SOCLALIST APPEAL September 25, 1937 The Wave of Trials In The tant shot method ration.
Mass Executions, Oisrupting Economy, Reveal Reactionary Role of Stalin. The corrosion of the very of enemies of the people some accounts is reacting sharply janitors. are ordered to remove foundations of the Soviet Union of whom have been executed for By Jack Weber against the whole syetem of all names of their tenants 10 by the stalinist police regime is sabotage. The Civil Aviation Adplanning. The plans were laid that any visitor must inquire increasingly exposed to view by ministration is also honey combed the ance of trials. These trials with enemies of the people and doomed, as a Rightist organiza: and were therefore bound to be lives. And janitors the world over on the basis of the swollen figures from the janitor where so ard 30 occur with such almost mong numerous engineers and execution which sabotaged and dis. at variance with the possibilities are used by the police core angs up the paper wondering only who arrested, including the recently ordered an armed rebellion and or cotton figured to enter into must be a central figure in a xpy Instead of the amount of coal body has too many visitor: he Stalin next victims will be. But appointed head Petrozhitsky. At assassinations even for the least class conscious Azov in the Black Ser Region 13 doubt the resulting trials will in the various fields of production, plot. Report him!
layer worker there emerges from the veterinarians and minor agricul clude confessions to besmirch less was available. The news the conviction that the So tural functionaries were placed the name of Mdivani. Already of the bureaucracy, which was Youth Endangers Stalin viet. Union is passing through aon trial for spreading disease one Zitlidze, former leader of primarily responsible for creating. But it is the youth espec ally severe and deep going crisis. The among cattle in order to disrupt the Signakh regional committee then turned on the lower layers that must be watched. The youth very mans nature of the trials, the economy. These. disrupters of the CP, has confessed terrortheir wholesale character, the were, naturally, in contact with ist orders from the premier Mga in a fury for having in part mis that grew up under the Soviet systematic pattern which they Trotskyists.
led it. But in doing this, arresting regime and knows no other. Even loglishvili, removed from office thousands of experts and special. the Stalinized YCL is a att follow, lay bare not only the in June, and from the vice pre ists for sabotage. the bureau. source of danger, if only because rondity of the crisis, but its naFar Eastern Trials mier Agnyashvili.
racy merely disrupted economy it permits the youth to come tore as well.
The Huremocratic methods of Tribunals have been extremely In the Far East the Military Some Revealing Trials all the more by removing (in the together and youth can be so planning and the usurpation of active. No doubt many spies are frank! Since the Stalin must stop the months the ones best acquainted with the youth cannot be kept entirely special privileges by the Stalinist at work in Siberia, particularly of all those who are capable of industry. Thus we see this pecul apart, the next best thing is to ruling caste have brought Rus along the border and along the revealing the truth about the iar contradiction: the wholesale establish the closest surveillance sian economy to the brink of railroads. But we will perhaps frame ups, whether that involves arrest of scapegoats, and at the over them. The YCL becoxes disaster. How explain the fact, never know how many of those the death of a Yagoda, one of same after reporting such resounding who were shot, allegedly as spies those mainly responsible and in these same elements when they formed this function the attempt to reassure tool of the police. Kosarieff perof police successes in the few year plans, that pra goats or really revolutionists in relative of Gamarnick or scure are paralyzed by fear and really agent not so well, hence he is duction in such varied and im unyielding opposition to the pre hachevsky who knows the truth initiative. Thus on July 27 the ing for next time. Evident! y he sabotage by refusing to take any reprimanded and given a warnportant industries as coal, oil, sent bloody regime. For all these and can prove the falsehood. But Donetz Basin coal industry had allowed too much freedom a song pig iron production, cement; lum trials are through and as the circle widens the number been so disrupted by the impri the youth to suit the apparatas.
ber, textiles, should not only be through with the clumsy attempts of such people becomes legion sonment of so many of the tech But freedom and initiative are lagging behind the norms set for at amalgams of real scoundrels and Stalin task becomes utter. nicians, that 445 them, but in many these special precisely what the youth de vand.
