The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-28
POLISH TERROR
STATE MURDERS
4TH COMMUNIST
BotDin Charged with
Killing ProUocateur
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| oiOAs UC COMPLIMENTARY IN INON Huts
rIed at Top speed to execute the SEN
tenee which was dictated by the
"hIahest considerations" Within
three hours after the verdict was brot
In, and in dead opposition TO law, My
lord the democratic president waived
the petition for pardon, presented by
the council for defense.
Comrade Botvin's bullet caught the
bourgeois landowning band ON the raw
spot. 1.-THE tragic death Of our best
worker"-thus spoke the Republic on
the murder Of the provocator, czekh-
novskI.
Manufactured Many Plots.
without doubt Czekhnovski was
their best employee even as Green
and tens Of other OF the fouIest figure
heads Of the czarist secret service
we're the best friends of the czarist
regime. Czekhnoysky and the role
played by him in the many trials,
wherein he betrayed so many prole-
traians to hard labor and death-he
and his role are still to be remem-
bered.
Czekhnovski's swift career began
with the Baginski and Vetcherkevitch
trial, under the direction of his teach
err" Piontkevitch, the chief of the sec
ret service. No methods were too
dirty, no forgeries too foul, to be used
as weapons for Czekhnovsky. It was
he who suddenly exposed" the most
unbelievable 'Bolshevik" plans.
"plots," Committees" and nuclei.
You see, he did not visit Lvov in
vain. ION the eve Of his departure
from Warsaw" writes the Republic.
"Czekhnovski conferred with Piontke-
witch" And further on. the Republic
hints = "The Communists killed
Czekhnovski, fearing that he would
expose them during the Lvov trial for
the attempt to assassinate the presi-
dent"
And it follows, Czekhnoviski's "su-
periors" were thinking of plan for
wonderful provocation" to prove the
completely of the Communist Party in
the attempt on the presidents life.
Foulest Of Spies.
Czekhnovsky is unworthy neither as
unit nor as a personality. In the per.
son of this foulest of provocators we
see whole system. Czekhnovsky.
Troyanovsky, Luschak (see the Engel
case) there are notable representa-
tives-the signs of dissensions and
symptoms of the degeneration to
which the gendarme system Of the
Polish landowners and bourgeois is
slowly but surely sliding.
The secret of this mad haste, raised
against young, bold Comrade Botvin,
lies in this very close connection be-
tween the Czekhnovskis and the sys-
tenn which begat them.
Socialist Defend Spy
The whole of the trial took place in
an atmosphere of unheard of provoca-
ton. All the newspapers, not exclud-
ing the Polish socialist party-Work-
er, raised their voices in common
howl against the murder 70 their
most faithful servant" A most
touching union in defense of a provo
Gator against a worker-C Communist.
This never occurred during the whole
existence of the czarist regime.
Botvin has been shot. The Polish
bourgeoise, with this bloody death sem
tence, signs it's accordance and full
solidarity with the system of provoca-
ton. The Polish bourgeoisie has
taken this system under its material
wing-safeguarding and legalizing it.
Next on the cause list we have the
case Of three other comrades heart
and soul attached to the cause of the
workers and peasants: Gibner. Kniev-
ski and Rutkovski. Their trial was
postponed only owing to the "Accus.
eds state of health" Badly wounded.
they underwent such fierce beating.
even as Comrade Botwin received
after his arrest. But the three COM
rades, wounded as they were, haze
also been murdered by the Polish
white terror state.
Polish Workers Aroused.
The Polish proletariat most worth.
lily defended itself against the bour.
geoisie and their bodyguards-from
the Polish socialist party. The self.
defense of the working class against
the provocators has met with the
sympathy of the masses. After the
death OF Czekhnoyski 30 red flags sud-
denly appeared on telegraph poles and
different houses, and many slogans
were written on the walls-"Death 10
the traitors"-"Praise to the heroes"
The Warsaw Echo after the arrest
Of these three comrades did not con-
fess in pain: 1T is most necessary
that the attitude of Iron street and dis.
trict (the EAST End" of Warsaw he
most decisively stigmatized. These
districts constantly interfere BY all
the means in their power. against m,