The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 4

ea a Page Four Socialis Praises t Paper New York City, h. ¥. Telephone ALgo: Cringing Speech of Wels “Wels Defies Hitler's Terror’—Such is the brave headline in this week's New Leader ‘The New Leader is proud to present to American read- ers for the first time the text of the defiant speech of Otto Wels, Chair man of the German Social-Demo. cracy Thus the New Leader. What is his “defiance”? Upon Hitler's accession to power Otto Wels resigned from the Second International. The Central Commit tee of the German Social-Democratic y in a decision approves the re- ignation of Wels from the International aying that it v Socialist deputies of Braunschweig arty. Their er of ated that had no to stand in the ay of the Revolution,” and at they the hopelesen: of further opposition Wels, writing to Von se a leiter to the govern- protesting that the patriotism of the Socialist leaders “is as good as that of the Nazis,” denying that they intended to overthrow the pre- sent government in Germany. Upon the resignation of Otto Wels from the Executive Committee of the Socialist International, the N. Y. Times wrote, “that the Social Demo- cratic Party is undergoing a trans- formation that will bring it more nearly into harmony with the new order of things,” adding that it is “now up to the Party to discover a formula that will ensure it a place in the third Reich.” Otto Wels and other leaders of the Socialist Party denied that were sending out “atrocity stories,” thus admitting that they were making no real protest against the fascist ter- ror. The Central Organ of the German Socialist Party declared ‘We will sume the position of constructive criticism, and will do everything in our power that the good name of Germany be harmed he Listen to Wels speaking to the Nazis and Hitler in the Reichstag. ‘He says, “Our work for the rebuild- ing of the country, the rehabilita- tion of its economic conditions. .. will go down in history. We demanded and we secured equal rights for all the people and we lished social Justice.” “We established social The plundering of the people through the Dawes Plan. The further robbery and extortion of re- parations through the Young Plan, the restoration of German capital- ism and wage slavery—it is of this that Otto Wels, leader of the Ger- man Social-Democracy is so proud. Thus does Otto Wels “defy” the as- sembled Junkers and fascist butchers of Germany! “We saved Germany from a pro. letarian lution. We established equal rights and social justice for all the people’—by restoring Ger- men capitalism to power”! From their own mouths, we have the truth. German Social-Democracy considers the re-establishment of capitalism in Germany after 1918 as the establish- ment of “equa! rights and social jns- tice”! In his grotesque and disgusting pleading before the assembled fas- cists, he even groveled so low as to revive that cheanly cynical legend justice”! with which even our own American | and resisted Nazi attack in the city | canital zer the pe ple—th establishing social justice for The the peor establishing the right of private pro- perty and the exploitation of labor! The Weimar Constitution, German | under | deeper and deeper into degradation and poverty! The Weimar Consti- tution, under whose provisions the German masses since 1918 have had their wages slashed, their hours ex- tended to ten and twelve hours a da their unemployment benefits decreased or abolished! The Weimar Constitution which gave the capit alist class of Germany a breathing spell after the revolution of 1919 so that it could again gather its forces. This is the Constitution for whose creation the Social-Democracy of Germany asks its reward from that ruthless bourgeoisie whom it assisted this we are stoned,” efiant” Mr. Wells. ed the N: ctor: leave us our the defiant Mr. Wels. honor’ which the lead- of German Social-Democracy as alms trom the fascist dicta- precisely the appear- @ Party of opposition wishes to preserve. And how does Herr Stampfer, edi- | tor of the leading Social-Democratic paper, “Vorwaerts,” defy Hitler's fas- cism? He tells the German working masses, who are being dally assault~ and assassinated in the streets, ‘hese gentlemen have a majority in They were appointed by the Presi- dent and are now confirmed by the people.... We shall confine ourselves to the role of objective critics until the people call us to play another