The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-25
Polish FasCism Arms for War

give some idea of the strength of
the military organization "Strze-
letch": 400 officers specially told off
for this purpose are working in 81
900 branches together with 700 Of
| ficers and 4,000 on-commissioned
/ officers of the reserve. The training
courses have turned out 5000 in
structors up to the present.
INFLAMMATION of State Apparatus.
The militarization of the state APP
paratus is being conducted with all
possible despatch. All the higher po-
sitions, particularly in the Eastern
provinces, the jumping-off base for
a war against the Soviet Union, are
being occupied by Pilsudski who Of
ficers. The military departments of
all districts will be occupied in the
near future by active officers in
place of the civil chiefs at present
at their head.
INFLAMMATION of Polish Economic
Life.
The INFLAMMATION of the economic
life of Poland is expressed amongst
other things by the fact that the
Polish war office has placed the
liason bureau for the connections be-
tween the army and all branches of
industry, under the command of the
general staff. The vice-president of
the Sejm fraction of the Pilsudski
party, Major Pieracki, has been ap-
pointed head of this bureau. This
Reorganization means an increase of
the power of the general staff and
the continued subordination of all
other interests to it's interests. and
represents an intensification Of the
preparations for war. In the min
istry of post and telegraph, new
military department has been set up
under the command of Staff Major
General Romer. The fact that the
private air lines are being taken over
by the state represents further in
classification of the preparations for
war against the Soviet Union.
The splitting off of the open fas-
cist group of the Minister Mora
czevski and the Deputy Javorovski
from the Polish socialist party, a
split which was carried out by Pill
sudski, aims at forming shock
troop within the Polish proletariat
for the war policy of the Polish
bourgeoisie under the leadership of
Pilsudski.
The fascist proposal to alter the
Polish constitution represents an at
tempt to give legal basis to the
fascist dictatorship of Pilsudski, i.e.,
a legal basis for the government of
the war against the Soviet Union.
According to this proposal the Polish
president, a tool of Pilsudski, is to
receive dictatorial power over the
Polish army. The limitation of the
franchise and the limitation of the
rights of the Sejm deputies will
minimize the political rights of the
Polish workers and of the masses of
the toiling population of the national
minorities oppressed by Polish fas-
cism. The possibility to send depu-
ties into the Sejm is being taken
away from them, and these would be
the only deputies prepared to fight
against war upon the Soviet Union.
Having regard to these facts, the
struggle of the toiling masses Of
Poland against the fascist Dictator
ship of Pilsudski is at the same time
struggle for the defense of the
Soviet Union. Any support rendered
to the Polish working masses in their
struggle against the fascist Dictator
ship of Pilsudski by the International
anti-fascist front is therefore an i'm
portant part of the general struggle
against the danger of war.