The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1930, Page 6

Pp Page Six 3 A ea by the Comprodally jt &« City, N. ¥. ddress and mail all checks to the Dally Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Publishing Co, Ine, datly, except Sunday, Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: at 50 East “DAIWORK.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. By mail everywhere: One year. $6; six months, $3; two months, Foreign: One year, $1; excepting Boroughs $8; six months, $4.50. U. S WORKERS WILL FIGHT ANTESOVIET WAR PLOTS STATEMENT BY WILLIAM WEINSTONE. #PHE imperialists work without rest preparing to destroy the Soviet Union. The Commu- nists pointed that o continually, but the ex- posure of the sabota compels us to come to the conclusion that intervention is close at hand and that we cannot afford to lose any time. The capitalist class does not intend to delay the carrying out of its plans. The working class must understand the true meaning of these plans. The wish to crush the Proleia: der millions of rev- @ military dictator- iet Union into separate on. If after the reaction developed it is easy then to im- in case of the destruc- n Revolution. in the sie does not remain ie murderous plans of meaning of Hoover's niversary of the adop- t is clear, Let us re- call that in t n of the capitalist states- men, it is necessary to “broaden out” the Kellogg Pact, because it proved to be entirely impotent at the time of the event in connection with the seizure of the Manchurian railway. The capital opinion for st press attempts to prepare public attack on the Soviet Union. The Fish Com e s to broaden out the anti- Soviet Union front in the United States. The American working c is rising in answer against these plans. Big meetings are being or- ganized to acquaint the broad masses of all the details about the conspiracy of the sabotagers. Big protest demonstrations are being arranged. The American working class, which already on numerous occasions expressed its feelings of soli- darity with respect to the proletariat in the Soviet Union, will be able, under the leadership of the Com Party, to mobilize all of its forces to destroy the plans of intervention and war against the Soviet Union.” (Signed) WILLIAM WEINSTONE. * © 8 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY AMERICAN WORKERS AND SPECIALISTS IN THE STALINGRAD TRACTOR PLANT. “The conspiracies of the sabotagers of the In- dustrial Party and the organized sabotage and attempts to stop the economic development of the Soviet Union was carried on with the knowl- edge of the foreign countries and particularly of the leading circles of France. This destructive policy was to serve as a prelude to armed in- tervention and overthrow of the Soviet Govern- ment which would be a signal for a new World War. ‘The Soviet Union showed the entire world that in spite of numerous provocations, an ever- greater arming on the part of the imperialist powers, the policies of the Soviet Union remained Policies of peace. All the recefit activities of the Wreckers, the cry against “dumping” and also the articles of Poincare calling to intervention and blockade, are a continuation of the same abominable policy of intervention. We, the work- ers, must look upon the sabotagers of the In- dustrial Party and the attack of the imperialists on the Soviet Union, as an attempt to retard the growth of the Soviet Union. This obliges us to do everything possible to stop the intervention plans and to help carry out the Five Year Plan. ‘The general meeting of the American worker- Specialists engaged on the Tractor Plant in Stal- ingrad, pledge themselves to do everything in their power towards the carrying out of the plans of the Tractor Plant and for a speedy mass pro- duction of tractors.” ea te INDIVIDUAL STATEMENTS OF LEADING SPECIALISTS OF THE STALINGRAD TRACTOR PLANT. “I do not see any reasons for interfering in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, I do not see any reasons for an attack on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has a government which is satisfactory for the country. It peacefully builds the industries and I am therefore of the opinion that any attack on such a government must be compared with highway robbery.” (Signed) © ees “Never under any circumstances will the im- perialists and their hirelings succeed in provok- ing the peoples of the world for a new war. About 12 years ago it was proposed to me as an artilleryman in the Canadian Army to go to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. I categorically refused to participate in such an adventure. For the past 12 years my views have not changed. Now, as then, I will not par- ticipate in a war against a country which is heroically building its industries. I will never TURNER. | be @ participant in the destructive plans of Poin- care,” (Signed) 8) ke “A new war is being prepared by the adven- turists and big industrialists for the realization of their abominable plans. A new war means misery and destruction. Therefore, it follows that the toiling masses, with all their strength, must fight against an attack on the Soviet Union and explain the economic basis for such an at- tack, The capitalist world, choked by its over-pro- duction, attempts to turn Russia into a new colonial market. No honest man will help them in that.” JACKSON. (Signed) QUILLEN, Oe: tee “There is no country in Europe whose people could be influenced to participate in a war against the Soviet Union. No slanderiig, lies, will be in a position to destroy the sympathies of the toiling masses towards those who are by peaceful labor realizing their great aim. No return of the 1914 days! Down with the plotters of a new World