The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-10

CRUSADE. In our prison the situation is grow
ing worse every day. When the fascist admin
lstration failed to disorganize the political pris-
oners' Commune they then openly attacked our
political rights, One attack followed upon an
other.
Sandomerz. We had defense trials of pris-
oners for two months. Every prisoner for two
months was beaten up and then dragged on the
floor. Due to the great solidarity of all the DO
ht1cal prisoners, the horrible physical attack
could not break our rights But we must not
forget that we will have to face new attack
better concentrated one and more severe.
Sierads. The administration continually is
sues new attacks upon prisoners rights and their
revolutionary pride. Trials are taken care of by
PRISON authorities and police For the smallest
protest taey beat us up. Half of the prisoners
are seve-3 ly sick.
SiedIec. Here we are also denied all political
prisoners rights. Our provisional committee has
been abolished. Unable to divide food between
u.s. many OF the comrades must depend Just on
prison board. They confiscated our library
Mortified feelings are among all prisoners. They
are ready for new fight and struggle to
hunger strike. We are all physically exhausted
Lublin. After the bestial massacre of prisoners
in 1929, the authorities adopted system of fu-
rious attacks upon political prisoners. They are
numbering and torturing prisoners in the pres
ence of prosecutor attorneys We prisoners are
physically all exhausted
On the east BialoE suS5ia white Ukrainian)
and East Ukrainian conditions are still worse
Grodno. The prison authorities do not accept
food for prisoners, and in case they do it is not
delivered but consumed by them without extra
food the prisoners are half starved Some pris-
oners were deprived of food for whole month
Pinsk few months ago we had here hun
ger strike because the administration would
place us together with criminal prisoners Three
hundred political prisoners went on hunger
strike at the world famous fascist "Helr' prison
Luck At the beginning of July, seven day hun
ger strike took place at the Wilno prison Hun
ger strikes are carried on by hundreds of politi-
cal prisoners all over Poland, Ukrania and East
White Ukrainia. Thue at the wilno prison are
OF great Importance and significance in the
struggle for the prisoners rights. What was the
prisoners situation at Wilno before the strike?
For the smallest offense we were put in dark
cells and deprived for months of writing letters
or postcards. Last October we had hunger
strike The prosecutor himself helped to torture
and beat up woman prisoners The administra-
ton confiscated our food and divided 1t among
the criminal prisoners. Woman political politi-
odl prlSonerS were kept IN the same cells with
diseased criminal women.
Janow. Bloody attacks and fights were car
red on by the administration broke up the po-
htical prisoners rights. The provisional commit
tee has been Iquidated. Most of the prisoners
are on prison board only, you may call it "Star-
walton Board, which reflects upon their health.
The most important task of the working class
OF America Is to form an international united
front in the struggle for political prisoners rights
and their freedom. 1t is 9 duty of all workers of
America to express an international solidarity of
all political prisoners struggles. Struggling for
the rights OF Polish political prisoners, we are
fighting for the rights and freedom of all DO
htical prisoners of America. An international
united front of all workers of America must pro-
test against all fascist murders and other crimes
committed on our fellow prisoners The united
workers front with power of large campaign
viii weaken the plans Of all the fascist govern
ments In their war preparations and readiness
to attack the Soviet Union
Struggling with the white terror In the inter-
est of political prisoners rights and freedom, we
are struggling for the strength and power of the
Communist Party of Poland as a vanguard of
the Polish proletariat. We are struggling for
the sos0Rl revolution of Poland that will put an
end y the bourgeois police dictatorship and
the Hoody Pilsudskis government.