While Jewish labor proclaimed a nation-wide strike for next Tuesday in protest against anti-Semitic excesses, new disorders broke out today in the town of Skrzyn, near Radom, and Turka, near Sambor, both in Central Poland.
The entire Jewish population fled from Skrzyn after a mob had attacked thirty families during the night, seriously injuring two persons.
At Turka, a mob raided Jewish shops after incitement had been carried on under the pretext that Jews made a practice of ritual murder of Christian children for Passover. Order was restored by police of Sambor, who arrested twenty rioters and removed them in chains to the Sambor jail.
The walkout was called by an emergency conference held under the initiative of the Bund, Jewish labor party and the Left Poale Zion, radical Jewish Socialist organization, with non-partisan Jewish labor groups participating.
The move threatened to spread to non-Jewish workers as the president of the Polish Federation of Labor announced he would propose a complete, all-Polish strike at the next meeting of the federation’s executive. Upon receiving the decision of the Jewish groups, he expressed sympathy with their plight.
The statement of the Jewish labor groups said the strike would involve all Jewish laborers and office workers and had been called in protest against growing anti-Jewish agitation and “the increased menace of reactionary forces, which finds expression in anti-Jewish boycotts, the ousting of Jews from their economic positions and pogroms.”
Meanwhile, an appeal to relatives in the United States and Canada for assistance in emigration from the district was made today by the 700 Jewish families of Przytyk, where three persons were killed and twenty-two seriously injured in a pogrom which broke out last Monday.
The rabbi of the town came to Warsaw today after receiving letters from local anti-Semitic Nationalists threatening his life.
Merchandise stolen from Jewish marketmen during Monday’s riots were recovered today in the homes of peasants in neighboring villages.
Nearby Jewish communities sent food and medical supplies to aid stricken Przytyk Jews. They also despatched workmen to help repair damages to Jewish homes.
Police in Warsaw today confiscated the Catholic newspaper, Maly Dziennik, for publishing anti-Jewish incitement.
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