The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-30
SOCIALISTS OF
HUNGARY UNITE
WITH Fascist
Sign Pact with Terror
Rule of Horthy
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for some hundred political prisoners.
So many words, so many lies. It can
be proved by innumerable facts that
the pact has been "honorably" fulfilled
on the part Of the social democratic
leaders. The official social democratic
party organ has up to the present
written nothing regarding class war,
it preached class harmony, and even
in August, 1924, spoke Of the consolid.
alton of Hungary. For years even
Garami and Buchinger, who belong to
the extreme right wing Of social dem.
ocracy, were not addressed as com
rades and refused to publish their
declarations and even their denials
One of the leaders of the name OF
Rothenstein wrote articles under his
own name, in accordance with the
treaty, in the foreign social democrat
ic press and Peyer and Miakits, who
were parties to the treaty toured the
whole world and proclaimed that not
Horthy, but the revolution is the
cause of all the sufferings of the pro-
letariat.
In parliament the social democratic
fraction, even in 1923, voted along
with Bethlen for the chief Of the pol
ice who assisted in bringing about the
shameful treaty. Twice they openly
concluded civil peace and promoted
the restoration" which aimed at en-.
shaving the proletariat and strength
ening the counter-revolutionary ap-
paratus. Peyer advocated in Brati-
slava (Pressburg), at a conference
with the Czechish government social
lists and leaders of the emigrants, in
the name of the Hungarian social
democratic party, the 'unconditional"
foreign loan for Bethlen. They throt-
tied economic strikes, and when in
1924 the printers spontaneously en-
tered on general strike on acccEat
of the confiscation of the Nepssava,
the parliamentary fraction and the
party central repudiated the printers
and even the central organ.
Equally futile is the excuse that
these scoundrels only concluded the
pact because by so doing they OBJ
tanned an amnesty for some hundreds
of social democrats. In paragraph six
Of the pact. the amnesty is limited to
minor offenses which were committed
between October 81, 1918 and March
81, 1919. On October 81, 1918, the
bourgeois Karoly government came in
to office, and March 21 is the date of
the proclamation Of the proletarian
dictatorship. But during the Karoly
government it was not thousands, not
even hundreds, but only a few dozen
proletarians who were prosecuted by
the Horthy government on account of
minor offenses. This amnesty could
therefore in no way liberate hun
dreds from the dungeons of Horthy.
And even among these few dozens a
very careful selection was made, as
the pact provided that only those
would be pardoned who are not
dangerous to the public safety"
On the other hand, the many thou
sands of social democratic workers
who honestly co-operated in the pro-
letarian dictatorship, and we're there
fore threatened by the white terror,
were excluded from the agreement.
This fact is not altered by the clause
OF the pact which states: "The gov
eminent is also inclined to propose
from time to time to pardon all those
who are recommended by the social
democratic working class, and who,
up to the time Of the meeting Of the
national assembly, have been con
Idemned on account of creating dis
order or infringements of the press
laws, IL the minister of justice re-
CARDS this justified by the circum
stances" Every worker in Hungary
knows that by this clause only a few
are set free from time to time" and
not in any case hundreds.
But clause six of the pact which
has been published only contains 9
part Of the amnesty and does not con.
tain the actual general amnesty O..
Christmas, 1921. This amnesty actu.
ally pardoned hundreds of counter.
revolutionary murderers of proletari-
ans who had acted out of patriotic
grounds. Without the sham amnesty
contained in the pact, Bethlen would
never have ventured to grant a real
amnesty for the murderers of the So
cial democrats Somogyi and Basco,
for the murderers of Orgovany and
Siofok. Thus, by. their action, the
Peyer bandits did not sanction the
liberation OF hundreds of proletarians
but Of hundreds Of murderers OF pro.
letarians.
These are the naked facts regard
ing the pact, with the help OF which
the social democratic betrayers OF the
proletariat were able to continue their
shameful existence for another three
years. But neither their pact nor their
lies regarding the pact will be ablt
to save them in the long run from the