The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-13

get their material through later and | it's evidence is overwhelmingly and everlastingly condemnatory
 Killing Opponents No New Habits. There is nothing new about the Sovicts killing their opponents, priests or non-priests. These killings have nothing whatever to do with legal accusations of any kind or with what l is understod in civilized countries as a trial Not only do the Soviets give | their opponents no fair trials but the proceeding that they go through with is not a trial at all but merely a form
 Trotzky writes in his Dictatorship vs. Democracy" that Christianity, "a method of deadening the con- Tn another place he writes: "The question of who is to rule the coun- try will be decided by the employ ment of all forms of violence."' Again he writes: "There is no other way of breaking the class will of the enemy except the systematic and energetic use of violence" Again: "The man who recognizes the revolutionary historic importance of the existence of the soviet system must also sane ton the Red Terror"
 No Law and No Trials in Russia.
 In Soviet Russia there are no trials and there is no law This situation has been very well brought out in official investigations of the British government as we'll as the League of Nations
 The Soviets, by their own repeat ed boasts, are pure and undiluted dictatorship of handful of people who call themselves 'the proletariat" but at the same time confess that only a small percentage of the Rus sion working people are included in their party-which is the government
 What was the so-calred "law' carried out?? To quote the Asso- ciated Press dispatch from Moscow dated April 3:
 Mgr. Butchkavitch was found guilty and executed as violater of Article 62 of the Criminal Code, which provides the death penalty or imprisonment for participation in any organization which is acting for the purpose of exciting the population to mass agitation, non-payment of taxes, unfulfllment of it's duties or by any other means clearly detrimental to the dictatorship of the working class es and the proletaran revolution, al though an armed rising or an armed invasion is not the chief aim of the organization"
 In other words, anybody who is clearly detrimental to the dictatorship is subject to be murdered without trial
 Having considered the law, let Us now look at the "evidence." We quote the fourth correspondent, Francis McCullagh, in the Moscow dispatch of April 3. This correspondent, in entire accord with all the others shows that there was no evidence. Could Happen in No Other Country.
 McCullagh writes as follows:
 "The trial for high treason fol- lowed seizure of documents in the vicar's room in Petrograd. In no other country in the world could such charge be based upon these docu- ments. I heard them all read at the trial and found them as innocuous as the minutes of an English vestry meeting.
 Not even in the widest Central American republic would this pro- cedure be tolerated in a court of law. Under such methods no foreigners life is safe in Russia.
 q am convinced that the Arch- bishop and the priests did not plot, but that the Soviet is plotting the destruction of all forms of Christian itv in Russia, these trials being but one step.
 'Vicar- General Butchavitch is a