The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-07
BY w. sTAssJAK


rraE 10th OF March forms new important stage
i in the development Of the revolutionary move
2nent in Poland q big step forward on the way
to the mobilization Of the masses Tor the fight
for the revolutionary way out OF the capitalist
crisis
A long series OF powerful strike struggles
which developed throughout the whole winter
in the most important industrial districts and
an increased disintegration in the fascist camp
accelerated the growth Of the revolutionary
crisis in Poland The heroic strike Of 10000
miners in DonlbrOva has already lasted month.
The fight of the timber workers of Bialovicz
has Just ended in a victory. For two weeks the
glass workers of Petrikau occupied the factory,
and the workers Of the most important indus
trial centres (railway workers, metal workers,
municipal workers, landworkers etc. inspired by
the fight Of the miners likewise made ready Tor
a strike And precisely at this moment, the
social fascist lackeys of the bourgeosie, the PIP.
S.. came forward with a new manoeuvre The
PPS proclaimed for the 10Th Of March one
day general strike against the new laws of the
fascist government aiming at hquidating the
rest OF the social achievements.
What was the aim which the social fascist
leaders set out to achieve by means Of this
manoeuvre? The central organ Of the PPS.,
the "Robotnik,' in it's issue Of March II, gives
a plain answer to this question:
Contrary TO ali runOry which called forth
SO much concern and excitement among our
authorities, we declare that our strike was only
10 express the feeling Of solidarity Of the
working class, that it was to be only peace
full demonstration"
The PPS. has already repeatedly employed
this method OF the "one-day protest strike
this was the case, for example with the one
IF he
claimed by the PP.S. on March 1 last This
strike was to give vent to the accumulated dis
content and revolutionary energy, and thereby
prevent the inevitably longer strike of the mu
nicipal workers in the whole of Poland.
The proclamation Of the general strike ON
March Is by the P.P.S had also this time
Similar aim. 1t was clear expression of their
feverish preparations to fulfil the historical role
Of the social democracy as chief saviour OF cap
italism from the threatening revolution The
Communist Party of Poland Immediately saw
through this manoeuWe and called upon the
masses to Illustrate it.
The counter revolutionary and preventive
character Of the manoeuvre OF the PPs. was
clearly exposed already during the preparatory
campaign for 10th Of March. The P.P.S. en-
deavoured in every way to keep back from the
strike every important category Of workers, In
order in this way TO break the back Of the gen
eral strike.
The P.P.S. blreauCrat podnesinski declared to
the Warsaw tramwaymen that the PP,S. would
agree to the tramway workers participating in
the strike only II the workers themselves prod
uced 800 signatures in favor of it. At 8 factory
meeting in the "Parovos" factory the delega-
ton of the PPS brought forward a resolution
against taking part in the strike. At the meet
ing Of the workers Of the State tobacco factory
in Warsaw, the secretary Of the Central Com
mission of the social fascist trade unions, Sda-
novsk, proposed that passive resistance should
be practiced. He thereby wished to keep back
the workers from street demonstrations. But his
proposal was unanimously rejected and con-
demned
In Upper Silesia, in nearly all the big pits and
foundries, the traitors In the PP.S. likewise OPP
workers would follow the slogan Of the Com
munist Party calling for the continuation OF the
posed the strike resolution out Of fear chat the
strike Of the metal workers and the miners In
the coal basin until victory is achieved
We have not yet any complete reports ON the
events Of 18th Of March in the whole of Poland
But the reports on hand and the information
published BY the bourgeois press Justify us in
saying that in q number OF centres the plans OF
the P.P.S. were frustrated and that there under
our leadership and partly under the elementary
pressure OF the masses the strike assumed
revolutionary character.
In Warsaw apart from the State arms fac
tory, the stronghold Of the PPS, the Paravoso
and some other works which did not take part
In the strike, nearly the whole of the metal in
dustry (29 factories, including one munition fac