Outrages Against Socialists And Ukrainian Villages Continue Pilsudski in Power
Levinson, Edward
Outrages Against Socialists And Ukrainian Villages Continue Pilsudski in Power Pre-Eleetion Terrorism Comes to Light — - League of Nations May Get Race Issue By Edward Levinson npHE...
...Neither technoiof^H employment due to macjj^H cyclical unemployment dojflH times can be cured so tafl profit is king...
...In his opening raj^H declared...
...Find Illinois Child Labor Laws Unenforced CHICAGO...
...tickets at the door $1.25...
...He remarked that it vras significant of the ethical' importance of the old age pension movement in this country that the three great divisions of the religious community — the Federal Council of Churches, the National Catholic Welfare Conference and his own organization of the Jewish congregations, stood absolutely united in favor of this measure of belated justice to aged workera...
...3257) providing $10,000,000 annually to 'encourage and assist the States in providing for pensions to the aged," conducted Feb...
...As for private " pension systems, they usually turned out to be a disguised enslavement of the workers...
...He may thus feel satisfied he has accomplished his objects...
...For a time a starvation diet was imposed...
...In the Eastern areas where the most vile of the government's terroristic acts were perpetrated, Pilsudski "won" 84 seats...
...The guards interspersed these physical torments, with refined mental tortures...
...Thirdly, that they were done by command of the Government and were carried ont strictly according to plan and were not merely the excesses of subordinates...
...9, former Deputy Carol POpiel, 8 prisoner, was taken to a dark, empty room...
...In twelve constituencies the election lists of the Socialist and Democratic opposition had been annulled...
...the wellknown Soprano Raquel Shanek, and David Medoff, popular Jewish tenor and his company will complete the program...
...During the night a1...
...The ssJH child labor would prove t | greater factor in fumisluaf 1 for men than the abollshssjfl married women later...
...The number of villages thus treated was between 5v ) and 800...
...Hermann Liebermann, vice president of the Socialists...
...one of the police shouted in the midst of the attack...
...Elliot White, S. N. Ziebelman, Prof...
...Alexander Debski was a wellknown National Democratic politician...
...who will be chairman of the Board of Trustees, among whom there wul be Sidney* Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Hill quit...
...Michael Flaherty, a Socialist Party member active in the Boston Central Labor Union, presided...
...John A. Lapp, of Marquette University...
...If Marshall Pilsudski gives orders to kill you, you shall be killed...
...These pensions, he declared, were only a deferred payment by the community to persons whose lives had been devoted to toil which built up the nation's prosperity...
...Professor Emily G. Balch...
...Mrs...
...John Haynes Holmes, Bishop Paul Jones, Paul U. Kellogg, Leo Krzycki, Dr...
...You dare to raise your voice against the Marshal...
...League May Hear of It The ruthlessness accomplished its purpose...
...Government' tactics on election day were of a piece with its preparation...
...Williams of the "Green Pastures" company 10,000 Attend Ball Of Forward in N. Y. C. The Foismsd Ball on Saturday, Feb...
...Witos, the former Premier, and Dr...
...More prisoners were added later...
...Russell, Marx Lewis, executive director of the Foundation, Room 803, insurance Building, Washington, D. C Rand School Fellowship This Saturday evening the members of the Rand School Fellowship are coming together to enjoy an entertainment and dance in the Debs Auditorium of the Rand School...
...Henry R Llnville, Owen R LoveJoy, Robert Moras Lovett, John T. McRoy, Alexander Meiklejohn, Dr...
...It is not to be wondered at then that Marshal Pilsudski' has within recent months perpetrated a series of1 outrages on rebellious political opponents and restive racial minori-i ties in Poland without causing more than a ripple of protest...
...Abraham Epstein, executive secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security, in charge of the argument for the bill, presented witnesses who spoke for the organized labor movement, the organized social activities of the churches, and municipal authorities...
...Co-operatives and reading rooms were destroyed by villagers acting .under the duress of the polioe or military...
...Investigation of the terror reign was made difficult by government ordinances punishing persons who give information calculated to injure the standing of the Polish State...
...While1 the Ukranians now under Polish i dominion were being given refined lessons on the foolhardineas of doubting the beneflclence of Pilsudski rule, the Polish Socialists and Democrats were being taught the cost of political opposition...
...In 1929, when the Ford profits were $89,000,000, Henry Ford contributed nothing, and Edsel Ford only $130,000...
...Yet one group of investigators has compared the outrages committed upon the inhabitants of 800 Ukranian villages to the fiendish bestialities of the Baahl-bazouks in the old Turkish territories...
