The daily worker., 1925-10-02

and amnestize the political prisoners
tempted to gain the sympathy of the
soon came to light, that under cover
of the ultra-radical phrases the new
government was in fact creating a
military fascist dictatorship.
The Pangalos government swiftly
took the well-worn road of the policy
of terror and persecution which in
the long run was directed to the final
destruction of the labor movement
and which is paving the way to the
restoration Of the monarchy.
Over 400 members and sympathiz-
ers are imprisoned in Greecian pris-
ons, apart from this, over $50 vic
Tins of political prosecutions have
been banished to the small islands of
| the Aegian Sea. All of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of the Central Committee of the Com
munist Youth, the Central Committee
of the local International Red Aid,
editors of the labor newspapers and
many active workers of the trade
union movement. Not only. the lead
ers, but the worker and peasant mass
es undergo harsh persecution. In La
rissa, Tricole, Livadia and in many
other parts of Thessaly many skir-
mishes have taken place in which
blood was shed and numerous ar
rests were made among the poor peas
ants and the late participators in the
war for the confiscation of the big
Greecian landowners land in favor of
the poorer peasants. tsH
In compliance to the wishes of
American capital, the Pangalos gov
ernment is throwing ontot the, streets
all those refugees from, Little Asia
who fled to Greece. Eighteen sol
diers were sentenced to from, III to
10 years each by the court martial in
Salonica for merely reading the Com
munist newspaper Risospastio. Extra
ordinary strong is the governmental
terror in those regions annexed, to
Greece after the war-Macedopia and
Thracia. Court martials prevail there,
and the labor press has no chance of
gaining foothold there. ! All strug
gle for the freedom of Macedonia
and Thrace is declared treason and
is heavily punished and persecuted.
Nine comrades we're sentenced in
July to total of 1872 years penal SER
vitude in Salonica for their partici-
patton in the Macedonian movement
for freedom.
Trials and court martials follow one
another with rapidity. Many mem
bers of the Greecian Communist
Party were sentenced on August 8, to
many years of imprisonment The
newspaper Risospastio, which mad de-
Tended the political prisonersf against
the torture and foul attitude display
ed against them, met with similar
fate at its trial which ended on the
Sth of August. .s
At the present time, the Rangalos
government is finishing the mock po-
Iitical trial, which commenced on the
25th of August, Of those Communists
accused Of treason. Thirty-two pris-
oners stand before the bar. Among
these are the general secretary Of the
Greecian Communist Party, Comrade
Maximos, other members of the Gen.
trail Committee, and active members
of the Communist movement. Their
treason" consists in their struggle
against the policy of national op-
preston In Macedonia and in Thrace,
and for their national freedom. The
trial is taking place before court
martial, and a few Of the accused are
threatened with death sentences.
Workers and peasants of the world!
In the southern Balkan peninsula,
lhe bourgeois government, under the
sloak of democratic demagogy, and
attempting to deceive the popular
masses by means of faithless promis-
IS, is now going over to the methods
Of fierce vengeance against the labor
and peasant movement The Greecian
government is following in the foot
steps of the Roumanian Sigurantsi,
and Of Zankoy's Justice"
The last stronghold of the legal la
Dor movement in the Balkans threat
ems TO fall under the blows of reac-
ton, striving to disorganize the la
boring masses. Reaction is closing its
ranks By means Of its terroristic pol
icy.
Comrades!
Protest against the terroristic re-
gime OF the Greek fascistil
Down with mock political trialsl
No more death sentences!
Long live the amnesty of political
prisoners!
Long live the international solidar.