The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-06

ella, taking advantage of the fact
that Austrian press laws allowed of
slightly greater liberty than the
Czarist laws, still in force in former
Russian Poland, began to publish
their "Sycie Kwiazkowe" TRADE
Union Life), which was kept going
until May, 1925.
THE reformists for the same period
(1918-1922) published their organ
"Zwiazkowiec" (The Trade Union
ist), also a fortnightly, appearing
somewhat irregularly, and in 1922
coming to an end owing to lack of
funds.
The new central organ Of the revolu
tionary trade union minority arose in
connection with the intensified oppo-
sition in the beginning of 1926 The
treacherous policy Of the PSPers,
joining the coalition Government at
this time, evoked strong opposition
in the ranks of the party, leading to
split and the formation of new
group "PSP Left" a group consist
ing largely of trade unionists from
former Austrian Poland, chiefly
Teshin Silesia, imbued with revolu-
tionary spirit. This group put for
ward the slogans of the implacable
class struggle, the united Labor
front, single mass trade unions. 1t
began to publish a weekly trade
union Opposition organ: "Glos
Piracy" Voice of Labor proper
ton to the development and determi-
nation of the theology of this group
it's organ became more significant
and went deeper into trade union
movement questions in all their as
poets, becoming the central organ of
the revolutionary minority.
THE uplift in the Polish Labor Move
ment, caused by Pilsudski's coup
d'etat and favorable industrial boom
during the last half of 1926, was
wildly reflected in the columns of
Coos Piracy" While the reformist
press systematically ignored those
facts and phenomena in the Labor
Movement "Gos Piracy" gave it's read
ers exact and full information, showed
all manifestations of working class
life from the point of view of the
class struggle, thus assisting soli-
darity and unity among the Polish
working masses, the putting forward
of slogans common to the whole
working class of the common revolu-
tionary struggle.
THE reformists and the Government
understand perfectly well the role
of the revolutionary press in the La
Dor Movement and are taking CORE
spending measures. The Central
Commission of the trade unions pro-
hibits the circulation and sale of "Gos
Piracy" on trade union premises. The
Public Prosecutor confiscates literally
every number, so that each time it
has to be issued all over again, while
it is usually speckled with white
spaces by favor of the censor.
Despite all these repressions "Gos
Piracy" was able to last out more than
a year, and only few weeks ago,
during the last wave of fresh repres-
sions sweeping over the revolutionary
section Of the working class the "Gos
Piracy" was also swept away.
AS well as the aforementioned CEN
"A trail organs some trade unions or
Red Fractions of trade unions have
published and are still, if but irreg-
ularly, publishing their own organs,
also, of course, just as zealously per-
secuted by trade union bureaucracy
and the authorities. Thus the chem
ical workers union publishes a
monthly "Rohotnik Chemiszny" (The
Chemical WORKER; the Commercial
Employees Union published "Gos
Pracownita" (The Voice of the
Worker; the Red fraction of the
Railwaymen's Union published in 1919
and 1920 illegally "The Railway Com
munist," from 1926 "The Signal has
been legally published, although its
circulation among railwaymen is pro-
hibited by decision of the Central
Committee of Trade Unions.
As we'll as the Polish Press there
is trade union press with revolu-
tionary tendencies in the Ukrainian
language. "Trade Union News" the
organ of the Trade Union Minority is
published in Eastern Galicia, the CEN
ire, as is well known, of the oil in
dustry, and one Of the centres of the
lumber industry; the paper is very
popular there among Che Ukrainian