The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-25

cuse of the white murders
Before the war a human life was
precious and the whole country was
sad when the press reported some
murder. Now, after the war, it ap-
pears as if we all with guns in our
hands go to hunt human beings. Our
society is demoralized, we are all
mentally i'll, the mental values are
suffocated in blood. Bloody, indie
scribably bloody is our epoch"
On April 20, 1924, Tchernekov made
the following statement on behalf Of
the social democratic fraction in par
lament:
I'm its striving for conquests the
imperialism of Moscow found a good
co-operator in the union of the fol-
lowers of the united front. (Commun-
lists and peasants); therefore the Bull.
garian army leads mainly patriotic
war against the actions of foreign
enemies and their internal agents.
Our place can only be in the ranks
of the defenders of the nation"
This is the fight with great eli
ergy" of the Bulgarian social demo
Gratis in parliament against Zankov.
The social democratic leader Pas.
tuchov, former police minister, vel
coined the shameful sentence of the
Sofia court against Sadgorsky, Koeff
and Friedman, with feelings of COM
plete satisfaction"
Socialists Mouth Fascist Lies.
8. The statement Of the Second In
ternational contains the lie of Zankov,
which has been long proved incor-
rect, that "the violent elements among
the Communists and agrarians under
take attempts, murders and robbery.
All attempts that have taken place
have been acts of desperation of tor,
tured masses and the fights of band
its are those of peasant groups who
have been driven into the mountains
by the prosecutions and distinctions
4. The "amnesties" are a swindle
of Zankov for the deception of the
foreign countries. Only those pris.
oners were released who in any case
were not guilty or had received only
small punishments A great number
of those amnestied were murdered be.
fore their release or brutally tortur.
ed. In some cases the amnesty was
only a trick to induce the emigrants
to return. After their return they
were murdered, as for instance the
Sofia lawyer, DR.. Pashov in April
1925, who was murdered with his
wife, the doctor Pashova.
5. The Second International ap
proves explicitly of the Zankov muir
ders for it demands only the stopping
of the executions without trial" i. e
less automatically expressed, of tht
open murder without a judicial cover
The trials in Bulgaria are nothing
but legalized murder. Trials in which
witnesses of the defense and lawyers
can hardly dare to speak because they
are threatened with murder by the
fascists, in which with immense speed
hundreds of death sentences are
passed are nothing else but murder
Complete Surrender to Zankov.
6. The alleged strengthening Of
the Bulgarian social democrats is only
the consequence of the suppression OF
all revolutionary workers and peas
ants groups from the elections. The
mandates of the united front of the
Communists and peasants we're de
clared annulled with the agreement
of the social democrats. Further
more, the property stolen from the
revolutionary organizations was Civ
en- to the social democrats. Besides
the social democrats could only gel
their mandates by means of negotia
tions with the government parties. De
spite all this the increase of socia
democratic votes is small and it would
be completely without Significance
without the above mentioned circum
stances.
Z. The promise of the socialist in
ternational that its affiliated parties
would support the Bulgarian socia
democrats, means under these circum
stances the complete support of thu
Zankov bandits.