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P Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU! DAY, APRIL 26, 1934 i e =~ ernment of Roosevelt, with its BEA slave traps; ete = Y. T. | e P e \) Daily Worker ope mieene= 49 Lutsk Defendants Get 300-Years Total in Prison }) TEAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ne “May Days” of Fascism. Every class conscious | keel Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” ae iia oi er a truth oe tik c Bae FOR A UNITED WORKING CLASS AT UNION SQUAR FOUNDED 1924 MAY DAY DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, Roosevelt’s ‘Evolutionary’? Methods PUBLISHED BY THE Students Are Shot By Burk T.L.D. Urges | Messages of | . | Mass Protest — oH is Prison Terms To Begit}}, Afier Three Years of Torture : Let not the unity of the working class be 7 PU ) NG leg ‘C., 50 E. 13th COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. INC es split! On May Day, all workers, of every group, a5 Street, New York, N. Y. union or party, must clasp hands in militant By Cuban Soldiers At Demonstration: The Negro and the Students Strike in Four ete s Set Me = Provinces, Demand me ON Spas ae | New Deal Firing of Officials me | | r, | Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 4. solidarity, pledging themselves not in “leyalty” to the government, but in loyalty to the caue of Socialism! Ne rk, N.Y National Press Build Room 708, Chicago, HE “New Dealer,” Roosevelt, has given SURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1 Ai in eee len NEW YORK.—The convic- isan tell sree sha Iie official government sanction to the fired on demonstrating students at Rivest mashes ena cg monstrous national oppression and plun- paint ta at sine th 37 I tsk dateddauke on : . ~ dering of the Negro masses and the ac- | Several. he students were de- e 57 Lutsk (3 nts Socialist May Day-- With manding the removal of the mili tary supervisor of Camaguey Prov- ince, of the chief of police of Santa Clara, and other officials. companying degradation of the Southern white toilers. This is the clear, unambiguous mean- | April 14 has known here just become in mailed diz. Capitalist Blessings : ee ea Ba Sia ie ae re patches from fascist Poland. °C ut the fact + fal 1 two ing of his dictatorial decree upholding ater § students barricade lie Bet ie EIZING upon the fact that there will be two the’ “traditional differentials’ "of: atkrvatlon: wag: |thaninetves “dni @ HIN? pehnol ant The 45 who were convicte\! demonstrations on May Day, a Socialist Party for Southern white workers, with the additional declared they would remain on received sentences ranging from meeting at Madison Square, and a Communist one jim-crow differential of even still lower wages for {hunger strike until the ‘officials three to eight years, and all were at Union Square. Hearst paper, spe: in this fashion nion labor prepared yesterday for a May Day demonstration to rival in size and purpose the huge mass meetings planned by the Commnu- nists. “Hundreds of thousands are expected to gather at Madison Square in a pledge of loyalty to the Government and in opposition to the revolution- ary ideals of the Communist groups.” Is not this sort of ng sinister with the menace of Fascist demagogy? Is not this shocking to the class conscious workers who follow the leadership e New Yor ak, American, fF this morning to th were removed. Students of Havana University, | technical schools and high schools, | and students in Matanzas, have gone on a 48-hour strike in sym-| pathy with the students in Santa | Clara and Camaguey. ' | Soldiers used tear gas on a group| of demonstrators in front of the} What is this “established economic relationship” Ee ar enti Ba prea which Roosevelt defends and protects? It is the |into the palace, where it overcame | semi-feudal relationship existing between Southern | an army oficer and brought tears industrials and landlords and the toiling Negro | to the eyes of officials and corre- masses, under which Negro croppers and poor farm- | spondents. ers are systematically robbed of their crops, Negro | the Negro toilers. Rushing to the support of Ala- bama industrialists against the militant, united struggle of white and Negro miners, Roosevelt flat- ly declares: deprived of citizenship for ten | years. Michael Drdla, well known | in New York as former editor of the Ukrainian Daily News, was one of those given the eight-year maxi- | mum sentence. The total number | of years of all the sentences adds up to 300. The state prosecutor has entered an appeal, declaring the sentences were too light. The defense has also entered an appeal against the con- j viction. . . + It is not our intention te produce any sudden or disruptive change in an established economic relationship.” In Prison Now 3'4 Years } ‘ - | The defendants. have been in of the Socialist Paty? — é toilers brazemly plundered “of their wages and a: 5 ‘ prison already three and a half Does not every Socialist worker as 7 ha lynched, in and out of the courts, or hauled off | United May First | | years, suffering tortures which have marrow the revolutionary meaning of May y, ri rderous i 2 : | nade Lu otoriou hout iia creat aay. hich: Heralds Abe Cine ened ORK to forced labor on the murderous chain gangs, for Demonstrations m tsk notorious throughout demanding their wages or payment for their crops, | for protesting the dishonest bookkeeping system of the Southern lynch lords. working class of the world will destroy the capitalist system and the capitalist government How vile, then, is this defiling of this great work- ing class revolutionary day into a “pledge of loyalty to the Government, in opposition to the revolution- ary ideals of the Commu og Is it not clear that this turning of May Day into a “pledge for the support of the Government” already approaches the Hitler type of May Day, when the masses are herded into the streets “to pledge loyalty” to the capitalist government? the world. Others arrested with | them have died under the torture, i one has gone insane. They were arrested in 1930, as leaders in the mass uprising of West Ukrainian peasants against the in- tolerable persecution and oppression of the Polish government. The toil- | ers of Western Ukraine made a heroic effort to achieve national liberation, but had not sufficient support, and were defeated. Their defeat was followed by the butchery of thousands by the Polish army in the campaign of “pacification.” Heroic Defense in Court The Lutsk defendants were ac- cused of seeking to separate the ter- | ritory of Western Ukraine from the | Polish state. At the trial, broken in | body and fecing a murderously hos- | tile court, they defended themselves , heroically, as political fighters, ac | cusing the Polish ruling class op- (Continued from Page 1) | Roosevelt defends this monstrous system. He | gives official government sanction to the national and economic oppression of the Negro masses. He | comes out openly in support of the attempt of the Southern lynchers and their A. F. of L. and So- cialist Party lackeys to maintain the division be- tween white and Negro workers, and to crush the rising tide of struggle in which, under the leader- ship of the Communist Party, the unity of these workers is being forged. He seeks not only to main- tain the chains on the Negro masses and the result- ant degradation of the Southern white toilers, but to use low wages in the South as the basis for new | attacks on the w: of the workers in the North. | This is the “New Deal” slavery that the Negro reformist misleaders have glorified as the “salva- tion” of the Negro ma. In their shameless co- operation with Roosevelt in putting over the “New Deal,” the leaders of the National Association for meeting at Ashley Park, Rivet | and Bolton Sts., at 7 p.m. \ LAWRENCE, Mass. — Mass | meeting at Italy Grand Hall, 109 | Oak St., at 7 p.m. | STAMFORD, Conn. — Mass! meeting ai Atlantic Square. | S. NORWALK, Conn.—Mass meeting at Main and Ann Sts. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Mass meeting at Weshington Park 4| p.m., indoor meeting Sokol Hall, Hallet St., at 8 p.m. | NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Central | Green 5 p.m. Indoor meeting Lit- tle Art Cinema, 36 Hewe St. Angry Calabria Farmers a * Burn Mussolini in Effigy and Sailors Monument 6:30 p.m. 3 NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Main| AT THE ITALIAN FRONTIER , the workers defended themselvi ND who is responsible for this situation, which permits the venal capitalist press to spread chau- vinism and reaction into the very ranks of the May Day parades? Who bears the blame for this situa- tion where the New York working class has two demonstrations on its great day of international y, one demonstration that meets with the approval of the ruling class, and one that does not? Js it not plain that the responsibility rests with the Socialist leaders, who have set. them- Workers Attack Fascism; Vienna Yorum Is Closed es! so | ry i | (By Mail) — or volts | well t ocession was broken me | pressors, and exposing the savage fetvos like, fit Agatrst (sll efforts. form, united: | She, Advancemént of \Onlorell Beopleyy'the “Usien, |" Sat MAM GEd 7 | ceutua Tealian tance: art eee Mov andeodiy cheer ie Mie RLU I Ae Hapsburg| rues’ to whlch iney were ae May Day meeting in Union Square, even going peseue' the, Sritisbingh: Cmirlert sete ebave eet! |) ae pm., Park and Law-| from Calabria, in Southern Italy. | cist slogans. May Be Austrian stantly subjected, though they knew to the lengths of separating the Socialist workers tended that the worsening conditions of the Negro rence 6:30 p.m. Evening, Odd Fel-| At Bistari and the neighboring | ? this would only serve to make these from Communist “contamination” by setting up a rival meeting! These are the criminal splitting tactics that are already bearing their budding Fascist fruit in such provocative incitement as can be seen in the New York American. It was with such splitting tacties that Social Democracy split the ranks of the working class in Germany. If the Socialist May Day becomes transformed into a demonstration of “loyalty” to the Roosevelt government, will it be very different from the way the German Socialists supported the Fascist Von Hindenburg as a “great democrat” who will fight Fascism? May Day is a day whose soul is revolution, revo- lution for the overthrow of capitalism, And this means that it is a day of hatred and revolutionary struggle against the Wall Street, gov- masses under the “New Deal” was not a funda- mental policy of the Administration, but merely | incidental and accidental to the carrying through Post Office, 3 p.m. Indoor Liberty of the “New Deal Roosevelt's statement clearly | * Hall, 8 p.m. shows that this discrimination is a fundamental | CHICOPEE FALLS, Conn—} Policy of the “New Deal.” Polish National Home, 8 p.m. Roosevelt's decree affects the lives of all workers, | ia ee Jes rrinaarad not ‘erat in laird South but throughout the whole | ” CLARKSBURG, Ww. mys bce | country. The workers, white and black, North and House Square, 10:30 a.m. South, should answer this attack on our living FAIRMONT, W. Va. — Court standards with thunderous protests and intensified | ‘House Square (Jefferson St. side) ' struggle against hunger, starvation, territorial and 6 p.m. | jim-crow differentials and for the national libera- OSAGE, W. Va.—7 p.m. | tion of the Negro people. The Negro workers, in PORTLAND, Me.—At Linzoln| their fight against intolerable conditions, are faced Park. | with the necessity of waging a ruthless struggle | | | LACKAWANNA, WN. Y.—Friend- | against the reformist misleaders and lackeys of the | Ship _House, Ridge Road, 7 p.m. | jim-crow capitalist government. YONKERS, N. Y. — Larkin} Plaza and Warburton Ave., 5 p.m. MT. VERNON, N. Y.—Bond St. and Mt. Vernon Ave., | villages, hundreds of peasants rose} The fascist courts continue to in sponteneous revolt against. the| Pass terroristic peerage ET intolerable taxes and burned Mus-/ munists who are kept in the Italian | solini in effigy. Dozens were ar-| concentration camps. Andrioli! VIENNA, April 25.— The so- rested. | Oreste of Rome, and a Communist | “cllcd People’s Forum conducted by At Catanzaro, during a religious | named Marmocchi, have been con- | Dr. Karl Winter, deputy-mayor of procession, several hundred work- | demned—the first to eight months | Vienna, in hag he publicly de- ers stopped the procession, shouting | and the second to six months soli- Ponts on the pee of aus anti-fascist slogans. | tary confinement, or haying “in- hence ne oe y a raid last Where to Send. Proteste The bishop called the police, but stilted a fascist guard.” RUBBE,”. When 4h ‘Parsons -Were -Ar= icnies ‘ Fs rested. Workers had crowded into| The protests should be sent to the! this small hall seating only 500, to; Polish Embassy, Washington; tof) declare their hatred of fascism. One; the Polish Consulates in each city, worker who spoke against fascism! and the Polish court, addressed as was arrested as soon as he’ had| follows: Apilacyjny Sud, Lublin, finished speaking. | Poland. An appeal was made that The workers present sang the In-| the central bodies of national or- ternationale, and forced his release.