The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-15
REDS MURDERED
BY EST HONIAN
white TERROR
Socialists Take Part in
Base Slaughter
lspeelaI 70 rhe DaIIy workerl

REVEAL, Esthonia, May 13- The
Esthonian bourgeoisie is numbering
more workers and peasants. Since the
first of December hundreds of work
ers and peasants have been foully
murdered According to the reports
Of bourgeois papers, whole number
Of political trials are about to be held
in which hundreds Of workers and
peasants are TO be tried, solely be-
cause they have hands which have
been hardened by toll and lead mis-
cradle existence in the independent
republic"
A few days ago the military court
Of Reval sentenced to death Comrade
Welt and Comrade Ulgekutt for hav-
ing, it is stated, taken part in the
revolt of December 1, 1924.
Get Death Sentence.
The two condemned comrades were
peasants and active workers in the
Esthonian peasant movement. Com
rade Welt wasa a. tenant farmer. IS AL
ready in 1920 he worked among the
peasants Of Parnu. At the elections
in 1928 he was put forward as can
didate for parliament in two constitu-
encies on the united front ticket Of
the workers and peasants. Comrade
Welt enjoyed enormous influence
among the peasants. He was leader
of the working peasants, who suffer
under a heavy burden Of taxation
and are fighting for their emancipa-
ton. When at the beginning of 1924
the parliamentary fraction of the unit
ed front were arrested, Comrade Welt
took the place of these arrested and
steadfastly continued the struggle for
the interest of the Esthonian peasants
and their allies the workers, until he
was himself arrested.
Comrade Ulgekutt was a peasant
from the Isle. of Osel where he had
been for severalg years a well-known
worker among the village poor. The
great majority of the population of
the Isle of OseI consists of land poor
peasants. They. elected him on the
united front ticket of the workers and
peasants as a substitute deputy to
parliament.
Socialists Aid Hangmen.
The Esthonian bourgeois demo-
cratic murderers Of workers and peas
ants have worked expeditiously in the
interests Of the internationai profit.
makers. Comrades Welt and Ulge-
kutt have already been executed.
The proletariat of all countries
must carry out an energetic protest
action against the, murderous fury
of the Esthonian bourgeoisie, in which
the Socialist" international is parti-
cipating. This is. all the more neces-
sary as the Esthonian democratic"
coalition government, in which the So
cial democrats are participating, is
preparing, after the bloody vengeance
of December J., to get rid of further
workers and peasants by illegal"
means. At the military courts there
come forward as "eye-witnesses,"
drunken spies who make monstrous
assertions regarding the criminal"
character of the accused. No witness
ses are allowed to come forward on
behalf Of the accused, and when the
accused refer to people who can give
evidence in their favor, these people
are straight away arrested and brot
before the court as equally guilty
terrorists."
The base and monstrous character
of the Esthonian white justice is in
describable.
Down with the Esthonian hangmeni
Long live the solidarity of the work
ers and peasanta NJ fha xvorldt