The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1931, Page 3

: = : DAILY WORKER, N’ PLUMBERS’ OFFICIALS _ [Fulton Fish Market AID BOSSES FIRE MEN WHOKICK AT SPEEDUP Misleaders Pocket Graft Money to Betray and Kniie the Union Members Plumber Sees Need for A Fighting Revolu- tionary Union of the Rank and File New York. . Editor: I just want to write a few lines about the building trades and alteration plumbers. There are days when a plumber was independent but today we can say nothing. We are working with a 100 per cent speed- up. Here is the proof: There were days that we made two bathrooms, a day of water supplies and that was insufficient for the boss. Now there is not enough’ eight and nine, also the same thing with soil lines. Officials Against Men Of course, any plumber knows that. Should any man complain to their union they will send the delegate or business agent on the job and he makes positive that the boss is on the job and he tells him that this man complains that he is being rushed. Of course, he will get laid off im- mediately. Naturally the delegate gets a ‘sum of pocket money from the boss. This bogey proves that the U. A. union forces us to work wtih a great Speed-up. Would this official be no grafter the bosses would respect us. Now we can see that we can’t exist with such unions. Long enough we've been blinded, brothers, by the U.A. leaders. Now we will organize a union that stands for the workers, with the workers and by the work- ers. So the only way to win freedom organizing into revolutionary unions. Written by a member of the United Association Journeymen’s Plumbers. How graft is being paid to the U.A. officials will be written later in the Daily Worker. —Plumber. Albanian Toilers Starve As King Debauches New Britain, Conn. ; too, they have to pay taxes. Daily Worker:— Many of the workers who are According to the New York | forced to be the king’s soldiers are Journal, Feb. 28, 1931, King Zogu starving and dying of yellow fever. is in Vienna, supposedly for his | If any of these soldiers complain health but it seems he’s courting | they hang them, this occurs daily pretty girls instead, lives in the | in Albania. finest hotels, buys beautiful castles Albania workers, do as the Rus- in Austria, and besides receives an | sian workers. do. Join the Com- enormous salary (being a king) | munist Party and TUUL, read the while the Albanian workers pay | Daily Worker, the central organ for this through very high taxa- | of the Communist Party of the tion. U.S.A. or those of the Albanian The peasants and farmers are starving, they have to work on very small tracts of land, they have to travel on very poor roads. They have the worst of drinking water, which is very scarce, and for this Empros, the only Greek paper that defends the Communist Party here. Smash the Kingdom |of Albania and their capitalist supporters. —An Albanian Worker. Resist New York Eviction Despite Police Terror New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: A few days ago a comrade got eviction orders from court. He notified the Unemployed Councils immediately and two of our comrades went down to “kick” the furniture back into the house. We arrived on the scene and roused the neighbors who came to our assistance. The landlord called the police and had the place swarming with plainclothes all day. The police used their usual terror program to disperse the crowds. Comrades St. and W. refused to be in- tmidated and were immediately put under arrest and placed under $100 bond. The neighbors took on the fight. Men hired to set out the furni- from our masters and grafters is by workers who read Greek read the | ture refused to work when they learned the situation. In jail the police tried to “cook” up additional charges against the arrested comrades. When they.learned that Comrade W. was an As- sistant Scout Master in the Boy Scouts of America, they were infuriated. Apparently the court wasn’t used to handling political cases since they were forced to use different tactics than those used on the “drunks.” We accused the courts and their laws and this made them very perturbed; they ended the case with a disorderly conduct charge, and with an order to pay a fine or stay 7 days in jail. Killing Speedup In Westinghouse Foundries Trafford City, Pa. Editor of Daily Worker: The conditions in the Westing- house Foundries are getting worse every day since we got a new straw boss transferred from Cleveland, ©. Mr. Frank Burdick takes the place of two former straw bosses, Runs around to every man nothing doing “enough” work, and all he does is holler at the men. He is the talk all over the shop. We need some organization here. I wish you would print this in your valu- able paper for some of the Cleve- land comrades will remember him. —A Foundry