The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
POLISH MEETING
ORGANIZES FIGHT
ON white TERROR
Socialists Refuse to Aid
Jailed Workers

The conference called by the ma
tional committee Of the Conference to
Aid Political Prisoners in Poland,
May 10, at Schoenhofen Hall, with the
object Of forming Chicago section of
the committee, was great success,
and showed that when Polish work
ers in this country are brought face
to face with the facts of the life and
death struggle that their comrades in
Poland are carrying on against the
white terror, very real interest and
feelings Of solidarity are aroused.
10 Delegates Present.
Nineteen delegates representing the
following organizations were present:
Polish Machinists' Local No $50;
Polish Carpenters Local No. BAL; two
branches of the Polish workingmen's
Sick Benefit Society; White Russian
Peoples Association; the "Sila" Edu-
cational Society, and three branches
Of the Polish section Of the Workers
Party. % 81
Comrade Marek, as temporary Sec
rotary of the organizing committee,
opened the meeting Comrade jed
MAXI was elected chairman. Comrade
B. X. Gebert gave Q report on the gen.
eral aims and progress Of the Confer
ence to Aid Political Prisoners in
Poland, and Comrade George Maurer
greeted the delegates in the name Of
the Labor Defense Council.
Discover the Socialists Support
White Terror.
A committee of three, composed of
Janicki Of the Machinists' Union,
Marek and Puhacz, was elected to
visit the district convention of the
Polish Socialist Alliance, which was
holding it's meeting at the same time,
in order to ask for cooperation in the
work Of the Conference to Aid Poll
teal Prisoners in Poland.
The members Of the committee were
given the floor blythe socialists, but
the motion not to participate in the
conference got nine votes as against
three for the motion to participate.
One of the union members of the
committee remarked that while he had
always believed that the socialists
represented progress, he now saw that
they represented conservatism.
A resolution presented by Comrade
Gebert was passed BY the conference,
condemning the present Polish gov
eminent for the fact that it was hold
ing 5000 workers and peasants as
political prisoners, greeting the prison
ers, and pledging them moral and
material support. 1t was moved that
the resolution be sent to the chairman
Of the sejm, the revolutionary work
ers' and peasants representatives in
the sejm, and the executive commit
tee of the Trade Upion Alliance of
Poland.
1t was also resolved to organize a
Chicago section Of the Conference to
Aid Political Prisoners in Poland, to
cooperate with the American section
of the Red Aid. The following organ
ization committee was elected:
Brzowski, Of the Mschinists' Union;
Puhacz, Of the Polish Workingmen's
Sick Benefit Association; Podkulsky,
of the I. L. G. w o.; Morowska, of
the "Sila" Educational Society. and
Marek, of the Polish branch Of the
Workers Party. TheFnext meeting Of
the conference will be on June IA.
The tour of Comrade Radwanski,
who has been successful in preparing
the ground for the organization of To-
cal sections Of the conference to Aid
Political Prisoners in Poland is COM
ing to an end. The final dates Of the
tour are as follows: Neffs, Ohio, May
10; Fairpoint, Ohio, May IA; York
vile, Ohio, May Is; Warren. Ohio.
May II (afternoon); Cleveland, Ohio,
May II (evening) Erie, Pa, May IS,
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