The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 4

“Imth Street, ‘es = seayroaall: New York City, N. ¥. Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, Publishing Co. Inc, daily, except Sunday, Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: 60 Bast 13th at 50 Ean “DAIWORK.” ‘Street, New York, N. ¥. WensPORThy, ean é By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. foreign: One year, $1; excepting Boroughs $8; six months, $4.50. SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION == IN INDUSTRY The dictatorship of the preletariat, as I have ‘ad repeate@ occasion to point out, constitutes tot merely violence against the exploiters; and ret even, mainly, vic The ecoriomic Youndation“of “this revole ty violence, the sHaranteewes its vit Hes in y and success, iat pursues and car- ties to completio her tempos in the social organization~oflaber than is the ¢: ‘apitalism. "That is the es ties the source of antee of thre’ certa Communism. ‘The quicktempo ‘of the sociel or bor passes ‘like “a-red line throug sonomic developmrent of the~U, sas, Dut itsimmmrmt-ypon: te ¢conon this period: she fact that the un and absolute victory of the -vistble It o"Phe effectinaress ofthe: éronomic develop- sent planiéd: forthe “presehtsfive-year period es primarily in the radical reconstruction of 1€ power be equipment ¢ labor with mecha In 192731998 1€ comsumption of ele and mechanical en- ‘BY amounted to 1 kilowatt ho y in- ustriw worker. This figure will pr oubles py the end of the period. Relying primarily on this factor and 1, addition upon the great devel ass conscicusness-and the.cultural Jevel of the Oviet proletariat, the.economic plan for this ye-year period provides for increasing the vro- be depending pment of the | y of indu: workers by 110 per cent, in transportation ening of the nd the vil- poor and middle pe ler- ig the strong competition w a ist countries also raises the question of low- | ering the cost rial production to the of indu nt objective in the in- the Soviet Union. It y accident that the lowering of pro- duction costs was placed by the XV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as the central task of indust: the solution of The great increase of labor by the end of 1 which: preced in the ps ed all others. ductivit 1933, then, constitutes a decisive force, not merely on the industrial front, but also in the entire Soviet economic policy du this five- year period. A gréat share in the accomplish- ment of this task belongs to the socialist com- petition betwen individual industrial enterprises as toa method of stimulating production—a method really available only to socialist society. | From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet | _Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the or coll=borators on the Five-Year Plan of So- { industrialization, a complete account of thé P aining the first two years ¢ its operation and a political estimate of its. place in_wor'd economy. special arrangement with Interna- Publishers, this book FREE WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE AR, $8 in S6 ion New k. Rush your subscript ily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. Mention this offer. York. ‘Commemorate Centenary of Nat Turner’s Death "}HE Negro peoples are not by any means t ing in revolutionary traditions. The long ist of slave revolts, the victorious revolution of 4e Haitian slaves; the unparaiicied heroism and valor displayed by Negro troops in the Civil War constitutes a glorious revolutionary record of vhich any peoples might well be proud. In these truggles the Negro peoples have ‘thrown up from -heir midst such indomnitable leaders as Tou! saint L’Overture, Denmark Vesey,Gabrie! P: er, Dessalires, and many others,.whose x: will forever live in the glorious archives of rey- olutionary history. ‘The white American ruling cada, in its efforts to crush the spirit of the Negro masses and stifle their revolt against their brutal oppression, tries ‘n every way to kill the revolutionary traditions of the Negro mases. On the other hand the Negro bourgeoisie and its intéllectual spokesmen distort and suppress these traditions. This Convention denounces this effort of the bosses and their tools and declares its purpose to revive the revolutionary traditions of the Ne- @ro race and to spread by all means within its power a knowledge of these traditions among the Masses, both Negro and ‘white. ‘This Convention calls upon the working class to commemorate Nov. 11, 1931, as the centenary of the heroic-death of Nat Turner, Negro revolu- tionary leader and martyr, who was murdered on Nov. 11, 1831, by the Southern *slave-holding with the co-operation of the United States ment for leading a revolt of slaves for the violent overthrow of the slave-holders and their government. The Convention also calls uon the Negro and white workers and poor farmers to commemo- rate Toussaint L’Overture Dey, May 20, in honor of the leader of the Haitian Revolution; Fred- erick Douglas De Feb, 12, in memory of the militan., uncompromising Negto abolitionist; Dingaan Day, Dec. 16, in solidarity with the South African masscs for whom it is a rallying point for revolutionary struggle against the im- perialists; Denmark Vesey Day: and Gabriel Prosser Day, dates of which will be announced, in honor of two American Negro revolutionaries, who, like Nat Turnef, threw tetror into thé hearts of the slave owners. The heroes of the revolutionary struggles of the Negro also include white workers who have given their lives in these struggles such as John Brown. This Convention, therefore, calls upon the Negro and white es to set aside a date as John Brown Day in commemoration of the revolutionary aid rendered to the cause of Ne- gro freedom by John Brown and other white