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treatment fataI1y awaiting a11 t h o s e VOMOSIVW0. 10481.M.W.
who are arrested on the ground of ;
non-nationalism or of the workers A
solidarity. It is the treatment given , 4, , •
1 on the spot, or in the police stations, e
....
By HENRI BARBUSSE,
by the bands that sweep through A
Author of "Under Fire."
(peaceful villages or through disarmed,
unoffending crowds. Mortality among
(Henri Barbusse, the well-known French writer, in the following
the prisoners is frightful. And there
article, gives a vivid description of the battle for existence carried on
are at present, in Polish prisons, still
by the various national minority groups in the Polish republic. The
I living after the torture, 4,000 lyre- A I
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of the facts rests entirely with the author.—Editor.)
It is by these means—and, sub-
process are thoroughly clew,
all of the dust being rero , •I
language is forbidden. Not only is it merged us I am in documents, it is
Many persons are unable to rec- forbidden to teach it in the schools, almost haphazard and with many gaps
by high powered air proses.: I.,
ognize that the tragedy of certain
fore a renovating (scrubs,,.;
but it is equally illegal to use it out that I quote facts and figures—it is
contemporary events exceeds their site of the schoolrooms. Besides, the by these means that the Polish gov- A
which brightens the colors
easy-going sensibility. When they number of schools has dwindled in eminent tried forcibly to bring abOut
like new.
are shown action dared by a certain
definite union of all its citizens un-
'I
disastrous
proportion
since
the.
Polish
go vernment good citizens shrug their occupation of the recently annexed der its new flag and to solve its so-
shoulders and say: "That's impos-
cial problems.
regions. Mr. Szokowski, charged by
sible! Those are things that might
The Polish deputy Wojtik, in his
Repairing and making
the government with an investigation
have happened once, but not in our
revelations and denunciation of the
I
all kinds of carpets and
of the school situation in the annexed
time. You can't make us believe that provinces, tells us that at the moment "furious reaction" and "orgy e,f per-
in our twentieth century of civiliza-
secution" unleashed 'monist the peas-
of the Polish advance there were in
tion and of light such atrocities can
ants, concludes: "And this is but an
Ukrainian territory 350 schools. "The
Oriental rugs repaired as.1
incomplete picture of the hell in the
exist; they belong to melodrama, or
Polish military authoritiesbrutally
,
washed by native workmen, as-
at least to the Middle Ages."
proceeded to close all these schools.. frontier provinces. Our relation
sisted
by the best up-to-date
The greatest part of public opinion Most of the professors and instructors' with them are a hundred times more
equipment, which assures yso
I
has let itself be completely taken in have been interned in concentration barbarous,
more eager for extermina-
of
the
very
best results.
by big words and fine speeches to the mmips." Dr. Zagorsky, an officer ofItion, than those of the Czarist goy-
point that it is incapable of seeing the the ministry, writes elsewhere: "In 1 eminent ever were. Poland is a
White Russia, of 100 schools that ex-. orison for the national minorities, and
truth in all its naked horror.
if the hopes of the Polish government
454 COLUMBIA ST. W.
We must recognize the fact that
ld.be5ri)orse the war, ;ISO were
t of the instructors are are realized, it will soon be the ceme-
never have crime, cruelty and at- icsltotsqe
at
present
in
prison
charged
with
tery
of
the
Ukrainians
and
the
White
, tempts upon life and liberty been no
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widespread as in our epoch, which is White• Russian propaganda." At Russians."
Let us add: "It will soon he the
true y the hell of history. I have un- Kholm an entire conference. of in-
struetors was arrested at one swoop. cemetery of all those who defend the
fortu nately had more than one aces-
I
cause
of labor."
is
sion to find proofs for this agonizing
The. nationalization of the new p
You alight ask: "Aren't all these
declaration.
land includes also an implacablel i facts exaggerated; what proof is there
I want to make clears in the light fight in the field of religion. All tha t
y are true?" Also! "How is
the the European public knows
of irrefutable documents, documents k not Catholic is forbidden, ferreted 1 t it hat
that
no one has disputed, the abominable out and destroyed.' Men and womenI nothing about this?"
scheming, methodical, planned, of- are put in prison solely because the y
well, the' situation has been n made
ficial, to which one of the new coun- belong to the Orthodox religion, be- I the subject
of an inquiry at the close
tries of Europe, Poland, is being sub- cause they follow some Methodist o er i
which a committee was organized
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jected by its present directors. These flourished
Maryavist creed
developed
and Inf
under that
the Czarist
regime.lin
I. ranee last May to protest against
abominations are such that whole
these conditions. A committee cont.
