The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 8

Page Four ooo _the-pregram drawn up by the Seviet Unien}as it Jater Became from 192% onwards speeu- sessed: 10 fixed! organizational or clearly ¢x- tated chiefly on a military intervention as a. pressed: political’ clisracter. ‘means towards the overthrow of the: Soviet ish eleaxness in regard to the perspectives: in this direction and the time of preparation: ‘and realization, for this purpese making use. ‘of its most capable members. « Paltchinsky and: Rabineviteh, through the agency of the members of the Bnginecr- wg impossible of acceptance, whilst at the me time the national economy of the Sov- Unton was proceeding with the restera~ jon: of economics, especially im industry and: transport at an unprecedented tempo, the idea: of intervention began to take firm hold omnone and in the centre of the counter- tionary engineers, and then ini the In- dustrial Party, for the rapid growth of the etenemic power of the Soviet Union and the growth of the authority of the Communist Party and! of the Soviet power among the population of the Soviet Union, sprang up as threatening opponents barring the way to the realization of the future intervention.... “Tm this manner the idea of the interven- tion originated and took shape, and from this moment. onwards the governmental circles and the circles of the Russian emigres in France began to prepare for it. It was at about this time that the political coneeption began. to take form in the ranks of the coun- ter-revolutionary sabotage organizations unit- ed in the Centre of the counter-revolutionary engineers and’ they transformed themselves into the Industrial Party with its central committee. From this moment onward the Central Committee of the Industrial Party was more and more taken up with the idea of foreign intervention.” Finally, we find the same repeated in the and through the agency of other members of the Centre, reported: on the hopes entertained by the former industrialists of a military in- ‘tervention to be carried out’ by the military forees of Poland, Rumania, and-other border states, with the aid of France and Great Britain; in this plan Franee, which: would have had to lend extensive military-techinical assistance, was to’ play @ leading role.” This was the manner in which the former separate branch organizations of. the sabot- agers’ developed into one uniferm leading Centre and into a political party represent- ing big capital. Outpaced’ by the successes of socialist construction, it set al¥ its hopes on the military interventiom of foreign pow- ers, and combined the whole of its practical sabotage work with the instigation and stir- ring up of this intervention. A closer exam- ination of the organizational possibilities possessed by this political party of industrial capital, of its connections with the initiators of the intended’ intervention, both on Soviet territory and abroad, and finally of what has statements made by Charnovsky (Oct. 16,| actually been done towards the preparation 1959): of this intervention both at home and in “The sabotage centre of the counter-rev-| foreign countries, form the subject of what olutionary engineers, or the Industrial Party, follows. Il. The Connections Maintained by the Sabotage Center in the Soviet Union With the Foreign Anti- Soviet Organizations of the Former Russian | and Foreign Industrialists and With the | Advocates of Intervention Abroad The Industrial and Trade Committee and its Relations with the Sabotage Organizations. In the Soviet Union the October Revolu- tion swept away the power of capital, and overthrew the political and economic rule of the bourgeoisie as a class. The notorious enemies of the people and haters of the working class, the’ former industrialists who fled abroad, did not however lose hope of a yestoration of their former power, and set up im a foreign country the Trade and Indus- trial Committee, the foreign centre of pre- revolution industrial magnates, an association } setting itself the task of political work by fighting against the Soviet power and for the restitution of their former undertakings. The | sabotage organizations in the Soviet Union established’ relations: with this association: “The Industrial Party,” states Ramzin, “was allied closely in its activities with the *gssociation of the former industrialists, the Russian Trade and Industria! Committee in Paris, artiong whose niembers were: Denisov, Nobel, Gusakov, Mantachev, Metchtersky, Rysbushinsky, Kachtanov, Tretyakov, Sta- rinkevitcH, and others. The Trade arid In- dustrial Committee set itself the main