The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-25

arrests have been carried out in all
workers and peasants have been ar
rested. In all countries those arrested
are subjected to torment and torture.
Five Hundred Shot.
In Esthonia, after the December re-
volt, 800 workers were shot, over 600
house-searchers carried out and over
$500 workers and peasants thrown
into prison.
In Lithuania, in the course Of two
months, about 1000 house-searches
have been carried out and over 200
workers, employees and peasants ar
rested. Over 100 persons have been
subjected to torture.
The Latvian and Finnish bourgeoisie
is conducting furious press cam
paign against the class organizations
Of the workers and is preparing pub
lie opinion" for brutal suppression
Of the labor movement.
Drunken Latvian fascists have
thrown bombs into the editorial Of
nee OF the trade union journal Lark
NETS and set fire to the premises Of
the workers sick club in Volmar,
Medieval Tortures.
But the heroes of the white ter
ror regard these prosecutions as in
adequate. Medieval torturings and
torments are the means now constant
ly employed by the bourgeoisie Of the
Baltic countries against it's working
class prisoners.
The secret police of the Baltic
democratic" governments require at
all costs proofs which will confirm the
"Bolshvik danger" needed by them In
their fight against the working class.
These experienced inquisitors extort
the confessions required by them by
means of the most frightful troture,
and also by means Of torture compel
the prisoners to sign written declara-
lions that these confessions have been
made voluntarily.
In their use of torture the police
have had recourse to the most diabol-
ical methods. The electric bath" is
the means Of torture most frequently
used in Esthonia. Prisoners, when
undergoing examination, are compelled
to grasp two metal rods thru which
an electric current is passed. In
Lithuania, torture is likewise en-
ployed by means of electricity. but in
another form. The electric current is
directed into the body, causing violent
action OF the heart, gripping the brain
and tearing the muscles The current
distends all the veins, convulses the
whole body and causes muscular
cramps which last some days after the
torture. In Esthonia and Lithuania the
prisoners undergoing examination, be-
fore being subjected to the electric
bath, are beaten with sticks. rifle
butts and barbed-wire knouts.
Flesh Torn With Pincers
In Lithuania, Esthonia and Latvia,
new methods Of torture have begun
to be employed recently. BY means
OF sudden and strong pressure upon
the stomach, frightful pains are caus-
ed to the interior organs. The Wet
inns are kicked in the genital organs
while portions off their flesh are torn
on with pincers.
In Latvia the old tradition OF the
chief Of the czarist police, in Riga,
the infamous Gregus, is being re-
stored. The chief of the Latvian
secret police, Martinson. at the be-
gin 'ug of the examination acts very
gently and behaves in a friendly man
ner towards. his victim. But then, with
wild cry he seizes the prisoner by
the hair, lifts him up and nings him
with all his force to the ground. In
the local prison OF Goldingen CLatvia},
as result of the torture, two polit-
ical prisoners have committed suicide.
The chief police in Finland. Sarep.
makes practice Of giving his victims
not less than fifty blows on each ear.