populations of cities and country- The 500 Orthodox churches have been posed of the most prominent men in
sides, whole classes of citizens, are taken over, to be turned into Catho- our democracy, notably M. Herriot,
on the point of being wiped out. The tic churches or to be closed. The Or- M. Painleve, high officials of the
reason for it all is a "reason of state." thodox ministers hove been arrested League of the Rights of Man and
The facts in question are the result interned in their cloisters or deported: others. But at that moment there
of a plan called "national unifica- Ten primary schools of the Methodist was in French political circles a was
ministers at Warsaw and a large o f 1. b.ralism because of the elections.
tion," or "social defense."
Everyone. knows that the former number of schools and orphan asy- Since then, the political agreements
kingdom of Poland, several times in lums through the country-side have that have linked France closely to
the past wiped out by the greed of been raided by the police and closed Poland, which is now looked upon by
powerful neighbors, was reconsti- and the orphans flung out into the I France as her eastern warrior and is
'bountifully aided and subsidized for
tuted at the close of the war in the streets.
form of a "republic." The new na-
It must really seem disconcerting that purpose, have interefered wit h
tion was created out of provinces that to those who believe in the advance the committee. The official heads in
before the war were part of the Rus- of progress in social and moral Poland have had an explosion of vir-
sian, Austro-Hungarian and German spheres to see that steps of this sort tuous denial which has satisfied the
empires. Thus eastern Galicia, con- are taken to join immense areas of conscience of the protestors, who, m-
stituting, with other Ukrainian terri- living beings to a national whole, But [stead of faithfully seeking the facts,
tories of Austria, the republic of West all these measures are nothing beside ' have deemed it more advisable to
Ukrainia, was invaded by Poland and those that range in political and social I clear away the accusation. Many of
the Ambassadors Conference of activity. It is forbidden in Poland the members of the committee have
March 15, 1923, confirmed the occu- to have an opinion that is not in con- withdrawn their support.
Unfortunately for them, there ex-
formity with the government's views. '
pation.
Volhynia, Kholm, Podlachia, Po- This is no longer a question of the re ists a monument of irrefutable facts
that
have been brought to light. All
lesia, were ceded to Poland March 18 pression that a "right-thinking" g"e -
1921. These lands had once been ernment feels called upon to exercise the declarations that have made here
against
revolutionary
movements.
Of
'
are
but a small part of the text of a
part of ancient Poland. This was no t
the case with Lithuania, where, in course, that opposition had suppressed , motion brought into the Polish cham-
ben
by the populist "Liberation"
1920, the semblance of a plebiscite the Communist and the Social-Demo-
y after an investigation on the
was held under the pressure of bayo- erotic parties. But this is a question party,
.
I
spot
nets, with only Polish emigrants tak- of something much more vicious. It
ing part. After this plebiscite, the is a matter of stifling any sort of
Conference of Ambassadors gave Po- popular claim, even in the restricted
land Vilna and other 1.ithuanian ter- and universally tolerated field of pro-
ritory. Finally, the Bielorussian ter- fessional protection. The Polish gov-
ritory, which had been part of Rus- ernment is carefully driving for the
sia before the war, constituted itself destruction of all the organizations
Apartment House, Store, Factory, Warehouse,
a republic in 1917; but this republic that permit the workers to demand'
„ Three things are excellent in
comprised but n small part of the justice and to oppose unjust exploits- ,
Garage and Heavy Duty Floors.
small (loses, but objectionable in
Bielorussian land and people. The tion. The most important unions 'small
remainder, including about 4.000,000 have been forbidden. This outlawing I large.: yeast, salt and the habit of (le-
in
•
ng
when attentions are offered."
inhabitants (in which the Polish ele- is done in the most summary and I ci i
So reads one of the wise sayings
ment amounted to only 1 or 10 per brutal fashion; a tribunal of the dis-
cent) and 400 square miles was sub- trict decides the matter secretly, at- recorded in the Talmud. This is
ter a secret discussion in which the I proof that many hundreds of years
familiar with the use and application
jected to Poland.
