The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
200 Communists t
Face Death III
Turkish Prisons
Delegation to F il Q
Protests on Consul
Friday Morning

NEW YORK-A delegation es
Turkish workers in the United State
will visit the Turkish Consul, ITS
Broadway, Friday morning to protest
against the murderous persecution OF
revolutionary Turkish workers by the
Kemalist government. The delega-
ton will demand the release Of 200
Turkish Communists facing death in
the Turkish dungeons and the restor~
alton Of the citizenship of IS Com
munist leaders deported in 1926.
The deported workers were active
In the heroic strikes of railroad work
ers in 1926. Of three strikes called by
the workers, two were victorious, win
ming substantial increases in wages
and better conditions of work
On May 1, 1925, over $4,000 rail-
road workers walked out, raising the
Red banner of struggle for a is per
cent wage increase and an 8-hou
day. The Turkish government or
dered the Mayor of Samsun, center
of the strike, to arrest the leaders
of the strike. The military were sent
in to help do the job. The arrested
strike leaders were tried at mill
tary drun1-head court. Thirty-five
Of the leaders were given life sem
fences and the alternative Of leaving
the country. The IS workers, in
Guiding Nazni Jan1al, left Turkey to
continue their working -class activi~
ties in other countries. Recently
Jamal wrote the Turkish Consul for
information on his status, and was
informed that on account of his ex-
pulsion from Turkey for Communist
activities he was no longer a Turkish
citizen.
Over 200 of the best fighters for
the revolutionary working class move
ment in Turkey are still in prison.
their health and lives menaced by
the brutal prison conditions. In the
recent political amnesty granted by
the Kenlahst government in celebra-
ton of the tenth anniversary Of the
abolition Of the monarchy and the
foundation Of the Turkish Republic,
amnesty was refused to these work.
ers.
The serni-official Constantinople
daily 'Milliyet" declared that the
amnesty would embrace alI,pohtical
offenders without exception, but
added that the authorities did not
regard prosecutions and convictions
arising out of the revolutionary strug-
giles Of the proletariat as in any way
political, and that Communist pris-
oners would be treated exactly as
common criminals. Thus, the revoIu-
tionary workers and i1ltellectuals
who are being slowly murdered in
the dirty prisons of the bourgeois
republic for no other reason than
that they fought for the interests of
the toiling masses are excluded from
this general amnesty" which Is ex-
tended to all the reactionary enemies
Of the republic.
Calls On U. S. Workers TO Protest
The delegation calls upon the
workers of the United States to &C
lively support the struggle for the
release OF these prisoners, for the
smashing of the brutal anti working
class terror of the Kemalist govern
ment, which is supported by the same
Wall Street inperiaHsts who today,
under the New Deal" are ruthlessly
increasing their robbery and murder
Of the white and Negro masses of
this country. Send protest resolu-
tons to the Turkish government and
It's consulates in this country. Or
game protest demonstrations befors
the Turkish ConSulates.