rev- olutionaries, Negro workers! Yours is the heritage of these glorious traditions. Only the Negro workers in close fighting unity with the white workers, can finish the fight these heroes have begun. Fight for Rent Reduction By EARL BROWDER NE of the most pressing, problems of the moment for almost all workers is that of RENT. For the unemployed this is the struggle against evictions, first of all, and for immediate relief and unemployment insurance. But the Problem is very sharp. also for the employed, whose wages are being slashed by at least a third below last year, when or full tims, and for millions of whom a “job” means only one to three days work a week. It is necessary to begin a militant fighting movement for a drastic reduction in rents. Be- | ginnings of real struggle for this demand will quickly develop it into a mass movement involv- ing hundreds of thousands and eventually mil- | lions. The tactic of the struggle for lower rents is | future counter-revolutionary government. above all THE RENT STRIKE. Beginning with | single houses, in which most of the tenants are workers, such strikes can be extended to include the majority of whole blocks of houses and working-class districts. The present fantasti- cally-high rents can be smashed and quickly brought down by 40 or 50 per cent. What is required is the immediate organiza- | tion of struggle to this end. Leonid Ramzin, one of the chief conspirators in the interventionist plot against the Soviet Union, testifying at the trial of the wreckers, N. B. Krylenko, state prosecutor of the Sovic Union, reading the indictment against the eci¢h< counter-revolutionary sabotageurs. OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CASE OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION, ‘ “THE INDUSTRIAL PARTY” (Continued) With regard to the textile industry, the sabotage work aimed at se- curing an irrational utilization of the invested capital by means of de- | liberately miscalculating the height of the stories in the newly built fac- tories so that they should not be in accordance with the needs, by a de- liberate failure to utilize considerable floor space in the factory buildings, by preventing the import of the newest American textile machinery, by wrong management of the cotton supply and a deliberately false utiliza- tion of the cotton supply by wrong distribution of the yield, etc., and by a deliberately wrong distribution of the various sorts of textile products. In this connection the sabotage work is worthy of note which aimed at slowing down the development of the linen and hemp industries in order to damage the defensive capacities of the Soviet Union. The judicial investigation also revealed the fact that parallel with the attempts to bring about an economic crisis for the spring of 1930, the Industrial Party also conducted criminal activity for the preparation of acts of sabotage which would facilitate as far as possible the military action of the intervention against the Soviet Union. The Judicial Investigation revealed the fact that the first instructions for the carrying out of sabotage were received by the Industrial Party from the Torgprom and from Mr. K. in 1928. The chief instruction in this connection was to avoid fundamental damage in carrying out the sabotage in order not to worsen the situation of the intervention and the Therefore it was planned to cut off the electric supply of those power stations which supplied par- ticular groups of factories with the aim of causing them to close down for shorter or longer periods, The sabotage activity was to be carried out according to the plan of the Industrial Party not only on the field,of the power supply, but also on other fields (war industries, transport). ' The plan for the sabotage activity in the war industries was worked out by the Central Committee of the Industrial Party with the direct cooperation of the previously mentioned persons of the French Service in Moscow. The chief attention was paid to those factories which pro- duce war materials and ammunition. With a view to carrying out the sabotage acts sugcessfully, special sabotage groups were formed in a number of factories and institutions (for instance, the Thermal-Technical Institute, the “Elektrotok,” the Moscow electricity work, etc). The task of these groups was to cause the closing down of the most important factories. ‘The sabotage in the transport industry was to be carried out accord- ing to the plan drawn up by the accused Laritchev by congestions, the disorganization of transport, and the direct destruction’ of bridges, etc. ‘The judicial investigation revealed the fact that the nearer the: date fixed for the intervention approached, the year 1930, the more decisively was the Industria] Party urged to take up the question of forming special military groups. This task was put forward by the foreign military in- terventionists in Paris. During the meeting of Ramzin with Mr. K. which took’ place in the rooms of Laritchev in the autumn of 1928, according to the results of the judicial investigation, Mr. K. demanded more energy from the In- dustrial Party because its work for the internal preparation of the in- tervention was unsatisfactory and the internal crisis expected’ by the in- terventionists did not materialize. The judicial investigation revealed the fact that those members of the Industrial Party who were enabled, thanks to their positions in the service of the Soviet state, to take part in various works in the frontier districts, exploited their positions in order to direct and organize this work in’ the direction of their criminal and treasonable plans. Exploiting their participaation in such work as drainage, the laying down of foundations for industrial undertakings, etc., they attempted to create the most favorable conditions