The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
LABOR OF WORLD
ASKED TO PROTECT
THE ARMENIANS
Soviet Army, Under Guise of Pro-
tecting, Turns to Turks and
MaSSaCreS.

| WILLIAM MAILING ENGLISH
international Labor News Service.
The Red army, in alliance with the
Turks, recently invaded and conquer
| ed the independent state of Armenia,
which was in the hands Of a coalition
government containing labor and
moderate socialist elements. After
handing over a part OF the population
to be butchered, plundered, starved
or sold into slavery by their Turkish
allies, the Bolshevists first plundered
the remainder of this miserable and
long tortured population and then
proceeded to the systematic exter-
mination of every leading Citizen
and especially OF the Socialists,
The official protest Of the Armen-
ian Revolutionary Federation has
been sent to all the labor and Social
ist bodies Of the world, since this
Armenian organization is a member
OF the Socialist Internationale.
The whole situation conquest
plundering, massacres by the Soviets
and appeal by the Socialist victims
for worldly wide Socialist support is an
exact repetition Of the case of
was overthrow in the same way at
dDOQt TIC SAINT lllllc
The Socialists Of the world are
again "invited to intervene" and to
put an end to all these misfortunes" !!
Unfortunately the Socialists of the
world while bitterly resenting the in
tervention Of Moscow in their own
countries, and verbally criticising the
Soviet regime even in Russia, are far
from doing anything whatever to
weaken its bloody and death-dealing
grip OH Russian labor and the Russian
people.
On the contrary they are all doing,
and have done, everything in their
power to strengthen it by agitating
for the official recognition of the
Soviets as representing the Russian
people, for the turning over of famine
relief funds to Nansen and the Sow
lets to use (as they have boastfully
and deliberately used all food. distri-
butions) to starve their enemies, and
now for the granting Of huge credits
to restore the Soviets waning econ
Omic power
The European Comrades" have &C
cepted the damning Indictment of the
Soviets, by the Georgians and Armen-
ans and this is their answer! What a
contrast to the consistent Russian
pOIlCy Oh inc ~. +. Oh L.!
Now what are the facts-as given
by this Armenian organization, the
leading political party of the country?
First, as to plumber:
THE people Of Armenia, hardly de-
livered from the appalling famine
that they had had to endure, have
been literally pillaged by the ultra
socialists OF Russia The veritable
armed brigandage that they have in
augurated has stripped the peasants
OF their beasts Of labor, their COWS,
even their flour, their bread, their
clothes, their furniture, nay, even their
household utensils.
The few freight and passenger
cars that were to be distributed for
the necessities of Armenia have been
sent toward Russia.
THE condensed milk, the biscuits,
the flour, and the other provisions
which the Near East Relief Commit
tee had stored for more than 10000
Armenian orphans (whose care it had
assumed) have been requisitioned.
"Many inhabitants have been cast
out Of their dwellings, others have
had to retire to the cellars or to be
content on the bare floor of their
kitchen, under the summons of armed
men to make place for the socialist
army that was looking for comfort.
instead of installing itself in the bar
racks more than sufficient for its
needs.
The acquisitions of food and fur
niture have caused numerous cases of
death among the population as we'll as
among the orphans"
Next, one Of the most notorious
executiOnerS OF the Tche-ka the
Soviet butchery organ sometimes
misnamed the revolutionary "tribun-
aP) was sent from Moscow to ex-
terminate all the most public-spirited
Armenians. twenty-five hundred, in
Guiding ministers of the democratic
republic, members of parliament, pro-