The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-11
Reds Celebrated
Despite Menace of
Arms and Hunger
By DIR. EDWARD J. BING

| (Unlted Press Staff Correspondent.
BUDAPEST, May 1-(By Mail. J.
Budapest was today the theatre O
festivities unparalleled in the histor,
of moderate or radical socialism. MAJ
Day, which has been declared ma
tional holiday by the Soviet govern
ment, was celebrated in the Hun
garian capital. Huge masses O.
workmen marched through the streets
mass meetings took place, commits
saries of the Revolutionary Govern
ing Council" made speeches, military
bands of the Red army played the
Marseillaisc, and the "Internationale'
the new Bolshevik hymn. The whole
town seemed dipped in red color. By
order of the government every house
in the town hoisted a red flag, the
more important street crossings and
the main thoroughfares were adorned
with red triumphal arches, bearing
huge portraits and busts of Marx,
Engels, Lassalls, Lenine and Trotsky.
The principal statues of Budapest
some of them, like that of the late
Count Julius Andassy, of consider
able artistic value-were hidden un-
der the triumphal arches built around
them. The statues of the former
kings of Hungary, which formed part
of the Millonary monument, were
removed, while the huge model of
st. Stephens crown, which adorned
the cupola of the royal palace, was
covered by an enormous red phrygian
cap. The town was full of excite
ment, cheers, and music, but perfect
order prevailed everywhere.
This excitement, however, was only
partly due to the festivities, one of
the principal causes underlying it is
the rapid and powerful offensive of
the Rumanian, Czech and Serb armies
which are closing in upon Soviet Hun
gary, drawing the fatal circle they
form around it, closer and closer.
The Red army consists to consid-
cradle extent of unframed and undis-
ciplined soldiers and almost entirely
lacks heavy artillery; consequently
the Rumanians, Serbs and Czechs do
not encounter any resistance worth
mentioning, although the Soviet gov
ernment is rallying all available men
to defend Hungarian bolshevism. Be-
sides the Szekely troops, as well as
numerous peasants and bourgeois
have joined the Rumanlans, forming
"white guards" and marching upon
Budapest. Vincent Macy, minister
of the interior in the Karolyi govern
ment, and Gabriel Cgron, minister
of the interior in the Kekerle cabinet.
a Czekely by birth, are mentioned
as the leaders in the anti-revoution.
Manwhile, the Soviet government
continues to publish one order after
another. There is, however, a point
in the Soviet program which, while
hardly known in America and in the
rest of Europe, is surely the most
remarkable and most characteristic
fact about Hungarian bolshevism. 1t
is the way of moulding all classes
into one uniform class, viz, that of
the proletarians. The first step in
this direction taken by the Hungarian
Soviet government was the granting
of special economic and political priv
lleges to organized workmen. 1t was
declared that there are both "phys-
lcal" and mental" workmen, and
that only the organized among them
would be admitted to the above priv
Ileges. Consequently, all who would
have been at considerable disadvan-
tage through not being organized
now speedily formed their own trade
union, thereby becoming organized
proletarians." Thus physicians, jour-
nalists, writers, civil servants, bank
clerks, schoolmasters, artists, in a
word practically everybody formed
heir trade unions. The organization
IF trade unions of merchants, law
Jers, and, of course, capitalists, was
Tot permitted. As to these, the
Soviet system claims to have means
1t its disposal whereby to achieve