Slave. New Jersey Letter Carriers Present Demands Asbury Park, N, J. Daily Worker: The legislators were addressing the State Letter Carriers Associa- tion, in a convention here, con- cerning the postal systems in An- cient Persia and in. George Wash- ington’s time. The men evidently felt no interest in these systems but placed their demand for pen- sions for the widows, minimum pay for substitutes, relays in morning instead of the present system in afternoon assignments of two men on trucks, sick leave and vacations for substitutes, Postmaster General Brown was attacked for increasing work of ur- ban carriers and eliminating sub- stitutes, increasing days of rural carriers to 12 hours without extra pay. —A Letter Carrier. Schwab Gets New Machinery and Throws Out Workers SPARROWS POINT, Md.—New wage cuts, speed up and new patents displacing workers are being intro- duced m every department of the Fethicrem Steels Mills here at Spar- rows Point. Md. Now it is starting in the cold rolls department of the tin mill. ‘The speed-up system and the new chemical just recently introduced will mean the elimination of a hun- dred workers. For example on one pickling machine that supplied work for more than 15 men, they now work with one man and this process will Continue on other machines. this is going on in every department, and I ask the workers, how long are we going to submit to the bosses and let our families starve. Are we go- ing to let ourselves be thrown out in the army of the unemployed or are we going to put up 4 fight for our right to live. Workers, let's join the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and everybody together put up a fight against these conditions. —Hot Mill Worker, 70 Join Moline, Il, Unemployed Council Moline, Tl. Deer Comrades: Avout three weeks ago I sent a full report to you about our first unemployed meeting, where Joe Dallet was the speaker. Wednes- day we had two more Dallet meet- ings in Moline and since then two _ Members in Davenport Council and 70 in the Moline Unemployed Council. Not so bad for a start! And 4 new members in the Party. Times are getting worse right along and people are getting rest- less, but some would like to see something in the Daily Worker about this locality. That's why I Now Workers Receive Ei: 10,000 Effected By ‘At- tack by the Fish Merchants NEW YORK.—The Jewish section of fresh water fish merchants put a 20 per/ cent cut into effect and laid off one third of the hands. It is now rumored that if the work- ers remain silent the salt water mer- chants will also put this cut into effect, e ‘The salt water merchants have al- ready given “vacations” to several of their old hands, Fulton Fish Mar- ket is America’s second largest port of the fishing industry. Covering about 8 city blocks and three or four peers and docks, There are approximately 500 mer- chants and about 10,000 workers are indirectly and directly involved in this industry, i. e, truck drivers, fishermen, etc. The market merchants will con- tinue to rob the fishermen and boost prices on their supposedly fresh fish. Most of the fresh fish comes from a wheat growing area of western Cana- da, Saskatchewan, From time of leaving waters to ar- rival in New York City usually takes seven days so one can readily under- stand how the merchants must feel about a wage cut, so as to enable the poor dealers to sell strictly fresh fish. The average wage for market men, ‘| before the cut was between 35 and 40 dollars a week, hours from 5 in the morning to 4 in the evening. In one part of the market there is a racket A. F. L, union. Daily agents should go to the market with the paper. The marine workers union should send up organizers, at this time to the Jewish fish market section. Fulton farket Worker, JAVANESE ARE Lying Volksraad Plans Ban On Soviet Goods THE HAGUE—Members of the | Volksraad of Batavia, the capital of lava, in the Dutch East Indies, “have vigorously protested, asking imeasures against the dumping of Russian imported goods, which, they | possible form of slave labor.” (New | York Times, March 5.) | In view of the fact that Javanese | workers are actual slaves, this cry against Russian “slave” lator is the most shameless hypocrisy. Natives ‘are forced by the Dutch imperialists to leave Java, a densely populated | region, and emigrate to Sumatra, a | sparsely inhabited territory, to work on the rubber plantations which are under the iron heel of American dol- lars. Labor fs extracted by the govern- |ment from the workers to from 30 | to 40 days a year. This work is en- | tirely compulsory and is not paid for. Dr, Kirk Fock, former governor- |general of the Netherland Indies, stated that a clause was put in the government ordinance that makes this labor compulsory. “A workman | who, on insufficient