The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-24
COMMUNIST VOTE TRIPLED In WARSAW ELECTIONS;
POLISH SOCIALISTS AND MIDDLE PARTIES LOSE

/ embracing petty bourgeois sections,
the middle classes and employees
obtained 10000 votes.
Socialists Lose.
The PSP had 1000 votes as
against $1,000 in the elections to the
Sejm.
In the Jewish quarter (there are
about 30 per cent Of Jews in War
( saw the bourgeois candidates, with
$4,000 votes and the Bund candidates
with 10000 votes, We'd with each
other.
All Had Money.
All these groups had great means
at their disposal and, attributing the
I greatest Importance to the Warsaw
elections, carried on intensified agi-
tation. The two government groups
distinguished themselves especially,
lie, the committee for the recovery
Of Warsaw and the PSP, flooding
Warsaw with appeal and posters and
deafening it with a succession OF
meetings, Of which the PSP organ
lied 10 to Is a day. The PSP-ers
were not too particular, for the most
demagogical slogans, appealing for
the protection Of the polish charac-
ter of Warsaw apparently against
Jews and Communists), vying with
the National democrats; issued APP
peals to the Catholics Of Warsaw, as
surfing them of their liberation ano
good anything to get votes.
Communists Underground.
The Communists were crowded out.
The Communist Party has been
driven underground in Poland The
Polish judges passed sentences Of
long-term Imprisonment, on the basis
of the Tsarist laws still effective in
former Russian Poland, against those
guilty Of adherence to the Commun-
ist Party, or affixing Communist
appeals. The PSF Left Wing, split
ting off from the PSP last year, is
legal party but also zealously per-
secuted by the authorities.
Trade Union Opposition led partly
4 by the Communist Party, partly by
the Left Wing PSP, is the victim Of
/ perpetual vicious persecution by the
trade unions bureaucrats, inevitably
followed up by police repressions.
We win merely mention the closing
down of a succession of Red branch
es Of unions, the arrests Of trade
unionists, the confiscation and closing
down of Clos Piracy" the organ Of
trade union opposition During the
whole election campaigns there was
no revolutionary press and it was al
most impossible to get up meetings,
all agitation being carried on in con-
ditions of incessant police repression.
The annulment of the Left candi-
dates list on the plea that it con-
tanned candidates sentenced for Com
munist activity completed this sort
of repression. It is highly probable
that the PSP did its bit in TIE aunul-
ment Of this list on the quiet. hoping
to increase its chances Of getting rid
of the Communists while officially
protesting against the annulment
Vote For Annulled.
The Polish Communist Party broad
! NeiSb VIC SlOBdh " NpNc ANi Aut tIl-
nulled lists. It was obvious FOR
friends and foes Of he revolutionary
working class that tae result Of DE
elections would show he an0tns As
4 increase in Commupis, iusAcc, snt
of course the numc-r fates G~n.
onstratively given without any tAsc
/ IDLE results. must have been mreh
less than the number given in marriott
voting conditions with the hope Of
getting their candidates in Not With
standing this, the number Of votes
given for the annulled lists reached,
according to the latest news, r. 900,
while the elections to the Seim got
the Communists $4,000 votes so that
the number of Communist electors
has been almost tripled, composing
IL per cent of all votes given, each
sixth voter being Communist or SYM
pathizer. II IS obvious that during
the Warsaw elections such questions
as the economic recovery of War
saw" on which the PSP-ers depend
ed, fell into the background, funda-
mental political questions occupy
ing the whole foreground: for or
against the Fascist government, for
on against the USSR. The Polish
Communist Party embarked on these
elections with unfurled banners and
the Warsaw working class rallied
around them.