The daily worker., 1925-01-12
tspeoIaI to Ths paIIy worksrl

| hhN NALy ESLnOnla, (by Mall)-
Seven years independence" of the
Esthonian shopkeepers and protiteers,
seven years of dastardly crimes. shoot
ing and persecution of the revolution.
ary workers of Esthonia. This is the
record Of those seven years.
1919.
AS soon as they got into power, the
capitalist rulers of Esthonia cele-
brated the triumph of their "independ-
ent fatherland" by series of out
rageous murders. In the autumn of
1919, the police and secret service
men raided the first congress of the
Esthonian trade unions, arresting 102
delegates OF the congress, representa-.
tives of the different trade unions, 76
tof them were driven to the Russo-Es-
thonian border and put In the very
front Of the battle line and compelled
to run forward, towards the Red Army
posts. At the same time, firing was
started by artillery in the direction of
the Russian border in order to pro-
woke the Red Army detachments to
shoot. and it was only happy chancc
that the Esthonian comrades man.
aged to reach the Red Army fore posts
in safety. The remaining 26 were ar
rested labor leaders were brought vi
night to Izborsk where they were bru-
tally murdered by the Esthonian mar
auders.
1920.
In view of the growing revolution
ary consciousness among the working
masses, the pseudo-democratic govern
ment suppressed a number of trade
union organizations, and at Reval, Dor
pat and other places, hundreds Of la
Dor leaders were thrown into jail.
1921.
Other revolutionary workers were
arrested by the secret police, and in
the summer of the same year 115
workers belonging to revolutionary,
trade union, cooperative, sport and
other labor organizations were put on
trial The majority of the accused
were sentenced by the military dis
trict court to eight, ten and twenty
years penal seryitude.
1922 and 1923.
New sacrifices were exacted from
the working class of Esthonia. In
1922, the working class thruout the
world was shocked by the news Of the
murder of the leader of the Esthon-
ian revolutionary movement, Comrade
Kingisepp, who was shot within "A
hours Of his arrest.
In connection with the murder of
Comrade Kingisepp, there were whole
sale raids and domiciliary searches
and about so new victims were thrown
into the dungeons for long terms Of
detention. In 1923, another victim fell
in the person of Comrade Kreuks, n
member of the e. c. of the party and
a prominent organizer of the masses
He was captured and murdered in the
street by an Esthonian secret police
agent, who shot him down on the spot.
The bourgeois press tried to hush up
the murder, pretending that it was
purely accidental" that Comrade
Rreuks had resisted the police when
being arrested in the street, and so on.
1924.
The current year was started by the
Esthonian executioners with number
Of new crimes. The economic and pol
itical position Of the EstAonian bour
geoisie which loses ground day by day
the total economic collapse, the sharI
antagonism among the ruling cliques
on the one hand, and unemployment,
high cost of living and growing discon-
tent among the masses on the other
hand, drive the Esthonian shopkeep.
ers and profiteers to new prosecutions
directed against the labor movement
Only q couple of months ago, young
student was sentenced to penal servi
tude for life just because a bundle of
Communist literature had been found
on him. Only a week ago two work
ers were executed for the mere at
tempt TO aid political prisoners in their
escape from the Reval jail.
The Accused in the Trial of 14e.
They consist of the best and most
devoted leaders of the labor move
ment in Esthonia. Along with score
Of active rank and file workers we
find in the list OF the accused tn the
csthonian trial the names Of prom
mont leaders of theflabor organisA
lions:
!. Jansou, Alexander Member q:
me Board of the Esthonian Trade Tn
ion Council.
2. Kaugur. Vladimir SO Organizer OF
the young workers.
3. Allik. Hendrick-Editor Of labor
paper and secretary OF Agricultural
Laborer's Union.
4. Keerdo, Paul - Secretary of the
Esthonian Trade Union Council.
5. Tomp, JaD--Chairman of the Els.
thonian Trade Union Council.
The above five comrades were men,
bers OF the National Assembly.
G. Hanesen, August - Chairman of