grounds, lays | down his work or quits the service is liable to punishment.” This work | is entirely forced, ahd is not paid for. | Conditions are miserable. Disease and death rate high. The natives are real slaves. HARLEM YOUTH STATE STAND The Harlem Youth Progressive Club. sends in the following state- ment for publication: “Recent publications in the work- ers press have generally criticized the Harlem Progressive Youth Club for the existence of chauvinistic ten- dencies in their ranks and gave as @ specific example our affair which was recently held. “At first we denied any such ten- dencies on the part of our member- ship at that affair claiming that all present were not our members, and therefore we could not be respon- sible, but recent occurrences in our club proved to us that the criticism was justified, and as a workers’ or- ganization we openly condemn all memberrs of our club who still possess such tendencies. “We, therefore, undertake to carry out a systematic educational cam- paign which will explain to our mem- bership the importance of solidarity of negre and white workers and to expose openly any member who is guilty of race discrimination.” The Executive Committee of the Harlem Progressive Youth Club. NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL! PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OVEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEAOON, ¥.X PHONE 781 ‘« Big Wage Cut REAL SLAVES assert, are produced by the worst | 'W YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931 Page Three From Alice Phillips, new Daily Worker representative of the Calu- met Section of Gary, Ind. we re- ceived a report indicating real vital- ity and initiative, “In the past the Daily Worker has not been circulated very much in this section,” she writes. “As a matter of fact, when somebody felt like going out with the Daily they went, but there was no real cam- | paign to get subs and sell Dailies. | Now we will try to remedy this situation and start from the be- ginning and build up the sales here.” Comrade Phillips doe not stop with circulation measures. She in- forms us of an old bill outstanding, of which $76 was sent to the “Daily” for an affair a week ago, and assures us that she will see to it that in the future many more organizations ar-| range affairs, and also will intensify sales and subs. Her energy, as well as her enterprise, in her new func- | tion are encouraging. “In order to get the comrades working here, we would like to | have two bundles already coming | to Gary increased by 50 copies. This will give us 100 a day. As | soon as we get more comrades we will further increase the bundle | orders. We also need all sorts of material for the Daily—sub blanks, | posters advertising the Daily, etc., as we plan to have Red Sundays.” With the driving force of Repre- | | sentative Phillips, the Calumet Sec- | tion should steadily build up a good, | | strong Daily Worker apparatus, and | | we look forward to more reports con- | firming our prediction. SEATTLE RED NEWS CLUB AFFAIR MARCH 14 From the Seattle Red Builders: “We have formed a club here. Fifer was elected secretary, Mc- | Lennon chairman, The Red Build- ers’ News Club is giving an enter- tainment Saturday evening, March | 14. We will also hold a street | meeting to raise some funds.” | Comrade MecLennon, who writes | the reports, informs us that house- te-house canvassers will have their | Gary, Ind. Tightens “Daily” |PRESS INTERVIEW Apparatus; Seattle Red News | BLASTS LIE OF Club Holds Affair March 14) ABRAMOWITCH employed Negro worker who wants to build up a route in that vicin- ity,” writes J. S. “We used to sup- ply him with Daily Workers until Reporters’ Questions Expose Socialist Lying (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) nti neneenaenttiny WoRKERS KID HAVE ees ON TRIAL FOR NO PEAdING He PrccuRes VU the Soviet Union?” dodged an answer. A representative of the working- ORKEIZ. YOU THe DAILY Wi Beer i0) Abramowitch Ae SeyTenced 5 DAY UNTIL class paper, Welt am Abend, asked Tou) To STOP py why the foreign pressmen in the Aa Soviet Union noticed no sign of tor- Y =<. turé on the accused Mensheviks, and & 9 how all the accused denied any tor- \ iia tures? He said that in Poland, Hun- gary and the Balkans the prisoners were frightfully tortured, but were always courageous enough to expose their tortures before the courts. | Abramowitch himself had admitted | that the accused old Menshevists | spent decades serving Menshevism. How was it possible that they did not now, and he has already about 27 steady readers. He is sure that within a short period he will be able to increase it to 100 or more.” L. C. shows commendable enter- prise. We're confident he'll reach |Soviet government with |drop of blood. GANDHI LINES UP