The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-14
Murder of Union Labor and Socialists for PO- litical Purposes Sole Nv Comes Out in Evi- d nee Fina II y Brought Out.
By WILLIAM ENGLISH MAILING

By
 WILLIAM ENGLISH MAILING
 In the great international state tria now going on at Moscow the Bol shevists have appointed themselves a: judges and have put the Russian So cialists and Labor Unionists ln the dock. With these Russian Socialists there stood, as their defenders, the brother of Karl Liebknecht and Van dervelde, representatives of the two socialist internationals, that IS ot 90 per cent. of the labor political move ment of Europe.
 Hitherto the Bolshevists have been able to murder Socialists and Labor Unionists with impunity
 With the aid of the czar's secret police and the efficient German spy system they could easily keep from the public all knowledge of what had taken place; by means of their mo nopoly of all printed matter they had no trouble in defaming their victims, and in putting out elaborate fabrica- tions of imaginary crimes. Not only did they kill off their Socialist op- ponents by the wholesale but they were able at the same time to pose as mrades"-devoted, if somewhat extreme-before the Socialists of western Europe.
 Scores of delegations of Russian Socialists and Labor Unionists were able to make no headway whatever in Europe against the propaganda of thousands and tens of thousands of paid Soviet agents.
 Means Reversal of Friendly Attitude.
 But now at last the Russian So- cialists and Labor Unionists have se- cured hearing among the Socialists and Labor Unionists of Europe, and the invitation to the European Sosial- ists to send defenders, followed by their exclusion from the trial; can mean nothing more nor less than a reversal of the friendly attitude of European labor towards the Soviets, and the collapse of Soviet prestige in Great Britain and on the continent. For what becomes of the pro-Soviet policies of governments once labor it. self turns against them? And can labor refuse to turn once the fact has been finally established that the Bol- shevists are the most savage prose cutors of labor unions and Socialists to be found anywhere in the world?
 The Social Revolutionaries on trial at Moscow have long announced that
 
 but as accusers and exposers of the comedy of Bolshevist justice" How viciously untrue Is the statement of a leading correspondent, writing for one of our most conservative news papers, when he wires from Moscow, that the Social Revolutionaries are "on strike" to show their disapproval of "communismH Neither commun- ism nor any other principle is on trial, but the blood-thirsty tyranny of a fanatic sect. Having loaded up the courtroom with carefully chosen crowd of their henchmen, fed up on the Bolshevist fabrications about the ttrial, this crowd, of course, does it's duty and jeers the prisoners. How shocking then to find this American correspondent so perverted by com munist propaganda as to state that the prisoners seem to be "bent on goading the crowd to some such vio- communists in the opinion of labor circles throughout the world"
 Chernoff Among Those to Sign
 Memorandum.
 The Socialists and labor unions of Europe are already informed about this trial Five Russian Social Revo- 1utionary leaders, who have been known personally to the European movement for many years presented a memorandum to the conference of the three Socialist Internationals at Der lin on April and, outlining the entire case. One of these men, Chernoff, was the elected president of the Con- stitutional Assembly and therefore has a far better right today to speak for Russia than any of the self-ap- pointed dictators that have replaced him. Another, Zenzinoff, was cabi- net member of the first Siberian gov ernment, overthrown by Kolchak. A third, Rubanovitch, has represented the Social Revolutionary party at In ternational and Socialist labor con gresses for a quarter of century. Such men are infinitely more credi- ble than Trotzky or Lenine-to say nothing of their amazing subordi- mates. Their declaration states: "ln ]: H. this case one party to quarrel, this case there are no judges. There besmirched from head D foot with blood and filth, which is trying, if but for a moment, to divert attention from this blood and filth on to the other party"
 The Social Revolutionaries, after producing briefly some conclusive evi- dence exculpating their imprisoned comrades, proceed to explain the Bol- shevik purposes in the Moscow trial The Soviet's object is "to justify their terror against Socialists by putting forward the latter as the initiators and champions of the terror and themselves merely as people in a po- sition of legitimate self-defence. y The leaders of Russia's greatest popular party then go on, for space of 20 pages, to prove the adoption of the 'terror" by the Bolshevists, as