The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Terror Stalks ROumania AS Crisis
Sinks Deeper
BY LimbGch

hundreds Of pages, but these few
examples we gave you will suffice
to paint the situation existing in
fascist Roumania. The picture would
be incomplete if we did not men,
ton the activities or rather the
treachery of the Reformist leader
ship in Roumania. Not only are
they blocking the advance of the
united front (as the Waldmans, the
Lees and the William Greens are
doing in the U. s. but they are
actually working hand in glove with
the government. At the recent
Roumanian A. F. of L. Congress,
admittance was refused to the dele
gates duly elected by their respec-
tive unions. These delegates came
to the Congress with resolutions for
the adoption of the United Front,
for a program of struggle for imme-
date demands and against war and
faSciSm. Instead of admitting these
delegates, who expressed the will of
the majority of the rank file, they,
the Reformists, formed congress
of cliques instead of a congress of
rank and file delegates. Instead of
admitting the general council of the
Unitary Unions Qegalized after ex-
IRENE battles, the 'Liga Muncii"
and the anti-fascist National Com
mittee; instead of admitting the
delegates from Bessarabia. repre-
senting some 10000 workers, they
were happy to receive the Inspector
General Georgian, who greeted in
the name of the Minister of Labor
the Congress of authorized repre-
Sentatives of labor. The general
report was made by Mr.. Mirescu.
This representative of authorized"
labor had the impudence ito deny
the aggressive character of the
strike wave" now going on in Rou-
mania. He had the shameless au-
dacity, in speaking of the 1888 rail-
way strike when hundreds of work
ers were shot down and hundreds
are still in prison for hundreds of
years, to say that only seven work
ers had been killed. The fact as
stated by us was even admitted
by that bourgeois politician DR..
Lupu and by the press.
In spite of the terror, in spite
OF the sabotage and treachery of
the Social Democrat and the Re-
formist leaders, the united front is
gaining momentum, Already the
"Liga Muncii" (the Labor League),
the anti-fascist organizations be-
longing to the Amsterdam Level
Committee, and the Unitary So
cialist Party have signed united
front pact.
Also the different associations of
Office, stores and bank EMPLOYEES
have organized a Committee of
United Action. This united front
came out in the streets and cele-
brated the 18th anniversary of the
october Revolution. This in itself
IS an heroic action on the part of
the Roumanian workers, for while
the police and the army descended
zen masse" on the workers quar-
tiers and clubs, 1000 strong demon
strated at Bucharest before the
railway shops Grivitza, renowned
for the heroic battles of February
1888. There the Roumanian prole-
tariat showed they would not be
defied by any enemy of the working
class. The Roumanian proletariat
has proven that in spite of the
terror prevailing there, they would
mot cease fighting until the last
vestige of the Roumanian bourgeoi-
sic has been destroyed and in its
stead the red flag of the Roumanian
Soviets adorns the whole of Rcu-
mania.
in the standard of living In con-