War!” (Signed) KRAMER, * e . “If war will break out against the Soviet Union the results will be just the reverse of what the | imperialists are dreaming of. It will end with | @ senseless war. | war, I greet, expecting that it will emancipate civil war. The bayonets of the European work- ers will turn against those who sent them on Such ® war and only such a the oppressed masses of Europe and lead them on a new Socialist path. (Signed) WEDGEWOOD. es 0 «# “I am against war, especially against an ag- gressive war, which is being planned by such scoundrels as Poincare. Life was not given us to kill each other for the glory of the interna- | tional capitalists, oil kings, or the adventurist tendencies of various imperialists, I join my | Voice in protest with the millions of masses of the Soviet Union. I am against war, and par- ticularly war against the Soviet Union, the coun- try which is building Socialism.” (Signed) HAMILTON. LENIN CORNER Beginning of a New Epoch “The European War is the greatest historical crisis; it means the beginning of a new epoch. Like every crisis, the war has sharpened the an- tagonisms deeply hidden underneath, has brought them to the surface, tearing apart all the hypocritical cloaks, rejecting all convention- ality, destroying all discredited or half-discredit- ed authorities. (This, parenthetically speaking, is the salutary and progressive effect of all crises; it is incomprehensible only to the dull- witted worshippers of “peaceful evolution.”) The Second International, which, for the twenty-five te forty-five years of its existence, (according to whether we count from 1870 or from 1889), ac- complished the extraordinarily important and useful work of spreading Socialism over large reas and of preparing the initial more rudi- mentary organization of Socialist forces, has completed its historic role and has. died, not so mitich at the hands of Von Klucks, as at the hands of opportunism, Let the dead bury their dead. Let the empty-headed busybodies (or, rather, the intriguing lackeys of the chauvinists and opportunists) labor over the task of bringing together Vandervelde and Sombart with Kautsky ‘and Haase, as if we were confronted with an- other Ivan Ivanovich who has called Ivan Niki- forevich “gander,” and who is in need of being urged by his friends to make peace with his opponent.* To have an International does not mean to sit around one table and to have hypo- critical and pettifogging resolutions written by people who see genuine internationalism in Ger- man Socialists justifying the appeal of the Ger- b bourgeoisie to shoot at French workers and French Socialists justifying the appeal of the bourgeoisie to shoot at German workers the name of the “defense of the fatherland!” iternationalism consists in ‘coming together ideologically, then in due time also organ- ) of people who, in these grave days, u capable of defending Socialist international- ism in practice, i. e., to gather their forces and be next in shooting” at the governments and ruling classes of one’s own “fatherland.” is not an easy task, it will require much ition, great sacrifices, it will not fail to uffer defeats. But just because it is not an easy task, it must be done in company with those -enly who wish to do it, who are not afraid of a mplete break with the chauvinists and with @efenders of social-chauvinism. —Sotsial-Demokrat (Social Democrat), No. 35, mber 12, 1914. } refers to a story by Gogol where two fri became RISING WAGES AND THE FIVE YEAR PLAN vor. By G. T. GRINKO. People’s Commissar of Finance, U.S.S.R. The most important statistical indicator of the socialist nature of the industrialization of the national economy and the rationalization of in- dustry, as they are now taking place in the U. 8. S. R., is the trend of real wages. Great class struggles are taking place at present in capitalist countries on the question of the wage Jevel. Strikes of great masses of European, American and colonial workers and huge lock- outs by employers mark this incessant struggle. In many advanced modern capitalist countries, average wages at the present time are at a lower Jevel than before the war. This cannot be con- cealed by all the ingenuity of the social-democ- racy and reformist trade union leaders. It is also impossible to get away from the fact that | for the past five years wages in capitalist coun- tries have been practically stable, They in- creased in the United States only by 2 or 3 per cent, while in England they dropped 0.3 per cent between 1922 and 1927, and in France they have suffered an even more substantial reduc- tion. An entirely different trend is shown by wages in the U. S. S. R. The level of real*wages of Soviet workers was raised 126 per cent from 1922-1923 to 1927-1928; 1. e., it was two and one- quarter times as high at the end of the five- year period as at its beginning, being also 30 per cent above the pre-war level. There is no dis- puting the fact that the level of wages of the Soviet worker is still quite low and still cannot fully satisfy his growing wants, But the ten- dency shown by the movement of wages in the U. 8. 8. R. is radically different from what is taking place in capitalist countries, and it clearly shows the genuine socialist nature of the Soviet economic development, . 