The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-30
DELAY TRIAL OF
50 COMMUNISTS
HELD IN GREECE
Prosecution Is Seeking
Better Evidence"
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the republic" to crush the labor
movement in Greece and especially
the Communist movement, which has
gained great influence over the mass
es Of workers, peasants and refugees.
Introduce Faxed Document.
In it's desperate effort to crush the
Communists, the prosecution on the
last day of the trial, which had lasted
for three days, produced document,
supposed to have been sent to the
Greek party by the Communist Inter-
national in 1922, and tried to have it
read into the records of the trial as
evidence against the Communists.
This document had not been included
in the original charges and the de-
tense protested the admission of the
documents as evidence on these
grounds. The court martial judge was
forced to rule in favor of the Com
munist. defenders and the trial has
been postponed for an indefinite per-
iod, until the prosecution can produce
better evidence" and submit before
the court all the documents before
hand that viii be used as evidence.
Fear Communists.
II. is not necessary to state here
that the evidence" in the form of
documents which the prosecution
intends to bring before the court,
have much the same origin as the
much-heralded "Zinoviev letter" to
the English Communist Party. 1t is
only by such means that the state will
be able to build up it's case against
the Greek party and gag the mouths
of those comrades who dare to raise
their voices and expose before the
Greek masses their rulers and the
system they represent.
The Trial Charges.
The charge against the Commun-
lists was that Eat the end of last year
a secret conference was held in
Athens, in which the majority Of the
defendants along with representa-
tives Of the Communist International,
and the Balkan Federation decided to
carry on a wide campaign for the auto
nomy of Greek, Serbian and Bulgar-
ian Macedonia. An executive commit
tee was elected to carry on this cam
paign in Greece in which many of
the defendants = participated. This
committee published a series of ar
ticles in Rizospastos, Communist
daily, and the Communist Review,
monthly. They issued many leaflets
and caused to be published thousands
OF manifestos addressed to the re-
serves, veterans of Grecian wars, sol
diers, sailors and to the working
masses and peasants of Greece, advo-
eating the necessity of the Macedon-
ian autonomy for the triumph of the
proletarian struggle The committee
as well as the other defendants, not
members Of this committee, did their
best to execute the decisions of the
secret conference thru lectures, mass
meetings and other methods"
Before the examination of the wit
nesses took place, the lawyer for the
defense requested a postponement of
the trial, claiming that Premier Pan
galos, the head of the military dicta-
torship, had given an amnesty to the
defendants. The document to this ef-
feet was in the archives of the First
Army Corps and the lawyer for the
defense requested that this document
be presented to the court
Prosecutor Ignores Amnesty.
The prosecuting attorney denied all
official knowledge" as to the exist
ence of such a document. 'In any
case" he said, sit cannot influence
this trial"
The trial then continued to hear
evidence until the prosecuting attor-
ney overstepped Himself and tried to
introduce evidence" that was not in
the original III