The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-30
Bv EDWARD LENo.

PREVIOUSLY. we have written in the Daily
Worker of the bestial torturcs inflicted on
the workers of Poland when they fall into the
hands of Pilsuoski's blodHhounds and hangrnen.
Peore arc driven insane. to suicide they ere
being tortured to death, made cripples for life
These are not isolated cases. 1t is bloody
system which aims to hysically ruin the van
guard of the revolutionary proletariat and mill
tant peasantry of Poland.
The cases mentioned occurred at Lvov. Kelnl.
and Lutzk which are located in the occupied
territory of West Ukraine, over which recently
passed the bloody qualification" march of Pill
sudski's punitive expedition. as Pilsudskis reply
to tie militant risings of the farming masses
which swept with fire the holdings and properties
Of the big landlords. But the same terror, the
S@7le slaughters go ON every day throughout
Poland
s;'7ce Poland was created at Versailles. it has
c1nstontlv been country of brutal white terror
for the revolutionary workers. But terror of
slcl mass character such bestiality, was never
reached as now Hundreds of workers in all
sectors of the country. in large industrial CEN
ters as well as in villages, especially in the oc-
cupjed territory of West Ukraine. West White
Prussia and Upper Silesia, are now dn connection
with the elections being suspected of support
ing the ticket of the Anti-Fascist Block arrest
ed. nourderously beaten. wounded. crippled for
life. driven insane and then sometimes. released
eRr lack OF the slightest evidence" Of Crime"
The prisons ere crowded with revolutionary
workers and peasants cthere are 10000 political
prisoners estimated throughout Poland, with
unbesroble conditions, porvoked to hunger strikes
b. nriso, conditions so miserable that it is only
SLOW death
For the slightest protest, political prisoners
are murdered in the prisons, in the presence and
under the direction of the district prosecutors.
There is not prison of any size where, during
the last year. there has not been some organized
murder Of political prisoners: LODI Lublin, Kelz,
wranko. Piotzokov. Bialistok. ETC., etc
The last report of the Polish Red Aid. tells
of the assassination of Comrade Pawluk editor
of the "Jitze Zyionkovel; of the death of Com
rade Jaszinsky, member of the Central Com
mttee OF the Communist Party of West Ukraine,
in the prison at Lomze; of the serious wounds
of the leader" of political prisoners in the
Paviak prison at Warsaw due to the prisoners
protest at serving food near the filthy toilet.
1t also tells Of the injury resulting from the
beating Of the former Sejm tcongress) deputy,
the Communist Jassky, at the time Of his ar
rest. These details we mention to show that
behind all this is a system Of physical destruc-
ton.
Especially sharp and terrific is the terror in
West Ukraine and West White Russia. 1t is
sufficient to mention the qualification" expedi-
ton in West Ukraine, where hundreds of vii
lagos were looted and the people massacred by
the police and troops crops trampled down,
heavy fines that turned tens of thousands of
farmers into beggars. hundreds of them beaten
hundreds killed and tortured to death, hundreds
of women raped, thousands Of refugees fleeing
into the forests In terror!
To smaller extent, the same thing took place,
in West White Russia and even in number
of villages in Poland proper. where the farmers
dared to put up an Anti-Fascist ticket or to
show resistance to the fascist "Agrarian Re-
form that benefited only the landlords and
the rich farmers
What does all this intensified terror mean?
An insight into the economic and political sit
uasion in Poland will tell Up to now Poland
represented one of the weakest links in the
chain of capitalist sterilization The fascist die
tatorship OF Poland was supposed. with the help
Iof foreign capital, to insure the economic sound
ness Of Poland
1t did not succeed The temporary and rotten
Iharacter Of capitalist sterilization in Poland,