task, bésides the protection of the interests of the White Guard industrialists, now réfugees abroad, the restoration to these of their for- mer und-“‘okings or payment to them of compensation. In ~“der to attain this object, the Trade and Industrial. Committee strove for an intervention against the Soviet Union.” (Statement made November 3.) All these persons, Mantachevs and Deni- _sovs, Metcherskys and Ryabushinskys, de- prived éssentially of their’ ecochomic power, formed however a political and économic i t tee, named this point amply. Réemezin further states: “The following connections with former) Russian industrialists are known to me: (former owner of the Sormove Works) through Paltchinsky, and I believe, Charnov- sky, and with Demigov through Charnovsky and Chrennikov. “Tn the textile industry: with P. P. Ryabu- chinsky through P. A, Paltchinsky and A. A. Fyedotov, with Konovalov and Morosov, with Bardygin through Laritchev and Fye- dotov. “Ty the oil industry: with Nobel, Manta- chey, and Gusakov, through I. N. Strichov. “In coal mining? with DBvoorshantchik through L. G. Rabirioviteh: Besides: this, Pal- tehingky mentioned, at 4 consultation of the Centre, the name Krestovnikov, fats industry; I do not hovever know whether this connec- tiory was followed up, and if so by whom .. . “Communication with the former indus- trialists was maintained by various persons taking’ journeys abroad; in particular, in 1927 E was commissioned by Paltchinsky, and, ag I remember, Fyedotov, to confer with P. 'P. Ryabuchir«y in Paris with Fespect to the above-described system of shareholding par- ticipation in the undertakings.” (Statement made September 21.) With respect to the contact between the separate groups of the sabotagers in the various branches of industry and the rep- regentatives of foreign capital, Kalinnikov (Octeber 10) states: “So far as I am informed, Paltchinsky. was in communication with French and English ‘capitalists. Rabinoviteh maintained cornec- ‘tions with Poland through Dvorschantchik, ding to the statements of the accused, Urgutart himself expressed himwelf as fol oH egal to our tecinvfent stant: “The va HALON , * . . ms a] oo ota YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER It, 19: ‘power; it strove with every means te estab- | Shakhty erniough the manner, ings were controlled from abroad,, By means of directions stating definitely whether this ‘or that technical rationalization measure should be introduced’ inte this or that un- dertaking -or not, laying down the manner ing’ Centre and its actual leader, Chrennikoy; | ito be managed, etc. Ht was not until the beginning of the reconstruction period, when striking change, and the former indtstrialists, ‘and Industrial Committee) now began to see » e | xy the acetused men, iNustrate : “In the metal industry: with Metehersky ; ‘hand, undertook the inner preparations in ling. every possible aid from within’ to the Limtervention. For this purpose the Central If. 1936 " tion, the Industrial Party (the sabotage cen- ‘ter of the engineers), as early as 1927, saw the intervention the decisive and final medtam for the overthrow of the Soviet pow=- The acts of sabotage carried out by the ‘sabotage centre of the engineers in the vari-« ‘ous braviches of national economy and in- ‘dustry weite to-serve this final.aim: by means showed eaily | of the ereation of disproportion in the car- in which our’ undertak-|rying eut of the reconstruction plan in the branches of economy dependent on one an- other, by the aggravation of the crises arising out: of these disproportions, including crises inv food supplies, in the transport service, in fuel supplies, and-in all the other departments of Soviet economy. According to information received: from Chrennikoy, the instructions of the foreign association of the industrial- ists, the Trade and Industrial Comxnittee, ‘received by the sabotage centre of the ene gineers. (Industrial Party) through the in< termediation of its head, Chrennikov, as & general line to be observed in work from ‘1927 onwards, were to the same effect These instructions received) through Chrennikov were Iater extensively supplemented by Pro- fessor Ramzin, who subsequently took over Chrenniktov’s office as leader of the sabotage centre (industrial Party).” And finally, a definite statement from FPyedotov: & . I had an exhaustive conversation with Krestovnikov in. London. He had keen commissioned by Koriovalov to visit me at my hotel . . . With respect to the interven- tion, he informed me on this oceasion that in Paris the Trade and: Industrial Committee was working energetically in this matter, both. in preparing public opinion and in es- tablishing contact with the public govern- ment circles in France. In order to influence public opinion, a campaign of agitation against the Soviet government was being carried on: every epportunity and every af- fair was being exploited, and not only in the Russian emigre press, but in the French press as well, which was swallowing up a great deal of money. He told me, among other things, that the Trade and Industrial Com- mittee subsidized the newspaper ‘Posledrtiye ' Novosti.’ “With regard to relations between the Trade and Industrial Committee and the In- terested circles in England, he told me that connections’ were maintained with the Rus- sian Creditors’ Committee in London, headed by Urqulart, as also with Deterding, and, by means of the intermediation of these, With the Englisii Conservative Party. He stated that there was reason to hope for aid’ from England in the intervention, if not i the form of active participation, then at Yeast finaricial and diplomatic help: Kresteviiftov* further said that Konovalov had requested ‘that special attention should be devoted to the necessity of preparing the soil in Russia, ‘in order to ensure the success and! the pose ‘sibility of ait intervention, by means of arouse ‘ing the discontent of the working Miusses - and of the peasantry by all availaiile means: ‘by the disorganization of industry, by intere trial in which this or that factory or mine was the whole aspect of industry underwent a as Ramzin expresses it: “frequently found their former undertakings to be no longer among the living,” that the instructions: is- sued began to lose their definite character, and became for the most part a mere eonfir- mation and approval of proposals on the part of the Industrial Party. The more clear however became the tendencies and direc- tives of a political character. The general adjustment to the idea of an intervention now permeating the sabotage organizations took definite form in a certain division of laber between the Industrial Party and the Trade and Industrial Committee in prepara- tion of the intervention: both of these bodies (the sabotage organization and the Trade {fn intervention the sole mesns of bringing about the overthrow of the Soviet power, and the sole method of realizing the plan of restoring capitalism in the Soviet Union. The defendant Ramzin makes the following statement on this point: “The Industrial Party, whose activities brought it into close contact with" the asso- ciation of the former industrialists, the Rus- sian Trade and Industrial Committee, which too was striving to bring about an interven- tion against the Soviet Union, came to an understanding with the Trade and Industrial Committee on a division of work between itself and this committee in preparation for an intervention as follows: The Trade and Industrial Committee undertook the whole of the external preparations for the interven- liom, that is, all negotiations with foreign governments, especially with France and England; it conducted the agitation and pro~ paganida carried on abroad for an interven- tion; it had to find the means for financing these activities; and undertook at the same time the organization of the military part of the work, this with the aid’ of the foreign powers, The Industrial Party, on the other the Soviet Union for the intervention, this te be accomplished by artificially causing and aggravating economic crises, and by giv- Committees of the Industrial Party, on the suggestion of the Trade and Industrial Com- mittee and on its own initiative, entered into communication with the foreign General Staffs.” (Statement made October 16.) The new standpoint took a definite shape by the end of 1927, and a year later, at the end of 1928, it not only predominated, but thé old standpoint was subordinated to it, iniasmuch as now the whole of the activities of the sabotagers took the form of auxiliary |, and subordinate work for the preparation of the intervention. The defendant Laritchev states: *Krestovnikov and Konovaloy are former industrialists, who fied abroad « We received mpre or less Gefinitc | news on the attitude of foreign circles to~ | wards the question of an intervention after Ramain’s return from abroad at the end of .1927. He had negotiated with the Trade and Industrial Committee on this matter. I know from his reports, that the Trade and Indus- trial Committee had succeeded in obtaining definite aid from the French government with respect to the intervention, and that an }dgréement exists on this question between Fraricé and England. The breaking off of