(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A protest against what was termed “the White Terror” of the reactionary forces in Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria and Lithuania, was adopted at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Second International which met here. Arthur Henderson, British labor leader, presided.
On the representations made by Dr. Abramowitch, leader of the Russian Social Democrats, the Executive Committee adopted a resolution in which sympathy was expressed with the political prisoners in Russia, victims of Bolshevism, and their release was demanded.
The Schwartzbard case was also one of the subjects taken up. The Committee decided to institute an inquiry into the attitude of the Ukrainian Social Democrats toward the Petlura affair in connection whith the Schwartzbard trial. Particular reference was made to the testimony of Bezpalka in favor of the Petlura group.
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