The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17
In the Hall and in the Street
BY BURcK

scoundrels. Old scoundrels and young scoundrels.
Scoundrels with moustaches and scoundrels
without.
They are criminals caught red handed. They
are villains, bought with foreign money.
These are hired murderers. Not the coarse and
ignorant murderers of the underworld who rob
their victims of their fur coats. These are cold
blooded, educated murderers, who were prepar-
ing to attack and plumber whole country,
frightful attack which meant the slaughter of
millions of people by bombs and airplanes, by
poison gases, and monstrous looting of fac
tories; workshops and peasant fields
For money these people undertook to drown
our country in blood bath and to open the
gates. by treachery to admit the ravening horde
of foreign soldiers, manufacturers, landowners,
generals. police. They strove to conceal their
crimes, but now that they have been discovered
and secured in the prisoners box, they bow their
heads and with white lips mutter:
Eyes, am guilty, confess. ....."
Where is that German correspondent who
wanted to hear with his own ears? Well, he has
heard it now. Like whirwind he burst from
his chair. All the foreign journalists have sprung
from their places They crowd by the tele-
phones, call up their messengers, send out their
first urgent, burning and incisive kilograms to
Paris, to New York, to Berlin, to London:
'"All the prisoners pleaded guilty Immediately"
"Ramzin pleads guilty.
Yes, Ramzin has pleaded guilty. He stands
there. but no longer youthful looking and ener-
getlc but broken down, pale, bent, and with
slowly moving lips makes his statement. His
trusted secretary, Ochkin, now no longer trusted
and no longer a secretary stands with white
face, tears running from his eyes, a pitiable,
downtrodden puppy.
Ramzin fumbles with his papers He has still
a great deal to say.
A big detailed report of the central committee
of the bourgeois Industrial Party. Where? In
Russia In nineteen hundred and thirty In
the Dom Soyusov! What docs it all mean? Are
we awake or aseep2
We are awake. 1t is really true. 1t is awful
But there is something to reassure U.S.
The speaker for the Central Committee is sur
rounded by strong guards with rifles. On the
rifles are bayonnets on the guards are Red Stars
Every time the speaker lowers his voice, music
can be heard in the hall. If we go to the win
dow, there we see the numberess columns of
workers demonstrations, marching in intending
lines with crowded ranks. in the glare of binding
searchlights, their banners waving A couple
Kaganovitch, the secretary of another Central
Committee stands on motor truck and greets
the angry and happy Moscow proletarians.
OF course every class has its Parties and they
have their Central Committees. And every Party
does what is necessary for its class.
But in our country-for 10 years already and
now forever, until classes are completely de-
stroyed-only one Party and one Central Com
n1ittee can even be contemplated. Any other. :.
look in here in the prisoners box, among the
guards and answer for YOURSELF
The trial of the Engineering Center has begun.
The tangle is being unravelled. Look at it. Look
at it with fear, you who prepared the greatest of
crimes, the vilest of robbery. Look at it with
anger, you friends of the workers in all countries
We are crushing snake, the remains of what
once was the ruling class in Russia. Our strength
is sufficient for this. But you, you must take
care of the rest, of the danger of an irnperalist
attack on the first Workers State in the World.