The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-21

ceived from Thornton a bride Of SOD
rubleS.
Crew of Wreckers.
AT the electric power stations OF
the Moscow District, wrecking wasi
carried out by Sukhoruchkin, head oil
the Operation Department of this :
First Moscow Power Station; bHe
Horin, Chief of the Repair and In
Stallation Department Of the sameNi
Power Station, and by Engineer
KrasheninnikoV.
Sukhoruchkin, III company with
Thornton, between 1928 and 1882,
Systematically concealed defects in
equipment supplied by the Metro.
Vickers firm, and also concealed dee
fectS in installation which caused q
series of breakdowns, and reduced
the efficiency of the station. At the
end Of 1881 he personally tried to
cause q breakdown in the power
station, which was only averted by
the vigilance of the workers. He met
Thornton frequently during 1880 and
1881 to discuss methods of destroy
ing the effectiveness of the power
station in case of war against the
U. S. S. r.
Conceal Defects.
Zorin, together with Thornton, in
1881 and 1882, carried out a series
of wrecking activities in Moscow
City Electric Power Station and in
the Orekhov Steam Electric Station,
concealing organic defects in the
equipment supplied by Metro-vic
erS, and reducing the efficiency of
the station.
KraSheninnikOv, during 1928 and
up to 1882, committed acts Of sabo-
tage in the First Moscow City Sta
ton, concealing defects in the ma
terials supplied by the Metro Vickers
Company.
For the above indicated criminal
acts, Sukhoruchkin, Zorin and KrasTl~
enninikoy received from Thornton
brides of up TO 1000 rubles.
These wrecking activities, as is OBJ
vious from the facts given, were dia
rectly connected with the criminal
activities OF the individual employees
Of Metro Vickers.
Thornton Chief Spy.
The Court established that among
the employees Of that firm, the Lead
ing role in the preparation of coun-
ter-revolutionary crimes was played
by Thornton, the chief installation
engineer of Metro Vickers, under
whose directions the acts Of Sabo-
tage at various electric stations in
the U.S.S.R were committed.
Through the British engineers,
Macdonald, Cushny, Nordwall, as
well as directly, Thornton established /,
apfe will
groups Of Soviet state employees at
the electric stations making agree
ments with them for breakdowns,
for concealing defects in equipment,
and giving them brides for commits
ting criminal acts.
Military Espionage.
Thornton also engaged in military
espionage in the U. S. S. r., gather
ing secret information of military
value through Macdonald, Cushny
and Oleynik, and giving bribes as
mentioned above to state employees
for information received.
Monkhouse In the Plot.
Monkhouse, the Metro Vickers reps
resentative in the Moscow office, was
fully aware of JThornton's actions in
organizing breakdowns in the cleo
trio stations. He participated in ths
bribing Of state employees for COM
cealing defects in equipment, and IN
installation.
Thornton's instructions in several
power stations were carried out by
Oleynik, an employee of Metro-Vick-
ers and a citizen of the U.SS.R., who
also recruited agents for the English
spy.
Kutuzova, employed in the Moscow
office of Metro ickers, knew about
the counter-revolutionar work of the !
English engineers, and Systematically
transmitted money to various mem
bers in the spy and sabotage groups
which had been set up in the power
stations, for espionage and wrecking.
Light Sentences.
On the basis of the facts estab-
lished in Court showing the degree
of guilt of each of the accused, and
on the basis of the decisions Of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Soviet Union March ID, 1883, by vir-
tue of which Soviet state employees
convicted Of wecking and betravng
the fatherland Of the working class
ere subject to stricter punishment
than employees Of private enterprises,
the sentences given by the Court
(already printed in the Daily Worker
were less in the case of the British
than m the case of the Soviet off,
Gals, and for the latter, terms or
imprisonment and coufiscation OF
property instead of the death sem
tence, were given only because It was
held that the criminal wrecking ac-
tivity Of the defendants was of q
local nature, and did not seriousIy
injure the industrial strength Of the
U. S. S. r.
Decision Final
OF the EMPLOYEES Of the Moscow
office of Metro-Vick: Thornton was
given three years Imprisonment:
Macdonald, in consideration of the
fact that he acted at the direct in
stigation of his chief, Thornton. and
In view of his full confession. was
gwen only two years in prison: Monk
house and Nordwall, since theiy par
Clclpaton IN the work of sabotage
was slight, and Cushny, since his
crime was committed long ago 1929,
were sentenced to deportation from
the U. S. S. r.
All the sentences were final. and
cannot be appealed. They entered
into force as soon as Judge Ulrich
mad finished reading the decisions,
ana the officials Of the Court imme-
olately took Thornton into their