The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-12-18
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the Defense Of IaoS o'9Rnittes b
day asked the SOvist 4 6lotsky l.
t permit the presencs SI I.
ternational labor con com y a b.
the the. Forthcoming trial l54fil Fao91 d
dek and Gregory Py n 4a:i
capital Offenses. and ' - ID
the trial until the ~ cob pSatp@'
arrives. OVNnisEa
The statement of H.. =.
follows: 's OOnita
According to YESTERDAYS.
ISOLATED Press dispatch fr:.I :! A.
cow, observers there bs Sion Ga
the Forthcoming trials NAV !. ~
to the fact that Leon T Troy Y ~
obtained "a new refuge I'M i T ~
and to the fact that . cor -uSla
for his defense has been SO4 ga
III the United States The AM
lean Committee for the n .Ila'S
Of Leon TrOtsky declares s 10y
that it will not submit IA 't =.
pressure but will cOntin "
fight on behalf of TrOtslTv'''so s.sl
to political asylum and 4, . is
to establish the truth co on mn
the assassination trials Il ~
August in which TrOtskv Was y n 4.
chief defendant. vs.
! 'The Committee and ss,o,i,,,,
| groups, which include john \.
wey, Suzanne LaFOlette. Norm,
Thomas, John Dos Passes. Inn,
Romans and Victor MarmsT,
Of France; Henry Noel BrailgSoT
and J. F. HOrrabin Of Engss
and others in Spain. DenE,1
Poland, Switzerland and Czecbt
slovakia are now ORGANIZING a
international commission Of h
mocratic and labor elements /
investigate the August trials
1--WE now call on the Sods
Government to postpone the tra
Of the new prisoners until a con,
mission may proceed to Moscow
We ask the right Of the cOmnls
: sion to move freely through h
{ U.S.S.R., to be present at lie
, forthcoming trials with stens
: graphers, to interview the prison
> ers privately. Such rights, dsnid
: Dy Hitler to friends OF the b.
tense in the Reichstag fire tril
are normal in political cases b
}, democratic courts and were nor
7 NAL in the early years Of b
Soviet regime. A refusal now vi
make it clear that the projects
trials are cut and dried attain
: "Inasmuch as Karl Radek sni
: Gregory Pyatakoff, two Of y
t accused in the newly-annOna,,
: trial, Joined in the denunciatinga
o the prisoners during the Augs
h trial, and have issued statemS'
;. against Leon Trotsky which .
e not differ from those Of the Fe
} secutiOn, few informed ObssHS
will expect them to make 3 2
= tense Of themselves which i y
more serious than that MADE J
the sixteen who were exeeus
August.
cit is even possible that I, y !.
Of the new prisoners will J
nounce this Committee ana !
others who are defending y
right Of asylum for " !.
Trotsky, who are seeking X !" ! I
tablish the truth about :, the y. Y
gust trials, or who Will W.. vi,
critically the new trials; A y y,
a. are ,1s'1 already being made, 70 \ 4
vince those participating Ia ? !
growing grow defense and I pr
movement 3 that political prs pIls1' !
iii iii he safer under the SIAM I
gime If all defense and pIo''Ii, n
abandoned. Such argumenS 4
no Movement nnsrd-' Of defense and ?. Pr
IS the chief safeguard i, Of w, ~
Of Leon Trotsky, Of ne I - .
political goat: .a siy IL he o. truth Ut :
in D1't the alleged plots as'n''
Soviet administrator a.. /
"Tbe American COn giatSir'
tends to carry cut y ss aslI ct 2
and calls og4gs sa all 5n3'i nd 4
yid5Ias, aIs to fally an n eIn'dor,I
con oma Demands to AlezandssIs 4. d q
anovskv, AnbassadVl n