The Daily Worker

SKRZYNSKI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF
POLAND, IS TOLD CHICAGO WORKERS
WAR ON POLISH REACTION'S TERROR

Alexander Skrzynski, the minister of foreign affairs in the Grabski terror
rule over Poland, who has been feted by American exploiters since his arrival in this country, will receive some straight talk from the workers of
Chicago when he arrives in this city today.

The accompanying letter will be sent him by the Chicago Conference
to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland, protesting against the bloody oppression of the Polish masses by the government of the Polish capitalists and landlords. The conference consists of labor unions, fraternal and sick benefit
societies, educational groups, branches of the Workers (Communist) Party,
and other working class organizations. The letter declares:

Demand Freedom of Prisoners!

Chicago, Ill., July 25, 1925.

Alexander Skrzynski,
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Republic of Poland.

Dear Sir:

Taking advantage of
your presence in Chicago, the Chicago
Conference to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland hereby submits to
you this open letter in regard to the
imprisonment of over 8,000 workers,
peasants and members of national
minorities-Ukrainians and White
Russians-for their part in the
struggle for bread and freedom; for
belonging to workers', peasants',
and even purely educational organizations.

The government of which you are
a representative and a member is
responsible for the imprisonment,
torture, flogging and the murder,
open and secret, of thousands of
unarmed workers and peasants.

These facts are reported not only
by the illegal workers' and peasants'
publications, but also by the semi-
official Polish press. They prove
that a monstrous and systematic
white terror is being carried on by
the government of which you are
a member.

Your government is treating the
imprisoned workers and peasants
worse than common criminals. Throughout Poland hunger strikes have
broken out, as the result of the
denial of even the most elemental
rights to political prisoners, as your
colleague Thuggut has admitted.

We, the Chicago Conference to
Aid Political Prisoners in Poland,
raise our voices in protest against
these barbarous acts of the government of the Polish bourgeoisie,
in order that the Polish worker and
peasant masses may know that we
are with them in their bitter struggle, and the American workers,
learning of the persecution of their
brothers may, in the name of international working-class solidarity,
join in condemning the official reception extended by the U. S. government to the representative of the
oppressors of the Polish proletariat.

We hope that the working class of
Poland will in the near future open
the doors of the prisons and free
the heroes of the workers' struggle.

Freedom for political prisoners!