The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-26
POSTPONE trial
OF LANTSUTSKY,
DOCUMENTS GONE
Spies and Police Flood
Court, Search Audience

member of the Polish parliament,
Stanlsiav Lantsutsky, was opened be-
fore the Warsaw district court on
August S, but the persecution claimed
that some Of the documents were miss
ing, so court was suspended.
Lantsutsky was brought before the
court from the famous czaristic
prison, Mokotowo, under heavy police
escort. The court building was sur
rounded by armed police and many
detectives placed among the audience.
Everyone who entered the hall was
searched.
New Trial Awaits Him.
The prosecutor refused to permit
Lantsutsky to see his wife, nor was
the Communist permitted to have the
attorney who defended him in the
first trial at Przemysl appear in court
In this trial. Polish class Justice
is preparing to imprison one of the
most devoted and faithful fighters for
the working class of Poland and the
world.
Lantsutsky, together with Kroli-
kowsky, an old revolutionary fighter,
we're leaders Of the Communist frac-
ton in the Sejn (parliamentG Kroli-
kowski's seat is already empty and
the election of substitute is being
sabotaged by the Sejm. Lantsutsky
is kept away from the Sejm by the
charges placed against him by the
white terrorists After the trial" in
Warsaw, another is waiting for him
in LODI, Polish Manchester.
Lifelong Service to Workers.
Lantsutsky is at present 43 years
old and has been working in the la
Dor movement since he was boy of
IA. He placed all his strength and
energy at the service of the socialist
organization "Shila." At 16 he be
came a member of the Polish socialist
party and participated in all it's work
On account of his political and trade
unionawork he was continuously per-
secuted by his master as an apprentice
in thearailway workshop in Cracow
When II years old he made his first
public speech at the occasion of a
protest. against the murder of four
workers by Austrian police.
In the railwaymens movement he
was carrying on extensive activity.
He was delegate in 1904 to the rail-
waymen's congress, in 1905 he had al
ready leading position in the meet
ings and in the strike committee On
account of his revolutionary activity
he had to leave Galicia in the same
year and had to go to Maerisch
Ostrau where he was soon elected in
to the central committee of the Rail-
waymen's Union.
During the war he remained true
to his revolutionary convictions. In
1919 he returned to Galicia where he
worked in various newspapers against
the war, work which was connected
with great dangers on account Of the
severe legislation. After having led
in 1919 an engineers strike, he had
to live illegally to avoid arrest.
Arrested For Revolutionary Work.
After the November revolution in
1918 and the establishment of the
Polish republic, he became a member
of the municipal council in Jaroslav
and in 1921 he was elected a member
of parliament. AS M. P. he left the
treacherous socialist party and Joined
the Communist Party of Poland. In
parliament he carried on an extensive
revolutionary activity and worked
particularly among the railway work.
ers and the voters of his district, as
the members of parliament were the
only ones who had the right of call
ing meetings.
On account of this revolutionary ac-
tivity he was accused. The first trial
against him took place on account of
a speech which he had made in No.
vember 1928 in a railway workers
meeting in Przemysl Immediately
after the events in Cracow--the vic
torious revolt Of the Cracow work
ers against police and troops which
was afterwards suppressed thru the
treason Of the social democrats.
In this meeting he spoke about the
experience of the struggle in Cracow
and the spies tried to construct from
his words crime of high treason.
an attempt which deplorably failed
before the court At present Com
rade Lantsutsky is accused Of two.
speeches which he had made as men,
her of parliament in mass meetings
in Warsaw and Pabianice and on ac.
count OF an article in the election
paper Of the legal alliance of the
workers in town and country.