instances with framed up oppositionist vic ly impossible. The truth will out! ists had to be released from Hence the bureaucracy final: itshould be considerably below the tims. The press of July re Some of the trials take on a prison for false arrest to try self at every turn in the sharest figures reported for the year ports laconically that 22 more macabre comic air. There is the and straighten 1936? similar situation exists were executed as spies in the case of the Izvestia editorial Stalin learned that matter out. antagonism to the younger sene in the agricultural field. fruit. Far East. On July we learn writer Suvinsky. Evidently he of choosing scapegoats has its The wave of trials in the SSR vegetables, sugar, cotton, flax, that 64 more were shot, etc. Some either took the matter of sabot limits!
are clear indications, therefore, butter and margarine showing of these spies were accused of age seriously or pretended so.
alarming drops.
Nevertheless the bureaucracy of the deep going crisis through sabotage on the Trans Siberian When certain bureaucrats in the can only continue to act in the which the Soviet Union is assStalin Alibi Railroad, some of sabotage of Saratov region hastened to charge fashion of a whip. It can in no ing. The crisis is one which huwa that the growing antagonism between Stalin has an infallible explan Trust in the Urals is raked over sabotage (thereby getting the sense evoke the initiative ation, which has worked by and the coals for being run by Trot jump on some of these workers has become essential for the the bureaucracy and the ma set, large op till now. It is the work skyists who reported a higher who might have been inclined to tion by the masses. Such initiative can play no progressive role in of Trotskyist wreckers and Scou. production of gold than was ac reverse the charge) Suvinsky can only be exerted against the Soviet economy, but can only, drels from the right and from tually achieved defended the maligned workers bureaucracy and in antagonism serve as a brake on the produc the left (some are already inagainst the heads of the collec to it. Precisely because of that tive forces. The bereauerint cluded from the center, Stalinists The National Problem tives, saying that they were rais the Stalinist bureaucracy has stands in the way of the initiative from beginning to end. Such The Stalinist bureaucracy acts ing the cry of sabotage to cover become a tremendous brake on of the working masses, it stands scapegoat: serve a double pur as the greatest disrupter not only their own inefficiency. This was the forces of production. It is also in the way of planned eciamy tention from the real culprits in the political and social system in touched home too closels and in head. Not only by its recognized in order to maintain its ruwer the Kremlin and, so Stalin hopes, the USSR.
allay the disconteni umong the democratic methods of the Oc pose of the entire bureaucracy. corruption, and above all by the oppressive and bloody police mashes by punishing the ones tober Revolution in the handling Hence Savinsky was hastily re diverting of all sorts of raw regime worse even than that of supposedly responsible for goods of the national question served moved and arrested.
material and finished products Hitler, shortages and for the unbearable to tie the national republics firm The motive behind the attack for its own purposes. The Stalinliving conditions of the workers ly together in a clase economic made on the Young Guard Pub. ist bureaucracy are the true Stalin Teaches Hitler and peasants.
union. Stalinism acts as a cen lishing House, producing works diversionists. For it teaches Hitler th: art It is impossible to give more trifugal force, driving them apart. for youth, is transparent also.
of extorting confessions by torthan a brief summary of some Evidence of this is clear in the It is stated that the Director Hidden Strikes ture for the purpose of bolsterof the cases reported in the press trials and executions in the out Leschiner, is a friend of Feinrecently. Most of the trials, even lying republics. It is nothing new berg, recently removed from the The masses are beginning to ing up a regime. How such conrealize that the bureaucracy fessions that small number that reaches for Stalin, the Georgian, to act, Central Executive Committee of are wrung from the the wreas of the outside world, in the fashion of a Great Russian the YCL. That is surely reason stands in the way. Under the victims is heart rendingly told in are short fil they are held at all! oppressor of nationalities. When enough for removing him. But present apparatus of suppression the book Confess containing behind closed doors. Rerely is Stalin and Erdjonikidze first re we learn of a far more important the workers have not yet managed the account of the experiences of the public admitted to the court moved Mdivani from his leading motive: the director of the divi to organize themselves indepen the German communist Weiss in room and that only when some past in Georgia in 1922 Lenin, sion of history had spent a whole dently and strike against the the Soviet Union. The entire apspetacular, and therefore all the even though on a sick bed, en year writing a biography on Tuk bureaucracy. But the mass walk paratus of the Stalinist regime, mere unconvincing, confession tered into a fierce controversy hachevsky. Could this have been outs in many plants, the tremend above all the GPU, is devoted to has hoen extorted from some un against Stalin precisely on this anything but laudatory? What ous turnovers of labor, take on the task of keeping the workers fortonale prisoner. Then score. Now on July 13 of this a danger for the youth to know the character not merely of in disunited. To terrorize the masses showcan be made of the trial. year Stalin takes his final rev the truth about the brilliant Tuk dividual resentment against low into complete silence Stalin rewages and frightful conditions, sorts to systematic frame up on After a closed trial Mdi hachevsky!
