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are in ) .position to convict me and
perhaps cannot even escape execu-
ton. Bat despite this I will never
betray orSdeliver my comrades to the
police. You gentlemen are undoubt-
eddy content to have in your hands
a peoples commissar of the former
Soviet republic, but repeat you are
fooling yourself if you believe that
| will give any information whatever
which would even to the slightest
degree facilitate your Investigations.
You may do with me whatever you
see ft-yes, you may string me to
the gallows, but I will tell you moth
ing"
Wall Street Government.
Rakosi served for period as sec
rotary of the Communist International
and without doubt this is another
reason why the Horthy government,
the tool Of Wall Street and British
bankers, is anxious to send him to
the gallows.
1t is generally believed that the ar
rests of the independent socialists and
of Rakosi in Hungary is the prelude
to another orgy of murder that may
surpass in hideousness the blood
carnival of the infamous Zankov in
Bulgaria.
In an effort to thwart the plans Of
Horthy, the labor movement all over
the world and the sympathizers with
the working class movement among
the professionals, are protesting
against the plot to STAY the flower of
the leadership of the Hungarian work
ing class.
The International Labor Defense of
the United States, under the signature
of James P. Cannon, national secre-
tary, sent the following cable to
Bethlen, Hungarian foreign minister:
"In the name of 250,O00 liberals and
workers affiliated with International
Labor Defense we demand immediate
liberation of the recently arrested
workers, especially of Matthias Rakosi,
former peoples commissar of Hun
gary. New, prosecutions and death
sentences of workers by the Hun
garian government will cause great
indignation among the American peo-
pie. The cries of the tortured prison
ers will be heard at protest meetings
and demonstrations which we are or
ganizing thruout America.
A Worldwide Protest.
The Workers International Relief
with headquarters in Berlin telegraph
ed to the Hungarian government de-
handing in the name of four million
adherents that the prosecutions of the
Hungarian workers stop. The tele-
gram was sent in the name of such in
ternationally known people as Henry
Barbusse, France, George Ledebour,
Germany, Clara zetkin and several
others.
The prisoners in the clutches Of the
Budapest police are subjected to the
most cruel tortures that the most de-
PRAYED bourgeois tools can conceive
of. British labor papers recently car
ried story of the drowning Of a
Hungarian social-democrat on the or
ders Of Horthy because he dared to
mildly criticise the Horthy regime.
This social-democrat was taken from
his office and after being subjected to
physical punishment, was thrown into
the river and drowned. Unless the
Horthy government is convinced
that the workers of the world mean
business in protesting against his
new reign Of terror, there is no doubt
but he will glut his vengeance on the
workers by stringing their leaders on
the gallows.
A Call For Action.
The International Labor Defense,
according to a statement made by
James P. Cannon, secretary, to the
DAILY WORKER, has issued instruc-
lions to all it's affiliated bodies to call
meetings of executive committees at
once and decide on definite plans to