The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1931, Page 3

BATTLE POLICE TO HEAR FOSTER Ldeelatne Has Police Club Hunger Marchers Out of Hall (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931 5,000 IN MINNEAPOLIS “PRAVDA” TE MOSCOW TRIAL {COMMUNIST ADVANCE OUTSTANDING SHOWS WAR PLOT FEATURE OF BRUNSWICK VOTING: Socialists Assisted the GERMAN SOCIALIST VOTE DECLINES Imperialists Communist Party Rallying: Workers In Fight WAS EXPELLED, did Praha Ft Ns group of capitalists in the world ene Vcent, ‘Mass. orgeniation and shams | pressure is all they will yield to. jured and others got slighter wounds and bruises. Four of the injured were very seriously hurt, one of them receiving a blow that resulted in Workers’ Answer to Mayor’s “PRAVDA” TELLS | Ban on Foster Meeting and WHY RYAZANOV | \ Threat to “Jail and Club” | Police Armed With Gas Guns and Clubs Smash | Us Treachery Capped His i A ° é ~. ; et | concussion of the brain. Most ofthe| (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 2 ” Two Meetings; Overflow Meeting in St. Paul Unreliability The Committee of 20. Wounded were carried away and|,. 9.9 | ——————— On Fascist and Socialist Fakers; Thousands ‘The affair in the capital was col-| later received treatment at the first| “ning as follows: > iS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 3, on the Foster meeting, and pointing (Cable By Inprecorr) orful and startling. A committee of | aid station set up by the Workers’| Krylenko: If the Soviet govern- Come To Conferences ~Five thousand workers and unem-|cut that Kunze is a rival candidate| moscow, March 3.—“Prayda” | 20 elected from among the march-| International Relief. Among those |™ent was unable to restore national | ers, headed by Jack Johnstone, sec- Ployed founght to hear William Z. jin the coming elections and that ‘the publishes an article dealing with Foster at his meeting scheduled here | workers’ candidate, George Powers, yesterday. ‘The meeting has been | is running against him on the Com- forbidden by’ Mayor Kunze,, who ; munist ticket, The 'TUUL recounts Specifically prohibited it, and also) the failure of the Kunze administra- “all Communist and unemployed | tion to do anything for the jobless, meetings.” | and ‘scores Kunze’s expressed pro- retary of the Trade Union Unity Council of New York City; Sam Nesin, secretary of the Councils of the Unemployed of New York City, and Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the great shoe workers’ strike two years Ryazanov, former head of the Marx- Engels Institute who was expelled from the Communist Party for his | dealings with the counter-revolu- Two meetings were broken up yes- terday with ruthless police brutality, carried out by squads armed with clubs, tear gas and guns. ‘The great outpouring of the work- ers who wanted to hear Foster gave the lie to the social fascist “demio- cracy” here, which had declared that all the militancy of the Feb. 25 dem- onstrations was due to “a few agit- ators.” Foster’s meeting in St. Paul over- flowed the hall, and the national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League was received with the great- | est enthusiasm. | Nine Arrested. Nine workers were arrested after the Feb. 25th unemployed demon- stration, in which the workers broke a store and helped themselves to the groceries. The police instituted a search around the nearby sections after the demonstration, being unable to arrest any of the workers during the dem.rcwation because of the stub- born battle put up by the workers, and arrested nine workers on “sus- picion” of rioting. The grand jury investigation was held on Feb, 27th and indictments of “inciting to riot” and rioting were placed on seven,however only three of those were indicted who were ar- rested on the 25th.; This means that four were indicted who are not in the custody of the police. Those ar- rested now are George Karemchuk, | Charles Hittock and Albert Hittock. | Mayor Kunze came out with a statement in the press next day fol- gram of clubbing the jobless into | submission, CONDITIONS GROW WORSE IN SOUTH (By. a Worker Correspondent) | ATLANTA, March 2.—From Chat- | tanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, a dis- tance of 120 miles, the traveler can | See on the road clear and convincing evidence of the utter poverty and starvation of the workers and poor farmers. Atlanta is the “New York of the | South.” It is a fine Ku Klux town. The Black Shirts have their way here, Last week the K. K. K. posted | white labels with red letters (the | white-robed “heroes” must have for- | gotten what the color red stands |fer!) appealing to the population in | various white sections of the city to | join its rotten organization. The | Kluxers are intensifying their activi- ties as the Atlanta trial of two Ne- gro and four white organizers draws | near, The Communist Party and the} Trade Union Unity League are do- | ing good work here in rallying the Negro and white masses for a joint struggle against the fascist terror | and for the demands for unemploy- ment insurance and immediate re- lief. tionary Mensheviks, The article in Prayda is entitled: “One Accomplice Accused Not in Dock Beside Gro- mann, Ryazanoy,” say: Enemies of the Soviet Union cre The article goes on to how trying to present him as “a lead- | A “veteran | ing light of Marxism.” of Communism,” in order to make capital from his treachery, However, the career of Ryazanov is well known. He has not been a Bolshey- ist very long. Although possessed of a wide knowledge, he remained aloof from the revolutionary movement for many years. His detailed knowledge of Marx and Engels remained dead capital. Because Ryanzanov lacked living revolutionary spirit he sep- | arated Marxist theory from revolu- tienary practice. Ryazanoy was a Marxist as a rabbi is a Talmudist. He drifted rudderless during his whole political career. At times he was fighting Lenin, then supporting the Bolshevists. Again he would be joining Trotsky, then joining the Menshevists, He spent years with the German Socialists as a librarian. He protest- ed weakly against the war. He was with Trotsky in Nashaslova. He re- turned to Russia after the March revolution, In the summer of 1917 he joined the Communist Party, During the November revolution he deserted from his post with Rykov, Kamenev, etc. During the difficult Brest-Lit- ovsk period he fought Lenin, left Missing Man Is the Traitor | ago in Brooklyn, went in 15 minutes ahead of the rest of the marchers and interviewed Speaker of the As- |sembly Joseph A. McGinnies. They asked the speaker to be allowed to read the proposals for immediate re- lief for the unemployed in New York | state. McGinnies refused and soon after called the assembly to order, In the Gallery. Before this, some 300 of the march- jers had flocked into the gallery of | the assembly chamber, and immedi- ately raised placards and signs with the demands of the jobless for weekly cash relief, for no evictions, for work or wages, etc. An atmosphere of tension pre- vailed. A double force of state troop; |ers had been occupying the capitol building for the last 24 hours. Twenty of them crowded up toward the jobless in the balcony and others steod around. Johnstone Speaks. As soon as the assembly got down to business, Johnstone spoke from as {far front in the hall as he could get, | saying: “I represent the unemployed | in this state. They are starving and | propose that this legislature pass a bill for their relief... .” State troopers pounced on John- | stone and dragged him bodily out of the hall. Nesin and Biedenkapp were treated the same way as soon as they began to speak and likewise others of the committee of 20. The crowd of unemployed and marchers in the balcony demon- strated against this treatment of the demands of the hungry unemployed. They shouted, “Let him speak,” and | Other militant workers’ organiza- tions here include the I. W. O., which has a branch of 30 members. A few of these members show open signs of white chauvinism, and it is nec sary that the organization intensify its fight against this bourgeois in- fluence in its ranks. Conditions here in Atlanta are getting worse every. day. “The work- ing-class quarters show unmistakable evidence of mass suffering and ac- Jowing the demonstration that “all Communist meetings will be banned, even ff it is necessary to resort to skull cracking and wholesale arrests.” Also that “the Foster meeting in Minneapolis will be broken up.” TUUL Rallies Workers ‘The workers of Minneapolis are be- ing rallied to fight for the right of free speech: and the right to. as- semble. The Trade Union Unity League issyed a public statement | Position with which Ryazanov has openly defying Mayor Kunze’s ban | tual starvation, the Party, returning only after the Successes