The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-23

with the Polish COMMITTEES IN Paris.
winch the French especially favored.
ne persuaded Pilsudski to consent
10 a reorganization in which the soldier
anu tho musician should share the
power the Polish people and tho Allies
would be satisfied. The great welcome
70 Paderewskl throughout Poia nd
nelped to persuade Pilsudski. Just as
the welcome to President Wilson in
plan.
Work and Food the Need.
Inc two things needed most now to
uphold tho Polish Government and en-
aple IL to save western Europe from
boisnevism, as centuries ago the Polish
kings saved IL from the infidels. arc
work and food. In order to give work
10 ts people Poland must have raw ma
.erials and machinery for her factoriea
Many important places, like Warsaw
and Lods. are merely burned out shells
vi sreat manufacturing cities, where no
wheel turns. no chimney smokes.
They are filled with unemployed work.
men living on fund OF $4,000, 900 given
oy the factory owners. which is paid
out by the Government at the rate of
~ day for each family; this despite
inc ract that the Germans deported
thousands OF skilled workers to Ger
many and forced them into the war in
dustries.
Inc German deportations in Poland
were as brutal as anything in Belgium.
one or the worst examples was Mt LODI.
Formerly one OF the greatest industrial
centres in Europe, with 100000 popula-
ton; now It has only 100000. What
happened to every factory rs illustrated
by the case of big wool spinning and
weaving works which employed 10000
workmen.
Germans stripped Plants.
1t was modern factory. equal to any
thing in the United states, with model
workmen's houses, cooperative stores,
baths and recreation centres The Ger
mans dismantled the whole factory. To
feed their guns they took every scrap OF
copper. even from this belts, thereby
wrecking every piece of machinery.
Their methods were shown clearly in
the case of copper sheathed rollers they
found there. Being unable to remove
the sheathing at Lodz. the Germans
shipped the rollers to Berlin, where
Skilled men did the work. then returned
the useless rollers and made the Polish
manufacturers pay the cost of trans
porting them TO and from Berlin, and
also the cost of removing the copper.
Before they left the Germans removed
every bit OF raw material.
This is only one of many factories
despoiled In this manner; the work was
done systematically, the Germans de-
liberately trying to destroy LODI as a
commercial rival in the same manner
that they undertook to wreck Belgian
industries.
AS to the food situation. It Is ex-
tremely serious. Kellogg has reported
that the Poles must be fed within a
month and must be substantially aided
for six months They probably will need
30, 600 tons OF food month. This will feed
the cities and the industrial districts; the
country regions can care for themselves
and with the arrival of the harvest
Poland will be self-supporting Just
before the harvest the Germans took
so per cent. of the crops and rushed
them to Germany. leaving the Poles
to starve on 40 per cent.
A few prices will show how serious
| the situation is A single egg costs
% cents; there has been no milk in
| Lemberg since November ] and babies
| are dying by scores: beef Is 81 a quarter
| pound pork and bacon $3.50 to 81
butter in Warsaw Is 81; sugar So
There is no mutton to be had.