Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31

already physically and morally ex-
hausted The Teheka ask the aues-
ton for the last time and receive the
same response. L is the end Of fright
ful suffering Tire T@heka fires, and
the victims fall dead IN their tracks.
THE same fate awaits the other
! prisoners. and the same scene is
repeated. Il was in this manner that
n. Samson Kavtaradze was atrocious-
lly martyred. When he was asked Tor
the last time # be would recognize the
Soviet regime. ne replied; Never
The Teheka thereupon killed him on
the spot.
After certain brigands assassinat-
ed a bolshevist dictator who made him
self notorious IN Courie by his I'M
speakable atrOcity IN burning children
IN houses and destroying entire Will
ages By fire. this province was made
the prey Of violence without pre-
cedence by the Russian troops, the
entire charge OF the punitive ex-
petition being assessed against the
population.
Delegates Protest
"In short, arrests, deportations,
executions, assassinations, mechanism
pillage-there are the essential char
acteristics of the present situation in
Georgia occupied By troops of Soviet
Russia"
The Overwhelming majority of
delegates attending the Congress at
Hamburg condemned what they frank
ly called ''the shameful persecution"
of workers in Russian and Georgian
TERRITORY who held "other views than
the view promulgated by the tyran-
aical communist minority
The propagation of non-communist
views in all territory under Soviet
domination is a crime which i'm
mediately provokes visitation of the
Red terror. There has been in Rus
STA since the beginning of commun-
list autocdacy a continuing recurrence
of wave after wave of the most ter
rifle and barbarous punishment for the
exercise of . fundamental rights
guaranteed by every democray in the
worry and accepted by all civilized
peoples as to the very elementals
of civilized existence. Among these
are the right to speak freely, to
write freely, to assemble freely and
to observe whatever religion the in
dividual may elect to observe. For
the observations Of these rights,
which to Americans are matters of
paramount importance and which are
the essentials Of free existence any
where the most violent punishment
is inflicted by fiendish soviet dicta-
torship.
The Tcheka. which is merely the
soviet's version Of the czarist secret
police, is the INSCRIPTIONS agency
through which most Of the terrorism
is devised and inflicted.
II must be with a feeling Of deep
lrevulsion that constructive British
trade unionists observe what their
Representative IN Hamburg have
approved by their silence. Presum-
ably those delegltss had 4 technical
right to vote or remain silent as they
chose: but in conducting themselves
as they did thsy forfeited the last
,vestige Of moral right to pose as
Representatives Of civilized socity in
any capacity whatever.
Surely some day there viii be an
awakening in the labor movement Of
England. The traditions of demo-
crazy are to deeply engrained in that
labor movement, we hope, to per-
NIT such base betrayal Ia staT,i for
any length of time.
America Protests.
American labor not only will Join
with any organization or any move
ment that seeks in any way to COM
promise with the monstrosity OF
Boleshevism but will raise its voice
in protest at every sign Of attemp-
ted compromise with that hideous
institution, no matter where the at
tempt may be made.
From the standpoint of American
labor the European confusion is in
most respects worse than ever
IN the international Federation OF
Trade Union there is evidently de.
veloping a division Of opinion be-
tween the two secretaries, who are
equal in power and rank FimmeT
on the hand seems to be going the
whole length toward the BolsheviE
position in the alliance Of Trans.
port Workers. Oudegeest, on the
other hand. seems inclined to stake