The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

Inc 1ulnIment OF TINS program was to be
attained by the accomplishment of the polis
teal chief task consisting in the main of the
overthrow of the Soviet power with the aid
Of armed counter-revolutionar forces inter.
yention from outside being calculated upon,p
This program deserves being delt with in
detail. The phrase about the democratic rem.
ublic cannot conceal the fundamental aim
of which the sabotagers dreamed-the set
ting up of a military dictatorship in the per-
iod Immediately following the seizure of
power in order that the working class, and
of course the Communists might be ruthless
ly dealt with. Nor can the phrases about
universal suffrage and parliament conceal the
fact that the chief task is to obtain parlia-
ment appearing desirable to the Industrial
lists. The essence of this program is the re-
storation of not only capitalism itself but of
the former owners, or at least the giving of
compensation in some form or other to these
former owners, and in RamzinS own words
it defends the industrial bourgeoisie and the
strong individual peasant lread: kulak)
farms" The content of this program is such
that it led effectively to the inevitahility of
calculating upon intervention from OUT
side" as Ramzin writes. Within their own
country the sabotagers could find no allies
among the broad masses of the working pom
ulation willing to aid them in the fulfilneut
of this program.
The sabotagers state fairly candidly how
it came about that precisely the members of
the counter-reyolutionary organizations re-
garded it as indispensably necessary to re-
sort to an armed intervention from outside.
why they deemed it needful to adapt their
or ,o1lr, -
to these circumstances, and to enter into re-
lations with the representatives of foreign
states:
Professor Ramzin states:
During the first period of the existence
of the Engineers Centre, which conceded
with the conclusion of the restoration period
of Soviet national economy, the line of tech
nical orientation adopted by the Centre, in
so far as I am informed by the statements
of others, lay in preserving as far as possible
those great industrial undertakings maintain
ing contact with the Centre. Besides pre-
serving these undertakings from destruction,
the CentreNat this time aimed at having these
undertakings improved at the expense of the
state, so that the former industrialists would
not only receive their former capital value
back again after the counter-reVolution but
at the same time the greatest possible addi-
ton to this value.
"The successful period of the reconstruction
of the country, following the restoration
period, as also the rapid consolidation OF the
economic situation of the country and of the
Soviet power, upset all of the calculations ON
counter-revolutionar upheaval by means
of inner forces, of peasant or military ris-
i1pS and Of fbe Same time diYhil7irlan1 IN
great extent the chances of favorable re.
suit of an intervention. since parallel with
the growth of the economy OF the Soviet
Union there had proceeded the growth of its
military power and therefore of it's powers
of resistance to an intervention. Therefore,
the Centre altered its tactics and came to the
conclusion that it was necessary to accelerate
actively the accomplishment of counter-rev-
olution by means of artificial damage to the
economic life of the Soviet Union That is
to say, it adopted the tactics of sabotage.
The nature and methods of TINS sabotage
varied with the general situation" CState-
ment made 21st SeptenberD
In another place statement made 10th of
October) he expresses himself even more
plainly:
THE Chief aim of the activities OF the In
dustrial Party growing out of the united
sabotage organization of the engineers was
the overthrow of the Soviet power by means
of counter upheaval From the
very beginning of its activities the Industrial
Party calculated on an intervention against
the Soviet Union as a factor of paramount
Importance, for only an intervention was re-
garded as a reliable and rapid means for the
cosssumlsiaiipn of the cpslllrer-Y-evol,tt,ion