of the German revolution. There has never been a Party op- “We want work or wages!” Troopers Wield Clubs. Immediately the state troopers be- | gan a terrific assault, clubbing and | slugging and shoying and trying to} throw the jobless over the rail onto | the floor of the assembly below. | Legislators whooped and yelled and | urged the police ta smash up the unemployed. The jobless defendede themselves | with determination. Eighteen un- | employed workers were badly in- not sympathized. However, his last | Piece of treachery is the culmination | point. As director of the Marx-En- gels Institute his misused the con- fidence reposed in him and turned the institute into an asylum for Men- Shevists, was aware of their plans and was an accomplice. Scientific Services cannot excuse, mn 120 to Kansas City. Here are the tables: Solid Increase of 819 Is Circulation Gain for Week; Many week as a result of dropping a special order of Summary By Districts Special Orders DETROIT GAINS ON PHILLY, CHICAGO Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit hold the same relative position in their race with this week's results. Chicago lost 46 solid circulation during the week. Its gains during the drive have through the Ohio district page which increased : been 2,042, or 60 per cent of its quota. S = H Philadelphia gains have been 1,399 since the Zz g | start of the drive, or 58 per cent of the quota. zi eae =_| Detroit moved to approach these two leaders The Daily Worker 60,000 circulation campaign |! Boston S32 558 581418 1140 998 —142| uring the past week by gaining 205. In per- tables this week show a gain in daily circulation |® N- ¥- 1795 7683 1788 8543 9478 10331 53) Centage of its quota reached, Detroit has gone of 2,554. This figure, however, is stimulated to ‘3 isco, He nets 899 2684 2523 3583 1060 Be from 33 to 40. Detroit may give Philly and | 3 , |. Buffalo 42 461 «239 «534 703773 70) Chic: t. the extent of a daily average of 1,736 by special 5. Pit th hs a he ae id ago a race yet orders, leaving a net solid gain of 819 for the |ectevelana 1045 1280 1044 1705 2325 2749 | ane If Detroit ordered a special page once a week. Special orders amounted to a daily aver- |7 Detroit 1229 2136 1254 2316 3365 3570 205 week its ci fon tu at age of 2,511, but gains of 776 due to special | 8 Chicago 1706 4005 1724 4195 5711 5919 208 eek its campaign increases would be boosted | orders in last week’s tables were dropped. 9 Mnpln. 576 1094 592 653 1670 1245 —425| from 1,290, at present, to 1,623 or to 50 per | Besides the figures showing the tables, New 4 sipesthg 931 781 ($31 737 1112 1068 —44| cent of its quota. This, obviously, must be the York ordered 5,175 additional papers during the | 1? Afric. Bec Dh ee etn et alt auest ales Gabel: ik fora ddeees airtke: 2 Seattle 379 833 384 849 1912 129321 week for 18 Calif, 889 1270 889 1282 2169 2971 © 12 15. Conn, 273 622 «279-759-895 1038 143 | DIST. 6, CLEVELAND 16 South 80 68 80 58 133 138 s| DISTRICTS MUST | (7 Birming. 111 (178) «99-263 289 363 73) ARRANGE Ft rES STAR FOR THE WEEK 18 Butte .. % 113 93 «113 212 206 «~~ GE FOR PAGES | District 6, Cleveland, has the most outstand- | 1 Denver 121 254 126 254 375 380 5 Two other districts where the situation de- ing record in gains for the week. The gain of Unorg. 103° 85 «6103-84 «188-187 +=—1/ mands the use of a district page once a week 424 shown in the tables was largely achieved S1144 e3559 11202 26049 24007 7361 desi] are California and Seattle. Both districts are considering the advantages of these pages. We Pere om dior Bi ‘avers: f 383 a day. In ad- as expect to hear from them soon. With a district i pies ack telat robbing an ardent Summary By Cities page they will get the material they want most iN into the Daily Worker once a week in place of G@ily orders, amounting to 100, have been put || on in the following cities: Cleveland, 55; Erie, : having it pile up in the editorial office due to | 15; Cincinnati, 15; Toledo, 10; Newton Falls, 5. | z is 2 Z| lack of space. S guinea UE getcacnay ce a0? ee aif | ‘The Daily Worker also offers 2 columns of gain H & | Port Huron, where pioneer work in spreading twuie Sea . space, once a weck, with an order of 1,000 ex- the Daily Worker is being started. District 2, | Newark... 