The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1934, Page 10

ESTA 2 Page Tea DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1934 Daily QWorker TOPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY u.5. “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5¢ E. 13¢h Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-7954. Gable Address: “Daiwork,” Washington B ECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) By Carrier: Weekly SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1934 Taximen’s Fight for Bread Met With Terror (Continued from Page 1) the taxi drivers. The capit ss, of its own accord, takes up the howl taxi drivers The bosses in their pa: ment (a vir- tual instruction to the dia) declare: “We call upon you to ins the police de- partment to b hem to an end. If you and the police department find that the riot situation is beyond your control you governor of the state for m They do not want the achieve the end of breaking the strike, Mayor La Guardia is ready to go to any lengths the strike, the bosses appeal e of the capitalist gov- hould call upon the aid. ss In order to crush for every suppressive for ernment—police, the cou: and even the army! The taxi drivers should not allow themselves to be provoked terrorized by the bloody fangs of the LaGuardia regime. The tremendous howl of the capitalist press, crying like dogs at bay for the blood of workers fighting for better living condi- tions, for recognition of a union, should not ter- rorize the men. It is a tribute to their solidarity, to the effectiveness of their strike. Taxi drivers! The workers of New York, the great majo. of the people of this city are be- hind you. They have felt this same terror in their strik Their strengt. heroic militancy, h, their support, together with your is the guarantee of your victory. IAYOR LAGUARDIA, at the behest of the power- ful General Motors Co., owner of large fleets, flies into a rage and orders a wholesale reign of terror against the taxi strikers, By every means, the Roosevelt government, of which the LaGuardia regime is a smaller and pettier edition, is trying to hold back the rising wave of strikes threatening in auto manufacture, on the railroads and in steel. The workers everywhere are in a strike mood. understand your fight, taxi drivers! There are millions in this country who are ready to take the steps you have so brilliantly begun. Over 250000 auto workers are held back by their betray- ing leaders, ready to fight against the same masters you are struggling against for better living con- ditions and for union recognition. Taxi drivers! Hold your ranks firm. Victory is in the offing. Do not let LaGuardia and his police provoke you. Do not be terrorized by the mad yelping of the capitalist press. If you are able to beat back the terror, to keep your ranks intact, it will not be long now when the taxi owners will be forced to discuss your just demands. Stick to your demands. LaGuardia’s proposals that you should go back and then “vote” is an effort to split your ranks and to pull the teeth of your militant strike. When they have you back in the garages they know it will be easier for them to divide you and conquer. Do not let them get away with this. Do not go back without having first granted your demands, without direct negotiations with the bosses and ratification by the strikers at their mass meetings. Stand solid against any sneaky, betraying moves of LaGuardia with his slave code. Keep your fight strong for union recognition and for improved wages. The fight you have begun, if continued without let-up, will bring your victory—will be a victory for ail workers in their fight against company unions and for real union recognition as well as for im- proved working conditions. C.W.A. Firing Continues ORDER to blunt the force of the one hour, nation-wide protest strike, called for 3 P. M., March 29, against Roosevelt’s liquidation of the C.W.A. jobs, Federal Relief Director Hopkins, Mayor La Guardia, and other public officials, are spread- ing false rumors that the C.W.A. is not going to be liquidated, after all. While this firing is now proceeding at rapid rate, the empty and general promises of Roosevelt and Hopkins that “no one will go hungry,” continue to appear in the capitalist press. ‘ If any lingering doubt exists in the minds of the ©. W. A. workers, as to Roosevelt's double dealing with the unemployed, and his determination to con- tinue with the C. W. A. firing, the official government statement of March 19, issued by Hopkins, should dispel all of this doubt. Hopkins, who admits he speaks for Roosevelt in these matters, sent instructions on March 19 to all State Civil Works Administrations and all State | Emergency Relief Administrations, that the C. W. A. | firing was to continue. Hopkins said, “Until the suspension of Civil Works (which takes piace on | March 31—Ed.) reductions in number of employees will be made in accordance with telegraphic