WITH BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND ISSUES ATTACK AGAINST BOLSHEVISM IN INDIA Having sold-out completely to British imperialism even his appearance of struggle for bourgeois rights, Gandhi took the occasion to attack the forces which are continuing the struggle, on the basis of the great mass of Indian workers and peasants, against the yoke of British imperialism. “I fear no invasion of the Bolsheviks,” said Gandhi, as- suring his British masters that he would be with them against the revolutionary masses. “If they are trying to establish a revolution in India, that presupposes that the Indian people are more gullible than they really are.” ~® In this fashion Gandhi belleyes he the workers by their pressure to force) assures the British that the danger the Soviet government to evolve into! of Bolshevism 4s not so great, At capitalism, as they themselves assert | the same time it gives the masses his that the workers would defend the|real views. Against a real revolu- their last| tion, Gandhi would bless the British rmed forces. Gandhi represents the The attitude of violent overthrow| Indian bourgeoisie who feel that 1t follows from their entire conception.| is much safer and more profitable Dan speaks continuously about peace-| to stay within the British empire ful reforming of the Soviet regime! than to k a mass uprising. But and the gradual transformation of| their wishes do not settle matters. the Soviet state into a capitalist! The great mass of impoverished pea- have sufficient courage to declare | their confessions were extorted under | pressure? Abramowitch repeated the statement that the tortures were too | frightful, whereupon the newspaper- | men interjected: | “But the old Polish Socialists re- | {mained loyal to their cause despite fearful tortures.” that 100 mark yet! JAMESTOWN BUNDLE INCREASED TO 150 “If possible please send 200 ocp- ies to reach us for Saturday sales,” writes Fred C. Hunt, secretary of the Unemployed Council in James- town, N. ¥Y. state. And if the Soviet regime does/|sants, whose conditions are growing not do it willingly? Then for Dan| worse from day to day, did not cap- and Abramowitch there only remains | itulate with Gandhi. It is not salt the violent overthrow of the Soviet| they want, it is not beautiful sound- power, The Menshevik Union Bureau | ing phrases about a constitution that having as its duty to practically carry | will further enslave them, it is land out Dan’s and Abramowitch’s orders,| and bread. This Ghandi attempts did just what Ramzin and Kondrat-|to make impossible for them, by yev and their supporters did. K strengthening the forces of the In- “Also please rush the 150 copies daily as ordered previously. By changes of agency we are increas- ing our sales.” Another example of the possi- bilities for circulation through the Particular trouble was caused by |lenko then proceeded to character the Menshevist leaders trying to dis-|the bloc between the social demo- avow Kautzky’s appeal for “demo-|crats and capitalist counter-reyolu- | cratic insurrection,” against the Sov- | tionary organizations. Ramzin’s and |iet Union in his book; “Bolshevism | Groman’s statements fully proved th \In a Blind Alley,” whilst simultane- | bloc between Abramowitch and Dan jon the one side, and the Paris In- | ously complaining why Dan trans- dian landowners, the Indian capt- talists, by a closer alliance with Brit- | ish imperialism. We have now a united front of facDonald, of the Labor Party, the Liberals, the Conservatives and the Indian capitalists—against the In- Unemployed Councils, Keep it up, Jamestown! ILLINOIS MINERS REQUEST “DAILY” |lated the book providing the same with a foreward. Briefly, the press reception devel- | oped into a warm reception for Dan | oe, and Abramowitch, who spent their From William R. G. of Eldorado, | time trying to avoid direct answers Ill., we received the following appeal: | to embarrassing questions, “We are without funds to buy the | . . . Daily Worker with, but sure would) - (special Cable to Daily Worker.) like to have a large bundle each day MOSCOW, March 6.