The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-12

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of legal issue and the Codes very referred to
but seems to be rather directed arriving
humane appreciation of the circumstances
are taken into account which would be excluded
IN most Law Courts But this in criminal generally
to tell in favor of the prisoner and both civil
cases. ouh the decisions often seemed OF little legal value
they undoubtedly the security and
with minimum of individual suffering Moreover the prison
e or the parties being quite at their ease in their anxiety to do
the best for themselves
trouble arriving the real truth important criminal
e when public prosecutor appears the prisoner is provided
with counsel Counsel be employed in any case
rarely used, and indeed of little
AS to the impartiality of these general
agreement that they weight the balance" in
against the weodo and this defended ground
that it corresponds weighing
where As to their ncorruptbiy information
there criminal prosecution of the provin
ca capital charges of corruption involving judges
number OF counsel and seems likely that any serious lapses
in this respect would not long escape detection.
The Superior Courts simple in their procedure
lower though rather spaciousy general
impression carried away from them all is that of udcature
in its youth conducted by youth that will learn its work in
the social system will shortly develop AS criminal
is noticeable that they have somewhat changed their
under the social system common in
Western Courts brutaties against the
order conspicuous by their Absence
being taken by what should consider only derecons
of social duties
Public Order and Security
of the Union seemed to the Delegation far than in
the capitals of other continental countries The Delegation in
their travels when officially conducted neglected the
most ordinary precautions to their property and the only
eason on which anything was stolen was in Trans Caucasa
Whereas leaving the country of them staying
neighborng capital robbed three times in four days
The Police
Little attention has paid abroad interesting jul
dcature and jurisprudence of the s. R. owing the
satona and generally unsubstanated
the cheka the organized repression counerrevolu
ton under War Communism that ended in 1921 The activities
of the Tcheka are fully reported publication Soveskaya
ustitsia brought England by Delegation
Tchea need therefore only be referred to here oganiza
ton such as all States whether revolutionary reaconary
establish when the authority menaced by
civil foreign The only difference being that reaction
Tsarism depend "Okhrana secret po
ce and its Cossacks amounted constabuary and
whereas revolution Russia has shown demobze these
forces the very moment the need for them is
The police administration &C. p w. often referred to
abroad though the Tcheka another
Tcheka was not only secret police it was
regime apresent all powerful Tsarist Okhra
and had the last of its existence
separate jurisdiction including the power of capital punish
men 1t retained certain criminal jurisdiction up it's abol
ton in 1922 There is Tcheka anything of that
except Georgia G. P u no power pro-
coed prosecute merely prepares the like
other police force It's duties police duties though the
actual patrong point duties of police still large
y left to the mlarya least in Moscow Provincial towns
like Kharkov have mounted police and constabuary
The g. f. now nothing more than an organization like
detective service Its headquarters of the pn
cipa Moscow might be Government oceas
unlike the Base of Scotland Yard as it is unlike the
old Tcheka which dirty labyrinth of dapdated houses
with private prisons hidden away its remoter and
generally most sinister atmosphere The G. p u still has
political responsibilities counter-revoutionary conspracles
still discovered and entail capital punishment after trial
the Criminal main function Of the G. p u
is the ordinary police preservation OF public order and OF
preventing contraband
The interesting original of the Codes is the Labor
Code The present November 9Th 1922 replaced that
of 1918 The advent of the New Economic Policy made ndis
pensbe Code that would the aborer the results OF
the Revolution far conditions allowed These re-
suits such eght-hour day. minimum employers iab
iy insurance etc. much the same as obtain elsewhere
Land Code of October SOth 1922 the origin
in the New Economic Policy is based on the principle that
ton define the rights that the State confer in land
The Criminal Code Of November 922 has little Of special
interest Capital punishment confined to convictions for con-
spracy Of a seriouf character
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