| ganizations cable protests to this When a second worker got up,| #ddress in Poland. Smaller organiza~ and also attacked fascism, the police| tions which cannot afford to cable raided the place and closed it up.) should write by registered mail to That Archduke Eugene, of the| Poland, and send telegrams to the House of Hapsburg, may be made| ¢mbassy and consulates. lows Hall, 420 Main St., 8 p.m. President SPRINGFIELD, Conn. — Old! tortures worse. The International Labor Defense, the United Ukrainian Tcilers, and the Communist Party have issued a call to all workers’ organizations to send telegrams and letters cf pro- test, demanding the immediate lib- eration of the 45. ~ Filipino RevolutionaryLeaders Reject Yellow Dog Parole Bid wwBW YORK.—Two of the 17 revolutionary leaders of the Filipino masses who were sentenced to terms and the 16 other political prisoners, to Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Washington, and to Governor Frank Murphy, Maniia, P. I. DETROIT COUNCIL BANS USE Tarrytown Fisher OF PARK FOR MAY DAY; ALA. FASCISTS PREPARING ATTACK (Continued from Page 1) to justify the ban on the grounds of the necessity of upholding the beauty of the city. The May Day Conference tonight will take measures to ensure the holding of the demonstration. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, April 25.—The City Council, in session today, flatly re- fused to see a delegation of 38 re- presentatives of Chicago mass or- ganizations, who went to protest the police ban on the May Day parade Meetings Planned in 13 Cities of New Jersey NEWARK, N. J., April 26— Thirteen cities in the State of New Jersey are planning May Day mass demonstrations and meetings against. war and fascism, for unemployment and social insurance, wages, for the right to organize, strike and picket. Demonstrations will be held in the following cities: Newark, Military Park, 5:30 p. m. —Speakers, Israel Amter and Re- becca Grecht. Paterson, Sandy Hill Park, noon—Speaker, Israel Amigr. 12 for higher} Body Co. Strikes (Continued from Page 1) | to work by threatening an imme- diate shutting down of the plant, even before the parts material now} on hand turns out. A leaflet issued by the union and| | signed by Otto Kleinert, president | of the Federated Automobile Asso- | ciation, said today that there was |no truth in the company state- | ments that the strike was the result of “hasty decision,” that the walk- | out followed conferences with the company concerning discrimination | against the employe, Charles Day- mour. Daymour was taken off of} his job and given work at half the WHITE PLAINS, N. Orawaupum St., 8 p.m. | PORTCHESTER. N. Y.—Aben- | droth Ave. and Highland St.,| 6:30 p.m. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Rey- burn Plaza (opposite City Hall) 1 pm. March to Independence Square 4 p.m. Evening, Broad- way Arena, Broad and Christian | Sts. EASTON, Pa.—Park, 12 noon, and Parade to Center of City. ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Center Si 3 pm. CONCORD, N. H. House Plaza, 7 p.m. LANCASTER, Pa. — At the Court House steps, 7:30 p.m. BAYONNE, N. J.—Broadway 1 p.m,, Polish Hall, 00 p.m. VERONA, Pa. — Front St. 7-p.m. PEABODY, Mass.—Main St., Costa Hall, of prison or banishment t=» years — State; ago have been offered terms of parole which they indignantly re- | jected, according to word received | yesterday by the International La- bor Defense, which is leading the fight for their release. The terms of the offered parole would have prevented them from carrying on the work for which they were sentenced. The messege does | not give the names of the two. They are among 17, led by Jacinto Evan- |ago at a trade union congress in ‘the Philippine Islands. They were charged with “illegal association, sedition, and violation of the fundamental Jaws of the State,” for having organized work- ers and addressed