The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
RAKOSI PROCESS
AGAIN In COURT;
no DEFEND SELF
Hungarian Comrades to
Demand Freedom

honest intellectuals succeeded in pre-
venting the carrying out of this plan
at the last moment. Then came the
main process before a normal court.
Trial Stirs Country.
This process and the heroic attitude
of our comrades before the court
made a tremendous impression both
upon the oppressed and isolated work
ing class of Hungary and upon the
working class Of the whole world. Ra-
kosi, Oeri, Hannah, Goegoes and
Weinberger fought in the shadow of
the gallows for the freedom of the
Communist Party Of Hungary, for the
Communist international and for the
Soviet Union. Their attitude was the
greatest revolutionary propaganda
in the history Of political processes
Of recent years. The judges attempted
in vain to crush the spirit of the &C
cused by disciplinary punishments,
hut they were unable to abolish the
propagandistic effect of the process.
The process had tremendous po-
litical effect in Hungary.
Terrorist to be Trial Judge.
As far as can be seen the proceed
ings during the appeal will not be
merely formalities. The proceedings
will take place under the leadership
of the president of the court of APP
peal, Gado, ore of the most infamous
Judges of the white terror who SEN
fenced the accused to death during
the white terror without any reason
at the order of the government.
Drunk With New Power.
The Rakosi process has already cost
the Bethlen government two defeats.
The protest of the international work
ing class and the propaganda before
the court through which Rakosi and
his comrades worked for the Com
munist Party of Hungary, were very
bitter pills for the Bethlen govern
ment. Druken with it's election vic
tory, the government now wishes to
revenge itself for the defeat it suf
fered. The appeal is taking place in
situation in which the Bethlen gov
eminent has been internally strength
ened and externally it is justified in
its reactionary hopes. 1t proposes to
open an offensive against the whole
Hungarian working class movement.
Will Stand Firm.
The Hungarian government, how
ever. does not intend to satisfy itself
with the attempt to terroize Comrade
I Rakosi with the bloodhound Gado. Ac-
cording to newspaper reports the
prosecutor is preparing an indictment
of Rakosi, the peoples commissar,
and thus preparing for the actual
Rakosi process" in which he will be
accused amongst other things of 283
murders dating from the time of the
Soviet Republic This trial will be
an absolutely separate process deal
ing only with his activity before he.
left Hungary. This means that Ra-
kosi will once again stand in the
shadow of the gallows. This threat
is intended to induce Rakosi to mod
crate his tome There is, however, no
doubt that the accused Communists
will conduct themselves at the appeals
as they did at the main process.
Proletariat Must Protest.
Once again the proletarian masses
Of all countries and all the opponents
of the white terror must unite in pro-
test to defend Rakosi and his comrades
against the murderous intentions of
the Hungarian government. The real
defense Of this process lies in the
hands of the international proletariat.
Tortured, Dies in Prison.
One Of the accused, the shoemaker
Peter Nemet, who was accused of
participation in the congress Of the
Hungarian Communist Party, will not
appear before the court Of appeal.
The reason for this is that he is dead.
Comrade Nemet who was COM
mander of the Red Army in Soviet
Russia and one of the first to receive
the Order of the Red Flag at the
hands of the Soviet government, was
fearfully tortured after his arrest in
Hungary by the minions of Bethlen.
AS a consequence of the tortures to
which he was subjected he became seri-
ously i'll and died about a week ago
without having received any medical
treatment whatever. The authorities
did not even inform his relatives of
his death. The repeated request Of
Nemet that he should be released in
order to receive medical treatment was
regularly rejected by the authorities
despite the fact that he had already
served more than half his sentence.
The leader of the franc forgers. Prince
Windischgraetz, however, is staying
at one of the best sanatoria in Buda-
pest.