The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

Gently eased some of its measures
against the fragments of the old
society which still exist in the So
Wet Union. An open and honest
hand was extended to these people;
they were urged to join the work.
erS in their great task of building
new world.
The G. P. U. Estate Political De-
partmenD, the vigilant and ever
watchful eye of the working class,
was abolished, and its functions
turned over to department of the
Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
This demonstration of strength on
the part of the proletarian dicta-
torship was taken as a sign of
weakness by the class enemy.
Treacherously he struck down
Comrade Kirov, one Of the bravest
and best leaders Of the working
class.
The working class struck back at
its enemies. One hundred and three
plotters were executed for counter
revolutionary activity of the kind
given by the Daily Worker on Dec.
10 in its documentary expose of
white guard publication-the Pas
cist," which boosted of aSsassina-
ton plots and widespread sabo-
tage in the Soviet Union.
The exact details have not as yet
been revealed by the Soviet gov
eminent, because it is still engaged
in ripping open the web of intrigue.
New arrests are still being made.
To reveal the details now would
mean to warn the rest of the con-
spirators. We can be sure that the
tribunals which sentenced the
white guard plotters did so on the
basis of irrefutable proof. Through
out the history of the Soviet Union,
there have been occasions when
proof Of guilt on the part of coun-
ter-reVolutionaries was not revealed
because the time was not ripe for
disclosure. But. eventually all the
details of the various plots we're
published, SO that now even the
foreign bourgeoisie admits the guilt
of the conspirstors who were SEN
fenced on those occasions.
Those white guards who have just
been executed were deliberately
given military trials. 1t was meant
as a warning to all saboteurs, as
sassins and plotters against the
working class that their activity
will not be tolerated. They will be
exterminated as fast as they are
discovered and proof Of their dis
ruptiye actions is established.
The swiftness of the Soviet gov
ernment's actions was dictated by
the circumstance of defending the
U.S.S.R. against military interven-
ton, which is being spurred by the
German and Japanese govern
ments. Johannes Steel, foreign
editor of the New York Post, re-
ports that sit was suggested to me
in London and Paris that the as
sassination Of Kirov, one of the
Bolshevik leaders, might be the be-
ginning of a wave of foreign med
ding throughout the Soviet Union,
which might not be disconnected
with the new German-P Polish alli-
ance."
We can now see that the execu-
tons have struck fear into the
heart of all plotters against the
proletarian state. The class enemy
has learned again that the work.
ing class will ferret out and punish
him as energetically and as sue
cessfully as it is building socialism.
The actions are not directed
against those elements of the old
society who are willing to con-
tribute their efforts to building So
cialism. They are directed against
Czarist and fascist terrorists who
openly boast in their press Of their
crimes against the workers state.
AS Izvestia said, I'VE will raise our
vigilance and watchfulness to
high degree to single out the ter
rorist crimes and to take decisive
measures in this field on the basis
of special decisions for the most