8 From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So- cialist industrialization, a complete account of the Plan, containing the first two years of its operation and a political estimate of its place tn world economy, By special errangement with Interna- tional Publishers, this $2 book FREE WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE YEAR, $8 in Manhattan and Bronx, $6 outside New York. Rush your subscription Bee i Ee. eae ew VERDICT 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 these aims and also with the aim of directly preparing the way for an intervention RAMZIN: (a) took up connections in the name of the Industrial Party with the white guardist centre of the former owners in Paris (Torgprom); (b) took up connections with interventionist circles in France and established a permanent connection with them through persons of the French Service in Moscow Messrs R. and K.; (c) worked to secure the systematic financing of the Industrial Party by the Torgprom and through the persons mentioned in point (b); (@) took part together with the Torgprom and the above mentioned circles in the working out of a concrete plan of intervention against the Soviet Union, and declared his agreement in the name of the Industrial Party to the repayment of the Czarist debts and to the annexation of considerable soviet territories; (e) was the organizer and leader of a systematic sabotage work on various fields of the Soviet economic system with the same aims in view; (f) is proved guilty of having organized sabotage acts for which he created the necessary sabotage groups, and of having drawn up a plan Of sabotage in the power supply; (g) maintained permanent connections with persons of the French Service in Moscow, Messrs K. and R. and gave them both by word of mouth and in writing information of an espionage character; <h) is proved guilty of having organized and carried out the dis- tribution of monies arriving from abroad to finance the criminal activity of the Industrial Party. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58 Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 2. IVAN ANDREYEVITCH KALINNIKOV: (a) through his participation in the same organizations and as a member of the Central Committee of the Industrial Party directed the Sabotage and espionage activities of the Industrial Party directed towards the overthrow of the Soviet power by a foreign military intervention, and towards the restoration of the capitalist regime in the Soviet Union. Further, in his capacity as the Vice-Chairman of the Industrial Section of the State Planning Commission, he misused his Position to organize sabotage and to attempt to destroy the Five-Year Plan. (b) together with the accused Tcharnovski he laid a plan for sabotage acts in the metallurgical industry before the Central Committee of the Industrial Party which accepted this plan; (c) he took up connections with persons of the French Service in Moscow, Messrs K. and R. and collected and tabulated material of an espionage character and sent the same abroad; (a) he divided the monies which came from abroad amongst the mem+ bers of the Industrial Party who belonged to the chain organization of the field under his control. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 3. VICTOR ALEXIYEVITCH LARITCHEYV, took part as a member of the counter-revolutionary organization “Engineers Central Committee” since 1926, in the organization of the Industrial Party. As a member of the Central Committee of the Industrial Party he directed sabotage and espionage work with the aims mentioned above. Further, (a) in the name of the Industrial Party he took up direct connections with the Torgprom and with interventionist circles in Paris; (b) che took up connections with the above mentioned persons of the French Service in Moscow, Messrs K. and R.; (c) he distributed monies received from abroad amongst the members of that branch of the sabotage organization which was under his direction; (a) he exploited his position as Chairman of the Fuel Supply section of the State Planning Commission in order to organize sabotage work for counter-revolutionary aims in the planning work for the fuel supply, and in particular in the oil industry. Further, he took a direct part in the leadership of the sabotage work in the transport industry; (e) by delivering the necessary material to the above mentioned per- sons of the French Service in Moscow, he carried out espionage. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. 4. NIKOLAI FRANZEVITCH TCHARNOVSKI, carried out active sabotage and espionage work after his entry to the same counter-reyolu- tionary organization in 1927. He took an active part in the leadership of the counter-revolutionary organization the “Industrial Party” and was @ member of its Central Committee. Further: (a) he directed the sabotage work of the Industrial Party in the metallurgical industry; (b) carried out sabotage work in connection with the drawing up of projects in the Scientific-Technical Council of which he was the Chair- man. As a result of his sabotage work a number of factory building including several factories, were held up, dis- Proportions created in the factory departments, irrational capital invest- ments made and in general the development of the metallurgical industry (c) together with the accused Kalinnikov he worked out a plan for sabotage acts with regard to the supply of military authorities with equipment; (da) he distributed monies received from abroad amongst the mem- bers of that branch of the sabotage organization under his leadership; (e) together with the accused Kalinnikov he drew up reports of an character and sent them abroad. In short, he has committed espionage : crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 5. ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH FYEDOTOV joined the sab- otage group in the textile industry in 1925 which he later led. He joined the Industrial Party and became a member of its Central Committee. He took part in the leadership of the espionage and sabotage activities of the 4a) he directed the sabotage work tn the sabotage branch tn the tam 2 onetieh eae beinge te te entre ‘Seca ote ng ta te up of the Five-Year Plan and worked to slow down the development of the textile production and hinder the building of new factories. He deliberately created difficulties in order to prevent the supply of the tex- tile industry with imported machinery of a high quality. He also under- mined the development of those branches of the textile industry which would have been most necessary for tle Soviet Union in case of an armed intervention. (b) he distributed monies received from the sources mentioned above. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 6. SERJEI VIKTOROVITCH KUPRIANOV, was a member of the counter-revolutionary Industrial Party and had the same aims. (a) he maintained connections with the representatives of the Torg- prom with a view to carrying out the sabotage and intervention ‘prepara- tions of the Industrial Party; (b) he carried out the instructions of the Central Committee of the Industrial Party to draw up plans for sabotage in the textile industry by causing the production of commodities not in accord with the need of the market, by holding up the manufacture of textile machinery, by deliberately failing to deliver on time and in the required quantities, etc., the various districts with textile goods; (c) he distributed monies received from abroad amongst the mem- bers of the textile section of the sabotage organization; (d) he accepted the instructions of the Central Committee of the Industrial Party to organize military groups of former white-guardist officers; (e) he accepted instructions of the Central Committee of the Indus- trial Party to obtain secret information concerning the mobilization work in the textile industry. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 7. VLADIMIR IVANOVITCH OTCHKIN, accepted and carried out as a member of the Industrial Party, instructions of the Central Com- mittee of that party through the accused Ramzin, to establish connec- tions with persons of the French Service in Moscow, Messrs K. and R. Further, he was a member of the sabotage group in the Thermal-Tech- nical Institute. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. 8. XENOPHON VASSILIYEVITCH SITNIN, was a member of the counter-revolutionary Industrial Party and was well acquainted with the aims of this party. He undertook to carry out sabotage, and further, he took up connections with the representatives of the ‘Torgprom, in- forming the latter of the activities of the Industrial Party and forward- ing the instructions of the Torgprom to the Industrial Party. In short, he has committed crimes under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4 and 11 of the Pencal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. On the basis of Article 326 Paragraph 3 of the Law of Criminal Pro- cedure of the R.S.F.S.R. the Supreme Court of the Soviet {Union in special investigation has sentenced the accused as follows: 1, SERGEI VIKTOROVITCH KUPRIANOV on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.SR. to ten years imprisonment and to the loss of all civil rights in accordance with Article 31, Points a. b. c. d. and f. of the Penal Code of the RS.F.S.R. for a period of five years. Further, the Supreme Court orders the con- fiscation of all his property. 2. XENOPHON VASSILIYEVITCH SITNIN on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4 and 11 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to ten years imprisonment, and to the loss of all civil rights in accordance with for a period of five years. Further, the Supreme Court orders the con- fiscation of all his property. f 3. VLADIMIR IVANOVITCH OTCHKIN on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 6 and 11 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to ten years imprisonment, and to the loss of all civil rights in accordance with Article 31, Points a. b. c. d. and f. of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. for a period of five years. Further, the Supreme Court otders the confiscation of all his property, 4. IVAN ANDREYEVITCH KALINNIKOV on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11, of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to the ex- treme measure of social defense, execution. Further, the Supreme Court orders the confiscation of all his property. 5. NIKOLAI FRANZEVITCH TCHARNOVSKI on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11, of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to the extreme measure of social defense, execution. Further, the Supreme Court orders the confiscation of all his property. 6, VICTOR ALEXEYEVITCH LARITCHEV on the basis of Article 58 Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11, of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to the ex- treme measure of social defense, execution. Further,theSupremeCourt orders the confiscation of all his property. 7. ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH FYEDOTOV on the basis of Article 56, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11, of the Penal Code of the RS.F.S.R. }\ to the extreme measure of social defense, execution. Further, the Supreme Court orders the confiscation of all his property. 