The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-29
Polish Fascist
White Terror
On Increase

Olu 1ILdh GuIlIdluQS was llACStNA
for having in his possession num-
Der of newspapers. AS Gutfrainder
was still minor the authorities
were unable to arrange political
process against this dangerous enc
my of the state, as he was termed.
The authorities however, were not f
at loss, they simply postponed the
case for two years and put Gut \
frainder under police supervision in \
the meantime. He was compelled to
report himself to the police twice
week where he was often kept wait
ing for hours. He lost his work of
course, for no employer was anxious
/ to have continual trouble with the
police and loss of time. When for
some reason or the other Gutfrainder
was little late in reporting him
self to the police, they would haul
him out of his bed the next morning
at three a. m. and drag him off to
the police station. The two years
passed and Gutfrainder came of age,
IL years old. He was then arrested,
put on trial and sentenced to one
years Imprisonment. The capitalist
law had done its duty.
Children Arrested.
The arrest of children is nothing
uncommon in Poland. In 1925 las
young members of the Tailors' Union
!
as usual to the trade union rooms
in order to talk and pass the time
pleasantly after days work when
the secret police, thirsting to dis
tinguish themselves, raided the
rooms and arrested everyone present.
All the young workers were SEN
fenced to three weeks Imprisonment.
The boys were put into the same
cells with common criminals and the
girls with prostitutes.
Only little while ago the final !.
sentence was announced in the ia
nous Zelenko process, so-called from
the place where the arrests took =
place The history of the affair is
as follows. About 80 boys and girls
arranged an excursion to Zelenko.
In Zelenko they were all arrested
and charged with having formed a
branch of the Young Communist
League. The charge was based upon
the statement of police spy, named
Pshevosniak. The preliminary ex-
animation lasted two and half
years and when the trial finally
took place Rossolek and Koriblit
were sentenced to years imprison-
ment each, Dobrovolski, Voitzekovs-
XII, Mlenek, Sviotkovski and others
to two years Imprisonment each.
In Radon two young workers,
Geltzmann and Fuchs were arrested
and charged with having distributed
illegal working class newspapers.
After having been months in
prison awaiting trial the court was
forced to acquit them for lack of |
. evidence and they were then re-
leased. Early the next morning
however, they were again arrested
! at the order of the public prosecutor.
The young workers Tennenbaum
and Tkatch were sentenced to years
: hard labor, each for having allegedly
transported illegal literature. As a
result of an appeal the sentences
received 6 years Imprisonment for
the same "crime." After maltreat-
1 | ,or,f Oh fhn 1nrLe IS
! Brest pupil of the Russian Gymna-
SUM thigh schooD fell sick with
tuberculosis. The Pinsk district
court then sentenced him to 5 years
imprisonment.
In LODI in 1927 the 10 year old
were reduced to A years hard labor
each. Neither of the accused had
reached the age of Is when SEN
: fenced. The II year old Goldfarb
, Gluechstadt was sentenced to two
{ terms of Imprisonment each of three
= years, each for having taken part in
meeting of the textile workers and
E in street demonstration.
l In May 1926 the young worker
, Landau was sentenced to 6 months
imprisonment in Zaglemb. The basis
for the sentence was the following:
During a demonstration young
worker carrying a banner of the
Young Communist League supported
himself for a moment on the shouI-
: der of Landau. ass-
In LODI in the autumn Of 1925
the IL year old young worker Mosh-
novitz was sentenced to IN years
Imprisonment for having alIegedly
, participated in carrying shoulder
. high the Communist deputy Sochatz-
. XII after speech at a meeting, The
! II year old young worker Wachs-
mann was accused of having Or
, gained demonstration in January
1927 before the prison building in
! LODI. For this crime he was SEN
: fenced to 2 years Imprisonment. The
a young worker Spiegel, boy Of 1e
: years, was sentenced in June 1927
to years imprisonment for having
S taken part in meeting.
THE POLITICAL PRISONERS
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