part in politics. The victory of the governmental parties enables them to rule in strict accordance with the Constitution...Only the Constitution es it possible to lead the people out of the civil war phychosis and to attain a normal course of develop- ment at home...The election demon- strated that the German people is divided into two almost equal parts, one of which wants to govern now, while the other must be content with being governed. This is how Mr. Stampfer defies fascism. He tells the workers of Ger- many that they must remain “con- | tent with being governed” by the fas- | cist dictatorship. They must confine themselves to the role of “objective critics.” They must wait until they are “called to play another part.” oon is how the leadership of Ger- }Man Social-Democracy intends to | fight German fascism. | "The German bourgeoisie discards all pretense of “democratic rule and openly asserts its naked military dic- tatorship. The class struggle has | broken out into open civil war. In-/| stead of rallying the forces of the | working class to reply to the attack of the bourgeoisie, the leadership of the German Social-Democracy in- vents theories to show why the work- ers must remain “content to be goy- erned,” why they must not fall a prey to the “civil war psychosis.” The leadership of German Social-Demo- cracy is thus concentrating all its energies not to resist fascism but to smother the resistance of the workers to fascism. COMMUNIST PARTY FIGHTS The leadership of the German |Masees against the fascist terror is in the hands of the heroic Commun- ist Party of Germany. Torgler openly faced arrest by de- fying the German police in protest against the frame-up of the Reich- stag fire. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party. 1,000 workers armed General strike is looming rst ai-Democracy. Tt is because against German The reason is ot | this fake defiance 2 Weimar Consti-| fascism is exactly paralleled by its | tution, that bourgeois constitution | own wordy “defiance” of the Roose- | | velt capitalist dictatorship in Amer- | ica. In the same way; that the German Social - Democracy, lying the Reichstag and in Prussia. | Pabliched by ths Comprodally Pudtienimg Oe. tae, Matty except SOnday, ot #8 BE. 18th St. . Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New Yo! PROVE DELIBERATE P DAIW ORK.” WM Y nguin 4-7956, Cable “ BRITISH “ENG RAMSEY MAC DONALD EERING” LOT TO CRIPPLE T | | Se SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, six months, 93.50; 3 months, $2; 2 mowt&, wom excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign on@ 6 months, $5; 7 mont! HE SOVIET DEFENSE | RECOGNITION OF SOVIET UNION Friends of Soviet Union | » Leading Broad | Campaign | The Patriotic Order of Women of | Philadelphia issued the slogan, “War| Against Recognition of the Soviet! Union”. This is a new addition tol the ranks of the enemies against the | Soviet Union who set themselves the} task to fight against recognition by the United States, which imposes aj greater duty upon workers and ail friends of the Soviet Union to rally) behind the recognition campaign and} try to counter the vicious anti- Soviet activity now disseminating in} such a thoroughly organized manner | | by all the enemies of the working) *7 class. The mass meeting for recognition rranged by the nds of the Soviet Union, for Suni April 16, at 2 p. m. at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. should rally many thousands of work- | ers and other friends of the Soviet Union Some of the speakers at this meet-| ing are Prof. H. W. L. Dana, Mal-| colm Cowley, associate editor of “The | New Republic” and James W. Ford, | head of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. The following will also speak: Har- ty F. Ward, Carl Brodsky, Donald | | Henderson, Louis Hyman, and Mrs. | enemies of the Soviet Union, Susan H. Woodruff. | oscow Includes — Confessions of Damaging to Aid Invasion (Cable From Our Moscow Correspondent.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., April 13 The indictment read yesterday | against the Metropolitan-Vickers Co., British and Russian engineers now on trial before the Supreme Court | here, is a detailed document, ac- | cusing them of of | espionage and dustry in preparation for imperialist | war against the U. S. S. R. | it establishes in the first place that @ number of unexpected and con- sistently repeated failures in several | electric stations (Moscow, Chelia- Insk, Zuevka, Zlatoust) are the re-| sult of the wrecking activity of an | organized group of criminal ele- | ments, | |_ ‘The object of this wrecking work was to damage Soviet electric plants and thus put out of order a number of state enterprises. Gathered Military Information. The defendants are accused of | damaging equipment with the pur- | pose of trying to destroy Soviet in- dustry and weaken the Soviet state; | also of gathering secret military in- | formation of state importance for anti-Soviet purposes. | Chief Engineer Gussev of the | Zlatoust Flectric Plant made a con- fession of his guilt. He began his | counter-revolutionary wrecking ac- | tivities in 1929, and having anti | Soviet opinions, made friends with | MacDonald, the Metro-Vickers engi- neer, who instructed him in the col- | lecting of information. He says that jhe felt clearly that these date were | to serve anti-Soviet political aims. MacDonald Corroborates. MacDonald corroborated Gussev’s| statements face to face, and iold | about the collection of information | of a military nature at Zlatoust con- | cerning the nunfber and types of | shells produced, concerning the de- | velopment of military production, the special sorts of steel used, and the branches of industry on which nor- mally the ‘production of military ma- serials depend. According to his own t work of organizing sabotage to handi- cap the production of military ma- terials. “I understood that Thorn- ton was acting in the interests of, England,” declared MacDonald in| reply to a question. | | “Gussey’s main activities were to | Organize the failure of machinery, whose provisions Ebert, Noske and | prostrate before the Hitler terror,| and other acts of wrecking, to dis- Scheidemann shot down the workers in the streets of Berlin Conrtittion, under whose provisions the capitalist class of Germany sinee 1018 has driven the working messer “defies” German fascism, so does the The Weimar New Leader and the leadership of | and hold the American Socialist Party American capitalism. That is ne New Leader is so “proud defy wiry |rupt the production of munitions up the manufacture of special sorts of high-grade steel. To a 1,400 of » this motor froze dama f sabotage com Try te Disorganize ae ‘These facts were supporter) by Mac- Donald, who declared: “My aim was | #0 interfere with the supply of cur-| | rent to the Zilatoust Metalurgical | Plant for the purpose of disorgan-| izing the work in military undertak- | ings.” The means he selected to re- alize this purpose was the cutting of the capacity of the electric plant by| | one-half, This was almost completely accomplished. The group of saho- | teurs also directed their attention to | developing schemes for securing eco- |nomic failures and stoppages in time, of war, including the damaging of stem boiler installations, sabotaging of coal supply, electric plants, etc, For counter-revolutionary wrecking and espionage work MacDonald paid Rus-| sian engineers various sums amount- ing to 4,000 rubles. Thornton Makes Admission. He confirmed haying given MacDon- be ald sums of money for the remunera- | Bri deliberately organized by the nh engineer, Cushny. Olenik re- tion of men who had done espionage} peated this when brought face to for him. face with Cushny. In addition to Thornton Was Wrecker, Too. sabotage activity, Cushny was also ‘The indictment also establishes in espionage. MacDonald Thornton’s participation in various! s : “The espionage work was wrecking acts in the Cheliabinsk guided by ‘Thornton. Monkhouse, Electric Plant, aiding the counter-| one of the heads of Metro-Vickers’ by lulionary Chief Engineer Vitvit-| branch in Moscow, also participa Thornton suggested that Vivit~|in this illegal activity of Thornton's. ‘y should operate the equipment in| Cushny was Thornton’s travelling such @ way as to accelerate its wear-| agent, and was simultaneously tak- ing out. He promised Vivitsky good| ing part in the espionage work.” payment—Vitvitsky received 6900, Thornton and Cushny stated that Tubles. Thornton also instructed the information that they transmit- Vitvitsky to send information through! ted to England was of interest to MacDonald. This Vitvitsky did,, Metro-Vickers not merely in a direct sending a developed plan for sabo-! business sense, but that it could be tage and diversions for use in the! used for definite political purposes. event of