...To reinforce these threats the finishing touch of sham executions were added...
...Some pasjl lieve that if the 18th AasjtfB were repealed nd beer cssjsjH then we would be prospenssjS These people forget thatesjfl had industrial depressnessafl this one...
...10, state and military police seized 19 leaders of the opposition...
...Should he raise the question of the Pilsudski atrocities he will have the warm support of the European Socialists and all friends of freedom...
...The prisoners were made constantly to fear death...
...24 before the Schall subcommittee of the Committee on pensions, appeared deeply to impress the Senators as to the immediate need fot federal action...
...The population knows so well the brutal character of the Pilsudski's regime that few could be induced to talk...
...In addition he sought to - give "proof" that Poland is a "national state," with the Ukrainians, White Russians, and Germans in the Western provinces happily mixed in the Polish melting-pot The issue may be drawn at the next meeting of the council of the League of Nations...
...Oscar Ameringer, Lewis Browne, Benjamin Schle&tnger, president of the' International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Morris Berman, Professor Paul H. Douglas, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry S. Churchill, Frederick V. Field, William Floyd, Zona Gale, Dr...
...The prisoners found military prison accommodations awiting them at Brest-Litovsk, with Colonel KostekBiernacki in charge...
...Former deputies Baginski and Korfanty were given similar treatment...
...Harry W. Laidler, Dr...
...From all these reports, the conclusion is inevitable that Poland is hi the grip of a madman with sadistic inclinations...
...A wet cloth was placed on the small of his back...
...The manner of the arrest was illegal and the military imprisonment was in keeping...
...Many persons are now in jail for mere possession of information...
...Price of admission Is $1.00 in advance...
...Putek and Barlicki were also illtreated and the Ukrainian deputy Kohut, among others, was struck in the face...
...Liobermann were set to work cleaning latrines practically with their bare hands...
...Among the features wil be a program of Negro spirituals by Mr...
...president of the Fellowship and other officers promise that the students and their friends wul enjoy a colorful evening...
...The "examination," which took place on Sept...
...He described "Henry Ford's Silent Partner"—the city of Detroit, which is paying out S800,-' 000 each month to maintain ex-employes of*the Ford Motor Co...
...Costello to Attend Delegations from various eastern cities, including New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore will occupy tables reserved for them at the dinner...
...Various cities will be visited by Mrs...
...The speaker then revlssjH work of the Socialist UOsjB tion in detail, revissj^fl attacks made by the T S MH answering each critictsaT^H and figures...
...10,000,000 Asked of U.S...
...Jerome Davis, Vladimir Karapetoff, and Prof Paul Brissenden...
...Sod, and had delegates from a """*K— of unions including the Boston Central Labor Union present as well ss delegates from a few of the Workmen's Circles and the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Societies...
...As he entered the room he was seized and thrown on a table...
...The Government party took 249 seats where previously it had 132...
...He lives on, unfortunately...
...Their program will consist of a number of their best selections...
...Clarence Darrow, noted liberal leader, and president of the Foundation, has promise'd to make an effort to attend the dinner...
...In contrast to these reports Use elections pasted off In complete sudski and his political program...
...Brutal fliolliifi Administered The most severe prison regulations were aggravated by the officers and gendanmes...
...Others' believe that fl^H women would be denied J^H to hold^own jobs, that *SjH relieve the situation...
...Jim Maurer Returns |H Of The M Newspaper Critic} cialist Administn...
...Meta Berger, widow of the Socialist leader, and herself a member of the national executive committee, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, Morris Hillquit who succeeded Berger as national chairman of the Socialist Party...
...Some doctors who disobeyed were jailed...
...Proceeds will be devoted to Socialist propaganda and organization work in Bronx County...
...B. C. Vladeck...
...Atrocity stories have, become commonplace...
...In opposition there appeared spokesmen for the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Metal Trades Employers' Association...
...Only the threat of exposure by church spokesmen forced the company to restore these payments...
...The hope of the Polish Socialists, Democrats and racial minorities at the session of the council of the League will lie with Arthur Henderson, Socialist minister of foreign affairs of Great Britain...
...Colonel Biemacki observed to Dr...
...who are out of work...
...Unconscious, the Socialist leader was carried back to the train...
...Imprisonments have also been carried out en a great scale, and when the prisons were full, the barracks and other buildings were requisitioned...
...Locquin, the president of the PolishFranco Committee, in Poland at the' time of the elections, has added his evidence...
...No prisoners were allowed to bathe...
...The priests were particular objects for severe treatment, as leaders of the people's fight for civil sights...