4 ‘al tra papers at §8 a thousand. The following | New York, shows an increase of 853, of which | Elizabeth. ., 69 —1| districts should immediately accept this modi- || 765.is due to special orders leaving a net gain |N. ¥. city | fied order: District 1, Boston; District 4, Buf- | oe aaa R ae tia{ #8105 District 9, Minneapolis; District 10, Kan- | Patterson and Newark, 83 each; Perth ‘Amboy, g5| Sas City; District 15, Connecticut; District 18, , 33; Union City, 8. Tables for district 3, Phila- Butte; District 19, Denver. | delphia,; show a gain of 1,060 due largely to an at : | extra order of 6,000 for February 24, averaging os| READERS! ORDER [esate tail ges boa ea omg | BUNDLES! JOIN DRIVE week, lue to special 33 | District 15, Connecticut, gained 143 due to 69| R. Turkal, South Bend, Ind., writes: through pide Slaps ential: Shai =n “My idea is that we urge every subsotiber ham, gained 73 due to special orders. District 4, of the Daily Worker to sell from 5 to 30 and || Buffalo, shows a gain of 70, all special orders. 1) more Daily Workers weekly and we will have i 79| Over 100,000 circulation, It is possible in the KANSAS CITY, SHOW LOSSES 3 Raber ’ b b 1 ‘ Readers must begin to take more initiative in District 9, Minneapolis, shows a loss of 425, | KaneauCity. 29 the campaign. There is no reader of the Daily resulting from a drop in a special order of 2,500 | seattle... 74 850 Worker who does not make some contact with last weck. Tables for District 1, Boston, show ot 3 a few workers or farmers. Readers must explain a decrease of 142, this district having dropped a ve 478 ‘| to their shopmates and fellow workers the role special order to Lawrence of 1,000. District: one, ag it eat of the Daily Worker. Any reader can obtain a has done nothing to any appreciable extent to he ae 3) bundie of Daily Workers at 1 cent a copy for 5 increase its circulation coe ee campaign 1% 209 or more, Order a bundle. Sell them to your istarted. District 10, Kansas » lost 44 last 1a 409 . | fellow workers. Join the drive for 60,000 readers. ttt ti. le Re cht a seriously injured were: Judith Gor- den, a food worker; Esther Siegel, Brighton, a lumber worker of New York, and Anson, an unemployed worker of Buffalo. Anna Rollins and Nina Gerson had got themselves into a small, narrow gallery high up in the building, above the main galleries, and difficult for the police to get at. After the main body of the jobless representatives had been clubbed from the state capitol, these two spoke for five min- utes before the police could get them out. “We came here for bread, and you gave us clubs,” they shouted, with the assemblymen yelling to the trodpers to club them down. Captain John M. Kelley, of the state troopers, while clubbing the jobless in the main gallery, gota few blows in return from his victims. William A, Bell, one of the flunkies who run errands for the capitalist legislators, jumped in to help the police beat up the unemployed and was carried off for a bandage him- self afterwards, Other troopers re- ceived injuries, ‘The struggle in the assembly room Jasted about 45 minutes, and the job- less delegates and marchers gathered outside in front of the steps, explain- ing the situation to hundreds of local workers and unemployed, who came running up from all sides. A protest meeting against the answer given the jobless was held immediately. A delegation to Governor Roose- velt had meanwhile found the stair- case to the governor's quarters held by row after row of armed state troopers and could not get in to see him. ‘The hunger marchers and local jobless then formed in companies and marched in perfect order to the headquarters of the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, where treatment was given the wounded and a big open- air meeting was held, At 4 p. m. the return journey, to report back to those who sent them, was begun. The marchers will be in Camp Nitgedaiget tonight. They will report at three mass m&etings in New York as they en- ter the city. RELEASE SIX IN PORTLAND, ORE. PORTLAND, Ore., March 2.