Word: robotnik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners at seeing in the Cabinet these potent monarchist landowners MM. Nieza- vytowski and Meysztowicz. Paradoxically enough the Socialist news- paper Robotnik (the Workman) founded by Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking the decisive step at which he has balked so long. Foreign observers unanimously expressed the hope that Marshal Pilsudski had definitely mastered the tendency to vacillating irresolution which has caused the Polish Government...
Educated by his mother and at the University of Kharkov, Russia, he developed Socialistic leanings, and finally incurred the suspicion of the Tsaral police, who secured his exile to Siberia (1887-92). In 1894 he and his first wife began secretly to publish Robotnik (The Workman), a Socialist propaganda organ, which was discovered by the Tsaral police in 1904, resulting in Pilsudski's imprisonment...