The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
LABOR
 UNITES AGAINST
 SOVIET TYRANNY
Labor of Old World Now Swinging Into Line Against Soviet
 After Investigations.
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News Service.
 Word from European labor centers shows clearly that labor of the old world is definitely swinging into line with the position of the American Federation of Labor on the question of soviet Russia.
 The position is changing from one merely of opposition to bolshevism to one of direct hostility to the soviet government. Included in this new alignment, which is of great import ance, is not only British labor, but the entire Second Internationale and the International Federation of Trade Unions.
 European albor wrath has been rising steadily, famed by one soviet blunder and cruelty after another.
 First came the famous 2I points, by which the soviets sought to take charge of labor all over the world. Then came formation of the red in ternationale. This was followed by the bloody conquest of Georgia and the destruction of its labor move ment. The last blow is the alleged trial of the labor and social revolu- tionary group of 4o in Moscow.
 United War on Tyranny.
 This trial was attended by Emile Vandervelde and the brother of the late Karl Liebknecht, representing the two European internationals. Vanderve1de was compe1eld to resort to a hunger strike before he, could fight his way out of Russia.
 The Second Internationale, meet ing in London last month, finally pro- duced a declaration of war and the following account is quoted from the Labour News Service, conducted jointly by the British Labor Party and the trade unions:
 Relations between the 1nterna- tional and the Moscok organization naturally figured prominently. in the debates Discussion was influenced by the news coming from Russia re- garding the trial of Social Revolu- tionaries before the Moscow Tribu- nal, and the treatment accorded M. Vandervelde and his colleagues who undertook the prisoners defense at the trials in the name of the Second International.
 "Mr. Ramsay Macdonald moved a resolution expressing amazement that the Moscow Government had decided before their trial had ended that cer- tam or the SOCldl NeVOlutlOudly pllS- oners may be executed; regretting the outrageous manner in which the trials had been conducted, the viii lainous attacks made by Communist leaders upon the Socialist lawyers who had been appointed by the Sec ond International to defend the pris- oners; and characterizing as worth less much of the evidence given at the trial.
 "The resolution recorded the view that it would be an insult to the pro- letarian sense of justice, woudl offer an invitation to reactoinary Govern ments to pursue a like policy, and would be breach of the pledge given to the international executives at the Berlin conference if the death penalty was enforced.
 Ut called upon all the working class organizations to protest against the sentence of murder, and disso- ciated the conference from the trag- edy, and from those responsible for one more black act of vengeance to those which already besmirch the pages of history"
 Vandervelde, upon getting out of Russia, said:
 We consider it our duty to arouse the protest of organized labor throughout the world against the crime contemplated in Moscow and that is why the soviet government tried to detain us in Russia"