A court in Baronowicz, eastern Poland, today sentenced twenty Jews to jail terms ranging from three months to one year for participating in a general strike on June 30 protesting the verdict by a Radom court in the Przytyk pogrom trial. The Radom court, placing “moral responsibility” for the pogrom on the Jews, had sentenced eleven of fourteen Jews to terms up to eight years while freeing thirty-nine of forty-three Poles and letting the rest off with light terms. Two Jews and a Christian were slain and scores of Jews seriously wounded in the Przytyk excesses of March 9.
The Baranowicz court refused to take into consideration the plea by counsel for the defendants that the strike call had been signed by Jewish inhabitants and Jewish members of parliament.
One of the defendants was given a year; one, eight months; one, six months; six, four months each and eleven, three months each.
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