The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-08
Bv International Labor News Service

By lnternauOrla1 AaDOr NeWS 0eIVCc
 Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.-A striking appeal to the wage earners of the world, issued by representa- tives of non-bolshevik workers in Russia has come to the American lished in the December American Federationist.
 The appeal describes the fate of thousands of workers who hold demo- cratic views and whose only offense is inability to agree with the soviet tyrants in their autocratic course. The appeal says, in part:
 ITO THE WORKING CLASS,
 DECOCRATIC STUDENTS, AND
 ALL TOILERS:
 "A monstrous crime IS being perpe- trated in Soviet Russia. 1t is kept secret from the broad masses of the population. While the Communist spell-binders keep Illuminating, while pompous welcomes are accorded to distinguished European and American visiting capitalists, and while all kinds of expositions and fairs are humming noisily, the hangman is busily at work under cover of darkness.
 "For long time past all the ener- gies of the State Political Admins tration, the successor of the Cheka, has been bent on fighting the Social ist and labor movefnent Long ago all social endeavor had been turned into a barren void Today the war of the government against Russian Social Democracy, without a mo- ment's cessation, is already taking the brutal form of deliberate, bodily ex- termination of those who are sus- pected of belonging to. or aiding, our party.
 Beginning with the general raids, throughout Russia, on the 25th anni- versary of our party, last March, there has been going on all these months veritable massacre of the Socialist elements in Soviet Russia.
 Thousands of people are being arrested, kept in prison without trial fined cruelties of the Cheka By a single stroke of the pen, people are sent by the. hundred to places of hum ger and death. All the centers of Tsarist exile have been reopened. These are already overerowded. Once more the notorious territories of Narym and Turukhansk in Northern Siberia receive in their icy embrace the champions of labor's cause
 "The Socialists are taken away from their work, sent from place fo place, arrested even after they, reach theik place of exile, their wives are persecuted, preposterous cases are started against them in the Soviet tribunals, and even those exiles whose terms are Nnp cannot obtain release Care in the case of Turkestan).
 Misery and starvation are on the increase. In 1922 a special hard la bor camp was established near thes| White Sea for the 'inveterate' Social ist opponents of the Soviet govern ment. This was the infamous Perto- minski Camp, and its prisoners at once launched a desperate struggle against the, outrageous regime. But this. was not the end of 1t. As Per tominski Camp. too, was considered an unreliable place for the isolation of the prisoners, it was abandoned. and the inmates were transferred to another place. They were removed still further from all contact with the living world; 1t was to be real ceme- tery for those who still dared to live and struggle like men in this republic of slaves and of political corpsesi Solovetsk Monastery, barren cells on an island cut off during eight months