The daily worker., 1924-12-22

Editors Note.-The following
manifesto of the Communist Inter-
national and the Communist Youth
International, was issued nearly
three weeks before the workers up
rising against the farcical trial and
assassinations mentioned therein.
1t gives in vivid outline the back
ground of the bitter class war rag
ing in Esthonia, this little satrapy
Of England, which has repeatedly
been used as base of military op-
erations against Soviet Russia.
To the Workers of all countriesl
IN torture chamber, described as a
| court Of justice, the white-guardist
Esthonian government of SPECTATORS
and robbers of state funds is wreak-
ing its vengeance on a hundred and
fifty brave and staunch representa-
tives Of the revolutionary workers of
Esthonia. The bourgeoisie accuses
them Of treason, Of preparing revo-
lutionary upheaval, Of attempting to
set up a workers and peasants gov
ernment in Esthonia. 1t has handed
them over to a military court in order
to expedite it's revenge. The judges
and prosecutors in Esthonia constitute
small band from the camp Of inter.
national fascism.
1t is not the first time that the
Esthonian bourgeoisie has launched a
blow at the class organizations of the
Esthonian workers. There was the
arrest of those who participated in
the trade union congress in the year
1919; the shooting of 26 workers IN
Isborsk without any trial whatever;
the shooting, of the old Communist
worker Kingisepp, in the spring of
1922 the numbering of another Com.
munist, Kreuks, in March 1923 in the
open street by a member of the secret
police; the persistent and systematic
destruction of all class organizations
Of the workers, which was twice re-
peated in the course of the last year
in January and August; and finally,
this trial Of $50 revolutionary work
ers, who are threatened with shooting
or Imprisonment with hard labor.
The bourgeois power in Esthonia
has become bankrupt. Various groups
Of the bourgeoisie-big peasants
lspeculators, social democrats-have
succeeded one another in the admins
tration Of the country-and all with
the same result. Different groups OF
parasites, the spectators and embez,
zlers OF state funds, have enriched
themselves; but in the country, among
the working masses and the peas.
antry, among the city petty bourgeois
and intellectuals, there has only been
an increase of misery. Factories have
been closed, unemployment has in
creased, the state finances have ap
preached nearer and nearer to com
plete bankruptcy. The promises oi
social reforms and OF distribution Of
land among the peasantry. with which
the Esthonian bourgeoisie began III
rule, have not been carried out.
They cannot be carried out because
OF the complete incapacity of the
bourgeois power to promote any de
velopment of economic life. Little
Esthonia, under the rule of the bour
geoisie, is condemned to be an insig
nihcant appendage OF one or the otheI
groups Of world imperialists.
The only way out for the workers
and peasants of little Esthonia consists
in the creation of q workers and peas
ants government, based upon the class
organizations and in close alliance
with the international working class
The alternative is: either workers
and peasants power, or delivery ovei
Of the country to the internationa
capitalists.
The bankrupt bourgsoisie IL airsad,