Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-29
POLISH LEGATION
TO Be PROTECTED
Police Ordered to Prevent
Communist Protest Meet
ing There Tomorrow.

Tentative orders that any gathering
nf Communists in front of the Polish
legation, 2640 Sixteenth street, be
broken UP were issued at the 10th
precinct yesterday. following the
picketing of the legation in protest
against the death sentence imposed
in Poland on Stanislaw Lanzutsky,
Communist leader and member of the
Polish Parliment. Tomorrow may see
a contest.
Communists officially promise to re-
sumo picketing, and the police or
ders at present are that such gather
IS would not be permitted These
orue"s will stand it was stated at the
10th precinct last night, until revoked
by higher authorities.
Police dispersed the Communists
yesterday after they had picketed the
legation for more than an hour during
the afternoon, Haunting baners charg-
ing the Polish government with plotting
to murder Stanislaw Lanzutsky, Polish
member of Parliament and Communist
leader now under sentence of death
in that country.
Men and women, members of the
Washington Workers Party, marched
up and down the street from shortly
before 1 o'clock until about o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The crowd was or
derby and readily disappeared in auto
mobiles, folding up the placards and
banners and quietly moving away
when Capt. Lord and a squad of re-
serves from the tenth precinct or
dered dispersal. Pick citing will be
resumed tomorrow, according to leaders
of the pickets.
DR.. Ladislas Wroblewski, Polish
Minister, took no initiative in the
matter, leaving it entirely in the
hands of the police 1t was a mat
ter of no interest, no concern" to him,
he told newspaper men.
Give Out Statements.
Official Statements" as to the pick
citing were distributed to newspaper
men by a press agent of the local
workers party shortly after the pick
citing started. These statements de-
Clared:
The Polish government has SEN
fenced to death Stanislaw Lanzutsky,
railroad worker and Communist mem
Der of Parliament, because he has
courageously fought against misery,
starvation and unemployment of the
working masses and against the vio-
lent suppression by every known
form of terrorism of the organizations
of the working class"
The placards and banners were even
Some of them read as follows:
We Protest against the Plot of the
Polish Government to Murder Stanis-
law Lanzutsky"
Polish Socialists Are Responsible
for the Death Sentence of Lanzut-
sky"
Down with the Polish bourgeoisfe,"
with the subscription, international
Workers Aid" at the bottom.
Another was pro-Communist post
Ell with the word Communist" in
capital red letters.
This marks the first large public
demonstration by Washington Com
munists.
The statement issued by the Work
ers' party, which is a branch of the
national organization, recited that
Lanzutsky addressed a gigantic meet
ing of railroad strikers on November
II, 1928, pointing out the treachery
of the capitalist government and its
supporters. the yellow socialists. He
further emphasized the necessity of
the workers to establish control of
the government
Picket Hazy On Details.
The statement added that after
LanZutsky had been in the forefront
of the communist movement in Po-
land, the government threw aside all
pretexts of parliamentary formula,
seized Lanzutsky, confined him in a
vile dungeon and after a farcical trial,
condemned him to death on the gall
lows"
The pretext for this vicious SEN
tence," continues the statement, was
a speech delivered a year and four
months ago before a meeting of rail-
rad strikers during the course of
general strike that swept the coun-
try
Two former members of the CEN
trail executive committee of the Work
ers' Party were present at the dem
onstration. One is A Jakira of Phil
adelphia, now a district organizer
and the other, H. NJ. Wicks of New
York, who was also former editor of
Soviety Russia Pictorial and other
publications.
One of the demonstrators was asked
what the protest was all about dur
sng the early arrivals of inquiring re-
Porters. His answer was Something
10 do with Poland" Then the press
agent arrived with his statement and
CLEARED up all misunderstanding.
PROTEST IN NEW YORK