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


pect of Communist Party weakened by in
teTnal struggles"
We read further:
II The ennity and hatred of the capital
list countries against the Soviet power fur
nished the actual basis permitting active sup
port from outside to be calculated upon-to
the extent of military intervention-and thus
gave reason for hoping in the complete pos
sibility of realizing a counter-revolutionary
upheaval in the immediate future.
g 1.-THE deterioration of the standards of
living already observable in 1927, the dissatis-
faction among the masses of the peasantry,
the ever clearer signs of crisis and economic
difficulties, and the prospect of continued
developments in this direction, created soil
favorable for the counter-reVolutionar up
heaval within the country itself"
Ramzin fails to state the main cause.-The
fact that almost all the important person.
ages in the Centre had either been big in
dustriansts and capitalists Geabinovitch) be-
fore the revolution, or had occupied the high
est paid commanding positions under the
leading captains of industry whose right
hands they had been. With respect to the
Crises" the following data gathered by the
inquiry show the role played by the imme-
date work of precisely the defendants and
of the counter revolutionary organization
formed by them. in bringing about these
crises"
The personal composition of the central
sabotage organization is stated by Ramzin
TO have been as follows:
The Dlenbers of the Engineering Centre
wee:
L '-' 1ef+ tainsky: the chief leader of
re- in whose hands lay the
rec of the activities of the
v organization, including military
a-.3 -1.yal,c.aI questions, and the most i'm
portant foreign connections
= Il c. Rabinovitch; coal industry, small
branches of industry and general plan of
industry.
3. Engineer Chrennikow .; smelling and
metal industry.
4 Professor Charnovskg; metal industry
and smelling industry.
s. Engineer Fyedotow; textile industry
g. Engineer Kuprianov; textile industry.
T. Engineer Laritchev; oil industry and
fuel supplies.
g Professor L. K. Ramzin; fuel supplies
and power service"
Besides these, Rarnzin includes in this
Centre P. I. Krassovsky y, who conducted
the sabotage in the traffic service, although
he cannot decide, as he expressed it, ito
draw final line of ciemarcation between the
members of the Centre itself and the mem
bers of it's groups in the separate branches
of industry" The more so as neither the
Centre" itself nor its presidency were for
nlally elected. But the Centre" had an ac-
tual presidium, consisting Of she following
persons: Engineer P. A. Paltchinsky, engineer
L. P, Rabinovitch, and engineer Chrennikov,
Rabinovitch being replaced after his arrest
as stated by Ramzin-in actual practice by
Fyedotow statement made 21st October.
The accused LaritcheV has made a somewhat
different statement on this last point with
regard to the leadership of the sabotage or
ganiZation On the whole he confirms RAM
zin's statement on the composition of the
leading centre, but adds:
"The leading group actually played the role
OF a central committee, and consisted of:
Chrennikow, Kalinnikou Ramzin, me, Char
novsky, Fyedotow. Although we did not Sc
lect president in any manner, Chrennikov's
comprehensive knowledge of thesgeneral sit
uation aided by tradition, gave him the lead
ing role. After he WAS arrested the activity
OF the organization Ten OFF greatly, and dur
ing this latter period the leadership passed
Into Ranzns hands, Statement made 2lst
September)
The 0rganixationai Structure of the
United Organizations.
Acceraing 70 Ra9zin. n2e organixationaa
structure q f1,e ACeuarcy c2 kane ya,o,e r,asp