The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

die by swalling tincture of iodine.
There are "rebellions" concoced by the management
and the convictguards. An epileptc having fallen
upon keeper in the course of ft they spread the
rumor that he had wanted kill him: and then fol-
lowed feast of reprisals.
The military fortress of Jilava had been transformed
into prison by the Germans when they occupied
Bucharest 1t is living tomb. The prison, buried
meters beneath the ground is entirely of concrete
The regime is particularly severe. The disciplined"
shut for in cement sacks" where they
cannot make single move. 4er *. sgssg{
The prison of Vakarechta the largest in Roumania
1t constructed for 1000 persons; nevertheless it
actually confines no less than 5000 entries dis
cplined are shut up special dungeons of meters
and are obliged to remain standing there.
The regime of prisons and prisoners in other Bal
kan centers is identical with the Roumanian regime
To describe it would recommence the descrip
tons which have just given only changing the proper
names
Rights of defense? They do not exist. In Bulgaria.
the lawyers are not allowed to in private with
the prisoners whom they are defending An Official
is present at the conversation, .sa5
Escaped Bulgarian prisoners who had succeeded in
gaining the Turkish frontier have told us the arbt
trary manner in which they proceeded in their
tons: at times it ordinary corporal agent
In many cases, enormously long imprisonments before
trial without examination. In ROumania there In
Vulnerable like that of vanuz who was arrested
for no special reason solely for his opinions
ne was supporter of the plebisce in Bessarabi
ana naT months or prison before trial and
dying there of tuberculosis others have served years
The Rumanian lawyer, Boujor chained in a dungeon
| without window went insane The Bulgarian Asen
Vaptzarov, having gone insane following the compress
sion of his head by instrument of torture is let loose
in his home. He kills his wife and child with
and hangs himself.
They now have proof that the journalist Herbst, had
been burned alive the central heating appqrat Of
the organization of National Safety at Sofia (the very
building which had been conscated from the large Co
operative, Overwhelmingly, together with two former
officers and another journalist; he offered constant
opposition to the government and had written an ar
ticle in his Journal Vik, which has displeased the
higher-ups.
Max Goldstein, condemned to life Imprisonment at
Bucharest, went a hunger strike, his life in the
dungeon being nothing more than long torture. On
the forteth day he agreed after supplicatons by his
family take food again. but the director of the prison
gave the order that he should be allowed to eat
He died ten days later. The same order given in
the Romanian prison of Doftana in regard to twenty
political prisoners who had begun then isga
pended, hunger strike When the published,
these wentyseven prisoners had not eaten for three
weeks In many cities Of old Roumania and Of Transyl
vania they proceeded to the en- mssse
who protested against the murder of Max Goldstein.
To render the fury Of their executioners impotent
the prisoners have only this voluntary sacrifice the
hunger strike The growing terrors OF this carnal
punishment, directed by the will requiring during the
first days almost superhuman strength of spirit,
have infinitely described In this Roumanian prison
Of Jiava where there prisoners who have been so
urousy beaten that the blood came thru their clothes
statistics of the month of May 1925 established
the fact that seventy prisoners had together completed
| 1,S4o days Of hunger strike. 4.-s.s "a tsss i
/ am previously treasuring wretched bit Of paper;
letter which the Roumanian political prsonersrin
| formed, do not know how Of my passing thru the
country, succeeded in giving to keep The treat
ment which these undergo surpasses all magfna-
ton, and they are only accused Of deInquencies OF
| opinion and have said, it is even sufficient for
them to be suspected Of "sympathzing" with the ad-
l versaries OF the government
/ Here few lines Of this heart-rending appeal
THE tobacco passage" to the point of blood with the
help of knoed cudgels and bull pzzles hair torn ont
heads beaten against the wall feet trampled upon 10
the point Of fainting all these things which you have
read little beside that which we have suffered at
the hands of the Safety's police OF ~. q have sup
pressed the name) Tied upright with knees touching