—A packed Po Stve) CUE To Whe) ooople: | People i fy ettendi thie evening session of here are now very near to the bot- the trial of the 14 counter-revolu- | Poe pew, Conve) autor & DBDEE, 85 | avy Saeranavika ih pablo a | ie anes cones TUnSenoUgh OP £6Y | ceieioamy awaiting Krylenko’s speech. eral of the miners in each mine to| ; have enough to eat.” The defendants were evidently ner- fare paid both ways (3 car-checks for 25 cents), but not out of Daily | | Worker money. “We have a great time trying to {make each other write articles to | the Daily Worker,” continues Mc-| Lennon. “Most of us feel like we are overworked, but we have time toread he paper and the time to write more | often.” | More often is right! Here's success | | to the. entertainment, street meeting | jand canvassers. Seattle was late in | starting, but they're going pretty | good! | WAUKEGON, ILL., | ON THE DOWNGRADE Waukegon, Ill, which started out with much promise a little‘more than a month ago, is experiencing a lull | in activity. About a week ago, O. Salminen wrote: “Please send me my bundle of 25 Daily Workers immediately, as I have a small beginning in having or- | ganized a Red Builders’ News Club. We have three members so far, but |hope to grow.” Now, however, the | story is changed. “I just read Circulation Bulletin No. 15. Waukegon is not going so hot is all ¥ will say now. Probably | I should write a little on short- comings, but we have so many that Tl wait a few weeks until we make some achievements first.” What has happened to Waukegon’s old-time pep? Snap into it, Red Buuilders!’ And don’t wait for achievements before you report. Write us your shortcomings now so that we can assist you in attaining better results before the few weeks are up! CINCINNATI ALLOWS BUNDLES TO ROT From a comrade we received a little note commenting on the Party head- quarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, and its relation to the Daily Worker. “In a corner discovered several bundles of Daily Workers, some of which had never been opened, and others that looked as though the bundles had fallen apart rather than been opened.’ Have hesitated in bringing this to your attention, but, in my opinion and that of sev- eral comrades with whom I’ve dis- cussed it, the matter is too impor- tant to admit of any personal scruples delaying a correction of this condition.” The Cincinnati comrades would do well to consider this matter of suffi- cient importance to sell and dis- tribute the papers where contacts with workers might be gained, at meetings and demonstrations. Must leading functionaries be told that the Daily Worker is NOT printed for storage purposes? “WE'RE ON THE JOB,” SAYS PITTSBURGH “Just a few lines to let you know that we are on the job,” writes Comrades Cook and With- ington of Pittsburgh, Pa. “Com- rade Mankin (Daily Worker repre- sentative) is serving a thirty-day sentence in jail, Comrade Buttich is selling the 50 Daily Workers which is coming here, therefore we wish you would send us 60 Daily Workers until Mankin is released. We are organizing a Red Builders’ Club, and hope to increase our bundle much larger.” CRUM LYNNE, PA, NEGRO, GETS 50 Workers who can afford to, should | Maid contribute to the Workers’ Sub Fund| In his opening remarks Krylenko | so that the “Daily” can be distributed | Teviewed the great political trials of in those sections which need it with-|the 13 years of Soviet power. He | out adding to the financial deficit | Pointed out that the Shakty trial which the paper is unable to handle | Showed for the first time the new ;methods of struggle of the class | enemy—wrecking work. The trial of WIDOW SENDS $1 fee Industrial arts clearly | A widow of Compton, Calif, who| {he contents of this new method. | is unemployed, cannot pay interest | The frat, sald Fay eeee Dee eaaee on her mortgage, and must raise a| W0TKing class a particularly decisive 12-year-old boy, heard of the Daily|™eaning. The defendants are peo- | vorker sd | ple who call themselves “socialists.” Worker through a friend and sends | poeple practiced wrecking a Se, | These Wey She. writes: work. They became “socialist” wreck- | “I have saved the dollar by walk- ers, “socialist” interventionists, “so- | ing to town, 2 miles, and back | | cialist” fascists, restorers of capital- home. When getting groceries, in- | ism. stead of me taking the busI walked | Thi to save this dollar for the Daily - UNEMPLOYED trial, continued Krylenko, jfight for their rights after the over- | dustrial Party on the other side. | dian workers and peasants and the Krylenko described the contents of | growing revolutionary struggles. the Ramzin bleok, and said it was| ‘The faker Gandhi has earned his unnecessary to argue with the Men-| salt. He will soon be speaking a dif- sheviks about dictatorship plans, di-| ferent language, blessing the bayon- viding the seats of the future cab-| ets of the British imperialists as they inet, and the Mensheviks own idea of| plunge them into the revolting In- preparing armed civic guards to| dian masses. throw. “I have thus clearly and con-| “They led controlled distribution clusively shown that the Mensh of industrial products and in this stand for capitalist restoration. They | respect, the Mensheviki, calling them- are all for it, without a difference in| selyes a ‘labor party’, were particu- the shadings of their opinion. Sec-| jarly outrageous, and led particularly ondly they for the violent over-| to severe