The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-21
Spies Main Aim to
Open USSR for theI
Expected Invaders
Moscow Press in Detailed Analysis Shows How
British Engineers Conferred Their Wrecking
Activity on War Industries
BY N. BUCHWALD.

MOSCOW, April 20 (By Radio
gTam) -Today's papers give the full
text q the explanatory part of the
sentences imposed in the case Of the
Metropolitan Vickers engineers who
were carrying on wrecking activities
against electric stations.
The preliminary investigation and
the trial before the special session of
the Supreme Court of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics established
that for number Of years in the
biggest electric stations of the Soviet
Union there we're Systematically or
ganized brea&downS of boilers, mo-
tors turbines, generators, etc, putting
them out of action for longer or
shorter periods and reducing the
power of electric stations.
Reveal Organized Sabotage
The special commission of experts
formed during the preliminary in
designations and called to the trial
came to the conclusion that all cases
Of breakdoWns were due either to
criminal carelessness or direct sabot-
age by the technical staff working
in these stations.
On the basis of material produced
by the investigation proceeding these
trials the court established that the
cause Of these breakdowns was the
wrecking activity of a counter-revolu-
tionary group consisting of state en-
ployees of the power stations, mostly
the highest technical personnel, act
ing in collaboration with some en-
| ployeeS of the private British firm
of Metropolitan ickers working in
! the U.S.S.R. by agreement with the
Peoples Commisariat of Heavy In
duStry to afford technical aid.
Many Electric Plants Involved
Facts revealed showed wrecking and
counter-revolutionary activity of the
accused state employees. Many cleo
trio stations were targets for these
counter-revolution particularly
the electric stations zlatoust (Urals);
zuevks (Donbass); Inanovo CTextile
center of USSR) and Moscow Prov
ince.
At the chief Zlatoust station the
government employee, GuSeY, preVi-
ously q volunteer in Kolchak'S army,
set himself the aim of dealing blow
az state industry and the defenses
Q. The USSR together with his as
sistant, SokoloY, and other persons
to be tried separately. They system
atically put out of action in 1881 and
1882 fourteen hundred horsepower
motor operating heavy presses at the
rolling shop of the metallurgical plant
to stop the production Of shells and
shell cases.
Stopped Production Many Times
AS the result of one such break
down the production of SHELF was
stopped for one and a half months.
At the end of 1881 boiler No. 8 was
frozen to weaken the boiler section
of the power station. AT the same
time one of the coal feeds was put
out of action by placing metal OBJ
poets in the spur Of the gear After
this act of sabotage this coal feed
gear was dismantIed on the instruc-
tons of Gusev. This put it out of
action for year and a half until
Gusev's arrest.
Delayed Boiler Installation
Deliberately, with wrecking aims,
the installation of boilers was delayed
for long periods. AS a result of these
criminal acts by Gusev the capacity
of the power station was reduced by
one-half from twelve thousand to
six thousands kilowatts
GuSev and SokoloV simultaneously
prepared a series of breakdoWns in
tended to put the power station out
of action the moment there began
an expected military attack on the
USSR.
Spied With Macdonald
This criminal activity of Gusev and
Sokolov was committed in collabor-
alton with an employee of Metropoli-
| -Vickers, the engineer Macdonald.
who participated in planning break
| downs. In addition, ON instructions
Of Macdonald, Gusev and Sokolov
collected and gave Macdonald secret
information of state and military i'm
| portance.
For this criminal activity Gusev and
| Sokolov received brides from Mac
Donald. Gusev on various dates $500
roubles and SokoloV 1000 roubIes.
Thornton Boss OF Macdonald
This criminal activity of MacDon-
aid was committed by orders of
Thornton, another Metropolitan
Vickers engineer, with whom, as with
Macdonald, Gusev personally dis
cussed plans for breakdowns at
meeting in Zlstoust in 1881 and at
Hartsisk in 1892.
At these meetings GuseY gave
Thornton q number of items OF Sec
ret information of state and military
Importance.
Activity of Another Wrecker
At the Zuevka power station the
chief wrecker was the state employee,
| Kotlyarevsky who caused the break
down Of the turbo generator in 1892.
organized the breakdown Of the oil
| pumps of the turbine by deliberately
clogging these pumps. These Grim
| inal acts were committed in collabor-
alton with the aforesaid Macdonald
from whom Kotlyarevsky received
| 1000 roubles.
At the Ivanova power station the
wrecking was committed by the chief
ov, in collaboration with Lebedey,
an employee of the Metropolitan
Vickers Company, Nordwall and other
persons who will be put on trial sep
arately.
Lobanov Systematically put chain