The Daily Worker

Argentine Dictatorship Raids Hungarian Workers' Meeting; 28 Arrested

NEW YORK. - Word has just received by the Workers Cultural Federation that on Aug. 15 the Uriburu dictatorship in Argentine, acting in collaboration with Hungarian fascists, raided a lecture in Buenos Aires arranged by the Hungarian Workers' Association and arrested 28 workers.

The subject of the lecture was nothing more revolutionary than the Einstein theory of relativity. In addition to raiding the lecture, the Uriburu police ransacked the library of the Hungarian Workers Association trying to find revolutionary literature; they found none.

Since their arrest the 28 workers, both men and women, have been kept in dismal cells and are forced to sleep on the bare floor. They are being threatened with deportation to Cape Horn, a disease-infested place where their lives will be in danger.

It is believed that the raid was instigated by three Hungarian fascist newspapers in Argentine and by the Hungarian ambassador, a notorious white guard who took part in the counter-revolution that drowned in blood the Hungarian workers' republic in 1919. Fearing the anger of the workers, the Uriburu government suppressed all news of the raid; it has finally reached the United States through underground channels.

The Workers Cultural Federation has sent a protest cable in the name of the 30,000 members of its affiliated organizations, demanding the immediate release of the imprisoned Hungarian workers. All workers' organizations are urged to send their protests to General Uriburu, Buenos Aires, Argentine.