Polish Student Stay-in Strikes-spread; Jewish Workers Protest

Student anti-Jewish stay-in strikes spread today to Poznan, western Poland, while the Jewish Workers! Party proclaimed a one-day general strike in protest against anti-Semitic activities in Polish universities.

Anti-Semitic students seized the Poznan academic center after police armed with tear-gas had stormed Warsaw University to eject several hundred Nationalists occupying the building for two days behind barricades.

The Warsaw strike was broken shortly after midnight. After the students had defied an Education Ministry order to leave the grounds, police donned gas-masks and stormed the barricades in the face of a barrage of iron and stone missiles, throwing gas bombs before them.

Reports that a four-day strike at Wilno University had won segregation of Jewish students in “ghetto benches” were denied by the Education Ministry, which quoted the rector as saying lectures would not be renewed until an understanding was reached on seating arrangements.

Jewish community officials, registering Jews wounded in disorders accompanying the Wilno strike, had listed more than thirty by this morning, including one who lost an eye. A police representative was observing the registration.

An officer and patrolman were dismissed in an investigation of police activities during the Wilno disorders resulting from Jews! charges. Nine other policemen were under scrutiny.

All Jewish newspapers in Wilno were confiscated.

Government representatives halted a meeting of the Warsaw Jewish Community when discussion turned to the Wilno disorders and the Lublin Court of Appeals’ verdict increasing sentences of Jewish defendants in the disorders last March in the town of Przytyk.

The sentences against eleven Jews will be appealed to the Supreme Court in Warsaw, it was expected.