The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-08
RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT DOOMS SOCIALISTS TO DEATH AND TORTURE,
 SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY SAYS

of the year from the mainland-such was to be the latest phase of Com munist brutalities
 Not word about these things is said anywhere Not line about it in the official Soviet papers. None the less abundant materials dealing with this chronicle of blood and tears, with the horrors of deportation and exile, with the brutalities and vio- lence practiced in these new Social ist' hard labor prisons, are being ac- cumulated. This terror is practiced in full view of the citizens, and it is aimed at the broad masses of the peo-- pie themselves. -*
 "The wheel life of our country is filled with violence. It's most cruel blows, however, the Bolshevist gov. ernment keeps showering upon the Russian Social Democracy.
 "This is being done because our party IS striving to enlighten politi- cally and organize the very classes upon whose blind obedience the dicta- torship of the Russian communist party is trying to learn. We touch thereby the sorest spot in the whole fabric of self-contradictions making up this bankrupt dictatorship. Grad ually transforming itself, this dicta- tor ship becomes more and more yield ing in it's policy with respect to the bourgeois classes. Its demagogical 'amnesties,' Kalinin's trips to Siberia, the evacuation of the Moscow prisons freeing not only ordinary felons, but also participants. of former upris- ings, including both the great and the. small fry of class that used to be. hostile to the Soviet power-a1l these f .e . single concession made to Socialists, and their ruthless extermination goes on unabatedi A wave of brutality has swamped us, not for plotting any re- volt, but merely because of our peaceful work of political enlighten- ment, because of our endeavors to. rally together the proletarian, 1obar-s ing masses. The Communists are trying, by baseless .columinations. to conceal this fact, which, to thenl is Ia mortal danger. 1t is up to you to expose them.
 '"The moment has come for us to raise the cry throughout the, world that Socialists are being murdered in he appalling darkness of our strang1ed country, with every avenue of escape closed to them, Young men and women. the. old and the feeble, all are being murdered, condemned to- inevitable slow death from disease or hunger strikes, in tn seprison vaults of the frozen arctic regions.
 Fellow workers, to you, above all others. do we address our plea, for it is Tn your name that this monstrous crime is being committed. You must confront every communist who ap- pears before you, and put to him straight g.the~ question about tfle1 crimes of his government
 We appeal to all the workers of Russia, to the democratic students, to all toilers everywhere, and to all who1 have not yet lost their last spark Of citizenship and humanity, to
 Protest against the, extermination of Socialists in Russiai
 Protest against wholesale repris- als without trial!
 Raise this question at every meet ing, pass resolutions, and collect funds for the relief of prisoners and exiles!
 Demand an end to this policy of arbitrariness and tyranny!
 Demand political amnestyi
 The Central Committee of the Rus
 sian Social-Democratic Labor Par
 ty.
 Moscow, September, 1923"