the Soviet power to regard the sabotagers not As an accidental group of counter-revolu- tionary engineers, but to see In this sabotage above all a definite method of class war on the part of the bourgeoisie, acting as one united class and penetrating in an organized form into every sphere of our economic life; and the Soviet power has long since ceased to seek the leading centre and the levers of the whole work of sabotagers merely in this or that organization of international capital, but in the immediate governmental spheres of the greatest bourgeois States of Europe, which have actually led the actions ce the oo organizations, and have 1 Y thacs a+ thote military and political - vast cout walaved at systematical- I~ py the inquiries, the conclusion derived vom. the immediate data on sabotage or- 2°nizations, as brought to light by these) uiries. The mighty forward strides of » Soviet Union on the economic front and | successes of socialist construction have | od it impossible for all these sabotage t zations to realize their plans without ‘ de support, without the intervention of tce mightier powers of organized world cap- ital in the form of its bourgeois govern- | tents, which depend on the resort to arms in the class struggle against the Soviet Union. | The hostile activities of the bourgeois states | against the Soviet Union, growing with every | | connections between | ganization calling ' Party” or “Council of the Federation of En- Soviet success, the increasing provocative attempts to involve the Soviet Union in war, | and finally in deafening clamor raised by | the bourgeois press. every time the Soviet power adopts repressive measures against open sabotagers,—all this has led with in- exorable logic to the same conclusions, and indicates the existence of certain organic the machinations of the sabotagers and the anti-Soviet policy of the bourgeois states. Hence the tracks JOSEPH STALIN, General Secretary left by the sabotage organizations were in- | evitably bound to lead in this direction. eign capitalists, but at the same time in com- bination with and accordance to the direct | instructions of the governmental circles and general staff of France with respect to the preparations for armed intervention and for | the overthrow by arms of the Soviet power, that these conclusions were fully confiirmed. The statements made by those called to ac- count in this affair have brought adequate proof of the existence of precisely this de- scription of connection nion Communist Party of the Sevict U The public prosecution of the Republic considers it extremely important to bring |The Origin and Personal Composition of the United Sabotage Centers. The chief person in the centre of the coun- ter-revolutionary organizations, Leonid Kon- | stantinovitch Ramzin, professor at the Mos- | cow Technical College, in a statement writ- ten with his own hand on September 21st, 1930, states: “I admit being guilty of taking part in the | counter-revolutionary organization ‘Engineer- jing Centre’ (or ‘Council of the United En- } gineering Organizations’), and now cease, | finally and irrevocably, all struggle against the Soviet power; I lay down my arms once }and for all, and repent sincerely and openly |of the crimes which I have committed. ; “So far as I am able to judge from dis- | connected information, the origin of the ‘En- gineering Centre’ may be taken to have been jin 192 I do not possess any more exacter jor uiled knowledge on this question, as I | did not begin to participate in the ‘Engineers | ing Centre’ until the beginning of 1927. Po Phe | tant D. originator, inspirer, and most impors organizer in the creation of the ‘Ene } gineering Centre’ is P. A. Paltchinsky, and his |most active collaborators have been L. G. | Rabinovitch and I. I. Federovitch.” *) The defendant Ramzin describes the most | important prerequisites for the origin of the “Engineering Centre” in its original form as follows: j; a) “One of the initial causes of the crea- } tion of the counter-revolutionary organiza j tion was, above all, the political trends exist- jing among ‘the old engineers, varying as a rule from the convictions of the ‘constitu- tional democrat’ to the convictions of the extreme monarchist Right. Hence, 'the older engineers did not, as a rule, turn politically to the Soviet regime and adopt the prin- ciples of the Communist Party. b) “These political trends were further strengthened by the difference in the work- ing and living conditions of the engineers ! before and after the October revolution; the natural mistrust felt by the Soviet power towards the engineers, the politi@a? and so- cial control exercised over their wark de- | Prived the engineers of that commanding position held by many of them before the revolution, and besides this the manner and standard of living of the leading engineers were greatly worsened after the revolution. c) “The influence of the former factory owners upon the old engineers, who possessed and at times maintained contact with these former owners was again a constant stimulus for the struggle against the Soviet regime, a struggle aiming at the restoration of the undertakings to their former owners or the payment of compensation for their expropria- tion. a) “The commencement of the transition from the New Economic Policy to the socialist These, then, were the conclusions drawn | to trial, without delay, those persons who | offensive was again an additional cause stim~ by the authorities instituting the inquiry, | after consideration of the material yielded | exposed the boadest masses of the Soviet | nq by each individual case, with respect to the organizational bases and tactical perspectives , of the sabotage organizations. But it was not ‘until the facts brought to | light by the OGPU, in the course of the in- quiry exposing the counter-revolutionary or- itself the “Industrial | gineers’ Organizations” showed that this or- | ganization united aH the separate sabotage | organizations of the various branches of | industry in one organization, acting not only by their anti-state criminal activities have | Union and Western Europe to the immediate danger of a fresh future war against the | | peoples of the Soviet Union, and submits | to the Supreme Court, in the following, and 'recommends for special consideration, pre- cisely this aspect of these criminal activi- ties, setting aside for a moment those other aspects of the case requiring further exa- | ination by the authorities pursuing the in- | quiry. The public prosecution of the Rep- | ! | | ubtte accuses the persons called to account in this affair in accordance with Article 58, on the instructions of the international or- | Items 3, 4 and 6 of the Code of Penal Law ganizations of the former Russian and for-' of thé RSFSR, ulating active measures against the Soviet power, as the hopes of a gradual merging increased extension of the NEP were *) Palchinsky was sentenced by the come mittee of the OGPU for participation in the sabotage in the gold and platinum industry, and shot. Federovitch was sentenced for sabotage activities in the coal industry. Rabie novitch was sentenced to six years imprisons ment at the Shakhty trial, and to a further ten years in connection with the gold and platinum sabotage affair, These two last have not been called to accourit in the pres- ent affair, since they have not taken part in the work of the counter-revolutionary or- ganization during the last two years, and the worst crimes have been committed during this period . “& + ibn