These words speak for themselves. The new agree:m~nt was intended to deceive Sociali,st partieS1 in the West as to the real situation of the Socialist Movement in Poland. Under those circumstances, Zulawski and his friends") resigned from the Supreme Council of the "official" Party to which they had been coopted- during that very same session of the .Supreme Council. Thus, owing to the attitude o1 the leadership of the "official" • Party, the short-lived agreement with Zulawski was broken• Leaving aside for the moment the I.act, that some of our· comrades had been personally denied the possibility of joining the "official" Party, as well as the fact that many preferred not to join it - it mui;t be categorically stated, that in view of the foregoing, the leadership of the "official" PPS is in no way entitled to represent the genuine. democratic Socialists of Poland . • .l'he rank and file versus the leader.ship There is little doubt that the bulk of the working cl81lsoJ Poland, including the rank ·and file: of the "official" PPS, remains fa.ithful to the ideals of democratic Socialism and, loya1 to the authentic PPS. The question, how it came about that the genuine Socialist rank and file found· itself within the "official" PPS easily explained under the peculiar circumstances pre- ' vailing ,in Poland. As has already been mentioned, most of the local organiza- . tions of the genuine PPS came spontaneously into the open and - J'esumed their activities immediately after the expulsion of the Germans. The supreme authorities of the authentic PPS being· denied the opportunity of resuming their normal functions, the Lublin group was able to impose their control over these local organizations, - a fact, which did not prevent these organisations from remaining in touch with their real leaders. Thus, a large part of the organised Socialist working class· of Poland ~ound itself. in the ranks of the "official" Party. Furthermore, strong pressure is exerted on employees and peo.ple dependent on public bodies to join one of the four original Lublin parties. Having to choose between the Communist PPR and the "of- .ficial" PPS, the P-olishworkers still preferred to join the latter. Not only does member.ship of one ·of the parties confer certain privileges on the members, but certain posts are unobtainable for non-party people, especially in the civil service. A telling illustration of this .situatioi;i may be found in a speech made by Mr. Osubka-Morawski, the Prime Minister ,of the Warsaw Government, in Wroclaw, on December 26th, 1945, in which he revealed the existence of a circular of the Minister of Public Security, Mr• Radkiewicz, to the effect that members of a, political party must not be arrested without their party being pre- -viousiy notified of the charges proferred against them, unless caught red-handed committing a crime. Unless this is a case, the charges against such persons have to be submitted to their political Party and only after the Party Court ha-s dismissed •) Grzecznarowski, Cohn and Rzeznik. 12 BibliotecaGino Bianco
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