instrue- tiona given Feb. 28, 1934.” The following sentence in these government in- | structions shows that after that date many projects are to be ended. Hopkins says, “All desirable local and State Civil Works projects in operation on the date of the suspension of Civil Works may be trans- ferred to the Works Division of the Emergency Re- lief Administrations.” | In other words, only “desirable” projects “may” be transferred. The instructions state “Persons em- ployed on Civil Works on the date of suspension | “may” be transferred to the Works Division of the Emergency Relief Administrations.” The “work relief” program is being dropped en- tirely for all towns under 5,000 population and for rural populations, the statement admits. Hopkins declares, “The new program will be carried forward in towns and cities having a population of more than 5,000.” * . . UT when Hopkins comes to the basis of determin- ing who shall be employed, and who fired, he re- veals the real purpose of the government. The whole plan of liquidation of C, W. A. and setting up of limited “work relief” programs, is based on firing as many as possible, on relief cuts, and on lower- ing the whole standard of the unemployed “wages.” Hopkins says, “It will be the policy of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to include in its monthly grants of funds to the state funds for the prosecution of the work program, and THESE GRANTS SHALL BE USED TO PROVIDE EM- PLOYMENT ONLY FOR THOSE PERSONS IN NEED OF RELIEF.” This is a tactful form of giving notice that those C. W. A. workers who succeed in escaping this months’ heavy firing, will not all be transferred to “work relief” rolls, but that the C. W. A. workers will have to go through new “tests” and question- naires. This sentence serves notice that many now on C. W. A. work will be dropped when the “work relief” is set up. Will all those who escape this months’ heavy C. W. A. firing be retained on relief? No. In the liquidation process, the plan is to fire masses of workers. Hopkins says, “The Work Division shall be responsible for the planning, organization and conduct of work for those CERTIFIED TO THE DIVISION AS ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF.” The unemployed workers know only too well what the statement “THOSE CERTIFIED AS ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF” means to them. It means endless waiting from week to week and month to month to get on the “work relief” rolls. It means that the unemployed have to start all over again to “prove their right to relief.” It means that the “work relief” and “relief” offices become in an intensified form the center of persecution and discrimination levelled against the starving unemployed. It means that all possible tricks and obstacles will be placed in the way of the fired C. W. A. worker getting on the “work relief” and “relief” rolls. Instructions of the C. W. A., previously printed in the Daily Worker, show a definite campaign of the government to force as many off of the relief rolls as possible. It is noticeable that Roosevelt and Hopkins, as well as La Guardia, carefully refrain from stating HOW MANY WILL BE CERTIFIED AS ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF.” They will pare it down as much as they can, . 0" THOSE who succeed in breaking through and getting “work relief” jobs, how much will they be paid? Will their relief be the same as their present C. W. A. wages? Hopkins answers this. He says, “The hours of employment shall be not MORE than 24 a week... in no case will the pay be less than will yield 30 cents an hour, PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT THE HOURS SHALL BE LIMITED 80 THAT THE MAXIMUM WEEKLY EARNINGS SHALL NOT IN ANY CASE EXCEED THE AMOUNT NECESSARY TO MEET BUDGETARY REQUIREMENTS.” THE MINIMUM IS THUS LIFTED. The max- imum will be thirty cents an hour, WITH 24 HOURS A WEEK. THE MINIMUM WILL BE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO GIVE IN ITS BUDGET. Hopkins here admits that “work relief” will be given only to the extent that the “budget” permits. What this budget will be, is, of course, not made public. But it is known that relief has been so cut down that the amount originally appropriated by Congress to “taper off” the C.W.A. is now to be spread over a whole year. THE UNEMPLOYED WHO DO FINALLY FIGHT THEIR WAY ONTO THE “WORK RELIEF’ PROJECTS WILL GET, ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN, NOT OC. W.A. WAGES, NOT UNION WAGES, BUT A STARVA- TION DOLE WHICH IS DETERMINED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT “BUDGETARY RE- QUIREMENTS.” The strikes of thousands of C.W.A. workers in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, etc., show that the C.W.A. workers are no longer to be de- ceived by Roosevelt's empty promises. THE ROOSEVELT GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE AS MUCH RELIEF AND “WORK RELIEF WAGES” AS THE MASS PRESSURE AND MASS ORGANI- ZATION