The Daily Worker

POLISH TERROR AROUSES TOILERS OF SOVIET UNION

Large Protest Meetings Held Thruout U.S.S.R.

MOSCOW, Aug. 26 The execution of Botwin, the new attack against Lantsutsky, the mass arrests and the new wave of white terror in Poland have called forth the greatest indignation in the Soviet Union. Everywhere from Leningrad to Tiflis, from the Ukraine to Siberia, mass and shop meetings have been held and sharp protests adopted against the unexpected system of provocation and the white terror. The mass meeting called by the Red Aid in Moscow was particularly stormy. Dombal analyzed the situation in Poland and pointed out that the external and internal political situation was so desperate and coupled with the fall of the Zloty and the approaching economic crisis that the large landowners and capitalists had no other method but to hold down the revolutionary uprising by terror and provocation. Revolutionary workers who had fled from Poland described the horrors of the Polish prisons, the tortures and murders, a weapon of the Polish bourgeoisie in its struggle against the revolutionary workers and peasants. The resolution of the mass meeting demanded the release of Gibner, Knievski and Rutkovski, and greeted Comrade Lantsutsky. A telegram of protest was sent to the Polish minister of justice.