The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
SAGE the Glass; War
Prisoners of Poland

used against the political prisoners
in the Luck prison CWestern Ukra-
ine) such as forcing water and urine
in through the nose, beating the soles
of their feet with iron rods, breaking
bones, violating women, torturing
their sexual organs-these are facts
already known to the entire world.
Hundreds of similar facts are sup
pressed by silence by the Polish press
and so-called public opinion.
The decree placing the political
prisoners on the same status as the
criminals means an abyss of torture
and death for the thousands Of poll
tical prisoners. For criminal prison.
ers in Poland are subject to such a
debasement of their human dignity,
to such conditions of physical, moral
and mental degradation, that the
political prisoners will never submit
to these conditions without a strug-
gle. And the unequal struggle in
prison cells, the struggle of prisoners
with their tormentors, which is al
ready going on in many prisons, can
not but claim victims in manned and
killed. The slightest protest-that is
rebellion" that means beating, tor
turing and numbering of prisoners.
And their last resort - the hunger
strike-means "forcible feeding by
the, Polish fascist method: the police
and guards open the mouths of the
weakened prisoners with metal in
struments, wound and tear their
throats and bowels, forcing metal
tubing into them in order to pour in
the. food. This horrible life ands
death struggle is spreading more and
more and by force of circumstances
must take on the scope of general
hunger strike of political prisoners
in Poland.
Torture Sand mass murder is al
ready rampant in all the prisons OF
Poland. 81,
Only determined protest Of the
broadest opinion of physical and in
tellectua1 working people of the en-
tire world can stay the bloody ter
ror of the hangman Pilsudski against
the political prisoners. We call up
on you to protest, to actively demon
strate your proletarian solidarity.
Protest through mass meetings, re-
solutions, street demonstrations.
Send mass protests to the Polish
government, to its embassies and
consulates, to the Polish press and
to the press Of your country, to the
Central Committee of the Internal
tional Red Aid. We call upon the
press which is not sold out to the
international powers of capitalism, to
publish this appeal and to support
the campaign of protest.
Demonstrate in such d manner
that the representative Of fascist
Poland in your country, the "distin-
guished" diplomats of the bloody
fascist dictatorship of Pilsudsh viii
feel your anger and contempt.
Workers of the Socialist partiest
Do not look to your leaders, who has
ten with protests" only then, when,
together with the international bour-
geoisie, it is question Of slandering
the Soviet Union Protest against
the crimes of Polish iascism.
Writers, artists, scientistsl Break
all relations with the. representatives
of the official Polish culture" who
cover up these bloody crimes, who
are jointly guilty of these crimes.
They are seeking your good will in
order to cover up with your mans
also, the cultural mission OF fas-
cist Poland, the bloody acts OF Pill
sudski's dictatorship. Let your united
protest and boycott be your answer
to them.
Hasten with help, to actionl Every
day of inactivity means a sentence
of death to the many buried alive
in the dungeons of Luck. Wronek,
Rawicz, Koronow and other Infamous
torture chambers of fascist Poland.
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