The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-29
By LANSUSKI

IA the Communist member of the
Polish Diet Comrade Stanislaus
Lansuski has been released. In
these four years the real features
of fascist Poland have been revealed.
The prisons are being filled to over
flowing and the penal system is be-
coming more and more severe.
The struggle of the revolution
aries is not at an end when the
prison gates close behind them. In
prison a fierce struggle is carried on
for the elementary rights of hui
man beings. Every hour of light,
every opening of the windows,
every quarter of an hours exercise,
every five minutes extra on the
visits, all these things cost bitter
struggles. The political prisoners
who are cut off from the outside
world by iron bars, have not many
weapons at their disposal in this
struggle. Very often they must use
desperate remedies. One of these is
the hunger-strike.
Hunger Strike.
At the present time a hunger
strike is taking place of the polit-
ical prisoners in the Warsaw prison
of Paviak. One of the demands for
which these men are fighting des-
perately should find prominent
place in the history of the decline of
the bourgeoisie. These political
prisoners are fighting for the aboli.
ton of the so-called "moral and
sanitary examination" of the female
political prisoners who are treated
by the Polish authorities as though
they were prostitutes in order tc
humiliate them.
In his recollections Comrade Ian.
suski describes the terrors Ct q
hunger strike with unusual simp.
licity and power. The hunger.
strike in question took place in the
prison of Mokotov in the summer OF
1924.
In 1924 the Minister of Justice
Vyganovski, notorious reactionary
issued an order abolishing all the
rights of the political prisoners. The
prisoners answered this attack with
a series of hunger-strikes. Although
the comrades were not aware of the
contents of this order, they coulc
feel the struggle approaching. 1t is
perfectly clear that this struggle
was not confined to the prison il
Mokotov. 1t was absolutely neces
sary for the other prisons in War
saw, Paviak and Serbia, to partici
pate. We informed the comrades
still in freedom and the comrade!
in the other prisons of the situation
in Mokotov and proposed join
action.
The attack on the political prison
ers took place however, before W,
had received word from the others
On Saturday the 25th of July W.
learned that the comrades in Pavial
and Serbia had already been OF
hunger-strike for two days. Decisiv,
action was necessary, for it wa
1 clear that the authorities were try
ing to break the resistance of tn,
comrades in Paviak and Serbia first
in order then to attack the politica
prisoners in Moktov. At the motion
of our committee the political pris
oners in Mokotov decided unani
mously to go on hunger-strike il
solidarity with the political prison
ers in Paviak and Serbia.
Refuse Supper.
At A p. m. the political prisoner
then unitedly refused to accept thei
supper. All the food was taken GU
of the cells and put into the CORR
doris. Our chairman then went t
the Prison Director and informe,
him that the political prisoners ha,
gone on hunger-strike in solidarit,
with the political prisoners il
Paviak and Serbia and demande,
that the Public Prosecutor be in
formed of the strike.
The 12-day hunger strike i
Moktov had begun. The group o
political prisoners numbered 70 mer
The committee of the political pris
oners released one White Russia,