—Bill Oral, Jim Howell, Abe Ozaranski, El- lis Bjorkman, Dan Stoeff, and Rubin Sandstrom, all held on charges of criminal syndicalism and imprisoned in the Multomah County jail, were released late today without bail. The International Labor Defense had forced the state to grant trials to those in jail before trying those on bail and in order to get Fred on next the state made this move. A mass street meeting of over 1,000 workers’ greeted the released prisoners. The date of Walker's trial is not as yet known. This is the first time such a move was known to have been made by the boss au- thorities. It is seen as an attempt to make it appear that Walker is the leader of a group of ignorant men, All the prisoners will engage in open activities and will smash this lie. The prisoners send greetings to all their fellow workers. Yow Abramowitch ‘Predicted’ USSR End (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) one of those who was preparing for counter-revolution, -to spread this rotten lie. Abramowitch did American capi- talism a great service in broadcast- ing this piece of calamity. The Amer- ican workers were then preparing for the huge March 6th unemployment demonstration, Unemployment was disappearing in the Soviet Union, while it was growing by leaps and bounds in the United States. Abram- owitch, to prove himself worthy of his hire by the imperialists, aided them not only in the war prepara~ tions against the Soviet Union, but as well in the wage-cutting cam- paign against the starving unem- ployed. In all this work he had the help of the socialist party. Abramowitch re- ceived every assistance that the American socialists could give him—~ to speed the overthrow of the So- viet Government in the interest of world imperialism. NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere 311A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, ¥.X PHONE 781 economy, what was the fiecessary| Berlin cables to capitalist papers in the United States tell assistance it needed, or what was the hindrance? Berlatsky: assistance, Berlatsky went on to “explain” that | Naturally it needed of the significant advance of the Communists in the local elec- tions of Brunswick. Though this is a-small territory, the elec- tions were looked upon as extremely important, as showing the trend of the people since the last general elections. All the he regarded “Social Democracy as a} capitalist newspapers admit that the most outstanding result right opposition in the country, urg-| j ing the Communist Party to grant} concessions benefiting the working- | class.” Here the spectators in court- | room broke out into laughter. He then submitted to Sher’s inducement to go abroad, to the United States, and to meet the Menshevik repre- sentatives in Berlin. En route to| America, he met his old friend Nikolayevsky, member of the Men- shevik Central Committee, conduct- ing official negotiations on behalf of the Menshevik delegation abroad, and after a report on the Soviet Union, expressed the following standpoint of the Menshevik Cen- tral Committee: The New Economic Policy must considerably be deepened and ex- tended in agriculture, grain collec- tions were impossible without con- cessions to the peasantry; the New Economic Policy was considerably developed in the towns, but Social | Democracy holds that the New Eco- | nomic Policy be not restricted to commerce alone, but be extended to industry. The Russian Mensheviks, practical work, said Nikolayevski, | should undermine the belief in the Soviet Government's ability to re- store economy with its own forces and should in every way disinten- grate the Soviet regime, building for this purpose nuclei in many na- tional institutions, Returning from America in No- vember, 1925, Berlatsky met Dan, another leader of the Mensheviks, in Berlin in Nikolayevski’s presence. ci e c el 01 v ay 01 br that the Communists are advancing every whe’ of the socialists. The New York Post cable from Berlin, com- menting on this election says: “The Communists have registered an important accession of strengtt of Germany since the last election, | when over 5,000,000 workers voted | Communist, has been to carry on a} bilter struggle against fascism and | its hand-maiden, | Germany, That the battle is gain- | ing mass Communist Party of Germany had intensified it: in the early part of February. Communist Fritz Heckert, spoke. mobilization of the toiling masses their parliamentary workers turned out and made the s the big gain of the Communists. The New York Times says at the expense The policy of the Communist Par the social demo-| ratic party, the social-fascists of | support the Brunswick lections give a good indication. A cable from the International Press Correspondence to the Daily Worker states on the Brunswick elections: The socialists received 113,114 votes, lost 13,165; fascists, 84,570, gained 