The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-03
BY MIKE GOLD.


MOSCOW Dec. This is the fifth day of
the historic trial of the counter revolutionary
wreckers and interventionists. Eight defendants
have risen in their turn confessing the details of
the shameful conspiracy against the socialist
fatherland.
State Prosecutor Krylenko who is cross exam
lining, is a compact cool little man with bald
head and dressed in simple khaki jacket and
leggings. He does not roll on floor and shed
fake tears or wave arms like our customary
ham actor American prosecutors Instead he
asks calm, logical questions. The whole trial
is conducted with almost solemn formality No
fireworks. No histrionics.
great audience of workers, students and
peasants sits like spectators at tragedy. No one
laughs during trial. Everyone present in gilt
tering white and gold auditorium, formerly
Mobiles Hall, seems conscious that trial is one
of the most important moments of the Russian
and world revolution Capitalist imperialism is
being tried in the persons of eight engineers.
They formed party of two thousand engineers
and technical men to wreck the Five Year Plan
Conspired with French General Staff and the
discarded Russian capitalists in Paris to invade
Soviet Russia in 1881 and crush the revolution.
They have confessed to receiving millions from
French and other imperalist sources. Planned
capitalist military dictatorship and blood bath
for millions of workers and peasants
For years liberal pseudo intellectuals every
where have been trying to find parallel be-
tween bourgeois French revolution and the prole-
tartan revolution. They hopefully predicted the
appearance of a man on horseback here Finally
they saw their man on horseback in Ramsin
Ramsn was to be capitalist relationships PIE
mier. With help of French imperialists he was
to restore capitalist law and order" and pri-
vate property in the Soviet Union. He naturally
would have been f1ln1toef
Napoleon Ramsin % is now meekly sitting in
defendants dock with four young Red soldiers
on guard and two factory workers and the pres
1dent of Moscow University passing judgement
on his CORY dreams of power For horsebacked
man and fellow traitors laid skilful plans forget
full on the Soviet masses. This is not the French
Revolution. This is a new thing-a country where
the working class gained power and conscious
ness. The bourgeois West has apparently not yet
learned the lesson that Soviet strength lies not
only in cannons and airplanes but in the guard
ing faith of millions and millions of plain people,
OF men and women and children ready to die
rather than yield an inch of the great trans
formation in human ethics they have wrought
This mass spirit made itself felt at the trials
opening night
1 walked Moscow's streets with Ernest Glaesser
famous young German novelist who became a
Communist this year. A million workers poured
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twilight. From every direction they marched
passed Red Square and the scene of the trial
Factory bands and defiant posters marked the
scene-every group of fifty workers seemed to
have an accordion player. Everyone sang. When
the parade stopped a factory girl would dance
or young worker or soldier leap up and down
in acrobatic Russian Kazatsky. Torchlghts and
great red banners, factory and cultural groups,
bold, happy, defiant of inperialist intervention