Dewey Broadcasts on Trials; Verdict of the Moscow Court Forces from China! on Twenty-One S E P a R a Te Hits Minneapolis Frame-Up an Editorial Counts
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“Trotsky Innocent, Trials Frame-Ups” “We find the Moscow Trials to be a frame-up! We find Trotsky and Sedov not guilty!” The thunderous applause of 2,500 people greeted these findings of the International Commission of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials as announced by John Dewey, world famous educator and commission chairman, at a mass meeting held Sunday, Dec. 12 in New York City. The commission report was the greatest triumph of truth against frame-up since the brilliant Emile Zola, French author, exposed the Dreyfuss trials at the close of the 19th century. ^ It was a mortal blow to ® “ ” Stalinism . The. commission’s conclu Withdraw America’s sion flatly challenged the Dewey Broadcasts on Trials; verdict of the Moscow court Forces from China! on twenty-one s e p a r a te Hits Minneapolis Frame-Up An Editorial counts. Basing its judgment both on the trial records and The sinking of the United States gunboat, Panay, in on a mass of new document NEW YORK.-r-Warning that the methods used in Chinese waters by Japanese bombers, has let loose a ary evidence and new af the Russian frame-ups are increasingly being transported veritable wave of jingoism in the United States. for use against opponents of Stalinism in the rest of the All the war-mongers are screeching for “strong fidavits, the Commission af measures”. Both the yellow press and the “respect firmed, among its more im world, Dr. John Dewey followed up the publication of the able” Big Business press are demanding “action”. Join portant findings: findings of the International Commission of Inquiry Into ing the blood-pack is the Daily Worker, the organ of the Charges Made against Leon®- ------ ——; ,. , ,—~ ------- “That Trotsky never ins the Communist Party. It rushed to endorse Roosevelt Trotsky in the Moscow Trials I Monday night m which he discus- tructed any of the defendants with a radio broadcast last sed the implications of the ver- and to demand that American imperialism join with or witnesses in the Moscow | (Continued on page 2) French and British imperialism to take common action trials to assassinate any poli against Japan. tical opponent«, to engage in “Our” gunboat has been sunk. sabotage, wrecking, and diver- “Our” flag has been insulted. sionism __ or to enter into Trotsky’s Telegram to “Our” honor has been sullied. agreements w ith foreign powers “We” must be avenged. against the Soviet Union.1’ “ On the basis of all the evi The Commission These are the cries of the hypocritical scoundrels who dence we find that Trotsky would like to rush the American workers and farmers never recommended, plotted or The commission condemned nobody to death or to into another war to “make the world safe for dem attempted the restoration of prison. Yet it is impossible to imagine a more ter ocracy” . capitalism in the U.S.S.R.” rible verdict. The commission says to the rulers of We say, however: Call a halt to the imperialist war mongers now, before it is too late. “Fantastically Falsified a great country: All our sympathy and support go to the valiant Trotsky’s Role” “ You committed a frame-up for the purpose of Chinese people who are fighting against such terrific justifying the extermination of your political adver “ We find further that the pro odds to preserve their independence from Japan’s at secutor fantastically falsified saries. tempt to convert the country into a colony. In China, Trotsky’s role before, during, “ You tried to deceive the toilers of the world. it is the elementary duty of every man and woman to and after the October Revolu “ You are unworthy to serve the cause which you fight to the bitter end against the monstrous invasion tio n .” by Japan. In Japan, it is the elementary duty of every Once again, Trotsky’s place in invoke”. working man, every peasant, to promote the defeat of history as the co-leader with The commission, which includes people of different his ruling class, to sabotage its criminal war, to over Lenin of the Russian revolution political views, could not follow our political aims. turn its despotic sway by revolution. In the United in 1917 was re-affirmed by the But its verdict has an immeasurable political im States, it is the duty of every worker, especially every commission’s findings. one in the maritime industry, to refuse to load any Once again, Trotsky's role in portance. The methods of lying and blundering ships destined for Japan and to speed all ships destined world politics as the greatest frame-ups which contaminate the inner life of the (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 2) U. S. S. R. and the workers’ movement of the whole world received today a