war. The main object of the Workers Spo'led One Plan. Cheliabinsk group of wreckers was) failures of current, and operate the! the Moscow Electric Plants by engi- equipment badly. These activities; neers Sukhoruchkin, Krasheninnikov, Were actually realized. ;and Zorin, was done with the com- ystematic “Failures.” plicity of the Metro-Vickers em- In working the Zueyka Electric|ployees. Thornton gave instructions Plant, MacDonald, according to his to Sukhoruchkin personally for con- own statement, “made his object the! necting cables by iron bars with the creation of conditions of failure over| purpose of creating a failure which long periods.” Engineer Kotliarevsky,| would have led to absolute damage head of the turbine department and/ of the generator, and only failed to one of the accused, confessed to hav-| do so owing to the vigilance of the ing committed acts of sabotage jointly! workers. Preparing For War. with MacDonald. The latter admit- ted paying about 1,000 rubles to Kot-| suenoruchkin and ‘Thornton re- peatedly discussed wrecking schemes liarevsky for his wrecking activities, | te at the TvaroRa Beer eRe | which they intended to bring about inthe event of war. Together with acts at the Ivanovsxy Electric Plants Sukhoruchkin, sabutage activity in were performed by a counter-revolu- the Moscow First Electric Plant was tionar® wrecking group consisting of as Se engineering | carried on by Krasheninnikov, who into contact with Olenik, technical staff, with the complicity! of Engineer Nordwall, an employee | conior erector for Metropolitan-Vick- jers, in 1929. The latter paid him, on ot the Metro-Vickers Company. | behalf of Thornton, 500 rubles for his Nordwall Hired Sabotagers. Lobanov, an engineer at the Ivan-| work; pointing out that Thornton ovsky Plant, and a man of anti-| expected him to continue his activity. Soviet views, was promised good pay-| Senior Engineer Srin gave informa- ment by Nordwall for organizing de- | tion on the development program of liberate damage to the plant’s equip-| the Mosenergo Plents, and concealed ment. Nordwall demanded system-| defects in equipment supplied by damage of the equipment for the} Metro-Vickers, which Inter resulted fons in| in a number of failures in the plants, try, par- He also recelved money from Thorn- ton oll 1 except that | Secretary Confesses. ming from the Metropolitan Vick-| The indictment dwells on the part ers Company. Practical measures to} played in this affair by Kutuzova, damage turbines were outlined. Ac-)| who was secretary of the Moscow, tually, at the Ivanovsky Plants, mo-| branch of Metro-Vickers. Kutuzova tors were systematically put out of) stated: “Even in 1930 I began to no- order, valuable machinery clogged,|tice that Thornton, MacDonald, poor insulation transformer winding| Monkhouse and others, were engaged was furnished, telephone Mason was| in some illicit work. They carried on broken down, etc. All this inflicted} secret conversations, and had secret: great losses on the enterprises. correspondence.” Cushny Damaged Turbine. Thornton seid that Kutuzova told The Baku engineer Olenik stated him that some of the engineers were that Thornton had told him that a) collecting espionage information of a ne failure in the Baku Bdectric political and economic nature, and which occurred in 1928 had! paying Russian engineers for it. Also Plant ON BREMEN THIS MORNING; UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE CALLS PROTEST BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The Committee for Action Against Fascism calis the attention of the workers of Naw York to the arrivai of the new German ambassador, Dr, Luther, this morning on the S.8. Bremen, at Pier 58 in Brooklyn. Workers are called upon to participate in the demonstration which the Committee has called for today at 10 a.m. at Pier 58 in Brooklyn to “greet” this first official representative in America of the Hitler government, e * * NEW YORK, April 1@.