OF THE WORKERS IS ABLE TO FORCE THEM TO GRANT. C.W.A. WORKERS—EMPLOYED AND UNEM- PLOYED—ATTEND THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN PROTEST AGAINST LIQUIDATION OF THE C.W.A. TOMORROW AT 2 PM. STRIKE ON MARCH 29 AT 3 P.M, AGAINST LIQUIDATION FOR CONTINUATION AND EX- TENSION OF C.W.A. JOBS! DEMAND IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT BY CON- GRESS OF THE WORKERS UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL (H. R. 7598)! McNAMARA, FRAMED LABOR LEADER, BEGINS HIS 23RD "YEAR IN PRISON (Continued from Page 7) realize that the emancipation of the workers can come only by the! Mass action of the great toiling! Yeleased. The working class in its) struggle needs these tried and sea- the demand for their release has| i" Jail. | Billings, etc. Articles must be writ-)can and must change all this. We ten in the labor press, resolutions adopted at local union meetings and trade union conventions, mass na | pean criculated, workers’ dele- | gations sent to the Governor of McNamara and Schmidt must be| Catfornia, and the workers of other countries must be awakened to the ‘ | capitalist aims of keeping workers | soned veterans. In these later years In short, a real fight must| Cuban LL.D. to Hold must force open the prison doors for McNamara and Schmidt, and |in doing this, we will make the fight all the more effective for the release of every class war prisoner. | mass trials of hundreds of Repub- | ican Guards and unorganized work- been altogether too feeble. For the most part this has not amounted to much more than an occasional resolution or meeting by the Communist Party, the Inter- national Labor Defense, or the Trade Union Unity League. This is no credit to our sense of pro- letarian solidarity, But now the Mass demand must be built up until it becomes irresistible. The demand for the release of McNamara and Schmidt must be placed on the first order of business in the labor movement. Their cases |be made on every front for their release. The McNamara-Schmidt case | shows again the brutality and class character of American capitalist democracy, the system that framed up Mooney, Billings, the Scottsboro boys and hundreds of other brave proletarian fighters. In no other capitalist country, however reac- tionary it may be, and however bit- ter the class struggle, can there be found class was prisoners who have spenf so many years in jail. an outrage is reserved for the must be linked up with those of the Scgftsboro boys, Mooney and! boasted country of “liberty” and < New Deal, But the workers| et et Such | today. |Convention April Seven | HAVANA, Cuba (By Mail). —Five hundred delegates, representing 12,000 members of the Defense | Obrera International, and the mem- | bership of most of the trade unions |and fraternla organizations in the island, will hold a national conven- | tion here April 7, it was announced Every effort will be made to hold the convention legally, but | if these are unsuccessful, it will be held under ai! conditions, The International Labor Defense Issues F ighting Program to Save Thaelmann, Tortured by ‘Ten Judges teen Run Austrian | Terror Mill Say Mas s Trials Will | Take Months To | Prepare VIENNA, March 28.—Ten magis- trates are sitting constantly, work- ing on the preliminaries of the ers who have been herded into fascist fighting. ‘This information was given to a delegation of lawyers organized by the International Juridical Associa- tion, which reached Vienna to take part in the defense. It will take some months before the Dollfuss- Fascist courts are ready for this gigantic trial, the lawyers were told, and most of the prisoners have not yet even been formally charged. The lawyers, however, succeeded in forcing the release of six im- prisoned lawyers who had been seized in order to prevent their tak- ing part in the defense of the prisoners. An active anti-Semitic campaign is being carried out by all the news- papers which support the Heimwehr, raising the demand that Jewish | physicians be thrown out of all in-| = stitutions and prevented from prac- ticing. 500 Mass in Rain at Chicago To Demand ThaelmannRelease Consul Is Flanked With Cops As Delegation Presents Demands CHICAGO, Tll—Despite a drizzl- ing rain that soaked every part. cipant responding to the Thael- mann-Torgler mass meeting called by the Chicago district of the In- ternational Labor Defense, approxi- mately 500 workers turned out March 17. The meeting was called at Washington Park. It was impos- sible to continue in the rain, so a hall was secured by the steering committee. This hall was over a mile away. Despite this long distance, men, women and children militantly paraded and filled it to capacity. Scores had to stand in the rear. The hall seats about 250 people. Speakers representing the Communist Party, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Anti-Fascist Committee and the district IL.D., addressed the meeting. A report of the committee that