The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-03
tartg News Growing War Plots Against Smash War Moves
PLOT TO WRECK COAL INDUSTRY TO
AID WAR WAS Hit BY WORKERS

showed that the change in the ar
rangements of the wreckers' work
in the textile industry in 1928 was
knowingly forced from abroad for the
purposes of intervention. The former
Baron Nolde reported that the pref
erence of the textile branches for
using foreign raw material was aimed
at paralyzing Soviet industry in case
of war, by withholding the supply of
raw material
Nolde, not knowing like the other
witnesses, the character of the pre-
ceding statements, on account of his
imprisonment, made sensational rev.
Citations regarding further foreign
connections of numerous wreckers in
the textile industry. Here the lead
ing part was played by the engineer,
Stutzer, who was abroad in the sum-
mer of 1928. Stutzer maintained di-
rect connection with the French
Agent K, whom he connected with
Nolde before the trip. A certain La
zarkevitch likewise relations with K
and with Stutzer through Agent K.
They informed the two textile wreck
ers about the decisions of the circles
abroad regarding the complete re-
arrangement and preparation for in
tervention. In the same way was
transmitted instructions to build tex
tile factories in White Russia.
Questioned about Professor Ram
sin, he claimed ignorance about these
connections, about money remit
tances and instructions. More reye-
lations are expected through the next
witnesses.
Especial Gable to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, Dec. Further in the
evening session of yesterday the
court proceeded to uncover the prac-
tice of wrecking work in particular
fields. The defendants who so far
posed as great authorities" clearly
try to hide from the proletarian pub
lie the full scope of their wrecking
work. The Soviet prosecutor has
succeeded in defeating these at
temptS, quoting their former written
articles, and by confronting the de-
PENDANTS with each other.
Wrecking work was admitted dur
ing the investigation, and is now
better illumined. The picture given
in the trial reveals and helps under
stand why the wreckers succeeded for
years in carrying out their sinister
work. They worked, using refined
methods, whose character could be
uncovered only by uncovering all the
circumstances connected with the
wrecking work, and revealing the
practical results during a consider
able time.
A characteristic example is given
by the defendant Charnovsky. Re-
porting the wrecking work in loco
m tive construction, Charnovsky
concerned the fact, already revealed
by investigation of the transporta-
ton field, that under the cover of
objective arguments, the wreckers
pushed the construction of gigantic
locomotives, weighing thirty-five tons
per axle. The introduction of these
extraordinary heavy locomotives
would require rebuilding the entire
road bed, particularly the reconstruc-
tion OF all railroad bridges.
The aim of these Vaccinations was
to invest tremendous funds in this re-
construction without useful effects.
The wreckers introduced strong
wrecking groups into the central
bureau for projecting new machine
shops, while they sabotaged machine
construction where needed.
Kalinikov was forced to admit the
of the stenographic re-
ports of his speeches in the State
Planning Commission about too
rapid construction tempo" and about
the realization of the tasks of the
Plan.
These speeches were made by order
of the central committee Of the fin
dustrial party" aiming at wrecking
the metal industry.
The cross examination of Fyedotoy
continued for a long time. Professor
Fyedotov stubbornly attempted to de-
fend his "idealistic intentions" in
connection with series of important
wrecking measures carried out by
him. He was finally forced to admit
intentional wrecking, particularly re-
garding the wrong use of Russian
grown cotton and the systematic
of the application of mod
ern American textile machinery.
Public commotion was caused by
his confession of the recent plan to
establish great textile factories on
the frontier territory of white Russia
to play them into the hands of the
French and Polish invaders in case
OF intervention, which he expected
rapidly to occupy the Western ter
ritory. Particularly damaging appear
the measures adopted by order from
abroad, aiming at the wrong distribu-
ton OF textile products among the
peasantry. Professor Fyedotov ad-
nitted the systematic withholding of
textile goods from the agricultural
population engaged in harvesting,
supplying it with unfit goods, while
other territories simultaneously WIZ