—The grow- | 8p. m. in the heart of Yorkville, La- ing demand for unity in the struggle | bor Temple, 243 E. 94 St. It will rally against German fascism has led to |New York's German-speaking work- the formation of the Coramittee for | ers tm support of the German pro- ed | U. Confronted with Gussev and Mac- | Action Ageinst Fascism. ‘This Com~ letariat, heroically struggling against fascism and anti-Semitism, as well stated that MacDonald had collected | data at his instruction, For this| purnose he drew MacDonald into! espionage activity. In 1930 he was receiving information trom MacDon- ‘ald, and now from Gussev, who had | been drawn into the work of spying | by MacDonald. Thornton admitted | ae correct MacDonald’s and Ghussev's Shatements about a mectine st Khari - | chk Station, where Grmeev reported | BOM E: Donald, Chief Engineer "Thornton | Mittee includes representatives of the Communist Party, Conference for|as against the attempt of Hitler's Progressive Labor Action, and their | brown-shirted followers in America papers. in the German Janguage, as} to gain a foot-hold among the Ger- well as yi xecutive Com- | man population here. mitice of t orkmen’s Sick and| Speakers of the newspaper “Arbeit- Death Benetit Fund, with 60,000; er,” (C.P.), “Kampfsignal56 (C.P.L.A.) members, It is calling a broad anti-| and of “Solidarity” (.".9.D.B.F.) and fascist, conference of all German} representatives of Germaw mags or- working class organizations i Great- ‘isations wit address the meeting. er New York on April 38. German. inging Bo- ‘The Committee has called am anmtd- | eishy end the Prolethwhne are ex vengtietnets. om tte cuveying out of certain acts. eK Aenageeene te’ Seen, Sah that Kutuzova took a direct part in paying money to spies and saboteurs. | According to Kutuzova, Thornton | and the others sent secret informa~- tion to Richards, the manager of the! Metro-Vickers Export Department | During Richards’ stay in the U.S.S.R.| secret conferences were held. She! said also that the espionage in the R. dizected by tor | Monkhouse Makes Admission, | Monkhouse confirmed that he was, |Teceiving information to be relayed} to Richards, which was not connected | only with Metro-Vickers business ac- tivity, but which was concerned with| as to large construction jobs. | to dsorganize the station, arrange that the wrecking work carried on in| Died taking part in the collecting of prejudice the o | any information of military or state importance, denied having bribed anyone, and would not admit com- | plicity in any plots to damage equip- ment or cause failures. | For Political Purposes. | ‘Chornton himself gives an idea of |the kind of information which was | collected, since he states t Rich- | ards’ suggestion we collected from | various points in the USSR. data on the political situation, Monkhouse and myself then rela: to Richards. Espionage activity | the U.S.S.R. guided myself and Monk- | house.”” | Monkhouse’s denial of bribery is | contradicted by one of his own ad- | missions, namely, that he bribed Dolgov in order to obtain orders for equipment, and also for assistance in. the event of the Soviet government | claiming compensation from his firm | in connection with defects discovered |in machinery supplied. Monkhouse Fought Bolsheviks. The indictment also sheds some light on the personalities involved in | the trial. Monkhouse, prior to the | revolution, lived in Russia for a long | time as an engineer to a British firm. |In 1918 he was an engineering can- tain in the interventionist fo at Ar which fought against the Bolsheviks. Richards An Army Spy. The Richards referred to above also participated in the same inter- yentionist adventure as a captain in the Intelligence Service. Monkhouse and Richards have been friends for many years. In 1923 Richards be- {came the Director of the Export De- partment of Metropolitan-Vickers, and himself appointed Monkhouse Manager of the Moscow branch. | Thornton is the son of a well-known , manufacturer, born in Russia. Rich- ards selected him for emptoyment especially in the U.S.S.R On the basis of all of the above testimony and facts, the defendants have been brought to trial under various paragraphs of Article 58 of the Criminal Code for organization of, and complicity in, a counter-revo- |Jutionary group, having as its pur- | pose espionage, sabotage and wreck- \ing by means of actively carrying out failures in machinery, concealing de- fects in equipment furnished by Metro-Vickers, undermining — the | power of Soviet industry, and weak- ‘ening the might of the Soviet state, by means of disorganizing electric power installations, and plotting to execute extensive industrial wreck- age in the event of war. \Czech Munitions Co. Profits From Shells | Sold to Kill Chinese | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April 1. The Sellier and Bellot Munition Co. announced yesterday the payment of & 20 per