possible for the military operations of the interventionist troops against the Soviet Union. They ,attempted to prepare traversable ways for the troops of intervention, to lay out landing places for the airplanes of the intervention, areas of operation for the deployment of the interventionist armies, dumps for fuel supply, for the supply of the interventionist troops with oil, etc. ‘The work of the Central Committee of the Industrial Party to supply the intervention with espionage material was directly connection with its treasonable sabotage and its interventionist activity. The judicial in- vestigation revealed the fact that the Industrial Party received instruc- tions from the Torgprom as early as 1928 to organize a systematic supply of quarterly reports to the counter-revolutionary centres abroad concern- ing the situation of the Soviet’ economic system drawn up from the angles of interest of these circles. The Central Committee of the In- dustrial Party gave Laritchev and Kalinnikov the task of drawing up these reports and the latter, systematically carried out this work. These reports were sent abroad through the medium of Mr..K. who received apart from these reports, other reports having a direct’ bearing on’ the defences of the Soviet Union. The judicial investigation also showed that the accused Ramzin and Otchkin maintained connections with Messrs R. and K. and gave these persons both in writing and by word of mouth the informatic manded, This wos the widessread sehotege work being conducted under the direction of the Central Committee cf the Industrial Party on all fields for the pro;eration of the intervention in the year 1930. Three chief forces were active in these preparations: the capitalist and militarist circles in France, the Torgprom and the Industrial Party. The relative importance of these three factors in the preparations for intervention was not equal. The leading role in these preparations was played by the capitalist and militarist circles of Fraijce, as irtefutably sebiidies by the judicial ‘investigation, ‘The influenoe: of these eee they de- is shown in such questions as the working out of the plans and methods for the carrying out of the intervention and the fixing of the date of the intervention. The strategic plan of the intervention was to deliver a combined drive at Moscow and Leningrad with the united forces of the foreign expedi- | ~>» (2d Sfoashe tionary corps with the assistance of the remnants of the Wrangel army and the Krasnov Cossacks. According to this plan the southern army was to operate in the Ukraine to the right of the Don and supported on the right bank of the | Dniepr and move towards Moscow. The northern group of the interven- tion army was to operate against Leningrad with the suppo:t of an air and naval fleet. The exploitation of some frontier conflict or the other was a part of the intervention plan in order to give the pretext for the intervention. In the course of the development of the conflict the armies of Poland and ‘Roumania which are allied with France, and the armies of the Baltic States were then to be used. According, to the aims of the interventionists the successful carrying out of the military operations was to lead to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, the wrenching off of important areas and the concession of important financial and economi foreign participators in the intervention. ment of the toilers of the Soviet Union. According to the Intervention plans imperialist France w the Czarist debts and in addition to receive important co: sions for the exploitation of the iron-ore and other natural resourcss of the Soviet Union. The judicial investigation showed that these concessicns were planned in such a way that they would have been practica confiscation. Imperialist circles in Great Britain were to receive the oi! wel Caucasia. Imperialist circles in Poland and Roumania In other words, the enslave- yas to be paid ted on territ annexations (the Ukraine to the right of the Don, Kiev, Odessa) The interventionists were compelled to shift the date of the interven- tion, which was first fixed for 1928, to 1930 and then to 1931. ‘The re: for these postponements was not only that the capitalist states partici- pating in the intervention were not prepared for it as a result of their own ments, but still more so the fact: that the preliminary condi- tions for the, intervention were not present in the Soviet Union itself. Despite the widespread sabotage work carried on by various counter- revolutionary organizations, including the Industrial Party, which aimed at ca various serious disturbances in the economic life of the Soviet Union, and at causing discontent on the part of the masses with the Soviet government on the basis of economic and food difficulties, these efforts showed no results, and this proves that all the calculations of the inter- ventionists based on dissatisfaction of the working masses with the Soviet power are without foundation. A further important reason for the postponement of the intervention was, as revealed by the judicial investigation, the fact that the interven- tionist circles in France were unable to ignore the lessons of the Chinesé Eastern Railway conflict which proved the power and defensive capacities of the Soviet Union and the united will of the working masses to defend the frontiers of the Soviet Union and to fight for-the Soviet power and the building up of socialism. -On the basis of the facts set forth above and with consideration to Articles 319 and 320 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. the Special In- vestigation of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union records the fol- lowing: 1, LEONID KONSTANTINOVITCH RAMZIN, who entered the counter-revolutionary organization “Association of Engineers Organiza- tions” (RIO), or the “Engineers Central Committee” in the first half of the year 1927, took an active part in the organization of a counter-revo- lutionary party under the name of the “Industrial Party.” Aftcr the arrest of the leaders of this party, Paltchinski and Krennikov, he was jthe head of the Central Committee of this party whose aim il was to ‘overthrow the So power ith ‘the’ assistance of foreign military inter- vention, and to restore the capitalist regime in the Soviet Union. itis ARON ie Nol oy- coma: = a By JORGE Not Principles, But Property Piffle From the Lips of the Great:—“You go on duty to uphold the principles and institutions of a free and beneficent government.’