The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
ASK AID
IN STRUGGLE TO
FREE PRISONERS
Form Inter-Party Group
to Fight for Amnesty

An appeal, addressed to liberal, la
Dor and progressive elements turnout
the world, has just been received here
from the interparty secretariat for the
struggle for amnesty for political pris-
oners in Poland.
The appeal calls attention to the bit
ter struggles which are taking place
now in Poland under the Pilsudsh
dictatorship, the Imprisonment of
workers in the Polish dungeons and
the suppression of the demands of the
national minorities who continue their
fight for national independence.
Unconditional Amnesty.
1--WE demand unconditional amnesty
for political prisoners begins the ap-
peal.
when on May IL Pilsudski's armed
soldiers came out in the fight against
the fascist government, the broad
working masses hoped that with the
moment of the victory of Pilsudsd
would come a decisive change in the
situation in Poland. They hoped that
the first action would be the liberation
Of the prisoners arrested and SEN
fenced for the cause of the emancipa-
ton Of the working class.
Suppression the Same.
1.-THE seat of Witos' government was
taken by Pilsudski and Bartels. The
personnel of the government was
changed. The system of suppression
and repression toward the working
people remained the same. The work
ing masses once more, by their own
experience, have been convinced that
they may count only on their own
power to achieve the emancipation of
the workers and peasants.
Seven Years of Struggle.
Seven years of independence of the
Polish state have meant seven years
of sacrifice, bitter struggle of the
workers of city and village for their
emancipation, struggle which has
been marked by persecution by the
bourgeois government. In the strug
gle for land by the peasants, in the
struggle for bread and peace by the
workers, in the struggle for self-deter-
mination of the oppressed minorities
within Poland, thousands of fighters
went to prison. Today in the Polish
prisons there are 5000 political pris-
oners who, in their hard struggle not
only once with the help of hunger
strikes, must demand the most ele-
mentary human rights.
The broad working masses, with
redoubled might, are raising today the
demand for freedom Of political pris-
oners, and that unconditional enamel
patton be granted them.
Fight for Freedom.
For the struggle of freedom for po-
utical prisoners the White Russian,
the peasant-worker party (Hromada),
the Communist fraction in the Polish
Sejm (parliament), the Independent
Socialist Labor Party, the Narodania
VIOLA CWill of the People, Party, Of
Eastern Galicia, and the Jewish Social,
Democratic Workers Party (Poale
Zion), decided to form an international
party secretariat for the struggle for
amnesty for political prisoners in Po-
land.
workers and farmers! Raise your
voice thruout the land and demand:
Freedom for political prisoners!
Down with repression and persecu-
ton aimed against organizations and
press of the workers and peasants!
Down with the oppression of ma
tional minorities!
I'VE demand the abolition of the
anti-worker and anti-peasant laws Of
former cars and kaisers who ruled
Poland.
Long live united action for the free
dom of Poland's political prisoners!
'1nter-Party seeretariat for the strus-
gle for Amnesty for Political Prls-
oners in Poland.
Representative StanisIaw Ballln,
"Pollsh Diet, Warsaw"
Help in United States.
Labor and liberal organizations are
urged to add their voices in protest
and to urge the Polish government and
Polish emissaries in this country to
grant an amnesty for the political pris-
oners who I'LL Poland's jails today.