cent dividend. This hand- |some return to the investors is be- \ing paid for by Japanese and other workers. The munitions themselves “vill be ultimately used against, work- ers, whatever capitalist government decides the direction in which they | will be shot. Finally, the Sellier and Bellot Company affords a brilliant contrast to the rest of the Onecho- slovak eoonomy, which te ptonged in the deepest denressten | | | the general situation in the U.S.S.R,| fluence the Soviet.” Cecil, who be- Tie! longs to the government party in the admitted serious defects in the equip-| Lords, does not conceal the fact that | he was introduced by MacDonald and. ‘The indictment further establishes) ent supplied by his firm, but de-| the British government is trying to | Tecommended as “the kind of fellow ENGINEERS IN USSR. TRIAL ADMIT SPYING Gussev, Russian, Says |Metro-Vick Managers Paid for Sabotage HURT MUNITION PLANT Thornton, Englishman, | Squirms But Admits Main Charges (By Our Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., April | sily Gussev, manager | of the Zlatoust Power Station, |was the first defendant ex- jamined in the evening session jof the trial of Metropolitan-Vickers Co. engineers for damaging Soviet d espionage for war pur- t trial startd yesterday. Vv Was examined in the evening session of the Supreme Court, held |in_the House of Trade Unions. - Examination brought out import- NEW YORK—The National Broad-| ant evidence that Gussev gathered casting Company has given over its | Beret Gann as Riri pcin the Honse : Tuesday | Military production plants served by mason wan aq twork next Tuesday |the Ziatoust Power Station, and that or anti-Soviet speeches by notorious! he organized and carried out a series of mishaps at the plant designed to Hamilton Fish, red-baiter; William| "duce its capacity, or even put. it Green, labor misleader; Louis John-| *Mtirely out of order. Another signi- son, national comamnder of the! ficant feature of Gussev's testimony American Legion; Senator King of| Was that it revesied the leading role Utah, and Senator Copeland are ex-|0f the Metro-Vickcrs’ employees Mac~ pected to present “facts about Rus-|Donald and Thornton in the wreck- se \ing and spying that went on at the This is in line with the campaign|7!#toust Plant. of slander against the Soviet Union Eaplonage and-a part of the war prevarations tified that MacDonuid, Workers and all sympathizers of M S engineer at the Zlat- the U. S. S. R. are urged to send, ©¥St, asked him about a factory pro- ULRIOH, Presiding Judge at the trial of British spits and wreckers, NBC BROADCASTS AGAINST USSR Protest Their Vicious Slander of Soviets protests to the National Broadcasting | ducing military supplies, especially Company, protesting this slanderous | #bout the kind and quantity of shells made there. After a period of es- pionage, Gussev admitted, he began carrying out various damaging and wrecking schemes, again at the or- a of MacDonald. Replying to a L from Prosecutor Vishinski, : id confirmed that part of LONDON, Apri \G 5 nony which related to of Lords debate on the Bill to ban|the gathering of information, and Soviet imports, Viscount Cecil stated | Also admitted giving Gussev about that “no threats will be issued until | 7} Tubles. : Thornton, the chief engineer of it becomes evident that ordinary dip- Meiropolitan-Vickers, Gussev testi- lomatic representations will not in-| fied, visited Zlatoust July 1930 and in | the winter of 1931. Both times he ;Met Thornton. On the first visit campaign Threats Will Be Next, Cecil Tells Parliament q M we can trust.” Gussey was then | collecting information regarding fac- tories and plants at Zlatoust, partl- cularly those manufacturing war ma-~ terials and dependent on the power | station. At the second meeting, Gus- | sev declared, they discussed a plan prepared by himself and Thornton for disabling the power station and | the factories it served. To Cripple U.S.8.R. Defense “Did you discuss sabotage in case of war?” the Prosecutor asked. “Yes,” Gussev replied, adding that | the scheme was to reduce ths capa- | More ‘Threats city of the plant by half, thus halv- 3 | ing production in the dependent fac- WELLINGTON, New Zeaiand, April | tories, The question was brought ap iv —Prime Minister Forbes announced | at that Meeting, Gussey stated, of that differences between the Soviet | whether in the event of a mishap to Union and Great Britain are being! ZJatoust power station, electric power | closely watched, and that if Britain | could not be relayed from Chelia- | takes action to prohibit Soviet im-|binsk, Thornton is aaid to have re- | ports, New Zealand will doubtless fol- | plied that there would be no need | low her example. Thus the forces of | for alarm, because “we have our in= | imperialism align themselves against | fluence there too.” the Soviet Union. H White Guard Volunteer | Gussev admitted having joined the | Kolchak Army as @ volunteer in 1918, | In answer to a question from prose~ cutor Vishinsky, he said that he had joined the White Army because of his opposition to the October Re-~ volution. He further admitted that his anti-Soviet views had remained essentially the same since 1918, al- though he had received his education in a Soviet engineering school, and had risen to become manager of the Zlatoust Power Plant. Thus he will- se of justice in ¢iplomatic means, Soviet courts by and by threats. The attitude of the London Times (semt-official conservative newspa- per) in a leading article is that: “For any justice the accused Britons are to get they can look, not to a packed | court subservient to their persecutors, but solely to such influences as the | British government can bring to bear | in their behalf.” The capitalists measure Soviet justice by their own | rule. WAR FEELING IN POLAND RISES ‘Angry Crowds Storm German Embassy | BERLIN, April 17—Polish crowds | ingly accepted proposals from z stormed the German Embassy in! Donald and Thornton to Warsaw, stoning and smashing the| n to engage in “ a | espionage and sabotage against the windows, in angry protest against the Soviet State. arrest of three Polish students in re |Breslai. Turbulent crowds attacked’ ,,Counter-Revolutionary Group ‘the German consulate, two German) , @Xamination of Gussey brought out newspaper buildings and e German !urther evidence which showed the school, The typographical ma existence of a counter-revolutionary of the Lode group whose members used fictitions to pieces bj armed with ham- | D4ines, fictitious return addresses on their mail, ete. MacDonald and Thornton gave instructions to Gussev and other members of this group. c Vv testified, and mapped out effect that “In Germany, the entire With them various plans of sabotage, | Polish press has been suppressed,| 1" communicating secret informa= Polish schools closed, and Poliih| tion, shells were referred to as cans citizens murdered and imprisoned.” Ned goods, Gussev sald. This states The situation is approaching the | ment brought loud laughter in courts, point of open attacks on Polish citi-| Thornton, replying to a question zens in Germany and German na~| by the Prosecutor. admitted meeting tionals in Poland. Gussev, but denied any knowledge of ‘The war feeling reaches high ten-| & relation, such as had been dese sion as the Danzig elections approach, | cribed, between MecDonald and Gus- enangh sey. However, at the preliminary ine lege * | vestigation, hh i British Wool Firms vestigation, he had admitted giving mers, In Polish cities. all were taken from § d publicly burned. A report is current in Poland to the i | MacDonald money, and seeking ins Wreck Machines, Cut Down On Production LONDON, April 1%.—Twenty-six Jeading firms in the wool-combing industry have formed the Wool Combers’ Mutual Association, the ob- ject of which is to buy and break up mills, plants and sore machinery, * against the wall in the worrt @enres- | sion. history, can only jemash and destroy in fis efforts to | find a way out for itself; The ma- chine in the Soviet Union is used to make goods for the workers—in capi- taliat countries they destroy broek chinery 90 aa to grind « p oat the working clase what's English capitalism, with it@ back) ; formation concerning the Zlatoust plant. In the open court, he denied his earlier testimony on this point, | Asked why he had said it previous. ly, Thornton replied that he had been excited, The Prosecutor asked: “Don's speak the truth when you are - a ilar which ‘Thornton repitedr “Mo." } No Third Degree The Prosecutor asked Thornton whether he complained of treatment during the p eliminary investigas | tion. “Were you torvured? Were you ; compelled to answer? Were special jimethods used upon you? Did you undergo third degree?"—These were the questions asked by the Prosecte tor, who then looked im the d tion of the forsign DAD ‘Thornies : oon —