Now, it was up to the Polish gov- defense is not represented. The pa- , before people generally began to cat
architect may
ernment to assimilate and, as they lice army raids the local headquar- I yeast-for-health the Jews already
said, to "Polonize" these different tens of the workers, drives out and' knew that eating yeast WAS benefi-
imprisons
those
whom
it
finds,
con-
cial. And now, centuries later, this
racial elements as well as the Jewish
element. This question the govern- fiscates all the records and seals the knowledge is being passed on to
ment has settled in the most savage doors. In this way, in five years, in' everyone. Hundreds of thousands of
and barbarous fashion by violence, Warsaw alone two-thirds of the syn- I i people eat yeast-for-health every (lay.
dicates have been suppressed. The
What is this remarkable food?
torture, massacre and destruction.
In the country multitudes have Jewish groups have been hit harder What does it actually do to work its
been thrown out of their homes and still. And no new authorization for miracles in the body? Every cake of
their lands, which are turned over to forming a union is issued except for , Fleischmann's yeast consists of mil-
lions of tiny living plants, grown
"military colonists." This has hap- Catholic groups.
At Warsaw, in Upper Silesia, in the' from the most wholesome grains.
pened in White Russia especially,
Dombro•a basin, in all the corners of I Proper food—not drugs—for
over an area of 15,000 acres.
A regime of laws, the like of which Poland, the prisons are choked with health! -That is the new watchword
no other country has dared to put workers who have committed no in medical science today.
In 1917 began a series of investi-
into force, forbids all the new Polish crime save that of union activity and
subjects to show in any way whatso- who were turned over to the law in gations in some of the country's most
ever, even by the use of their native accordance with article 305 of the famous laboratories which have defi-
' tongue, their old geographical attach- Czarist penal code, on "economic nitely established Fleischmann's yeast
t ments. The use of the Ukrainian struggle." When the railway work- —not as a medicine at all—but as a
ers went on strike in February, 1921, food full of the elements which our
-•-
and in November, 1923, they were ordinary diet lacks. A food whose
imprisoned in mass and brought be- addition to the daily diet can produce
fore a court martial established to astonishing results.
Fleischann's yeast for health is
handle cases of banditry. This year
all the union leaders suspected merely sold in tinfoil wrappers with a yellow
of "liberal opinions" were imprisoned label. This in order to assure you
on the eve of May Day. Furthermore, getting your yeast in the prope r
during
the
strike
last No-
vember,
11 general
workers
were of killed
at amount and in the most sanitary con.
eyeast
T
exhe
n phoasssibe
iih tiio ch
w
been exposed to of
Cracow, two at Tarrov and two at t
Borislav and countless were wounded. meats in the stores should be avoided.
In February, 1924, workers gathered
outside of the Kindler factory, then
closed, to request the payment of
Delicious because they are pure and the flavor is a delig'
sums set aside for the unemployed.
to the palate. They are safe to drink in the hotte
The police fired and 25 were wound-
weather, and prohibition will lose its terrors when y ■
ed. In April, 1924, workers without
substitute these tasty beverages.
food, in the Piaski nine, asked an
advance in salary. The police fired'
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and three were killed and 37 wound-
ed. On May 25, 1921, the Kowel
having brought them to your attention.
Grosse Pointe Farms, Detroit
court condemned four peasants, of
whom one was 17 years old, to sev-
eral years' hard labor because they
had organized the workers' festival.
On May Day the police of Warsaw
Phone Roseville 18-R-5
hurled themselves upon a peaceful pa-
rade of workers. Over 100 were seri-
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ously wounded and several hundreds
were taken into custody.
Specialty in Party Service.
Of course, the freedom of the press
Open the Whole Year.
is completely wiped out. In the five
years of Polish domination in White
Russia 45 journals or reviews were
suspended. Woe to him who is seen
reading a paper that is in disrepute!
Woe to whomever is the victim of any
kind of denunciation, even anony- I
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AFTER.
But what remains to be said be still
See how you can build with
more frightful and repugnant—the
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manner in which the police and the
A well built house and a distirn
jailers act toward their captives. It 1
five home, that will need no paint
ss.s
is absolutely impossible to list the tor-
.4,
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tures which they make these unfor-
in summer and warm in wink
s
tunate wretches endure. The inquisi-
and that will always bring a goo
tioners have the right to beat the ac-
price when you sell.
cused to make them "confess" their
As
Such a house is within you
crimes. In the detention camps and
t
reach.
Ask for free literatui
the prisons horrible scenes unfold.
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The victims ore kicked, whipped and
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beaten with bars of iron. They are
proved successful--strong and w,
knocked against the wall until they
ter-tight.
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comment of a police guard to a
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Cherry 5040.
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404 PENOBSCOT BUILDING, DETROIT, MICH.
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