The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-18


publishes the following on it:
Mockery of Amnesty
1.-THE amnesty includes all the cases
of high trason formation of secret
societies, offences against the para
graphs and s of the law for the
protection of the republic as we'll as
the crimes against the paragraph
Of the decree of July 26th, 1922.
THE amnesty comprises all fines as
well as Jail, fortress and prison SEN
fences up to one year. Hard labor
sentences are excluded from the am
nesty. The amnesty reiers only to
those sentences passed by national
courts. (Reichs court and supreme
state court.)
Proceedings for offenses which are
still going on, are stopped if the deed
has been committed before the LIST
of October 1928.
This would include mainly the not
yet tried participants in the Knapp
Putsch. Apart from this national am
nesty the states will proclaim anne
sites. AS the states will act uniform
ly, negotiations of state amnesty
are going on"
Hard Labor Prisoners Remain
This, then, is the decree which is
presented to the German workers
under the glorious name Of an am
nesty. 1t is actually mockery of the
political prisoners and of the German
working class it is an amnesty which
is no amnesty, for all prisoners who
have been sentenced before October
LIST, 1923 and are still in prison, are
hard labor prisoners. They will re-
main in the class of the notorious
German prisons.
And for those who have been per-
secuted after October in the greatest
time of unlimited class Justice, the
prison doors will not be opened at
all. The many political trials which
are still in preparation, are not stop
ped. For months and~years prisoners
have been awaiting their trials. The
members of parliament Pfeiffer and
Fritz Heckert, the leader of the c.
P. G. Maslow and many others, all
well-known Communist officials, will
! also be placed before the court.
Under such circumstances what
does the amnesty bill of the govern
ment mean? For this one must know
the judicial situation at present in
Germany.
Graf Arco, the murderer of Eisner,
is free but % participants in the Ba-
varian Soviet Republic of 1919 are
still in the hard labor prison in Strau-
bling. They have to do sentences
from seven to Is years. Today, six
/ years after the bloody overthrow of
the Munich Soviet Republic, the Ba-
varian court passes sentences against
participants in this revolution.
Jagon, the only participant of the
kapp Putsch sentenced, is now free.
but in German hard labor prisons
there are still many proletarians who
by their struggle against the Kappists
saved the republic. Today still, five
years later, proletarians are persecu-
ted by class justice and thrown into
prison because they have led the
struggle against Kapp in accordance
with the appeal of the national govern.
ment, the political parties and the
General Trade Union Federation.
The students of Marburg, the muir.
derers OF many workers in Mechters-
tedt, are free-but in the hard labor
prisons there are still hundreds of
workers who participated in the re.
volt of March 1921.
Hamburg Workers Not Amnesteed
The very few Hitler bandits who
were sentenced for the Munich Puteh
OF. 1928 are free-but thousands and
thousands of honest workers who pre-
pared themselves for the defence
against the attack of the fascists in
October 1928, are in the hard labor
prisons. Many of them have not yet
been before the court and have been
in prison already for 20 months.
The Hamburg exceptional courts
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