...Charles Edward Rusell is chairman of the District of Columbia Arrangements Committee...
...A priest, tortured, was given up for dead...
...On the Western Maryland Railroad, for example, he found the lockout of.the engineers followed by a stoppage of pensions to all retired engineers who refused to scab...
...He argued that enactment of this federal law would remove the argument against state pension laws few the aged...
...Lawyers were forbidden to accept cases which sought redress...
...Credit for the success «t the Ball is due to the large nunSJer of comrades who served on the various committees, aQ doing hard work to keep everything going smoothly, and to satisfy the Urge crowd...
...14, that the decision to make the arrests had been decided upon by the government No formal charges were made, no court orders were written...
...Opposition to old age pensions, he believed, was based 6n the employers' desire to escape just taxation...
...Peter Ainslie...
...Edward F. McGrady, for the American Federation of Labor, filed a vigorous argument for the bin...
...With a view to influencing the proceedings, the Polish delegation in Geneva, the day after the election, issued a sardonic communique^ "The Polish delegation to the League of Nations is empowered to deny most definitely the rumors from foreign sources with regard to alleged limitations of electoral freedom and unrest in Poland on the day of the election...
...His clothes were torn from him...
...Summing tsijfl sion, Maurer said: "In conclusion I WiSfcjH something more about tfciH ployed problem...
...There Is no lack of evidence that the atrocities were carried out at the personal direction of Pilsudski...
...Medical treatment was refused Doctors were forbidden to answer calls for aid...
...16 approached, some 80 members of the old Sejm were seised on various pretexts...
...True, starting tfcjB eries would put a few tsssm people to work, but it it s i true that if the rest of (NjK of unemployed could net ij^J buy the beer, then even tNtjfl eries would have to afR^I again...
...Hard times and hard ksjsfl not automatically eduoatafl These hard times give ns^H portunity to teach that is the only answer to u sH ment...
...One man was dragged in the wake Iof an officer's automobile...
...It cannot, be stated with exactitude how many peasants and workmen were flogged, but it certainly runs into hundreds and perhaps several thousands...
...This year has been a banner one, the student enrollment being larger, the largest in the School's history...
...Opposition from the manufacturers was to the effect that an old age pension would weaken the character and lower the pride of the worker...
...Rounded up, they were driven into a herd, beaten, restored to consciousness by showers of cold water, and then beaten again...
...In Pennsylvania, he said, an old age pension law enacted by the legislature was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court, whose own members were awaiting pensions from the state under an existing law which required no contribution from their salaries...
...Socialist N.E.G To Aid Berger Memorial Drive Dinner Sunday Night Will Launch Work of the Foundation i • M (By s Star Leaf C i i l i ^ l » i n l )' WASHINGTON :.—Members of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist party, meeting in Washington, D. C, for their first quarterly meeting of the year, will conclude a two-day session at a dinner to be given in their honor at the National Press Club on Sunday evening, March 1. Coming on the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of the late Victor L. Berger, one of the founders of the American Socialistmovement, the committee will assist in launching at the dinner the Victor L. Berger National Foundation, organized to honor Berger's memory by creating' a permanent fund for the advancement of his ideals and the perpetuation of his service to minority movements...
...A young man was forced to "confess", falsely, that he had arms...
...Thomas Kennedy, secretarytreasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, stated that his organization had found, in the Arkansas field for one instance, that privat^ pension schemes faded away when the industry slumped, the union opposed private pension stipends, because they carried the threat of an order to scab...
...Bronx Socialists to Hold Annual Dance March 7 The •tiTiimi affair of the Bronx Socialist Party will be held in Hunts Point Palace, Saturday evening, March 7. AH signs point to the possibility of achieving a larger success at this year's affair...
...The Polish hospitals closed their doors...
...In some cases the attack on the villages were made by cavalry, in others police squads served...
...Henry Neumann, Relnhold Nlebuhr, Joseph A. Padway, Judge Jacob Panken, Amos Pinchot, Prof Vida D. Scudder, George Soule, Seymour Stedman, Morris Stern, Rev...
...Howard Y. Williams, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, and the Rev...
...As he cried out, "Fear God...
...The report of the investigators for the Women's International League concludes: "This so-called pacification has been carried out with a ferocity which can only be compared to the previous atrocities carried out in the early 19th century by the Bashi-bazouks in the old Turkish territories, and -secondly these atrocities were not punishments inflicted for crime but were inflicted without trial and wholesale on an entire population...
...In many cases the wounds have gangrened and either death or lifelong injury has resulted...