visited the German Consul was last on the agenda of the meeting which lasted three hours. This committee forced the Consul to see them. A squad of police were stationed out- side the building. After the commit- tee had entered the private office of the consul, the “red squad” ar- rived. They stuck their heads into the doorway and greeted the consul with “Hello Doctor.” The spokesman for the committee inquired why he had called “his pals.” He denied calling them, stating: “I hope you believe me, I did not call them. In fact I don’t know the gentlemen.” When reminded that these tools know him, he turned red and lost his composure, even asking a mem- ber to close the door. He finally ac- cepted the resolution presented. The evasions and vicious lies of the con- sul as related by the spokesman, were booed by the assembled work- ers. RD! a —By Burck Chicago League Against War to Hold 50 Anti-War Meets Week of April 6 peas’ ® CHICAGO, Ill., Mar. 23.— More than fifty anti-war meetings in all parts of the city are planned by the Chicago branch of the American League Against War and Fascism for the week of April 6, date of America’s entrance into the last world war. Cultural, labor defense, trade union, peace, church, unem- ployed, political women’s and Negro organizations affiliated with the League are arranging special pro- grams to warn of the growing war danger and to organize to combat war and fascism. An initial order for 30,000 anti- war leaflets has been placed. Leaf- lets will carry the addresses of many of the neighborhood meetings. The Youth Section of the League is carrying on a special anti-war campaign during the week, stress- ing the need for combatting the Cc. C. C. militarization camps and the R. O. T. C. The April 6 programs generally will have a close tie-up to the drive to expose the true nature of the army-controlled C. C. C. camps to the thousands of workers at the re- lief stations during the new C. C. C. recruiting campaign, which com- mences April 15. Demonstrations and leafiet distributions are being organized at these stations to bring forward demands against army con- trol and against discrimination because of race, color or political opinion and expression. All individuals and organizations who will work to build the united struggle against war and fascism are urged to get in touch immedi- ately with the American League Against War and Fascism, room 405, 160 North LaSalle St., telephone State 6785. Lee ee Mass Meet in Steel Town YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Mar. 23.— An anti-war, anti-Fascist protest meeting will be held on April 6, 7:30 p.m., at Central Auditorium, 225 Boardman St. The Young Com- munist League of Youngstown, under whose auspices the meeting is being held, is making intense preparations for this meeting, in- cluding distribution of special leaf- lets to the Republic Steel youth, youth in the Y. M. C. A. and Young Men's Federated Clubs, Negro youth, and unemployed youth. Irving Herman, the District Or- ganizer of the Y. C. L. of Ohio, will be the main speaker. A special pro- gram is being arranged, including a slide show of Fascism in Germany. These slides are taken from the Brown Book of Hitler Terror. The John Reed Club of Youngstown will present an anti-war skit. Marooned Soviet Expedition Starts Socialist Competition (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 23.—Three ships and 17 airplanes are concentrating on the task of rescuing the 69 mem- bers of the Chelyuskin arctic ex- pedition, marooned on an ice-floe 350 miles north of Nome, Alaska, in the Bering Sea. “Pravda,” the central organ of the Communist Pravda of the Soviet Union, yesterday published a color- ful description of the model dis- cipline and unity of the whole com- pany from the very moment of the sinking of the Chelyuskin, radiced from the ice-floe camp by Professor Otto Schmidt, leader of the expedi- tion. The pressure of the ice-pack which cracked the ship and sent it to the bottom was foreseen, and a program of tasks and a time-table for emer- gency duty was drawn up in ad- vance. On February 13, the wind increas- ed to 7 points, and the ice pressure became terrific. Schmidt and the captain kept constant watch on deck. As soon as the pressure on the ship's hull began, the order was given for all hands on deck. Imme- diately the work of unloading the emergency supplies of food and warm clothing began. All the neces- sities for a long siege on the ice were unloaded. Referring to their present life, Schmidt writes: “Certainly we have no luxuries, but we have all the necessaries. Particularly, we have ample warm fur clothing. Socialist competition has been extensively developed in carrying out the tasks of the camp. The Chelyuskiners have shown splendid examples of shock brigade work. “Not only the work, but also both general and recreational studies have been organized. Our comrade- ship is constantly strengthened. The Chelyuskin Bolsheviks together with the non-Party men have firmly withstood and, if necessary, will yet withstand the onslaughts of the elements, strong by the fact that they are children of the great coun- try of socialism, working under the leadership of the Communist Party, under the ieadership of Stalin.” . Calls for Mass Protests, Flood Of Cablegrams “Carry Struggle Into the Shops, Trade Unions,” Says LL.D. Statement NEW YORK.