The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-03

property.
There is everything to be desired
Tho Food. The clothing and the housing
ment and ill-treatment, altho officially
forbidden, form the order Of the day.
The slightest breech against "discip-
line" is vigorously punished.
These frightful conditions are no
secret to Dutch democracy" and the
so-ealled socialists. They have repeat
eddy called the attention Of public
opinion to them; for example when
the social-democrats in the '90s, dur
ing the first revolutionary movement
in Holland and numerous proletarians
were cast into prison on account OF
exceeding the law for the regulation
of rationing.
On this occasion the Telegraf whose
chief editor was an entente friend,
himself made the acquaintance of the
prisons as a political" In both cases
the entire campaign was confined to
heated press discussion which OF
course brot no changes. since on the
other hand the responsible govern
ment was supported by the "oppon-
ents."
YelIows Now Quiet.
Since the close of the war when the
doors of the prisons were opened for
'Bolshevik criminals" these gentle.
men are completely silent. Therefore
the Tndo E,ropaov soidfora ,,,o.,, 49,,
Of the Soldiers Council of Juramlja,
have been obliged to spend years in
the cells of the Leeuward prison with
out the social-democrats raising a fin
ger on their behalf. The young anar-
chists, the victims Of the bomb attack
in Boog (1921), which was melted by
the police, will be slowly but surely
ruined in the cells without "demOc.
racy' thinking that the new campaign
of the Communist Party of Holland
on behalf of an amnesty for political
prisoners and the improvement of
prison regime, should be supported.
A short time ago an editor of the
Tribune. who had to undergo a SEN
tence of four weeks was in manner
characteristic of the treatment of po-
litical prisoners in Holland, chained to
a common criminal and transported
from Amsterdam to the Lutfen prison.
FIo9ging to Death Common.
There are two kinds of prisons in
Dutch India; those for Europeans and
those for Indians; the code of GRIM
inal law also is different for both
races.
Conditions in prisons for Europe
ans: bourgeoisie who are RASH" diff
fer very much from those in Dutch
! prisons. The treatment can even be
termed good, fact which is valued
highly, doubtlessly by the numerous
victims" of the wave OF corruption
which has swept over the army of Of
ficials and police circles in Indonesia
during the past years. The settlers
who have to sit their six months" for
whipping to death Indian and Chinese
coolies, relate after their liberation
that they had a rollicking time in the
prison. They are treated with the
greatest respect, and enjoy very many
privileges.
Quite another regime exists for
Indian criminals" and European pro-
LIBRARIANS, the revolutionaries. Granted
that the treatment in Indian prisons is
scandalous, then the thousands who
are condemned to penal servitude
cease to be considered as human be-
ings at all. Corporal punishment,
fiogging to death are daily occur
rences. Food consists of the worst
kind of rice, with the result that the
berry-berry disease and tuberculosis
rage, and syphilis also claims numer-
GUS victims.
Use "coIdhsh."
Already at the examination. the
prisoners are so tortured and often in
such a vile way, that the peasants in
order to avoid bodily torture make
clean breast of things, and say what
ever the police want. Thus recently
the Java man who was condemned
On account of murder" to 20 years
hard labor, was liberated because
after three years the supposed victim
OF the murder returned from his exile.
The accused who had not even known
the murdered man" acknowledged
the murder during the painful" exam.
ination for reasons which may be cas-
lily understood IL is no rare occur
renee for prisoners to be beaten tc
death in the preliminary examination
as was disclosed this year in the
month Of May in the case against the
policeman Bergman. On the occasion
Of such trials the most abominable
facts are disclosed. And the demo.
Gratis and social-democrats remain
silent. They are only "half-ciyilized
lndonesians." Only the Communist
Tribune braves the storm against the
bloody deeds of the Dutch oppressors.
At night time the prisoners are hud.
iloded together in narrow room