terrible blow. Let the official friends of the U. S. S. R. and the other pseudo-radical bigots say that the verdict will be used by reaction. This is untrue. Nowhere and never did the truth serve the cause of reaction. And nowhere and never is progress fed on liés. The commission, it is true, delivered a blow to the bureaucracy, but this bureaucracy has become the main brake upon the progress of the Soviet Union. Aiming to serve the truth, the commission served the liberating struggle of all mankind. From now on the work of the commission as well as the names of its participants belong to history. t SOCIALIST APPEAL December 18,1937 "Trial Procedure Flimsy and Vicious” (Continued from page 1) of Trotsky and the 4th Interna upon which the foundations of® tio n a l. civilization are laid. In presenting the report of the “It signifies an extraordinary living exponent of Marxism, of commission, Dr. Dewey declared corruption of the idealistic heri the teachings of Lenin, the genius Dewey Broadcasts on Trials; in p a rt: tage of the Russian Revolution. It a f the October revolution, has signifies a danger against which been emphasized by the exposure Dr. Dewey’s Speech our own people must guard them m t the hideous crimes and be selves without illusion and without trayal of principle by the Stalin "It is not too much to say that, compromise.” Hits Minneapolis Frame-Up is t. particularly as this new evidence The Commission's report is an accumulated, the members of the Much of the new documentary 80,000 word document, soon to be Commission have been without ex evidence obtained by the Com published in book form, continu ception appalled by the utterly mission focused upon the testi (Continued from page 1) believe that, because Moscow ing the series of publications discreditable character of the mony given at the trials by Holtz-- courts held Trotsky guilty of begun with the report of the pre whole Moscow tria l proceedings, man, Pyatakov, and Vladimir diet for workers and free-minded conspiring with H itler and Japan, liminary hearings held by the at once flim sy and vicious. Others, Romm. At the first trial E. S. people in the United States. therefore Minneapolis workers Commission in Mexico City and like a distinguished colleague of Holtzman testified that on the “There is the question which friendly to Trotsky assassinated published by Harpers as ‘•The mine who declined to share our invitation of Leon Sedov, Trots is constantly asked: What of it? ”, Corcoran. When unionists who are Case of Leon Trotsky.” labors, may still take the position ky’s son, he went to Copenhagen Dr. Dewey said. “ What difference not in any way connected with that it is impossible to prove a during Trotsky’s stay there from does it make to us in'the United Trotsky ridiculed the charge, they Signatories of Report negative, hence, in that technical November 23 to December 2, States? I want to tell you why were at once denounced as Trots- sense impossible to prove Trotsky 1932; that by previous arrange the Moscow trials and our inquiry kyite stooges. This is a fresh ex The final report is signed by guiltless of the fantastic charges ment he met Sedov in the lobby have a claim on the attention of ample of the way what went on 'Professor John Dewey, Chair made against him. of the Hotel Bristol and went every American citizen, especially in Russia is used to disrupt the man; Suzanne LaFollette, editor “It is, however, possible to fro m there w ith him to see T ro ts those who call themselves pro ranks of labor in this country. and author, secretary; John prove beyond reasonable doubt, ky. The Commission found that gressives, liberals or who are in It won’t be the last time. Amer Chamberlain, form erly of the staff the existence of a frame-up, and there was no Hotel Bristol in terested in labor. I want to tell ican labor and progressive groups of The New York Times; Alfred I submit that the Commission has Copenhagen in 1932, and that you why the Russian situation, as are going to be asked over and Rosmer, former member of the done just that. Sedov was not in Copenhagen it is illustrated in the Moscow over again to decide local ques Executive Committee of the" Com “The implications of this find during his parents’ stay there. frame-ups and the blood purges tions on the basis of charges a- munist International and former ing are of course profoundly disr- reported almost daily in the co gainst Trotsky and Trotskyites in editor-in-chief of l’Humanité; turbing. These implications are Checked Dates Closely lumns of the press, are living Moscow.” Professor Edward Alsworth Ross, j not a matter of intellectual spe events, in the consequences of Department of Sociology of the One of the most important While making clear that he culation; they have been fulfilled which the American people and was opposed to Trotsky’s poli ■University of Wisconsin.