8, LEONID KONSTANTINOVITCH RAMZIN on the basis of Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4, 6 and 11, of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. to the extreme measure of social defense, execution. Further, the Supreme Court orders the confiscation of all his property. ‘The time spent by the convicted Kuprianov, Sitnin and Otchkin in prison awaiting trial shall be deducted from their sentences, ‘The Verdict and Sentences are final and are not subject to appeal. Signed: The President of the Special Investigation of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, A. VISHINSKI. ) Loapran cours ot the Soviet an Gah hs ; in the capitalist courts or on the capitalist news- By JORGE eee My, What a Row! Mr. Lucas says that what he did to Mr. Norris was absolutely O. K., but that it is a “malicious statement” to charge Hoover with doing it. Mr. Wood says that when he came out of Hoover’s front door and, standing on Herbie’s doorstep, declared that Norris was a demagogue, he was merely stating the truth, but that it is a lowdown trick to say that Hoover would tell the truth under any circumstances. We always suspected as much, Mr. Norris is undountedly a demagogue, as are a number of other “Farm Bloc” representatives who pretend to represent “the farmers” in the abstract, when in fact they represent finance capital's alliance with the rich farmers as against the mass of middle farmers and poor farmers and the whole of the wage working class. Sometimes they play at “opposition” to get more for the rich farmers than finance capital wants to give, but they go along with big capital generally, as witness their approval of the basic principle of Farm Board credit and “co-opera- tive” policy, all of which merely drives the middle and poor ing masses deeper into the mire, But this demagogue Norris, none the less, spilled some interesting beans the other day, We cannot share his enthusiasm at being a Republi- can, but in bragging about that he got off the following delightful comment about Mr. Hoover, who, it seems, “in spite of all temptation to be- long to other nations, remains an Englishman.” Literally Norris said: “I was fighting for the Republican party and its upbuilding and purification when Mr. Hoover himself was a resident and a voter of Great Britain.” It is clear that the “purification” of the Ree publican party is a job that takes a whole life time, in fact we think it can’t be done. But Norris goes on to say some more about Hoover: “He is likely to become a Democrat most any day.” (Surely an awful fate!) When he came to this country from Great Britain he became a Democrat and at once secured a political office. He remained a Democrat until he se- cured a public office under a Republican administration, and then became a Republi- can.” Mr. Hoover, we gather, seems to be for sal@ or rent. Wherefore Art Thou, Esthonia? ‘There are a lot of thundering smart people’ in San Francisco, but they are not to be found papers. How do we know it? Well, somebody sent us some clippings from two different local papers, neglecting as usual to write on them just what papers they were clipped from or what date. But the case is clear none the less: they are from two San Francisco papers. It seems that three men and one woman were arrested at 1635 Gough street, and were trying to explain matters in court. One of them, Martin Koffer, struck a pose and declared that the pinch was due to “Communist enemies,” though the cops had it down as “disturbing the peace” after midnight. Koffer also protested: “The police treated me as though I were but @ common person.” And to prove he wasn’t common at all, he duced a document and declared:—“I am, and for seven years have been the’ consul-general for Esthonia, no less!” The judge was impressed, but as judges run to knowledge of nothing much in particular, he was forced to inquire:—“And where is Esthonia?” Now that was funny enough, wasn’t it? But both these capitalist newspapers of San Fran- cisco, giving joyous account of the joke on the judge, improved matters greatly. For, them- selves being as ignorant as the judge, one began the story thus: “The dignity of Esthonia was upheld yester- day, and today Municipal Judge George W. Schon: feld knows more about the Balkan states.” paper which said: “After Koffer had explained that Esthonia is @ republic in the Balkans, Judge Schonfeld dis- missed the charges.” Maybe the “Communist enemies” of Koffer have moved the whole country of Esthonia, but the last we saw of it, it was a long way from the Balkans. es © « Please Wind the Alarm Ever hopeful in adversity (somebody else has the adversity and he has the hope), Bill Green says a headline in the N. Y. Times: “Sights Hope for Employment.” The idea is that as long as Mr, Green said that there were only 2,500,000 unemployed, there was nothing to worry about, And now, that Green himself admits that the “idle” have in- creased to 5,309,000, the future is full of hope and good cheer. It would be hard to say under what condition Bill Green might become alarmed. No, that’s not exact, because he can get alarmed on short notice if he thinks that the workers don’t be= simply ooze alarm. THE JANUARY ISSUE OF THE COMMUNIST “THE COMMUNIST,” published monthly bf the Communist Party of the United States, and sold at 25¢ a copy, will contain in the January, 1930, issue the following important articles¢ Counter-revolution before the Proletarian court; © A report of the political committee to the twelfth Central Committee Plenum, of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., by Earl Browder; Lenin’s contribution to the National and Colonial op- pressed, by Harrison George, and a Thesis of the Second Congress of the Communist Inter national which is not available in any other form, The publication also contains an article on Yankee Imperialism in Cubs, by R, Gomes, & Letter of the Central Committee of the ©. U.S.A. to the Central Committee of the O.P, Cuba, and an article on Soviets in L. Magyar. All comrades should get this, periodical, It the only magazine of the Theory and Marxism and Leninism. Subscription $300 a year, and £1.91 for ax Monthy gan (te yr vit. ¥ Which is queer, but was matched by the other : lieve his bunk about “hope” and start to follow » Communist leadership. Then, indeed, he would |