consequences. throw of the jet power. Kautsky| “The defendant Yakobovitch con- and Garvey sald that open’ Dan | firms his wrecking work in grain and Abramowitch dcx. in words, | purchasing operations, aiming at the but it followed from their entire at-| blockade of the workers’ supplies in titude. | industrial centres, hoping to pro- The Russian Mensheviks are work- | voke discontent and uprising among ing in the Soviet Union according| the working masses. Linked up with to Dan’s and Abramowitch’s instruc-| this was the aim in block with Kon- tions, and assumed unquestionably | dratyev's and Chayanov’s Kulak the attitude for the overthrow of the) groups, to organize the kulak upris- Soviets. They allied themselves in| ings and spread discontent among this work with the fascist industrial] the peasant masses in undersupplied party and with the Kondratyev kulak| regions, such as White Russia and group, the east. From the defendant's statements we also know that the special aim, likewise, was to create through the lack of food supplies in the frontier regions, corresponding discontent in preparation for the ex- pected intervention in these regions. ae ee (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, March 8.—Krylenko in continuing his speech in the trial of the Mensheviks said: “What kind | of people did the Mensheviks recruit | Worker. Please send me some cop- ies. This is a wonderful paper for all laboring men and women.”— Bertha McVitten, * MONTHS FOR SELLING ‘DAILY’ (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) into the back of his victim. Perhaps he had seen the copy of the Daily Worker which exposed his “justice” in the case of four workers who led a group of unemployed workers into a street car and refused to pay fare. Here was his opportunity for revenge. He began his tirade: “These Com- munists are a general nuisance. (He, of course, meant to his masters, the bosses of Chicago), Why are not vagrancy charges placed against them. They are the ones against whom the vagrancy act should be applied.” ‘4 This same Judge McCarthy -had freed several notorious gangsters charged under the vagrancy law. But gangsters are important people, friends of judges and other politi- cians. While revolutionary workers are the bitterest enemies of all ex- ploiters and their henchmen, the judges and politicians. “Two hundred and costs” snapped the willing tool of the Northwestern Railway Co. and the Chicago Sur- face lines. Naturally the unemployed worker could not pay the fine. He has to serve three months in the workhouse, ‘This case is, of course, not an iso- lated instance. Nor is this judge an exception. The increase in the in- fluence of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and Un- employed Councils over the working masses is quite evident. For that reason more detectives have been placed in the “red” squad; for that reason the whole capitalist machinery has been geared to crush all at- tempts on the part of the militants to organize the workers. The police have their orders; the judges have received theirs, Terrorize, intimidate all revolutionary elements. Judge McOarthy, therefore, In sen- tencing an unemployed worker to three months in jail for selling the Daily Worker, only followed the or- ders of his masters, But the workers of Chicago must and will have the last word in this struggle. Their answer to the pros- titute judge must_be: “We will join the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Councils. We will struggle for re- lief and unemployment insurance. | throws light on 13 years of develop- ment of Social Democracy towards |a@ bloc with the capitalists and for the overthrow of the Soviet Union. It is simultaneously against world} Social Democracy, against the Sec- | ond International, that this trial is directed and the wrecking work ex- posed. Krylenko read Vandervelde’s protest on behalf of the Second In- ternational, sent to the Council of Peoples Commissars. Krylenko then declared: “There is on trial the coun- ter-revolutionary organization bu- reau of the Russian Social Demo- cratic Labor Party. Vandervelde de- clares in behalf of the Second Inter- national: ‘They followed closely this work of the Russian Social Democ- racy and approved it.’ So much the better. But Mr. Vandervelde and the Second International thus took seats with he defendants.” At the time of sending this cable Krylenko was still making his con- cluding speech, Phat iene | (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 8.