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...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
...fundamental responsibility of labor in all countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action as a one-way partnership. We recognize that the execution of Alter and Ehrlich has been a grave blow to our vision of world labor unity...
...feel that Mr. L. Magruder Passano's statement in Monday's Crimson on the Ehrlich-Alter executions was an unfair one, particularly because the Soviet military court which tried the two men cannot, for obvious reasons, release details of the trial. However, a few general facts are known, facts which the Polish embassy in Washington has vigorously attempted to suppress. If ninety per cent of Harvard's undergraduates are uninformed on this incident, Mr. Passano should have undertaken to explain to them these facts...
...Although Ehrlich and Alter were Jews and Socialists, they were openly associated with the anti-Semitic, semi-fascist Polish government of Josef Beck. Escaping into Soviet Russia after the German seizure of western Poland, they undertook to supply to the Polish government-in-exile military information on the U. S. S. R. They were arrested in August, 1941, and convicted on these charges. However, under the terms of a friendship pact signed between Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing...
...also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer: Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were already dead...