enge.
Some Recent Trials vani and others are executed but of a hidden form of strike a scale never before seen in hisThe tory. These frame ups, the stockThe the press of August 27 as terrorists and conspiratorial Economy Bureaucracy aimed at the bureaucracy.
bureaucracy finds itself in the in trade of Thermidorean reaction, reports that Show Trial is plotters, In the early stages of planned sharpest antagonism the are used against real and fancied Being Made of Seven Important Similarly whole executive com economy, the bureaucracy, de masses of workers and collectiviz opposition, and also against per Agricutural Executives in a Le mittees, heads of the republic, spite all its inefficiency and ad ed peasants. It is fearful above fectly innocent victims who are ningrad Province near the Finn are removed in such places as venturism, could play a certain everything else that centers may dragged in haphazardly, t) satt ish Border. In this case Chief Uzbekistan and Kazakstan for progressive. role by acting to develop around which the masses the schemes of the GPU. The Agronomist Samokhvalov con resisting the adventurist agricul achieve the plans set. The only will rally for political action. earlier frame ups of the engine feneed to disruption of collective tural plans of the bureaucrats method they knew, however, was Hence Stalin, in the name of the ers, the Mensheviks, Zinoviev faxwing by false planning to re who would have caused wholesale to whip the workers and peasants bureaucracy, must act to keep Kamenev, Trotsky and a! the Clube yields, all for the purpose starvation of the local peasants into over exhausting and under the workers showing in paid labor. The speed up system establish a completely totalitaran need for more and more.
disunited, must Old Bolsheviks, engender the of seeing capitalism restored in order to make One Tarasink, Chairman of the their particular sector of planned in its worst forms was adopted regime.
The. District Executive Committee of economy. Most recently Tursun quite naturally by the fists put present wave of trials thus gat.
a group of Rightists since 1985 in tic Trade, has been removed in treme top layers put added pres from talking frankly to his time represents the death agony the. confessed that he lod a Khodpieff, Commissar of Domes: in charge of industry. The ex which will prevent one worker hers momentum, but at the sense campaign to disrupt collective Uzbekistan. The utter disregard sure on the layers just below in neighbor, and which will frighten of the Stalinist regime. Ir it agriculture In resolutions de of national rights and of the pe order to have them apply the pro the worker away manding the death penalty for culiarities of local economy have per pressure to the lowest strata.
from any indicates that the bloody and opthese executives significantly brought about a tense situation when the pressure became too group. Stalin starts a spy scare pressive regime comes into more enough, the demand is also made in the smaller republics which great and lack of fulfillment campaign. Russians Are Told and more violent conflict with for the death of Bukharin, their Stalin seeks to liquidate by might easily lead to the prison Informing is Duty. The police the masses real leader!
the methods of bureaucratic ter cell, if not worse, their ne the lesser regime must establish itself right this sharpening conflict that will On Aug. 20 eight people were rorism.
bureaucrats and those further up shot for Trotskyist counter re. Since the liquidation of Mdi defended themselves by falsify among the masses! Every work inevitably bring about the sweep volutionary activities in two fac. vani, a further drive has been ing the accounts to make things er must learn to distrust his ing aside of the Stalinist bureautories. On Aug. 12 we learn that made against Georgians. appear more rosy. In the present neighbor. Make it difficult for cracy as outworn, corrupt esce the lunber industry is chock full Fleren minor executives are period the mass of falsification people to visit each other. The tionary to the core.
tan to the