—From the speech of Secretary of War Hurley to Police Recruits of N. Y. City. More to the Point:—What would happen if a couregeous police force was disbanded in New York tonight? It would mean that the $50,- 000,000,000 of this city’s wealth would be in the hands of the gangsters and terrorists tomorrow.” —Which is Hurley's way of saying that it would be in the hands of the workers who created it, because the gangsters and terrorists already hold it. ihe Yiece “The sloop Elsie,” says the N. ¥. Times, “one of the three boats captured late Sunday with liquor cargoes valued at $150,000, ‘sank yesterday on her way from Asbury Park to the Barge 3f- fice.” Which may be significant'in view -{ the unconfirmed report that the head of the « .lsea Bank was using the depositors’ money in the bootleg busivess and got caught’in the pinch. aL aY “Customs Ban Put on 16 Foreign Perfumes Under Long Inactive Section of Tariff Law,” runs a headline in the N. Y. Times. It seems that the government, which is so rotten with corruption that it stinks, wishes to prevent even any modification of the smell. It is now in order that the Rev. Norman Thomas write a letter of protest insisting that to deprive the honest and law-abiding unemployed of eau de cologne is an outrage on the citizenry and inadvisable in times of stress. o 8 «@ f He Gets Another Prize—“Oh, yes, prosperity will return. It always has. These depressions don’t ‘last forever. Mind you, I don’t say when it will come.”—Remark of Ex-Secretary Kellogg re- turning from cashing the Nobel Prize check. From which we gather that, when it comes to going hungry, Mr. Kellogg suggests that the first hundred years are the hardest. Today in Workers’ History December 26, 1825—Armed uprising of the Becembrists against Tsar Nickolas I for eman- cipation of serfs and constitutional govern- ment. 1843—First general convention of the Friends of Association, Fourierite Socialists, met in Boston, 1865—First German trade union organized by cigarette makers, 1869—First lo- cal assembly of Knights of Labor organized at Jaceiphia by Uriah Steebans. 1377—First national convention of Socialist Labor Party held at Newark, N. J. 1907—Indian National Congress broken up by English troops. LENIN CORN} aK LEN ON WAR is this was bing f ht for? Why those unheard-of miseries it ings humanity? The govecnment and the bourgeoisie bolhgere counuy are sq desing rubles on books and pa waming the oppo- nent, aiousing in the people a furious hatred for the enemy, stopping before neo lie whatever in 9; to picture themselves as the country that was unjustly attacked and is now defend- itself. In reality, this is a” War h-tween two of predatory great powers. and it is for the division of colonies, for the en- it of other nations, for advaniages and privi eges in the world market. This is a most clionary war, a wat of moderii slave-holders fought for the purpose of retaining and strength- ening capitalist slavery. England and France are lying when they assert that.they fight the war for the freedom of Belgium. In reality, they have long been preparing the war, and they wage it for the purpose of. robbing Ger- many, taking away her colonies; they have made a treaty with Italy and Russia ‘stipulating the pillage and division of Turkey and Austria. The Czarist monarchy in Russia is waging « preda- tory war in which it strives to stize Galicia, to take away territories from Turkey: io enslave Pessia, Mongolia, etc. Germany wages a war for the purpose of robbing English, Belgian end French colonies. Whether Germany wins or Russia, or whether there is a “draw,” in any case the war will bring humanity new oppres- sion for hundreds and hundreds of millions of people in the colonies, in Persia,;Turkey, China, new enslavement of nations, new. chains for the working class of all countries, .. . “The war fills the pockets of. the capitalists to whom an ocean of gold is flowing from the , treasuries of the great powers. The war is pro- / voking an unreasoning bitternéss against the enemy, and the bourgeoisie does its best to direct the dissatisfaction of the people into these chan- nels, to divert their atention from the main enemy, the government and the ruling classes of their own country. The war, however, cary- ing with it untold miseries and ‘horrors for the toiling masses, enlightens and steels the best representatives of the working class. If perish we must, let us perish in the struggle for our own cause, for the cause of the workers, for the Socialist revolution and not for the interests of the capitalists, landowners and .Czars—this is what every class-conscious worker sees and feels. Revolutionary Social-Democratic ‘work may be difficult at present, but it is possible. It pro-: gresses in the whole world, and in this alone lies salvation. Down with czarist ican which drdew Rus- sia into a criminal war and which oppreses peo- ple! Long live the world brotherhood of the workers, and an international revolution of the proletariat! re Written in August, 1915, First published i the Pravda, No. 18 (3850), a 1938, i, Re I _ cee AR Oe