Jewish shops and booths in the township of Szozucin, in the district of Cracow, were attacked by peasants yesterday, the polish official news agency, Pat, reports.
It was market day in the town, and also a country-wide general strike, proclaimed by all the Socialist and Labour parties, Polish, Jewish and of all the minority nationalities, to demonstrate solidarity with the coal miners in Upper Silesia, who are out on strike for several weeks now against a reduction of wages, and also to protest against the Government’s projected new labour legislation, which the workers complain is harmful to their interests.
The Government issued a number of special ordinances to keep order and to maintain the normal public services.
The sale of alcohol was prohibited all day, and it was forbidden to hold meetings and demonstrations, even in halls.
At Szozucin agitators incited the peasants, however, and in the attack two Jewish traders were injured. The mob tried to disarm the police, who dispersed them by firing in the air. Several arrests have been made, and the town is now quiet.
Despite the strike, all the Polish newspapers appeared in the usual way. No Jewish newspapers appeared, however, because the Jewish compositors all belong to the Jewish Socialist Party Bund, and obeyed its call to join in the general strike.
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