The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-04


the fascists of Finland have attacked the
establishment of the working class paper in
Vaassa, smashing the machinery and destroy
ing the establishment.
Now the fascist thugs have continued with
their planned action and distinguished" them
selves in an unheard of manner. On the day
the case of destroying the press establishment
was to be tried in the supreme court of Nassa,
armed bands of thugs filled the city, flogged
and maltreated peaceful workers out on their
every day duties, and threatened to show their
full force if the destruction of the press es-
Establishment was taken up in the "snow white
class court OF Finland,
During the session of the court these Sound
rels were brawling outside and terrorized many
workers in the most despcable manner. Com
rade Nieminen, who had worked in the "Tyon
Aani" Voice Of Labor; the establishment of
which was des royed by the fascists) was badly
beaten, and his clothes were torn to pieces.
Working women were threatened and attacked.
and melee fill the town.
Police Pretend To Be 'Powerless."
The fascists, by their brawl attained their
aim. The coury session was called off, because,
as the fascist administration, siding with the
organized thugs stated, "the police force was
unable to maintain order"-in spite of the fact
police.
After the session of the court had been called
off, the fascists abducted the attorney for the
destroyed workers press establishment. Asser
Salo, who, followed by the governor and the
chief of police, left the court house. Asser Salo
thrown in an auto by the fascist gangsters
and taken to al unknown place.
It is a question whether the white guard
butchers of Finland will still have the face
to claim that Finland is a constitutional state.
One can hardly think that anyone could take
more impudent despicable attitude towards
their own judiciary than what the white but
chers of Finland themselves have taken. The
working class of Finland has always known
that the so-called justice and other institutions
of the state dc not exist in Finland except as
a decoy to mako the credulous elements believe
that Finland is a country of democracy, where
justice is given to all.
The working class has lived there-especa
since the revolutionary uprising of 1918, under
a regime of white terror The liberty of the
workers-yes, and all too often even the life
has been at the discretion of the white butchers
And this occurrence proves that this arbitrari
ness is not diminishing, but quite the contrary
takes ever more bold forms of expression.
We understand very we'll that the governors,
the chiefs of police and all other local high
officials are "powerless" when the defense of
the most elementary civil rights of the workers
and their spokesman and attorneys is in ques-
ton. Even in this case the governor has given
an open declaration in which he expresses his
"regrets" for what took place.
Efforts are being made to shift the respon-
sibty the shoulders of some individual, IL
responsible members of the fascist defense
guard. BY thij trick the white government of
Finland and its apparatus is trying to cover
up and hide its own criminal role in the main
tenance of fascist terror. This is not the first
time the authorities are using these methods to
whitewash their bloody hands.
Fascists Armed
No one, however, will believe that this oc-
currence was a result only of the brawling
of some individual "over-excited" fascists,
when, as in tn. case, some 2, 1000 1900 in full
arms, were modified from relatively small
area in 200 autos No one would believe any
such explanation
We know TT, t occurrences like the one men
toned belong to the system of the white but
cheers, and they are not isolated occurrences.
The regime of the white butchers in Finland,
with its gove1. and chiefs of police, support
the moves of the white defense guards and the
"okhrana," a. not only these gentlemen, but
also the social democrats, who have become So
cial fascists and are sanctioning all measures
of those in !, over, directed against the working
class.
If the COVE nment, the Diet and the county
adminstratio-. with the exception of the rep
resentative. of workers and small farmersl
does not sup. Jrt the terri rist acts of the fas-
cists, why then are huge appropriations being
made annually to the defense guards and the
"okhrana" from the general budget?
Renegades Aid Fascsts.
The social democrats have in every respect
acted in support and defense of the wife terror
lists But now, when the role of the social
democrats is becoming evident/to the workers,
new recruits have come forward who are in a
position to befog the eyes of the workers from
seeing the correct state of affairs.
This band of renegades which at one time
were members of the Communist Party of Fin
land, has now adopted as its program the max
ing of shameless accusations against the sim
cere advocates of the working class and of Civ
ing information to the white government, play.
ing counter-revolutionary role against the
cause of the working class.
Comrades, the working class of Finland has
to meet many kinds of enemies Now as often
before, we have to rush our moral support to
our Finnish assbrothers, struggling in diff