The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-14
STATEMENT BY
|. |, D. ON The
QUEENS VISIT

ers and poor farmers are not permit
ted to hold public meetings, or to
organize into labor organizations of
any kind. Under her government
hundreds Of workers have been mar
dered in cold blood by the bestial Sc
cret police called the "Siguranza"
Hundreds of workers, men and WON
en-, are rotting in prison only be
cause they defended the interests of
workers. While the queen and her
royal court riot away in extravagant
orgies, the workers and farmers of
Roumania live under the most miser-
able conditions. While the queen and
part of her family come to make trips
turnout America, spending hundreds
Of thousands of dollars for expensive
clothes and banquets, workers and
their children are starving Tor want
Of food in Roumania.
Workers are imprisoned, and tor
tured there in the most unspeakable
manner. Their conditions In prison
are so frightful that they are forced
to go on hunger strikes in an attempt
to get even slight consideration
Neither women nor children are spar
ed by the blood-thirsty rulers OF Rou-
mania. Children are murdered in the
military expeditions against workers
and peasants; mothers and sweet
hearts are ravished and shamed be-
fore the eyes of the helpless men.
The huts Of the peasants are fire.
quently burned down by the drunken
! soldiers and officers. The homes Of
workers are never safe from inva-
sion by the "Siguranza" The op-
pressed nationalities In Roumania,
which are fighting for that indepen-
dence from tyranny and monarchy
that our ancestors fought Tor in 1776,
are mercilessly prosecuted and sup
pressed.
A reign OF terror exlsts In the land
Of Queen MarIeI Her hands are red
with the blood Of workers and peas
ants! Under her fine clothes she
wears the garments Of an execu-
toner Of the peopIeI"
Queen Marie has come to the Unit
! ed States with lies on her lips about
her country. She wants a loan from
Wall Street to help maintain her
bloody rule in Roumania. Those Am
erican governmental officials who are
kow-towing to her, are insulting the
anti-royalist anti monarchist tradi-
ton of the great revolutionary war
I # independence in 177e.
American labor looks upon the
queen OF Roumania only with horror
md disgust. We want no official wei
comes to her and her family. We want
only demonstration OF our solidarity
with the oppressed peoples Of Rou-
mania, who suffer under the iron heel
0f Queen Marie's despotism. We want
no loans to be given by American
bankers to bolster up her hideous gov
eminent. We demand the end of the
numbering of workers and peasants in
Roumania, and the freedom of ali
workers from their rotten prisonsl
The private life OF "this queen" and
her court has been for many years an
International scandal In the last few
weeks the story of Cotzofanesh has
come to light. A big Vienna work
ers' daily has recently exposed the
wartime "Cotzofanesti" affair, facts
regarding which have been suppress
ed all these years and are now made
public and vouched for by reliable
Roumanian sources: In the town Of
Cotzofanesti, on the Moldavian bat
tlefront during the war, the queen
and others members of the royal fam
lily and the court, were found parti-
cipating in a disgusting orgy with
French officers, while Roumanian sol
diers were dying in nearby hospitals.
A soldier who discovered the orgy
was SO embittered that he set fire to
the building in which royalty was ex-
posing its degeneracy. When the par
| Elephants ran out of the burning build
| ing. the "blue-blooded ladies'" were
seen in a half drunken and half I'M
clothed condition. Every Roumanian
knows the meaning OF "Cotzofanesti."
Her bloody regime in Roumanta. her
reign of terror against workers and
peasants, is a stencil in the nostrils
of all honest people!
Protest against the visit of Queen
MarieI Demand freedom for Rou-
mania's imprisoned working class.
Send your protests in messages to the
Department of State; to the Rouman-
ian Legation; to Mayor Dever OF Chi
cago; and to Governor Small Of ILL
| nois.
international Labor Defense calls
upon American workers to join with
it in this great protest and to express
their solidarity with the Roumanian
lighters for freedom, Follow the ex-
ample of the Chicago workers, who
have. thru the Chicago Federation of
Labor, condemned the queen, her well
come here and her rulership in Rou-
mania!