The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-09

lions to be the target for the fl
of the country.
Under the pretext Of putting
an end to the recent Fascist
disturbances, the Roumanian
government has declared mar
tial law, but the prisons of the
country were filled with workers
and Communists instead of
Fascist. Communist papers and
the General Confederation of
Labor itself were suppressed.
Prosecutions are the order of the
day turnout the country. All leading
comrades in the Communist and trade
union movement have been arrested
or are in danger Of arrest Working
men and women and even young
workers are subject to persecution,
and no one is immune if he or she
has shown devotion to the cause Of
the oppressed in any way. No work
ers meetings and no independent
workers publications are allowed. In
human treatment is sneted out to our
imprisoned comrades.
HUNGER STRIKES ARE AN EVERY
DAY OCCURRENCE.
The Roumanian secret police is par
ticularly brutal and cruel in the ter
ritories annexed by Roumania. The
Hungarian, Bessarabian and Bulgari-
an peasants have once more to expert
ence the horrors of the terrorist re-
gime. Not so long ago comrade Ber-
ger, the secretary of the Communist
party of Aransylvania and the Banat,
was delivered by the y.oumanian po-
lice to Horty's bandits. Also, five
Bulgarian peasants were shot quite
recently in the Dobrudja without trial.
The Roumanian Boyars and bank
ers, who assumed the role of guard
ians of European civilization, on the
borders of the barbarian East, gave
an example of their cruelty and fe-
rocity in 1907 when they crushed the
peasant rising and shot several thou
sands of poor peasants. But since the
lRoumapian plutocracy has appropriate
ed large tracts of foreign territory
and the dissatisfaction of the ruined
and oppressed working and peasant
masses has assumed enormous pro-
portions, white terror has become the
order of the day.
! December 10, 1918, will always be
remembered, for on that day over one
hundred workers taking part in a
demonstration in Bucharest were shot
down by machine guns. In connection
with the general strike in October,
1920, thousands of workers thruout
the country were arrested, and sever
al hundred of them were sentenced to
long terms Of Imprisonment. In May,
1921, all those who participated in
the congress of the socialist party
were arrested, because the congress
had decided to adhere to the Commun-
list International After 16 months of
i'll treatment and tortures, the impri-
soned comrades were declared inno-
cent by the courts and set free.
White Terror Spreading.
The number of victims of the white
terror is growing. The best workers
are frequently done to death, natural
ly always under the pretext of the
traditional attempts to escape" The
imprisoned comrades in the salt
mines and fortresses are doomed to
a slow, but certain death and are ex-
posed to indescribable physical and
mental torments.
The recent mass arrests and mass
prosecutions are an answer to the
! GROWING STRENGTH OF THE
| COMMUNIST PARTY, to the growth
Of the workers movement and to the
struggle of the Communist party
against the reduction of wages and
salaries, for land for the peasantry
against the oppression and total abb
sence Of rights of national minorities
and for the right to self-determination
for the peoples Of Pennsylvania, Blu
kovina, Bessarabia ana Dobrudja.
RoumanIa Let's France Lead.
The arrests are taking place just at
the time when the Soviet delegation
at the VIENNA CONFERENCE is
demanding the recognition of the right
of sek-determination of the popula-
ton of Bessarabia, and when, in spite