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


Itt,strtarsts who were extremely anxious toll
Influence work IN their former undertakings Is
to their advantage, utilized their former com IL
INJECTIONS to- the utmost, for this purpose. Ihe
EShakhkv trial showed cllaracterisacaiIy
Eenough the manner in which our undertake
Einps were controlled from abroad. by means
LOT directions stating definitely whether TINS
Tor that technical decentralization measure
Ishoald be introduced into this or that I'M r
fdertaking or not, laying down the manner
lin which this or that factory or mine was
Ito be managed, etc. It was not until One
beginning of the reconstruction PERIOD, Wheh 4
the whole aspect of industry underwent a 4
striking change, and the former mdastrlahsts,
as Ran,zin expresses it: frequently found L
their former undertakings to be no longer
among the living" that the instructions is I
Issued began to lose their definite character, /
land became for the most part mere eonfir-
Imation and approval of proposals on the
part of the Industrial Party. The more clear I
however became the tendencies and direc-
| Etives of a political character. The general
adjustment to the idea of an intervention
now permeating the sabotage organizations |
9 took definite form in a certain division oil
| llaber between the Industrial Party and the
g Trade and Industrial Committee in prepara-
+ ltion of the intervention both OF these bod1eS
(the sabotage organization and the Trade
/, Land Industrial Committee) now began to see
!, In intervention the sole means OF bringing
+ about the overthrow of the Soviet power,
land the sole method of realizing the plan
Eof restoring capitalism in the Soviet Union
The defendant Ramzin makes the following
statement on this point:
",The Industrial Party, whose activities
brought it into close contact with the asso-
Eciation of the former industrialists. the Rus
sian Trade and Industrial Committee, which
too was striving to bring about an interview
Ition against the Soviet Union, came TO an
understanding with the Trade and Industrial
Committee on a division of work between
Itself and this committee in preparation Tor
e an intervention as follows The Trade and
Industrial Committee undertook the whole
r of the external preparations for the interview
lion, that is, all negotiations with foreign
~ governments, especially with France and
: England it conducted the agitation and pro-
;, Ipagania carried on abroad for an interview
- ton; it had to find the means for financing
these activities and undertook at the same
time the organization of the military part
=. of the work this with the aid Of the foreign
"a lpowers. The Industrial Party, on the other
III,
{ the Soviet Union for the intervention, this
to be accomplished by artificially causing
a. and aggravating economic crises, and by Civ
" ling every possible aid from within to the
TX intervention. For this purpose the Central
u Committee Of the Industrial Party, on the
ne suggestion Of the Trade and Industrial Com
y; mittee and on Its own initiative, entered into
G communication with the foreign General
STATS" statement made October 16)
is The new standpoint took definite shape
ms by the end of 1927, and a year later, at the
In end Of 1926 It not only predominated, bu
I'd, the old standpoint was subordinated to it
p inasmuch as now the whole of the activities
he of the sabotagers took the form of auxiliary
lr- land subordinate work for the preparation o.
mt the intervention. The defendant Laritche'
states
ai0 . We received more or less 6eflllitt
'he news on the attitude OF foreign circles to
~ wards the question Of an Intervention afte
'oE Ran1zin's return from abroad at the end o
l1s27. He had negotiated with the Trade ant
VOC Industrial Committee on this matter. knoy
ioh from his reports, that the Trade and Indus
CO trial Committee had succeeded in obtainin
l,h' definite aid from the French government
'he with respect to the intervention, and that al
' aa agreement exists on this question betwee
i'n France and England. The breaking off G
diplomatic relations by England was regard
fy ed by the Trade and Industrial Commute