The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05

Relief"
A Revolutionary Poet Is Dying
In PrisonI
In the Bavarian prison OF Nieder-
schoenfeld, in the country of Mon
archist reaction lies the revolutionary
poet Erich Muhsam under a sentence
of fifteen years. He has suffered
already for five long years and he
must still suffer another ten. He is
fifty-five years old and in the last
weeks he has become seriously i'll.
The Bavarian reaction, however, does
not allow him to enter hospital, but
holds him to perish miserably in the
damp prison cell.
| And this is the fate of $3.50 work
ers and revolutionary intellectuals in
Germany today
Workers and intellectuals of Great
Britain! of America Protest against
this shame in the German prisons!
Send Red Relief" to the prisoners!
1--WE Lack Tobaeeol"
The international Red Relief has
received the following letter from the
Saxon prison of Waldheim:
Comrades! If you want to relieve
our sufferings and the monotony of
our prison life, please send us to-
bacco and cigarettes. Every single
cigarette is light spot in our miser-
able lives"
Workers Of Great Britain, of Am
erica! Send tobacco for the Inter
national Red Relief"
Murder and Outrage of the Dead by
The German PoIiceI
What shameful cultural conditions
rule in the present Germany of Marx
and Stresemannl In Mecklemburg
the country of the German junkers,
recently Comrade Harry was shot by
a policeman whilst attempting to
escape" The seriously wounded
comrade was not, however, carried
to the hospital, where his life might
have been saved, but to the police
station, where dying, he was tor
tured to induce him to give his name.
He remained there for one hour with
out his wounds being bandaged. In
the hospital where he was later taken,
the torture was continued despite the
energetic protest of the doctor. The
eyes of the dying prisoner were COW
cred with camphor to prevent him
from falling asleep forever. But the
illegal comrade Harry took the secret
of his identity with him to his death.
However, the German police did not
shrink from a proclamation of his dead
body They dressed the corpse with
suit and collar and tie, photo
graphed him and took his finger
prints.
All this outdoes the conditions
which prevailed in Germany during
the 30 years war. At that time peo-
pie were at least only killed, but to-
day they are killed and their bodies
outraged.
Workers of Great Britain, of Amer
lea! Protest against these shameful
conditions in Germany! Protest
against the maltreatment of your
class comrades by the German police!
Long life the international solidar-
ity!
Agitate for the international Red
Relief"
L They Transport Us Like Wild
Beastsl
The following incident, which
caused a great sensation when it was
revealed at the trial, shows the state
of justice in the free republic of
Seeckt and Ebert. An accused Bartel
was taken from the prison in Prem
lau by two policemen with a cord
around his neck, like an animal. He
was Transported with this cord, which
ended at his hand with a knot, in an
overcrowded train from Prenzlau to
Berlin among the general public and
in this revolving manner he was taken
by tramway in Berlin from one sta
ton to the other and from there in
third class carriage 10 Leipzig.
This manner OF transporting a politi.
cal prisoner caused even the conster-
nation Of the fascist president Of the
State Court in Leipzig.
Workers Of Great Britain, OF Amer
lea! Protest against the maltreat-
ment OF your fellow workers by the
German policel
Agitate for the international Red
Relief"
Packed on Lorry One on Top
OF the otherl
On the occasion OF tho disturbances
in Bergedorf near Hamburg, arrested
workers we're brutally maltreated.
One worker received kick from a
Policeman, which caused his death