Wholesale defections split the ranks of the anti-Semitic National Democratic (Endek) Party today after workmen members had denounced the party leaders and tern up the by-laws at a stormy meeting in Radom.
The workers marched out of the party headquarters, singing Socialist songs and announcing they were joining the Socialist Party. In one town, Borki, only twelve Endek members remained after ninety had deserted to the Socialists.
The Endek Party, considered the strongest opposition group in Parliament, has been blamed for agitation leading to recent excesses and boycotts against the Jews.
Fear of anti-Jewish disorder appeared in Cracow today as a result of a proclamation by the Archbishop of Cracow, Prince Adam Sapteha, blaming the Jews for recent labor disorders in which six persons were killed, although Jews were not involved.
The proclamation attacked “non-Christian employers who continually declare larger profits and exploit the workers.” It scored “people not of our origin and faith who force their way through and take over leadership of the workers.”
In Kowal, three members of the Bund, Jewish labor organization, one of them a member of the town council, were arrested for participation in the general strike March 17 against the Government’s failure to check excesses.
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