...We nMStfl planned distribution md |fl tion for use and not fs|H This is Socialism...
...Otto R. Hauser, Adolph Held, Rev...
...Forty-six professors of the University of Cracow have made a brave protest...
...Since Ford's" properties are outside-the city, he pays no taxes...
...Illinois' present laws on child labor and school attendance are being enforced with laxness, which is especially deplorable in these times of unemployment according to a report submitted to the legislature by the Chicago civic committee of 200, headed by Henry P. Chandler...
...Berger, Costello, and Senator Thomas Duncan, of Wisconsin...
...Tonight W f^H to find out whether the t jH are located at city hall j H editorial room of the "TjaJ Sixth and Walnut stresfl are also going to coasjl achievements of the 9<9^| Reading in three short ysja the accomplishments of o ? f l and Republicans over asnfl century of un!ntem»ta*-|M pal control...
...They sought to create the impression that Poland is satisfied with its present regime, that a stable parliament and government has been created that foreign money-lenders need have no fears...
...A good sum will be realized for Socialist propaganda as a result of the success of the Ball...
...Their activities and crimes, if any, were political...
...Norbert Barlicki was chairman of the central executive committee of the Socialist Party and had servnd Poland as a member of the Council for the Defense of the State...
...Kennedy Hits Private Schemes Ilab'oi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore, speaking fox the commission cn social justice of the Cenf -si Conference of American Rabbis, pleaded for old age pensions rs a civilized advance from the Eou-lcr, filth and cruelty of the rlnshcuses...
...Finally, a handsome Journal will be printed and distributed at the affair containing many excellent articles and a great number of complimentary ads from members and friends of the Party who contributed their share towards the success of this concert and ball...
...Among them were the' president and vice president of the Socialist Party, a former prime minister and a leading Christian Democrat...
...Denounced a f l critical (By » New Lender OMMJ^H READING...
...Berger, Mayor Hoan, Darrow and others to secure the support of all those in sympathy with the plan, which is to help build up the working class press throughout the nation, defend civil liberties, and assist in advancing the ideals of world peace...
...Liebermann and Popiel were made to go through the preparations for execution...
...The speech was SnSfl cast over Station 1*jj^H reached many other theassjjl voters...
...On the National Council there will be, among others: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland...
...A member of the State Committee of the State Federation of Labor reported to the conference that the State Federation of Labor had endorsed the principle of unemployment insurance although they had not endorsed the...
...11, carried forward this insolent disregard for the prisoners' legal rights...
...Another great attraction will be Eli Spivak and his group known as "Around the Samovar,'* famous Columbia Broadcasting troupe...
...An excellent program has been arranged, featuring Irma Duncan and her six popularly known as Isadora Duncan Dancers...
...Reservations for the dinner will be received until Saturday night...
...Boston Unions and Socialists Organize employment Conference (SV • > • * Lender CmiaiaU BOSTON.—The Socialist Party of Boston called an unemployment conference in the American House on Sunday, Fab...
...Reservations may be made by wiring or writing Mr...
...Old men and children-did not escape...
...For two months they were incarcerated at the military prison at Brest Litovsk, where they were beaten, flogged, kicked, made to clean latrines, served poisonous food and offered the alternative of death when they protested Former Deputies Bounded Up The facts have come to light in a series ' of exposures...
...He received^, at least thirty blows with an iron instrument...
...He will preside over the discussions...
...Elliot White, a member of the Foundation's national council, will be among the speakers at the dinner...
...The first prise was awarded to San Randolf, portraying victims of the crista...
...Half-unconscious, Popiel was told, "Be glad that it was so little...
...James H. Maurer, Socialist vice-presidential candidates in 1928...
...Pragier...
...AH were civilians...
...The problem of the Polish minorities is on the agenda...
...Among those who have agreed, in addition to Darrow, to sponsor the Foundation and assist in its program of activities are: Jane Adams, Professor John Dewey, Upton Sinclair, Elisabeth Gilman, and James H. Maurer, who have accepted invitations to become vice-presidents...
...Deputy Czapinski in the Sejm on Dec 16, on behalf of the deputies of the bloc of the Socialist, Peasant, National Labor and Christian Democrat parties, presented an exhaustive interpellation on the subject Joseph Saxe, for the Brussels People, has written a series of damning articles...
...The beating then ceased...
...Another jailer told D. Liebermann...
...The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has sent two trustworthy investigators to the Ukranian villages within the Polish borders...
...An instruction from Skladkowski, Minister of the Interior, set the wheels in motion...
