The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
PraVda DenounceS Spy Plot
to Cripple Industries That
Workers Build in i. s. S. r.
Brbed Russian Engineers Exposed AS Old Ruling Class
Working With English Spies and Desuctionss Objects
gust to Whole Working Class, Says Izvesta

peasants-all the toilers in the U.SS.
R.-keep secrets of national impor-
lance, these people divulge them. We
increase the electric power stations,
they try to diminish them. We
strengthen the defensive power OF
our country, they attempt to shat
ter it.
Workers, peasants, Communists OF
the U.S.SR.-be vigilant. 1t is neces-
Sary mercilessly to punish the wreck
ers, spies, destructionists, brought to
light by the trial. The class enemy
must be exterminated."
Izvestia on the Spies.
An Izvestia editorial discussing the
trial writes: THE examination of the
defendants is nearing an end. The
bourgeois papers, craving sensations,
were primarily interested in the fate
Of the foreign spies who were caught
redhanded. But the public opinion
OF the Soviet Union draws different
conclusions about the criminal activ-
ity Of the Russian defendants.
The dispositions of several of the
defendants show tendency, which is
both naive and contemplate, to ex-
plain their crimes as having been
prompted by foreign citizens.
"A state employee serving as a spy
and agent for foreign imperialism,
can only be the object of peculiar
disgust and indignation to the toiIers
of the U. S. S. r. These criminals
cannot expect leniency from the
aroused proletariat."
Talks Show English Trickery.
Soviet newspapers print today an
exact record Of the conversations
which took place between Litvinov,
the Commissar for Foreign Affairs of
the Union and Sir Esmond Ovey,
British Ambassador in Moscow, who
since the trial has been diplomatical-
ly'' sick in London. Pravda COM
ments: "Litvinov, IN conversation on
March 10, expressed to the British
Ambassador his willingness to try to
secure the permission of the prosecut-
ing attorney for the liberation on
bail Of some Of the arrested British
subjects. The ambassador evaded a
positive answer, which was given only
after two weeks, when the Metro
Vickers Company decided to bail out
the prisoners. Evidently, two entirely
different aims were pursued, having
nothing in common with the inter
estS of the defendants or their de
fense'." In the second place, atten-
ton is drawn to the conduct of the
British ambassador in demanding not
only immediate liberation of the pris-
oners, but their complete refabilita-
tion." The ambassador is thus trying
to secure in the U.S.S.R. the estab-
liShment Of regime of extraterritori-
atty for foreign citizens such as ex-
lists in China. Sir Esmond persisted
in repeating his impernnissable and
out Of place threats. He said that
the prisoners are innocent. He as
sured Lityinoy that not a single man
could be found in London who would
believe that these men, so well known
in England, could possibly be guilty of
engaging in wrecking activities, or
spying and so forth The ambassador
has deemed it proper to declare that
the charges against the prisoners
were laughable'. How do such people
look now, after the proceedings in the
court have fully confirmed the find
ings of the preliminary examinations"