1,172; bourgeois par- ties, 59,603, lost 23,573; Commu- nists, 27,231, gained 5,914. Long before this election, ADOLF Leader of German Fascists. HITLER | the | democratic party; 69 of the delegates | joined the Communist Party. The |chairman of the Anti-fascist League, Comrade Remmele, addressed the | congress. A resolution laying down | the methods of struggle against fas- cism, calling upon the social demo- | cratic workers to unite in the fight on fascism, was unanimously adopted amidst scenes of great enthusiasm. Anti-fascist congresses took place in. Stettin, Greifswald, Koeslin. In all there were 362 delegates; 236 were not members of any political party; |99 were. members of the Communist Party; 25 were members of the So- cial Democratic Party, and two had truggle against fas- ‘ism and social-fascism. A confer- nce of officials of all revolutionary rganizations was called in Berlin The parliamentary ° deputy, A resolution was unanimously adopted for the gainst fascism. In Dusseldorf, when the fascists rganized a demonstration to greet members who olted the Reichstag, thousands of demonstration into a revolutionary| formerly belonged to the fascist | concessions to foreign capital and Dan informed Berlatsky regarding the | Menshevik delegation's co-operation | one, singing the “International” and | berating the fascists. with the Second International and its major sections and gave same | political outline as Nikolayeyski, | showing the inevitable and necessary far-reaching Soviet government's | Many anti-fascist conferences have | been called. Several weeks ago 2,000 delegates met in Hamburg; 47, of the | delegates were members of the social | party. Thirty-five joined the Com- munist Party. Everywhere, the Communists are leading the sharper struggle against fascism, and the socialist supporters of the Brucning dictatorship. provocation. Among other things, Groman stated: “The Vorwat'ts ‘and the Second International cannot ad- mit wreckers’ work and preparation for intervention because this must be carried on secretly from the world proletariat. The declaration just read is a continuation of the double book- keeping and secret policies.” Yakobovitch, another defendant said: “Our arrest dealt a heavy blow to the Menshevik policy ending our counter-revolutionary activity. This trial deals a new blow against the Mensheviks because the group of fourteen old, underground Social Democratic functionaries publicity disavow the Menshevik policy.” Sukhanov said: “Vorwarts is right in trying to deny the turn in Men- shevik policy, because the Menshevik tactics was always aiming at wreck- ers’ work and intervention.” Similar expressions were made by other defendants whose declarations are still being made while this is be- ing sent to the Daily Worker. capitalists in town and country. He} emphasized the need for greater So-| cial Democratic activity in all insti- tutions, primarily in industry and the co-operatives, urging retarding activ- ity in these institutions. Krylenko read quotations from the Menshevik 1924 program — “Social Democracy holds that real social transformation is only possible in countries with ripened social-economic relations.” Krylenko then said: “So- cial-Democracy thuc believes in the inevitability of the development of capitalist relations, or as the program Says, conquest of position after posi- tion by foreign and native capital- ists.” Such “unavoidable” prospects may be regarded either as an unwel- come fact or as not only inevitable but also desirable adapting all practi- cal activity facilitating the “unavoid- able evolution towards the restoration of capitalist relations.” “Where such instructions given or not?” Berlat- sky replied: “Dan said he and the Menshevik delegation believe that in the interest of maintenance of the New Economic Policy it was neces- sary, to continue hampering the activity of institutions, and that So- cial Democrats in these institutions should be engaged in this work. Dan stated this idea quite clearly for the foreign Menshevik delegation but submitted the same to the Menshe- viks in Russia for discussion and elaboration. Dan also said his in- structions co-ordinated with the Sec- ond International leaders, mention- ing especially Vandervelde and the leaders of the Socialist Party of Ger- many, namely, Hilferding, Kautsky and leaders of other Social Demo- cratic parties of Europe, including Leon Blum of the French Socialist Party, Se ae (Special Cable to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, March 3.