...Special credit though, is due to Comrade Abe Zucker as Chairman of the BaU Committee, Comrade Coryell.as Chairman of the Gate Committee, Comrade Donald Henderson in charge of the accounting, Comrade Nathan Riesel as Chairman of Floor Committee...
...Mayor Hoan, Norman Thomas, Williams, William T. Evjue...
...I could have you shot down against this wall and no one oould say a word to me...
...Maurer spoke for hours...
...Tickets are now on sale at every Socialist Party branch and headquarters, and also at the main headquarters, 1167 Boston Road, Bronx...
...Harry Riseman, Detroit attorney, speaking for Mayor Murphy's committee on unemployment relief and for the Michigan Unemployment Council, testified to the need for old age pensions as a relief measure affecting the unemployed...
...Here the government gain was 49 seats...
...Henry Margolles...
...To Deputy Barlicki, the Colonel said: 'You have so insulted Marshal Pilsudski that you have nothing to expect from the courts...
...Socialist bin...
...Outrages Against Socialists And Ukrainian Villages Continue Pilsudski in Power Pre-Eleetion Terrorism Comes to Light — - League of Nations May Get Race Issue By Edward Levinson npHE blatant trumpe tings of X post-war dictatorships Have drowned out the weak protests of political and racial minorities against revolting acts of wholesale and isolated terrorism...
...To Aid Aged Detroit Representative Attacks Henry Ford at Hearing in WasBuMgton , ' WASHINGTON—(FP)—First Senate hearings on the Dill bill (S...
...The iron heels of Fascism, of the Soviets and of Hortby have developed routine steps that have lulled one-time critics into indifference...
...to the $3,000,000 Community Chest for local philanthropy, while last year the head of the firm again failed to donate...
...The prisoners were herded into closed cars...
...the first blow fell on him...
...They were held incommunicado, refused permission to 'talk with their families or legal counsellors...
...The day of the election the prisoners were released Assimilating the Ukrainians Pilsudski's pacification of the 5,000,000 Ukraininans in Eastern Galicia coincided with the approach of the election...
...As the elections of Nov...
...In the cases of the man we saw the wounds were still unhealed and raw after two months," the women investigators report Bones were broken and some deaths followed...
...Wlncenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, had twice been Prime Minister...
...The Journey to a destination unknown by the prisoners was broken up by insults and threats passed out by the guards...
...The Mothers* Pension law in Pennsylvania had, fortunately, not had to run the gauntlet of the courts...
...He employs 4,000 men to maintain his physical plant when it is closed for repairs and reconstruction, but the city,, his silent partner, has to devote 36 percent of all its charity to supporting the human half of the Ford plant when the management does net find it profitable to pay them wages...
...Immediately before and following the concert dance music will be played by Schiller's Dance" orchestra...
...Fourthly, that the victims were denied all medical assistance...
...Friends of Berger's residing In Milwaukee will make a trip east for the occasion, headed by E. J. Costello, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, the paper which Berger founded The dinner will start eff the nationwide campaign that is planned for the creation of the memorial...
...When the police could find no arms in his home, he was beaten to death...
...All were former members of the Sejm...
...Next time Marshal Pilsudski will order a bullet to be sent through your head...
...Vladislav Keirnak had been a Minister of the Interior, Dr...
...Pa—SpejS audience of aafg^^H Orpheum Theatre here, "Jfj| Maurer, Socialist OoUssssfl head of the City Fuianssfl ment, paid his resnesjjfl Reading Times which '1*J| after time, misnssfl^^H work of the Socialist j j ^ H tion...
...So^^J if such married women's l9fl earned, enough to suppsfl wives and children...
...Fifthly, that every effort has been made to prevent the drawing up of any reports or statistics showing the extent of the repression...
...Dark cells, beds without mattresses, long fast periods were administered to those who uttered slightest protest "Inspections" were held at night, when the prisoners were stripped naked and obliged to stand in the cold corridors while the guards vented their contempt During the night of Oct...
...Several other valuable prizes were awarded...
...Sept...
...The government followed a general pattern in its pre-election "pacification...
...Marsal Pilsudski revealed in an interview on Sept...
...21, at the 71st Regiment Armory, was a bag* success, folly 10,000 persons attended Beautiful masks and costumes were worn...
...The villages surrounded and machine guns set up, appointed soldiers would make the rounds of houses and levy fines of stock, grain and occasionally cash...
...Liebermann was taken from the train and beaten...
...Five lawyers who merely listened to complaints were jailed...
...But tfjH married women out ofj^H would not b*c• •remedy let Vsl trial depressions...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 9
