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


Penal Law of the R.S.F.S.R.
In the course of the last two years the
efforts of the State Political Administration
(GPU) have enabled, one sabotage organiza-
ton after another to be discovered in a
large number of branches of industry. The
exposure of the "Shakhty' group Of sabot-
ayers was followed by the discovery of a
sabotage organization in the Peoples, Com
Inissariat for Ways and Communication
This again was followed by the exposure Of
sabotage organizations in the war industry,
in the textile industry, in the shipyardS, in
the machine building trade, in the chemical,
gold OIL and other industries. The Soviet
Government has deemed it necessary to is
sue official statements informing the broad
masses of the workers with regard to
number of sabotage organizations and the
means taken to combat them
The authorities instituting the inquiry,
after encountering sabotage again and again
in the most important and leading apparatus
of the national economy of the Soviet Union,
in the Supreme Economic Council, and in
in the most important planning organ, the
State Planning Commission, came system
atica1Iy to the conclusion that the evidence
ia1 of these cases pointed to the existence
of uniform organized, and leading centre
for the whole of the sabotage work (The
results of the inquiry in the Shakhty case
also pointed to the conclusion) The large
number of these organizations, the lengthy
duration of their existence, their degree OF
inner organization and cohesion, and espe
cially that close contact with the counter
f1fin mir IF fI1a
owners of the nationalized undertakings,
now refugees abroad, contact which has
been ascertained by the inquiry in almost
every one of these affairs the relations to
international capital and finally, the parti
eularly close connections with the espionage
activities of the military stats of foreign
states,-all this has long since caused the
Soviet power to regard the sabotagers not
as an accidental group of counter-reyou-
tionary engineers, but to see IN this sabotage
above all a definite method of class war on
the part of the bourgeoisie, acting as one
united class and penetrating in an organized
form into every sphere of our economic lie;
and the Soviet power has long since ceased
to seek the leading centre and the levers
of the whole work of sabotagers merely in
this or that organization of international
capital, but in the immediate governmental
spheres of the greatest bourgeois States oil
Europe, which have actually led the actions
the sabotage organizations, and have
t'o~N -'-Oir MILITARY and political
.-4e lvs.uC ~ Il, ed at systematicaI-
y by the inquiries, the conclusion derived
rom the immediate data on sabotage or
g7aizations as brought to light by these
qiries. The mighty forward strides OF
Soviet Union on the economic front and
successes of socialist construction have
cd it impossible for all these sabotage
cations to realize their plans without
lie support without the intervention OF
tee mightier powers of organized world cap
ital in the form of its bourgeois govern
ments, which depend on the resort to arms
in the class struggle against the Soviet Union.
The hostile activities of the bourgeois states
against the Soviet Union, growing with every