The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1925, Page 9

The Language of the R over a week Zankov has been announcing that he will employ the gallows. For over a week bour- geois Europe has been awaiting with curiosity to hear the crack of the broken necks of the Communists who are compelled to swing from the gal- lows. Not a single voice has been raised in the bourgeois press. Nobody has called out to the hangmen of Sofla: Stop! or, Enough! The “Defenders of right and just- ice” seem to be employing their whole energies in cursing the red terror. The humanitarian bourgeoisie smiles MARKO FRIEDMAN One of the victims publicly hanged by Zankov “for the Sofia cathedral ex- plosion.” with approval at the spectacle afford- ed in Sofia. The Bulgarian social de- mocrats have likewise given their ap. proval to the Zankov government. The corpses of Stambulisky and hun- dreds of peasant leaders had hardly grown cold, when the Bulgarian so- cial democrats entered the govern- ment. And now, when this govern- ment is clinging desperately to pow- er, and is reintroducing the medieval methods for suppressing the people's movement, the Bulgarian social de. mocrats declare their approval of the executions. HE Second International, which during the trial of the counter- revolutionary social revolutionary ter- rorists and conspirators of Russia, at- tempted to mobilize the public opin- ion of the whole world and proclaim- ed on this occasion the inadmissibili- ty of the armed struggle “between the various sections of the prole- tariat,” finds not a single word of blame for the Bulgarian social-demo- crats. The Second International, which sent lawyers in order to defend the terrorists who had made attempts upon the life of Lenin, does not find it necessary to denounce the bloody reprisals of Sofia. The telegraph announces: “Listen, listen! In Sofia they are going to ' ] Gallows in In the Name of Civilization The Bloody Zankov Is Saving the World from Bolshevism. ing class and of the peasants whom they did not succeed in killing on their arrest!” “7 ISTEN!” we say to the prole. tarians of all countries, for the gallows of Sofia will speak their own language: “The acts of violence of Zankov teach you that in civil war there is no mercy. Proletarians of all countries, do not forget this! A day will come when the roles will be exchanged, when the representatives of the bourgeoisie will be in your hands! Remember then the lessons of Sofia! No Mercy! Those who do not understand how to hit the class enemy hard, will die at his hands. hang the representatives of the work-i They or we!” PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR IN THE SOVIET UNION STEADILY CLIMBS TO PREW AR LEVEL—W AGES GO UP MOSCOW, (By Mail)—In the budget year 1922-23 the average wage in the Soviet Union was 49 per cent and the productivity of labor 46 per cent of the pre-war level. In the budget year 1923-24 the correspondingfigures for the first quarter -were: cent of the pre-war level; in wages 60 per cent, productivity of labor 50 per the fourth quarter: wages 65 per cent and productivity of labor 59 per cent of the pre-war level. The first quarter and productivity of labor 71 of the budget year 1924-25 wages were 79 per cent per cent of the pre-war level. At present the average productivity of labor for the¢———————___________—____- Soviet Union as a whole is 77.7 cent and wages 78.7 per cent of pre-war level. According to Comrade Korotkov’s report in the Central Control Com- mission, in the budget year 1923-24 the considerable wages increase was accompanied by a comparatively slow upward movement of the productivity ot labor. In the first quarter of the budget year 192425, this proportion was remedied by the daily output per head increasing 14.8 per cent in- stead of only 3.8 per cent, whilst wages experienced a further increase of 4.4 per cent. The following table per jis an the | of the fMustration of thé flunctuation wages and the daily output per head since October 1922: Oct. 1923 3.13 42.2 Oct. 1923 3.34 83.3 Oct. 1924 4.71 102.5 Jan. 1925 5.63 101.2 Feb. 1925 5.93 103 Percent. iner, ........ 90 141.7 Glass Bottle Blowers Meet July 6. BALTIMORE — (FP) — The Glass Bottle Blowers’ Assn. opens its con- vention in Baltimore, July 6. It re- ported 6,000 members to the A. F. of L. in 1924 compared with 10,000 in 1921. , It ig the language of the gallows which are set up in the Cathedral Square of Sofia. May we never for- get this! This is the will of the re- actionaries of Bulgaria and the world bourgeoisie. May the memory of these acts of violence be stamped in the heart of every proletarian child! May this picture harden us in the fight when we shall be the stronger! ORKERS and peasants will be or are already hanging side by side. A roll of drums will drown their last words. We, however, will hear these last words and shall spread them thruout the whole world. Every peas- ant, every worker must hear them. The martyrs of the Bulgarian Peas- the Balkans | ant Party cry to the peasants of the whole world: “Peasants, comrades, see! We, the Peasant Party of Bul- garia drove the bourgeoisie from pow- er, but we did not venture to destroy. it and feared to make an alliance with the workers. We did not understand how to create a point of support in the towns. We have not found among us any leaders for our troops. Among the peasants we have not found peo- ple who had been trained in the school of long fights against the bour- geoisie. The bourgeoisie understood how to throw the net of their conspir- acies over us. They understood how to seize power again. Then they kill- ed the best among us in thousands. They shot us and hanged us. May our example serve as a lesson to you. Remember, therefore, that the peas- ants can only liberate themselves from the capitalist yoke in brotherly alliance with the workers, and under their leadership!” HE Communist on the way to his execution calls to his fellow work. ers: “Comrades of all countries! We are perishing here because we have not understood how to unite with the peasant class. We did not support them in the fight against the bour- geoisie. We left it to their inexperien- ced hands to control power. We at- tempted to retrieve this error, but too late! And this is costing us thousands of victims. What is lost in one moment of history must often be won again in long years of pitiless struggles. Learn and strengthen yourself! Keep up your courage! Remember that on the day on which the working class and the peasants find themselves side by side confronting the bourgeoisie, side by side as the Bulgarian workers and peasants are now dying together, we will be victorious!” The Bulgarian counter-revolution, and with,it the international counter- revolution, are organizing a demon- stration in Sofia—the first of its kind —for the wnited front of>the: workers | and peasants: ‘They dentonstrate that | their victory means annihilation of the one as much as the other. We will do everything in order that this shall be understood. The ghastly spectacle of the world bourgeoisie and of the Bulgarian bourgeoisie will turn against those who have arranged it. O the Bulgarian Communists and Peasants who are dying there, we send our last greetings! We know that they will go courageously to death. In their final hour they will neither find themselves alone nor for. saken. We are sure that their blood will be a fruitful seed. Over the walls of the bayonets they will see the mil- lions of workers and peasants reach- ing out towards them, raising their hands in farewell and also in sign of an oath. We swear to revenge them! We swear that the working class will kuow how to scourge its execu- tioners! Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children By HERMINIA ZUR MUHLEN, Translated by Ida Dailes. Stories that will make your children proud of being in .the ranks of the working class. 750 Duroflex Cover With color plates and cover designs by LYDIA GIBSON, $1.25 Cloth Bound ae THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. j 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Suleacte$ Chicago, Illinois Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your sbopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch.