The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-06
RAK0SI is SENT
TO SOLITARY
BY TRIAL JUDGE
President Grows Uneasy
as Case Drags
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Zoltan Langyel protests on behalf of
the defense against this limitation OF
the rights of the latter.
The court, thereupon withdraws for
consultation. After the consultation
the president declares: Il withdraw
the last ruling that Rakosi be excluded
from the rest Of the session"
Sentence Second Defendant.
Stormy scenes again take place dur
ing the examination of Comrade Bos-
zod. The president sentences Com.
rade Boszoki to "a hours solitary con-
finement in dark cell for contempt
of court.
"BosEoki: "I protest most energeti--
cally against this arbitrary ruling of
the class court"
The President: For this protest
you get an additional "a hours solitary
confinement in darkness"
All the defendants with the excep-
ton of Geza Vaina declare that they
we're frightfully beaten by the police.
They refuse to testify on questions Of
detail. The president asks each of
them whether he admits being a Com.
munist. They all reply: Il am a
Communist" They declare that their
aim is the establishment of a powerful
Communist Party, because the social
democracy has betrayed the interests
Of the proletariat and has gone over
to the bourgeoisie.
The President: Defendants Weis-
zenhoffer, Nemeth, Fokkel, Canoz and
Kalman, in your examination by the
police you declared that you did not
belong to the secret organization and
were only organized socialistically."
The defendants reply that that is
true, but ethey were gradually con-
WINGED of the correctness of the Com
munist ideas and they were confirmed
in their convictions, especially during
the last ten months, by the justice OF
the counter-revolution. The present
hated order of society can only be
abolished under the leadership of the
Communist Party and replaced by a
more human system.
Socialist Labor Party History.
Aladar Welszhausz took up in de-
tail the origin and development of the
socialist labor party.
The middle ages still exist in Hun
gary" declared Weiszhausz. mot only
awakening Hungarians, but also the
social democrats feel at home in this
slough. branded the social demo-
Gratis as the allies of the awakening
Hungarians.
Strong Opposition Group.
I'm the old social democracy a
strong opposition group existed which
had a large number of adherents.
Things came to a conflict with the
party executive. Several prominent
members of the group were expelled
from the social democracy in violation
of the statutes. The Second Interna-
tional sent a commission to Vienna to
settle the differences. This commits
sion was presided over by Karl Kaut-
sky. Among its members were sew
eral of the most prominent leaders of
the Second International. This COM
mission unanimously condemned the
concluded by the social
democratic leaders with Count Beth
len, and branded this pact as immoral.
"The opposition were granted the
right OF criticizing freely the signers
of the past. The commission called on
the leaders of the Hungarian social
democracy to recognize the opposition
as an authorized tendency within the
party and to lay the differences as
soon as possible before a congress of
the party, which was to be elected by
a general untrammeled vote.
"The leaders Of the social democracy
declared their readiness to submit to
these decisions Of the commission.
They themselves signed the commits
sion report. After their return to Hun
gary they repudiated their signatures
and statements. They continued the
explosions; aye, they even misused
their position in several trade unions
to obtain the expulsion of opposition
members en- masse. The opposition
could no longer remain passive in the
face of this state Of affairs, especially
since the masses would not have COM
pretended such vacillation and pressed
not only FOR a split from the social
democracy, but even for the founda-
ton of separate trade unions.
Unityof Trade Unions.
"Thus was the unity OF the trade
unions endangered by the social dem.
ocratic leaders. A number of new
trade unions sprang up like mush.
rooms. The opposition then collected
the dissatisfied elements in the so
cialist labor party and its first act
was TO put stop to the splitting OF
the trade unions and to conserve their
unity.
THE Hungarian social democracy
betrayed not only the poorer peas
antry and the rural proletariat by sac
their right OF organization in
The pact with Count Bethlen, but also
betrayed the interests OF the industrial
proletariat. which has been plunged