The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Polish Police Don't Club;
They Shoot, Deputy ByQgs

police in the courtyard of the ode
fensive police" in Sosnowiec (Da-
hrowski Basin).
"Will Continue Shooting"
At this moment the minister of
the interior, Skladkowski, arose
and, interrupting the speaker,
stated:
"The police does not club, but
shoots, and will continue shooting
whenever the Communists come out
against the state"
Deputy Bittner: "I thank you, sir,
for your sincerity in regard to the
workers"
Minister Skladkowski: "No twist
ing of statements, Mr.. Deputy, did
not speak of the workers. l spoke
Of the scoundrelly Communists"
Deputy Bittner: "Thc words of
the minister of the interior prove
that he is a good tool Of the fas-
cist dictatorship. For the fight
against the working class fascism
has bayonets and rifles"
Vice marshal of the Sejm, Get
wertynski, chairman at the time,
then interrupted the speaker: "The
minister of the interior has above
all his duty"
So, for the first time, the fascist
government cynically admitted pub
hcly in the Sejm that it is carrying
out system of numbering revolu-
tionary workers and peasants, and
that this system shall be continued.
The vice-marshal' officiating at the
time, representing the entire pre-
sidium Of the Sejm, at the head of
which is the leader of the Polish
socialist party, Daszynski, at once
expressed his solidarity with this
stand, up to this time unheard of
even in fascist Poland.
What does this open stand of the
fascist minister of the interior
mean? 1t is an open Equalization
by the government of any and all
murders and violence against the
working masses; it constitutes an
encouragement and an order to in
crease the terror. to extend the APP
rlication of the bloody acts of the
police.
"The police shoots and will con-
tinue shooting"-these words ut
tered in the Sejm in the name of
the fascist dictator signify the be-
ginning of a new, horrible wave of
fascist terror.
Several months ago the fascist
government began an offensive
against the rights up to then &C.
corded the political prisoners. This
caused desperate hunger strikes,
which took place in the infamous
Warsaw "Pawiak" "a PRISON., in the
horrible Upper Silesian "Myslo@-
ice" (prison), and prison still more
Known for the bestiality of the
prison administration, Lemberg
"Brygidki." This is not enough for
the fascist government. The fascist
government wants to crush with bull
lets and bayonets the growing dis
satisfaction of the masses, their in
creased activity, which found ex-
preston in the great Lodz strike,
in the agrarian strikes in Western
Ukraine, in the strike wave in the
entire country. Polish fascism is at
tempting to find an escape from the
growing economic difficulties by
means of increased exploitation and
the most savage terror. At the
same time the terror is means in
preparing war. 1t is intended to
break the resistance of the masses
against the criminal war prepare
tions of Polish fascism for an at
tack on the U. S. S. R. Polish fas-
cism is declaiming about peace, but
at the same time is feverishly or
ganizing for war. The order to
shoot down workers-Communists-
given by the fascist government to
the police is another step towards
war.
Pogroms.
TIE terror against the workers
and peasants is most closely linked
with the increased repressions and
violence against the enslaved and
oppressed national minorities, in the
first line against the working masses
Of the territories occupied by Polish
imperialism in Western Ukraine and
Western White Russia. Unforgot-
ten is the pogrom' of Ukrainians in
Lcmberg on Nov. /, 1928, when the
police end bands of Polish fascist
youth wounded scores of Ukrainians
and demolished several Ukrainian
cultural and economic institutions.
After this terrible pogrom the gov
crnment publicly expressed its soli-
darity with the barbarous actions of
the fascist mob. This same minister
of the interior, Mr.. Skladkowski,
threw into the faces Of the Ukrain-
ian masses these cynical words:
"The police was at fault, because
it was too forhearing."
Today, Mr.. Skladkowski, turning
to the revolutionary camp of entire
Poland, states:
Revolt Will Continue.
"The police shoots, and will con-
tinue shooting"
These words will be remembered
by the working masses of Poland.