—The Inter- national Labor Defense yes- terday received another cable- gram from the International Red Aid center, in Paris, re- garding the torture of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man Communist Party. The cable reads: - “Thaeimann twice tortured. His life in danger. It is necessary to Protest with mass mobilization at the German embassy and con- sulates. Demand the right of visiting Thaelmann for his wife, and for foreign delegations. The International Red Aid (¥.L.D.) must develop a strong campaign.” ’ NEW YORK.—A program of activity throughout the country, in the international struggle to save Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German Communist Party, from torture and death at the hands of the Fascist bands, were announced by the In- ternational Labor Defense, fol- lowing receipt of the news of the preparations made by Hitier's gang- for murdering him before he is brought to trial. “Thaelmann is being tortured in a lightless cell. He is chained hand and foot, and mitted to receive cable received by the I. L. D. the European bureau of the In- ternational Red Aid said. The I. R. A. has called om the working class of the world to save Thaelmann from Hitler's clutches. “The world proletariat has saved Dimitroff,” the I. R. A. call said. “Now we must save our Comrade Thaelmann.” LL.D. Takes Up Fight. ‘The I. L. D. called on all its dis- tricts and branches, on all affiliated organizations, all revolutionary unions, on all A. F. of L. and inde- pendent union locals, all opposition groups within trade unions, to im- mediately bring the issue of the sav- ing of Thaelmann into the shops, mines, factories, into every neigh- borhood, every club. A flood of cablegrams to President Hindenburg in Germany, telegrams, resolutions and letters to Hans Luther, German ambassador at Washington, and to every German consul, from every shop, from every organization, every anti-fascist group and individual, was called for. Mass and Shop Meetings. Mass meetings will be held in every city and town, under the auspices of the I. L. D., with the support of all revolutionary and anti-fascist organizations. Shop meetings and meetings at shop gates are called for in the action program of the I. L. D. Demands to Be Raised. In all these actions, the demands will be raised for: Permission for foreign doctors to be sent in by the Thacimann Liberation Committee and the In- ternational Red Aid, to examine Thaelmann, to prescribe for htm, and for medical treatment, Permission for foreign lawyers to interview him , im view of the preparations being made for his trial, and to partici- pate in the trial as defense counsel. Immediate, unconditional free- dom for Ernst Thaelmann, Ernst Torgler, for the 200,000 political prisoners in Nazi dungeons and concentration camps. 56 Working Class Heroes in Polish Fascist Court oe, ® Toilers’ Leaders Put Polish Fascism on Trial at Lutzk Dispatches from Luzk, Polish Western Ukraine, indicate that the mass trial of 56 surviving lead- ers of the peasant-national up- rising against Polish oppression of national minorities, in 1930, has come to a close, A verdict | will be given soon. , The 56 defendants, among them peasants, intellectuals, some of leaders of the Communist Party of Poland, Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, were accused of “conspiring to separate territory from the Polish state.” The defendants were actually among the leaders of a mass up- rising of thousands of peasants against the unspeakable methods of terror, oppression, and ex- ploitation, and the military puni- tive expeditions employed by the Pilsudsky fascist regime to crush the masses of Western Ukraine. A heavy censorship has been imposed by the Pilsudsky govern- ment on all news of the trial. but even through the censorship there filters word of a heroic mass de- fense on a class basis conducted by the prisoners, despite the ter- rible tortures under which some of their numbers have already died, and one has gone insane. —Editor. Pie Ne By SELDT. The Luzk trial, originally fixed for December, 1933, was delayed un- til February, 19, 1934, because the defendants rejected the indictment which was drawn up in the Polish language, demanding that it be drawn up in the Ukrainian lan- guage. The court authorities were compelled to accept the demand. This was the first big political vic- tory of the defendants in this trial. The trial began on February 19, 1934. It was attended by a great number of toilers and many Polish and foreign press representatives. There were many prominent lawyers for the defense. The defendants came into the court room singing revoultionary songs. Their faces were pale and drawn as a result of the hunger strike recently con- ducted by them in protest against the murder of one of their number. When, at the reading of the in- dictment, it was declared that the defendants had repudiated their evidence because this “evidence” was extorted by torture, the de- fendants demonstratively protested against the Polish torture regime. Prisoners Beaten in Court. Thereupon followed an event un- precedented even in the history of the legal proceedings of Polish class justice:—a gang of policemen led by a police officer rushed towards the defendants and beat them with their clubs; the policemen also at- tacked the lawyers for the defense who tried to protect their clients. Lawyer Duratch protested in court against the ill-treatment of the defendants. The presiding judge paid no attention to this pro- test, and sentenced all the defend- ants to seven days imprisonment in the dark solitary confinement cells. The aqeusation is based upon the evidence of a number of spies and provocateurs, as well as upon the defendants’ “confessions,” although the defendants later, and also in the court, repudiated these “confes- sions” 6n the ground that they had been extorted by the most brutal Protest Delegation Goes to Washington to Polish Embassy NEW YORK.—Indignant at the attempt of the Polish govern- ment to murder 56 revolutionary working class leaders, seven working class _ organizations rushed a delegation to the New York Polish Consulate yesterday to demand the immediate uncon- ditional release of these victims of the Pilsudski fascists. The flunkey at the consulate was at- tempting to deeeive them by say- ing the Consul was out. The del- egation thrust aside this gentle- man and forced their way into the offices of the Consul. There they read a statement pledging mobilization of the American working class to force freedom for their comrades in the West- ern Ukraine. The International Labor De- fense, Ukrainian United Toilers and other organizations have ar- ranged to send a delegation to the Polish Embassy at Washing- ton. The delegation leaves Sun- day night from New York Cify. torture and inquisition methods. It must here be mentioned that Sklad- kovsky, the former Minister for the Interior, in his speech in the Sen- ate on February 3, 1931, himself admitted that torturing was ap- Plied. He declared: “Letters from prisoners in the Luzk political police prison have lately found their way into pub- licity. In these letters it is stated thet a young Communist girl was raped and that the ‘Bialystok method’ is being applied to the prisoners, i. e. that water or petroleum is being poured into their noses, ete. These accusa- tions have been carefully verified and it has been established that they correspond to the facts,— and the officials responsible for this have been dismissed. An un- healthy atmosphere was found to be prevailing in the Luzk prison. “"" World-Wide Protest A great movement of protest has developed throughout the world. In the U.S.A., at the national confer- ence of unemployed in Washington on February 5, a delegation of 37 persons were elected and sent to the Polish Ambassador Patek with @ resolution of protest demanding the liberaticn of the Luzk prison- ers as well as all the political prison- ers in Poland. The delegation was composed of representatives of Ukrainian, White-Russian, Polish, Finnish and other workers’ organi- zations, trade union organizations, and unemployed councils. At the head of the delegation there were represen‘ativos of the LLD., U.S.A, The Polish Embassy was guarded ia ® oe World-Wide Protests Imperative As Case Nears Verdict by the police, and Ambassador Patck, through his seeretary Para- dinsky, denied that he was in. The delegation handed the protest reso- lution to the secretary. A number of other trade union organizations, unions and educational societies joined the, protest campaign. On February 17 several street demonstrations were organized in front of the Polish embassies and consulates. In France—at hundreds of meetings, French, Ukrainian and Polish workers jointly protested against the Polish torture defendants. Polish Toilers Deeply Sympathetic In Poland, the toilers followed the course of the trial with. the ae iene The conduc! the defendants in co who to all the questions of the ae siding judge, demonstratively an- answered only in the Ukrainian lan- guage, calls forth the greatest sym- pathy of the -toilers, particuluarly in Western-Ukraine. The Polish occupational authori- ties did not limit eeraneivea to tor- turing the defendants during the cress examinations in 1930; they. even repeated this brutality in court. This fact must urge the toilers of the world to intensify their procest campaign. Strengthen the protest! Demand the liberation of the Lusk de= fendants, ' regime, _ and demanded the liberation of the Nazis :