mass meetings in eration, An appeal to the U. S. Supreme | Court was sabotaged by the clerk of the court in Manila, who delayed | gelista, who were arrested two years | the interest of Filipino national lib- | Down Tools May First! Spy System Has Been Used Against Strikes AMSTERDAM, Holland, April 24. |—Since the strike was organized |three months ago by 300 young| | workers employed in the Krupp| | Works, a far-reaching system of es— pionage has been developed in the | | Workshops, in order to discover the | “agitators.” Now 18 young work- ers have been arrested on the charge of ‘ ‘preparing to commit | high treason.” | These young men are Commu- nists, Social.- Democrats, mem- bers of Catholic trade unions, non- | partisans, and their whole “crime”. consists of the fact that they de- | circles here today. | is to be replaced with the final re- the next president of Austria is de-| clared very likely in well-informed | It is known that President Miklas organization of the Austrian state apparatus on fascist lines. A special government decree has been passed making it possible for Eugene to return to Austria, although the laws exiling the former imperial family have not yet been annulled. Entry of a Hapsburg into the Austrian government would repe- resent a sharp aggravation of the war danger in Central Europe, as the new countries formed out of the broken-up Austro-Hungarian em- pire, and particularly © Czecho- slovakia, are. sharply opposed to the restoration, which would be seized on by monarchists as an instru- ment to agitate for re-creation of the old empire. Anti-War Meeting} Called in Baltimore League Youth Section To Hold Conference BALTIMORE, Md.—In answer to the increased war preparations and fascist moves of Roosevelt's regime, fi the Provisional Youth Committee of ¢ the American League Against War and Fascism of Baltimore, is calling a youth conference against war and fascism to be held April 29, 1 p.m. at 1204 E. Baltimore Street. Delegates representing young sea- men on ships, young steel workers from the Bethlehem Steel Co., youth and adult delegates ae ing both Negro and white organiz: tions will be present at this con- ference. The conference is to be preceded by a dance, called for April 27, 8 p.m., to take place at the Workers’ Center, corner Pratt and Bond Sts. The dictatorship of the prole- lariat is a fight, fieree-and ruth- less, of the new class against an enemy of preponderant strength, against the bourgeoisie, whose determination to resist has been increased tenfold by its over- throw.—Lenin. . ~ . : pay. The leaflet concluded, “we 5 ee City, “Stadium Grounds, neve in mind not.only discrimina- ae tion and intimidation but also rec- ee 33rd St. and Avenue C,| ognition of the union to protect our | Passaic, 5:30 p.m . interests and we also have in mind Chicago mass organizations are) Flizabeth, Union Square, 5 p.m, | etter working conditions and flooding the Council with protests) Linden, Wood seed and tet st,,| bisher wages. As to higher wages, against the police ban and demands|4 p. m. corner Wallis at 7:30 p.m, through the Loop, Chicago business r section. A larger delegation will visit the | 1 Council at its next session Friday. | the certified translation of the|mand the fulfilment of the prom- WORCESTER, Mass. — Com-| record until the statutory time limit | ises made at one time by the na- mons (Salem Square), 2 p.m. | had been passed. | tional youth leader Baldur von indoor meeting, 29 Endicott, 8) ‘The I. L. D. yesterday issued an|Schirach — eight-hour day, three p.m, appeal to all workers’ organizations | weeks paid wages, guaranteed con- FITCHBURG, Mass. — Mass/ to send protests and demands for | tinued employment after end of meeting at 9 Prichard Street. the release of Jacinto Evangelisto | apprenticeship, ' that their representatives be heard, | Meanwhile, Chicago workers are| Mass meetings and concerts are| With any other organizations, has answering the police provocation | planned to take place in the eve-| tWo lawyers on its executive com- with increased activities in prepara- | tion for the giant May Day parade | through the Loop to the demon- | stration in Grant Park. i The May Day United Front Ac- tion Committee has voiced the sen- timents of Chicago workers in a} notice served on the police that the parade will be held, with or with-| out a permit. * * * PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 24.—A series of meetings are being held) 43 Ne. this week to mobilize for the May Trenton, 4 p. m. ning in the following cities: Newark, Sokol Hall, 359 Morris Ave. Lakewood. Union City, Cooperative Hall. Bayonne, Jefferson Hall. Cliffside. | Paterson, New Washington Hall. | Elizabeth, Hungarian Home. | Hillside, Hungarian Hall, | Linden. | Plainfield, 234 West Front Street. | New Brunswick, Ladies Aid Hall, | w Street. ‘| what do you think?” |The strike so far has not been The union, which is not affiliated mittee. Kleinert himself was pre- viously active in the company union that formerly existed in the plant, The strikers should immediately take the strike into their own hands. effectively organized. Mass picket- ing of all the strikers will close down the Chevrolet and Pontiac plants as well as the rest of the! Fisher Body shifts in short order. | The strikers on the picket lines have shown that they are striking in solidarity with their Cleveland) Lutsk Prisoners, Like Dimitroff, Defy Their Torturers in Court: VICTIMS OF THREE YEARS OF TORTURE ACCUSE THEIR ACCUSERS WHEN BROUGHT BEFORE THEIR JUDGES NEW YORK —In spite of the censorship of fascist Poland, the text of the heroic speeches made by the 56 defendants in the trial at Lutzk, in Western Ukraine, has been smuggled out of the country, and forms a record of heroic self- no stores of arms, but not even a serap of paper was found. There are towns famed for their parks, there are towns famed for their churches, towns famed for their sky-serapers. Lutzk has also its world-wide fame. Lutzk is the town strokes I got, but there were cer- tainly 80 to 100 strokes. But, how- ever, as I stubbornly refused to sign the records, one of the police agents sad: . “‘All right then, we will speak I am just a rank ‘and file member. I wish to tell about ‘the formation, the aims and tasks of the Interna- tion Red Ad, about’ its attitude towards the political parties, as well as its attitude to fascism. ‘ the prisoners, of helping them in their Marxist studies in prisn: the Red Aid has also the task of in- forming the broad masses nbout the causes of their oppression, and of mobilizing these masses for the | Chinese to you.’ I was stripped ab- “After the’ war the toilers’ struggle against their ESSO! y tio! is ty. | and St. Louis brother strikers of| defense in court second only to that le fe toilers’ move- clr oppressors, Se wee tie ial Register for Dail |Fisher Body. The same demands of George Dimitroff before the Nazi |! Mor! and physical torture, at oe ee eee, 3 ments, the struggle for social and | The nee Aid collects funds and Thursday night at Federal Hill;| chads eee. should be put forward in this strike court at Leipzig. AX was one of the last to be | “sr could not bear this any longer | national liberation became strength- | fVen the collected money and food Friday night at Hoyle Square:| Worker Contingent | —thirty per cent increase in wages,! The defendants were charged with | ‘T0SS-examined so T heard and saw a Saturday night at the City Hall. NEW YORK. — Following the United Front May Day demonstra- ‘tion on Union Square, the workers | will march to Madison Square Gar- den for the evening celebration of| labor’s international day of soli-| darity and struggle. The Madison Square Garden meeting will be addressed by Clar- ence A. Hathaway, editor of the “Daily Worker”; Charles Krumbein, | district organizer of the N. Y. dis-| trict of the Communist Party and} other speakers. j An excellent program of revolu- tionary music, songs, dances, ‘etc.,| has been arranged, including a chorus of 1.000 trained voices. the Freiheit, Gesang and the “Daily Worker” chorus, i In May Day Parade NEW YORK—All workers who expect to march with the Daily Worker contingent in the May Day parade here are asked to register their names at once in Person or by mail at the District Daily Worker office, 35 E. 12th Street. The contingent will have three huge floats, three automobile floats, a large decorated truck and a district banner, 12 by 6 feet. Red Builders and Daily Worker Volunteers, especially as well as sympathizers, are asked to regis- ter for the Daily Worker con- tingent at once. | | and other demands for better con- ditions should be added to the def- inite demands. | All the strikers should hold a meeting together and elect a broad strike committee with strikers from each department represented. All those on the present executive com- mittee, who have shown that they do not have a fighting policy at heart, to organize the strike effec- tively, should be taken out of lead- ership by the strikers. No settlement should be accepted without the vote of the strikers, | Only by broad mass picketing of all strikers, only by the strikers themselves electing their own strike | committee and taking the strike into | made solid and 100 per cent and the | demands won, attempting to set up a Soviet West- ern Ukraine. The I.L.D. is carry- ing on a campaign in this country, part of a world-wide campaign or- ganized by the International Red Aid, for their release. Below are extracts from the speeches made in court by the de- fendant Schecter describing the tor- ture of the prisoners in the three years they were held without trial, and by the defendant Sigmund Buranowitzer, a member of the Polish Red Aid (I.LD.). All Evidence Fabricated “I was arrested in December, 1930 in Lvov (Lemberg) and brought to Lutzk,” Schecter said, “because all the ‘evidence’ produced in court by | their own hands, can the strike be the Lutzk Political Police is fabri- cated in Lutzk. Such evidence had | to be found, for not only were there everything suffered by others. By day and by night able-bodied per- sons are dragged away for cross- examination, but they return sick, faint, feverish. “Will You Testify Wet or Dry?” “When I was brought before the examining judge, Tkatchuk placed upon the table the necessary instru- ments for the cross-examination and asked me whether I will give my evidence ‘wet or dry.’ same time they gave me the rec- ords, already drawn up, and de- manded my signature. When I categorically refused to do #o I was bound hand and foot and gagged, my shoes were taken off, Postovitch sat on my head and Tkatchuk beat me with rubber clubs on the soles of my feet. I cannot say exactly how many and signed the records. Before I was taken to the public prosecutor, I was told, ‘Now you are going to the Public Prosecutor. You must confirm the evidence you have signed here, otherwise we will beat you to death. “What I now say here, is not to be taken as an appeal for pardon or protection. I am well aware of the class attitude of the bour- geois court towards. me and all of At the | us. I. L. D. Member Speaks Almost a11 of Buranowitzer’s speech was devoted to a descrip- tion of the work of the Polish Red Aid (LD.). “I do not belong to the Commu- nist Party of Western-Ukraine,” he said. “Tt is not true that I am a member of the Central Committee ened. Socialism is being constructed in one-sixth of the world. In the other countries, however, the toil- ers are still subjected to capitalist exploitation. Terror is raging in these countries. Fascism is grow- ing. All this calls forth the toil- ers’ protest against white terror. The LR.A. came forth as a histori- cal necessity, as an organization of the international movement in sup- port of the victims of white terror. What Red Aid Does “In the prison here, in answer to the political prisoners’ complaints about the bad food, the prison ad- ministration made the conditions even worse. We need help from outside the prison. This assistance is given us by the Red Aid. But this is not all. The Red Aid has of the Red Aid in Western Ukraine, also the task of sending books to “The prisoners, who are isolated from their families and comrades, are also in need of moral assistance, The Red Aid maintains contact with these prisoners, sends them letters and appeals, and establishes con- tact between them and the toiling masses all over the world. The families of the prisoners are sup- ported by the Red Aid. During street conflicts, the Red Aid h ; the wounded; it does ever in order that the victims of wl terror soon become ablebodied once more, and are able again to pars ace in the struggle for social. 7m.” When the defendant then began to talk about the terror in Poland, and about the activity of the Red Aid in Western-Ukraine, he was allowed to continue his speech, _/, not,