—In the sec- ond part of his speech Krylenko ad- vanced five main crimes of the ac- cused: (1) the plan for the restora~ tion of capitalism; (2) block with the fascists organizations; (3) wrecking; (4) preparation for the intervention of black reaction; (5) treachery against the Soviet workers and the world proletariat. He quoted numerous statements of Russian and international social democratic leaders, such as Kautsky, Dan Abramowitch, Vandervelde, etc., which prove the aim of social dem- ocracy, which is the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, in the cities and villages, This is proven not only by the de- fendants’ statements, but by numer- ous documents, likewise by state- ments of the former Menshevik Cen- tral Committee abroad, and by the Second International verbally and in books printed by them, and in their press. for their counter-revolutionary work? This is shown by the witness Zhe- ludkov, the man who at the time} of the great revolutionary uprising in 1905 defended “neutrality” of the trade union movement. Similar men were used who formed agencies standing close to the Czar's secret service, or who were agents of the Cadet Party (bourgtois party). For this they were richly remunerated. “Or let us take the statement of Gvozkyov whom Wolkov recruited, and according to his statement, en- gaged in recruiting old Menshevik| workmen. Gvozdyev succeeded in re- | cruiting at most fifteen workmen.| This was all they could control with- in the workingclass. This alone | Proved they could get no footing among the workers. “This is proven also by Dan in his “rep§” to Kautsky when he says that counter-revolutionary overthrow will be forced violently to beat down masses of millions of workers, be- cause they would be unwilling to give | up the achievements of the October | Revolution without a fight to the last drop of blood against inter- vention or inner counter-revolution- ary overthrow. “Likewise, the Menshevik. Union Bureau meeting established that the Menshevik social basis undergoes a change in that the main support was sought @mong the employees and intellectuals and a few individual backward workmen, remnants of the petty - bourgeoisie. Also, individual elements of the village bourgeoisie. They failed, also, to approach the agricultural masses. Likewise, Kon- dratyev's statement established that this allied party’s aim was in the direction of the upper strata of Kulaks, “This estimation of their social basis led them with logical necessity towards wrecking work. The same work was conducted within the Com- missariat of Trade, in the State Bank, in the Planning Commission, and in the Supreme Economic Coun- cil. In the Commissariat of Trade The Abramowitchs and Dans may argue against Kautsky’s open de- mand of peasant insurrection, which is proof that it is impossible to urge Enclosed find EMERGENCY FUND NAME and connected central cooperatives, wrecking work was aimed at the “In the State Bank, wrecking work, according to Sher’s-statement, was aimed at sabotage of credit re- form, for discrediting the credit policy of the Soviet Power. Berlatsky supported the wrecking work, creat- ing confusion in the entire book- Keeping in the State Bank.” In summing up his speech Kry- lenko detailed the attitude of the Menshevik’s toward the question of intervention. Their published state- ments endeavored to create the im- pression that they oppose interven- tion, but practically they worked by all means to prepare intervention. The published statements always calculated to emphasize the inevit- ability of intervention. Thus, the May Day appea olf the Second In- ternational last year to the Russian workers, informed them that they were living in conditions worse than in the capitalist countries; that the workers in the Soviet Union were suffering bloody terror, and stated that such a policy might cause a gulf between the classes on which the Russian Revolution depends lead- ing to a new civil war. The first part of the manifesto was an open agitation against the Soviet Union. The second part calls on the workers to force the Soviets to alter their policy, and if it does not? That question is left unan- swered. Ps Vint) oes MOSCOW, March 8.—After a six- hour speech the Soviet prosecutor Krylenko made the following propo- sition: Groman, Sher, Yakubovitch, Gins- burg and Sukhanov the highest sen- tence—death by shooting. Zalkind, Sokolovsky, Petunin and Berlatsky, long term imprisonment. Titelbaum, Finneyanotaesky, Volkov, imprison- ment without insisting on the long- est term; Ikov and Rubin, who did not entirely disarm, the highest pos- sible prison term. Regarding the imprisonments, Kry- lento made no exact terms, leaving this matter to the judgment of the court. The audience which crowded sabotage of supplies to the indus- trial population, OUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND seees Collars .... We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER APP eee eee eee er rer rere eer er errr teeter ret rerr ir rt iti i Ty the hall stormily applauded the pro- posed sentences. » cents