—Berlatsky continued his testimony in the trial o fthe Menshevik counter-revolution- ists. He confirmed the fact that he received a letter from Dan, Men- shevik leader in Berlin, to Sher, an- other of the defendants. Dan in- formed Berlatsky that the letter con- tained authority for Sher, by the foreign Menshevik delegation, to act as representative of the Central Com- mittee for conducting social demo- cratic work in the Soviet Union, Sher recalled that he received such a letter, signed by Dan, in which he (Sher) was appointed representative of the foreign delegation. Sher add- ed to Berlatsky’s statement in that the social democratic platform of 1924 was approved by the local Men- sheviks in Moscow, namely, the widening and deepening of the New Economic Policy, with the view of furthering capitalist forms of econ- omy and the degeneration of the So- viet regime, which was the founda- tion of the Social Democratic tacties at that time. Sher admitted that his practical work in the State Bank favored in this sense private capital; and on direct questioning by Judge Antonov Saratovsky, he said he must admit (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 2.—Before the end of the evening session today in the trial of the Menshevik counter- revolutionists, Krylenko, Soviet prose- cutor, read the declaration of the Central Committee members. of the Mensheviks abroad. This declaration was published in Vorwarts, the Ger- man Socialist newspaper. It charged the defendant's statements as being invented lies, Krylenko demanded the defendants express their attitude on Hoe enlarentD: that weakening work in the Soviet ‘The defendants one after the other | institutions was the means of Dan expressed the deepest indignation|to undermine these Soviet institu- against the abominable Vorwaert’s’| ticns, and that it was taken up and Enclosed find . We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the EMERGENCY FUND NAME ADDRESS CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50'E. 13th ST., RED SHOCK TROOPS For approyed- by the local Mensheviks. . The, Soviet prosecutor Krylenko, summarized as follows: The foreign center of the Mensheviks, in the per- son of. Dan and other leaders of the counter-revolutionary work of the (Mensheviks abroad, which, as proven, possessed connections with some il- legal groups in the Soviet Union, met the representative and the organ- izer of the new organization form lof the Menshevik counter-revolution- ary work who arrived abroad and transferred through him instructions to consider the question regarding the strengthening of this new work, and the development of new counter- revolutionary methods. Was Dan’s instruction, in this sense “an instruc- tion for discussion?” Sher replied: “Yes, it was so.” Then Sher, Kry- lenko pointed out, must further ad- mit having known that illegal groups receiving instructions from abroad to zet into communication with Sher's people, and that these communica- tions were established through Ikov. Then Sher described in detail the methods and volume of practical work of building the Menshevik groups in leading economic organ- izations to further similar work in the provinces (namely, in Tula, Orel, ‘Kharkov, Siberian towns, etc.), and the amalgamation of such calls, through town committees of three, etc, ~ Among other things, Sher stated, that it was not easy for the Men- sheviks to obtain followers. * * MOSCOW, March 3.—Great com- motion was caused in the trial of ithe Menshevik counter-revolutionists’ trial this morning when Rubin made ja statement regarding the hiding of documents of the Menshevik bureau land the Kondratyev Party (counter- revolutionary peasant’s party) in the larx-Engels Institute, with Ryazan- v's knowledge. Rubin emphasized his many years lof friendly relations between himself land Ryazanoy, who already in 1923 interfered with the Soviet author- ities im Rubin’s favor, when Rubin vas threatened with arrest for Men- evik activity. Likewise, before Rubin's recent ar- t, _Ryazanov warned about his forthcoming arrest. Thereupon Ru- brought Ryazanov compromising documents, including letters received rom the Menshevik bureau abroad. azanoy took the package for safe- NEW YORK CITY " $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER