Genoa Labor Hits Use of Nazi Prisoners of War
In Warsaw's Ruins barfly. We aaw their arrogance in taking advantage of th* poor people of that city. We new the nearby highway* jammed with hundreds of heads of cattle, horses and farming...
...This measure will increase further the growing unemployment in this region...
...The Polish people see that Miko?aj esyk is more and more helpless...
...Trucks and bridges are not renin alt mied There it only one railroad line running in Poland and this i* the railway from Warsaw to Moscow...
...Eeaad Cowed by Fear late Submission lo Regime," was the headiiaa...
...a^S much as every Pole wants food, fuel and clothing, he wants freedom more...
...The reception given to Miko?ajczyk was ait-indication of the . feelings against Bierut and his government completely dominated by Communists and Soviet Russia...
...Thus a large cadre of Soviet adherents ia being created...
...The Polish people need some rallying point around which they can build their hopes...
...Pillaging of the shops on the streets was going on most freely, and the snatching of purses from Polish women is a daily occurrence...
...In the N. T. Timas of Oct...
...How can they use the Baltic porta...
...This is the main reason why Poles do not regard the newly allocated territories as compensation—which was promised them for the loss of the Eastern Polish territories...
...we were told that these 16 families own "collectively" just one pig and they have to hide that pig under straw whenever Russians are in the vicinity...
...The scarcity of food and clothing in Poland is accompanied by the scarcity of fuel due mostly to the breakdown of all communications...
...tt Over a story by Gladwin IIill free» Warsaw...
...When resistance is offered, the Russian soldiers kill...
...LPA...
...Pelc...
...The few pablicatioaa there now are atrictly under Russian censorship Radios are the most restricted instruments in Warsaw...
...The taking away of Wilno, Lwow and the oilfields left a deep wound in every Polish heart, and the fact that they are getting territories stripped of every modern implement make* the reconciliation still more diffi cult...
...It is a fact that Russia up to this time is not a contributory member of this organization, so why should a Russian be given an important post to cover all of Eastern Europe...
...He waa elected lit* Treasurer of Chicago in 198...
...These peasants who were given small land holdings have to till their soil with bare hands...
...but the Russian secret police- the dreaded Nh.VO— is laaponaibte for all the mysterious disappearances of individuals...
...Uniformed soldiers roam the atreeta With tommy-guns on their backs snd pistols in their holsters...
...The officers in the army commanded by Marshal Rola.Zymierski are mostly Russian, and the worst factor in the situation seems to be the fact that numerous units of the Soviet Russisn anny are being demobilized in Poland and the individuals ara automatically made Polish citizens...
...issued not to print pro-English and fa**, American news...
...The Poles do not speak openly about their troubles...
...This is why Stanislaw Miko?ajczyk was received with open arms...
...Public meeting* are run and controlled by th* Communists and there is no free discussion in th* press, despit* the fact that newspapers are numerous...
...Member ef Congress, was elected from the Kigath', Illinois District, which lies in (Virago...
...American representatives have little or nothing to say about what goes on and the Russians take all the credit, although 72 percent of UNRRA's funds have been contributed by the United Statea...
...They want all of us to help them again to become a free, dem» cratie and independent nation...
...Large numbers of them enter Kola ?ymierski'* army or the local police force...
...He aerved until 1942...
...In consequence they reason that the United States and Great Britain either cannot or do not want to help the Poles regain' their freedom and independence and I regret to state that gradually Polish public opinion, shrewdly maneuvered by th* Soviet-controlled press, is turn-ins...
...If free and unfettered election could be held in Poland without terrorism, arrests and deportations, the Polish people would wipe out the government of Bierut and Osubka-Morawski...
...The production of food in Poland suffer* greatly because of two factors: One, the requisition of 80 percent of the crop by the government which is compelled to feed the Russian army of occupation...
...Their cattle and every implement of agriculture was taken from them...
...However, should the present situation persist, Poland will quickly be turned into a Soviet province ruled by Soviet police, despite the fact that Rus-sia will fail to communis« the Polish people and to imbue the Poles with 'the Soviet totalitarian doctrines...
...A small part of I Mill \ supplies is being distributed to the population...
...abuat events in various parU of the world, fully bear out the trends as forecaHt ia our columns, and often evenU teporled yesterday are only a continuation of . .mi, and tendencies exclusively reported in The New Leader meek* smd month- ago In sharp rontraat to the reports from I.lads in Hill is the fiction contorted by' Irring Brandt for PM portraying Poland today aa independent and democrats Hep...
...Russian saldiert are complete masters of Poland...
...He ia a Democrat...
...Traffic is controlled by uniformed Rus sisn girls...
...They want the obligations of the world toward Poland to be ful filled...
...this distribution is used very ob vtously by Soviet Russia for political purposes...
...The hopes which the people of Poland focused on Miko?ajczyk are now rapidly fading away...
...We could not see Stanislaw Grabaki either, and as far as Miko?ajczyka personal position is concerned, I can tell you that his own ap-pointed Vice-Minister of Agriculture was arrested by tha NKVD and no intervention on the part of Miko?ajczyk can get kim released...
...Any reported snti-Soviet talk subjects one to immediate arrest and a word uttered against Stalin is fatal Despite the infiltration of Communists into Polish political life snd despite the fart that Soviet stooges are constantly calling political conventions of all the four Communist-infiltrated parties, there is the general belief that 90 percent of the population are against the present dictatorship...
...Pi unary schools, high schools and universities' are being reopened, apparently free Vii action, but the regime of Bierut'1 ind ? »subka Morawski controls the or gani za-t mn of learning and membership of sll academic societies...
...We were not able to see him...
...n ? it*, There is the same kind of totalitarian, grip over education in Poland...
...He ia a strong Admjniatration supporter and haa aa exreilenl moid un liberal and labor measures...
...All officials are appointed by the Government...
...They want t* get rid of the Government which assumed power becked by Soviet bayonets, and they want help to regain their freedom and independence...
...He was to them the man coming from London, the man who had the backing of the Western Allies...
...The Poles want to have the preseat slate of things changed as quickly as possible...
...Near Warsaw a 120 acte estate was divided among 16 families...
...There is a curfew at 9 p. m. People apprehended on the streets after this hour have been shot and you ran hear shooting on the streets of Warssw sfi night long...
...In some instances, death has been tha penalty for having one...
...The resolution states in part: "We have learned that the Allied Military Government has decided to send German prisoners to Genoa who will work on the clesring of bombed areas...
...Over 85 percent of all the industrial equipment and even more in the western territories now allocated to Poland ara being taken away by the Russian armies...
...against us...
...Failure to Show mn identity card reaults . in immediate arrest by the NKVO...
...When Poles are *ure the Soviet secret police are not around they sing "Jeszoz* Polska Nie Zgin??a"—Poland is not yel lost...
...The man in the street is not afraid to die...
...Railroad cars have been destroyed or taken from the coun try...
...We were told of instances where American labels disappeared from cans containing condensed or evaporated milk and Russian labels appeared instead...
...II 'w ironical must seem to the Poles the twe, freedoms snnuonced as our war aims-^fiwesietn from fear and freedom from want...
...To tie*}, who read The Seat Leader, this eyewitaea* report, and a aerie* ef aubeeqaent stories, printed only sfter Mr...
...Moat of the supplies IINKRA sends to Poland are stolen and find their way to the black market where they are sold st prices absolutely inaccessible to the popula lion...
...Ambaaaador to Poland for the establishment ef quarter* for the United Preaa, the Associated Press, and the International News Service, and it is hoped that a free pre** will tell the world what actually I* going on in ihis ghoat city before very long...
...We call th* attention of the AMG to the seriousness of our situation and ask that the measure be reconsidered...
...Order is maintained by several kinds of citizens' militia, police and gendarmes...
...They are by no means reconciled to the terrific loss...
...They want to get rid of the repacious Soviet army...
...Instructionsi?sej...
...contained nothing new...
...We were told that he was absent from Warsaw...
...There is no freedom of press in Poland, but it waa said that arrangements are being made now by the U.S...
...We were told that most severe punishments are meted out to anyone possessing one without a permit...
...it only confirmed what oar cemmearUter* have beea writing far a leaf time past...
...There, is no self-rule anywhere—even in villages...
...How can they get the mineral riches which were promised them in Silesia...
...Thomas S. Gordon...
...In fact, what their correspondents are now reporting ia the Timet, the Cftrietie* Science Monitor, and in a few other iral rate newapapera and mag...
...They want America and the whole world te redeem the pledges which were given to them...
...U ? HR A ha» railed to alleviate Ihe iem?tie sufferings of the Polish nation Ihe man in charge of all the U ? RR ? activities in Poland ia a Soviet citizen, acting as one of the Deputy Director* of Herbert ?. Lehman...
...The most important fact remains, however, that UNRRA's activities in Poland became a political weapon and that the majority of the suffering population is not being helped by this international organization...
...when he wa* elected lo to*, greas...
...We new the nearby highway* jammed with hundreds of heads of cattle, horses and farming implements being taken out of Poland by the Russian...
...There is also wholesale raping of Polish women...
...There is a very strict censorship and the Ministry of Information hands down communiques and issues instruction ** whst may be printed...
...They want I* get rid of the NKVD...
...Genoa Labor Hits Use of Nazi Prisoners of War • The executive committee of the Genoa Chamber of Labor has passed s resolution protesting the proposed employment of German prisoners of war...
...The government baa established loudspeakers on the main street where theyv broadcast Rusaian music, restricted news of the world, and Polish and Russian announcements were heard while we were there...
...They whisper ia one another's ears...
...Every piece of machinery has been removed and—cynically enough— the Russians tell them that they shall get these territories in the state of industrial development aa they were in the Eleventh Century...
...Hill waa "aafely out ef Pelend...
...Thus, abuse is added to injury...
...The spirit of the Polish people is not broken...
...and, two, because of the mass removals of livestock from Poland into Russis...
...There is a deep meaning in this fact...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 43
