The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-04
MOSCOW TRIAL
SHOWS WAR PLOT
Socialists Assisted the
Imperialists
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
tioning as follows:

ment was unable to restore nationa,
economy, what was the necessary
assistance it needed, or what was
the hindrance?
BerlatSky: Naturally it needed
assistance.
Berlatsky went on to EXPLAIN thai
he regarded Social Democracy as q
right opposition in the country, urg.
ing the Communist Party to grant
concessions benef1ting the working
class" Here the spectators in court
room broke out into laughter. He
then submitted to Sher's inducement
to go abroad, to the United States
and to meet the Menshevik repre-
Sentat1ves in Berlin. En- route to
America, he met his old friend
Nikolayevsky, member of the Men
Shevik Central Committee, conduct
ing official negotiations on behalf of
the Menshevik delegation abroad.
and after a report on the Soviet
Un1on' expressed the following
standpoint of the Mensheyik Cen
trail Committee:
The New Economic Policy must
considerably be deepened and ex-
tended in agriculture, grain collec-
lions were impossible without con-
SESSIONS to the peasantry; the New
Economic Policy was considerably
developed in the towns, but Social
Democracy holds that the New Eco
nomic Policy be not restricted to
commerce alone, but be extended to
industry. The Russian Mensheyiks.
practical work, said Nikolayevski.
should undermine the belief in the
Soviet Governments ability to re-
store economy with its own forces
and should in every way disinten-
CRATE the Soviet regime, building
for this purpose nuclei in many ma
tional institutions.
Returning from America In No
vember, 1925, Berlatsky met Dan,
another leader of the Mensheyiks.
in Berlin in Nikolayevskis presence.
Dan informed Berlatsky regarding the
Menshevik delegations cooperation
with the Second International and
its major sections and gave same
political outline as Nikolayevski,
showing the inevitable and necessary
far-reaching Soviet governments
concessions to foreign capital and
capitalists in town and country. He
emphasized the need for greater So
cial Democratic activity in all insti-
buttons. primarily in industry and the
co-operatives, urging retarding activ-
ity in these institutions.
Krylenko read quotations from the
Menshevik 1924 program Social
Democracy holds that real social
transformation is only possible in
countries with ripened social economic
relations" Krylenko then said: $50
cial-Democracy THUG believes in the
inevitability of the development of
capitalist relations, or as the program
says, conquest of position after posi-
ton by foreign and native capital
lists" Such unavoidable" prospects
may be regarded either as an unWel-
come fact or as not only inevitable
but also desirable adapting all practi-
cal activity facilitating the "unavoid-
able evolution towards the restoration
Of capitalist relations" Where such
instructions given or not?" Berlat-
sky replied: 'Dan said he and the
Menshevik delegation believe that in
the interest of maintenance Of the
New Economic Policy it was neces-
sary, to continue hampering the
activity Of institutions, and that So
cial Democrats in these institutions
should be engaged in this work. Dan
stated this idea quite clearly for the
foreign Menshevik delegation but
submitted the same to the Menshe-
viks in Russia for discussion and
elaboration. Dan also said his in
structions co-ordinated with the Sec
ond International leaders, mention
ing especially Vandervelde and the
leaders of the Socialist Party of Ger
namely, Hilferding. Kautsky
and leaders of other Social Demo-
cratic parties of Europe, including
Leon Blum of the French Socialist
Party.
Especial Cable to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW. March 2.--Before the
end Of the evening session today in
the trial Of the Menshevik counter
revolutionists, Krylenko, Soviet prose-
cutor, read the declaration Of the
Central Committee members Of the
Mensheviks abroad. This declaration
was published in vorwarts, the Ger
man Socialist newspaper. It charged
the defendants statements as being
invented lies. Krylenko demanded the
defendants express their attitude on
this declaration.
The defendants one after the other
expressed the deepest indignation
against the abominable vorwaert's'