The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-10
The LENA" Massacre in ROumania

In a
which puts of the into the shade In the
valley of the jul Pennsylvania which of the
omt trade unions 30 miners have been Killed
and several hundred of the
National which with the assistance
the social democracy have passed the Roumanan
sorshp and are therefore probability actually lower than the
real figures well that the Roumanian authorities are
not sparfng with lead when workers are concerned
wear ago these in Alba Julia under
the leadership union bureaucracy and the Ma
tona Party the of the socaed Liberal
Party left the mines of Peroan
vueani their indignation at the brutal
regime liberal The erment amongst the
miners exploited by the National Peasant Party
with the interests the ROu
aran the workers further than
peasant for the democracy the leaders of the
party demonstration they equisoned locomotives and
themselves the trouble OF walking the long
distance back their homes.
The accession power did not pacify
the miners immediately had obtained
seats the assistance of the National Peasants
Party did everything nouih the illusion amongst
the the National Peasants Party would
carry out Roumana 1t however
very quickly continuing the policy
of its the ratianu principle but
even formally illusions which still existed
amongst the working and the revolution
succeeded winning the confidence of the miners In
the jul valley their backs the social demo-
National Peasants Party and took up the struggle
the coal barons improvement their working and living
1t is almost impossible the outsider to imagine the terrible
which the live the jul valley The miners
dressed and the greater part OF their terribly 10" wages
are which degrades the miners into semi
months end they receive no cash payment at all
Almost the Danube and Balkan countries
workers the jul valley Under the Hun
monarchy the authorities and the employers succeeded play
nanes amongst the workers against each other
tartan solidarity district the police The
arbitrary police normal of affairs the normal
method of administration in the jul valley
In the years 1918 workers. under the
leadership of the Communists carried out regular gueha war
Roumanan authorities which than the tyranny OF the
authorities before the After the suppression of the
instructions control of the
of the Roumann landowners and finance capt.
taI and above ALL social
bng the discomfort of the miners
but their shortlived
few ago. despite
Party despite promises parliamentary
deputies exceptional regime the jul valley shapened The
gendame
the mining together military.
did their the workers
by telling the sterilization of the the Manu-
would reduce the of living and
this real wages would rise automatically without any strike move
At the time the government of the National Peasants
strengthened the jul valley order be able to deal
Immediately with strike movement which might break out despite
the social democrats.
the
expired the workers demanded new tariff IN which the working
hours day would be shortened from 10 to The
reported by the telegraph of after the the Ro
manian censorship.
progress
only by the Rumanan social
press the Second and of the Amsterdam e. F. u
praised the Roumann social democrats and the Manu-
world that the Manu- the beginning
which against the working
The AusroMarxsts organized campaign against the Communists,
them of nderg he revolutionary work the MANU-
They deliberately fasehood that
Roumania with the Liberal
in prevent BY
Manu and the social democracy.
There doubt that after the the
jul valley which edition of the
Godfeds by the bloody of the 1872
ternaonal will continue the National
social democracy
The the jul valley show that
of the workers and the
the revolutionary the
the illegal Communist Party of Roumania The
do everything its itself
the head of the tong the
Dobru etc., and with the the
will conduct determined revolutionary
and against the democrats
victory is achieved