The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-05

AND DAN NOW
SAY THEY LIE
Knew and Directed All
Wreckers Activity
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steps supporting the Industrial Par
tvs intervention policy. Sukhanov
reported on differences within the
Communist Party, Soviet Union, and
making use Of right deviatiorls.
The third plenum in the summer
of 1880 considered two questions:
First, on the basis of Gromans re-
port, the concrete form regarding the
date of Intervention. Sukhanov re-
ported ON the victory Of the "Stalin
line" within the Communist Party,
Soviet Union, making hopeless the
use by the Mensheviks Of right or
left deviations within the Party and
rendering compromise impossible.
The natural sequence was a consist
ent sabotage and intervention policy.
The bloc with the Kondratyev and
Industrial Party groups was formed
Finally, the plenum considered prac-
teal ways and means Of sabotage and
/ intervention.
The Soviet prosecutor Krylenko
then asked: did you receive di-
rections from abroad regarding these
tactics?" Sher replied: Eyes" Then
he went ON and said he had had
letters signed by Dan resolutely urg-
ing the necessity of sabotage and
support of the inevitable interven-
ton. Teitelbaum brought the second
letter also concerning Intervention
and the necessity of contact with
capitalist parties. Similar letters
dealt with the intervention question
as an historical necessity, due to the
Soviet Unions international position
and "red Imperialism" as we'll as 'red
fascism." The Russian social demo-
cracy must choose sides in the forth
coming war. Answering Krylenko
how this was decided, Sher said it
was clearly decided that social demo-
crazy must actively support the be-
ligerant anti-Soviet powers and i'm
rediately prepare for it. The more
active the social democracy the
greater the interventionist chances,
and their acquisition in the share
of the government. Krylenko then
asked: "And what was the role of
the Second International?" "They
were mediators," replied Sher. Since
1929 all foreign documents interlinked
sabotage with intervention. The
sabotage purported to undermine the
Soviet government and thus help in
tegvention by causing rebellion. An
sNefing the cross-examination of
GryIenko on the Industrial Party'S
program Sher admitted that the In
dustrial Party's position regarding
CAPITALIST restoration of private prop
" in town and countryside COIN
c;ded practically with the foreign
ic.eg2 lions idea.
Sulzhanov, another of the defend
ants, who was cross-examined, con-
firmed the fact that capitalist res
.oration followed from Menshevism'S
principles. Intervention and sab
otage ideas were the logical results
of Menshevist evolution since the
october revolution. The Second In
ternational began to support the
anti-Soviet war at its Marseilles Con-
gress in 1925, although leaders like
Kautsky expressed the same ideas
they had previously. Stories about
"red imperialism" were important for
weakening the European working
class resistance to the Anti-Soviet
war. Sukhanov affirmed Krylenko's
question that he and Ill the union
bureaus leaders committed practical
as well as theoretical sabotage.
MOSCOW, March 4.--Finnyeno-
taevsky, one of the defendants, put
on the stand, declared that the true
culprits were the Mensheviks abroad.
Rubin insisted on the absrirdity Of
the assertion that IA defendants with
the past of the present defendants
would forcibly speak against their
will publicly. All declared they ex-
pected a denial from Dan and
Abramowitch. The 1atter's worst
calumnies did not amaze them. Only
the old Menshevik conspirator Ikov
admitted the cynicism of the former
leaders surprised him.
Certainly Groman and Sukhanov
we're provocateurs when sneaking
into Soviet offices, pretending to
place at their disposal their knowl-
edge and abilities, and deliberately
deceived the confidence of the work
ing class in sabotaging the effort of
building socialism, treacherously un-
derrnining the work. Certainly they
were traitors to the workers father
land when making agreements with
the agents of the Industrial Party
and attempted to undermine the ma
tionaI defense OF the workers and
peasants republic to clear the road
for imperialist intervention.
They were provocateurs and trail
tors certainly for years as were to
remain in the highest degree their
) political chiefs, Dan and Abramo-
witch.
But this fact does not diminish in
any way the documentary value Of
their present revelations. Their leis-
ure in prison cells discloses to them
the abyss to which their crimes were
bringing them. The internal duplicity
which they elevated to a principle OF
"Russian nnlicvn of the labor and