The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
vAGI DERIDESa
HORTHY JUDGE
IN TRIAL Of So
Social Democrats
for Their Betrayal
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IaJorsnlp the blacklist night began for
the Hungarian proletariat. The white
terror ragged turnout the land"
The president calls Vagi to order
and instructs him to speak in his own
defense.
Vagi continued fearlessly: Seventy
thousand prisoners were thrown into
the dungeons and numberless martyrs
were sent to eternity"
The president again called Vagi to
order.
Vagi; Even at that time I already
protested against the attitude of the
Hungarian social democracy. Social
democratic leaders participated as
ministers in the first regime of blood.
They gave their assent to extraordi-
nary courts and internment. The So
cial democratic leaders thus became
lccomplices of the most appalling
white terror. Altho the Hungarian
proletariat kept on fighting under the
most dreadful white terror, kept true
to its revolutionary traditions and Of
fered heroic resistance, the leaders of
the Hungarian social democratic party
continued their betrayal of the class
struggle.
"Altho the brutal white terror 81
fenced every liberation movement and
endeavors to exterminate the proleta-
riat, the leaders of the social democ-
racy at every decisive moment de-
clared their readiness to support the
counter-revolution. can state with
clear conscience, without fear of ex-
aggeration, that the Hungarian social
democratic leaders are the surest and
most reliable supports of the counter
revolution.
"As a revolutionary Marxist, l could
not stand aside and remain passive
while the Hungarian proletariat, which
had remained resolute even during the
most terrible reign of white terror, was
being slaughtered. l saw how the
agricultural workers and poorer peas
ants were cheated by the so-called
agricultural reform Greater villainy
was never committed than the be-
trayal of the rural proletariat by the
Hungarian ruling class with the agri-
cultural reform. saw how the ruling
class enriched itself shamelessly with
the aid of this agricultural reform
saw how the so-called patriots loud
mouthly gabbled of the disgraeeful
Trianon peace treaty and iof the in
tegrity of Hungary, and at the same
time sold the country and its sover-
eighty to foreign capitalists thru the
reconstruction PLAN
Reconstruction in Hungary.
Reconstruction plunged Hungary
into unprecedented misery. Not only
is the Hungarian proletariat perishing
in starvation and wretchedness, but
the city middle class and the so-called
are being proletarized
Month after month hundreds seek an
escape from Reconstructed Hungary
the social democratic lead
ers were true to Bethlen and followed
him as a shadow follows light. They
concluded a pact with him. During
reconstruction they have concluded a
truce with him, and attained world
records in history in the field of be-
rayal in matters great and small. To
gether with the decay of the Hunga-
rian counter-revolution, the mentality
of the social democratic leaders has
also decayed more and more.
Fear Of Revolution.
1.-THE counter-revolution is only held
together by the fear of the revolution.
The social democrats are afraid of
nothing so much as of the revolutions
airy STRINGS of the proletariat. After
open compacting with Bethlen was no
longer possible, the social democratic
party formed a bloc with the demo
Gratis who were under the leadership
IF the legitimists. While Horthy and
The awakening Hungarians were turn
ing Hungary into a vast cemetery, the
social democratic leaders wallowed in
The slough Of corruption of the white
terror and enriched themselves with
the left.overs of the various Panama
affairs"
The president threatened Vagi with
n severe sentence IL he continued his
The President: what international
TO you belong to, the Third?"
Vargi: "The party executive sent
delegates to the Marseilles congress of
the Second International. The entire
party was unable TO take stand on
this matter-for Hungary is not only
the classic land Of Panama scandals,
but also of lawbreakers-as we could
not hold a congress where this ques-
ton could have been decided"
The President: "Why did you say
that the socialist labor party wants TO
put the slow. wobbling locomotive Of
the Hungarian labor movement back
on the straight track OF Marxism?"
Need New Leadership.
Vagi: Because the social demo.
Gratis repress every mass movement;
because the social democrats have In.
fected the workers with cowardlce for
years Five thousand four hundred