Mussolini's 'Amnesty' a Farce
Mussolini's 'Amnesty' a Farce J^FTER it had been announced by Mussolini himself at Milan, and also by the world press, as if it were a historical event the amnesty decree published by the Fascist...
...World opinion will never be the victim of a more audacious "amnesty swindle" than that conceived today by the Fascist regime...
...The Fugitives The same applies in the case of the fugitives...
...Socialist watchers will tell of their experiences st the polls on Election Day, and Psul Blsnshsrd will address the meeting...
...But in 1922 and 1923 it was a question of releasing the criminals (and only those...
...For in such esses there will not be even s reduction of sentence...
...Here's the aabe of two fellow workers sad my renewal," sars Joseph Fenys of Utica...
...We shall, therefore, sea a few dosen unknown persons who have never really worked in any party set at liberty—unless we see them leave at once for the islands as deportees—and a few dosen young Communists and young Socialists...
...The Dawn of A New Day By Ferdinand Lassslle TP HE working class, ia whose * heart no germ of a new privilege is contained, is for this very reason synonymous with the whole human race...
...But Terracini, Gramsci and Llcausi (Communists), Pertini, Bauer, Andreis, and Ernesto Rossi (Socialists and Republicans), Vin-ciguerra and Rendi (Liberals), and others too numerous to mention, will still remain in prison for five, ten, fifteen or twenty years...
...Not the "crime" (for it is a crime according to Article 269 of the Italian Code...
...The Islands There is no trace in the Fascist amnesty of a general measure appl> ing to the political deportees who are herded together on the infamous islands by simple administrative decisions...
...Perhaps there will bo releases of individuals, but nothing like what the foreign press had been allowed to believe, namely, an almost complete liberation of the political deportees...
...of not having kept silent abroad on the most certain truths regarding events ia Italy...
...Louis Reiss, Miki Jones, M. Hart Walker snd Maurice Rosenkrsns Issued the call for the meeting in a statement reading: "Reports received at Socialist Party headquarters on Election Day from watchers indicated numerous election irregularities throughout the city, and especially in the Third Ward...
...Two more new ones from I. W. Adams, Pennsylvania...
...All facts point to a wholesale violation of election laws, the direct theft of votes, the intimidation of citizens and a vicious alliance between gangsters and politicians...
...These have since been confirmed by disclosures through the preas of evidence of vote-stealing and the recent theft of ballots and registration records from the City Hall and from the Hall of Records...
...Wast aa beer is ia this spectacle which nature presents to us •very day, one or two centuries saw ia the far more Imposing spectacle of • sunrise tn the world's history...
...On the contrary, the fugitives are banished from their country more completely than ever because they persist in working for its liberation from the dictatorship...
...Have you ever witnessed, gentlemen, s sunrise from a lofty mountain...
...who had "worked" for the "Fascist revolution...
...A special Election Investigation Committee, consisting of John Martin, Dr...
...Mussolini's 'Amnesty' a Farce J^FTER it had been announced by Mussolini himself at Milan, and also by the world press, as if it were a historical event the amnesty decree published by the Fascist regime, which is supposed to mark the final consolidation of this regime and its generosity to its adversaries, has now been made known...
...As far as the political prisoners axe concerned, the amnesty will I only benefit those who should never have been sentenced, those who have only been sentenced for having received a proclamation or having given a few lire to the subscriptions for political victims...
...ical nature and in no way serious...
...The kept Italian press writes as if it were t i. e most g e ner-oussm-n e sty ever p r o -claimed...
...mist sad clouds gather, roll themselves ia S mass, throw themselves in a mass, throw themselves against the glow of morning, sad succeed in covering Its ra, for a moment But no power in the world can avail to hinder the slow and majestic rising of ths sun Itself, which an how later stands m the firmament risible t, all, and giving light and warmth to all the earth...
...In effect (not to mention the post-war amnesty of 1919) even the Fascist amnesties of 1922 and 1928 went far beyond the present one...
...And this at the very moment when other decrees are providing all sorts of professional privileges to the Fascist pretori-ana who ran wild during the Civil War...
...if they did not do this they would be pro-1 viding definite proof that they are only kept abroad by their wicked relations with all the enemies of their country...
...The foreign press has been allowed to believe that the amnesty was so generous that in practice it placed the fugitives ia a position to return and live in Italy...
...Such is the "amnesty" which was supposed to provide the proof that Fascism has been consolidated to such an extent that it can afford the luxury of being generous...
...Stories were told of ballot box stuffing, marking of ballots, and the intimidation of watchers...
...Net Even for Veterans The belief has been allowed to grow that the ex-combatants, the decorated, and the wounded would enjoy special treatment but there are no advantages for the war heroes who dared refuse to bow to Fascism...
...From the lofty r contain summits of science, gentlemen, the dawn of the new day Is seen earlier than below In the turmoil of daily life...
...A purple streak colors the extreme verge of thi horizon blood red, announcing the new light...
...Its interest is in truth of the whole of humanity, its freedom is the freedom of humanity itself, and its domination is the domination of all...
...Which need not surprise us, for s general measure with regard to tho political deportees would not have permitted the deportation, which will certainly take place, of nobody knows how many of those whom the amnesty or the reduction of sentence have set free...
...Not only have thousands of votes for Socialist candidates been stolen, ignored or prevented, we honestly believe, but the most precious right of the American citizen has been openly violated and the guilty parties sre still at large...
...Newark Socialists Protest Against Election Thievery A protest meeting against election frauds and irregularities has been called by the Socialist Party to be held In the Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Arts at High and Williams Sts., Tuesday evening, November 29th...
...Not the "crime" (Article 802 to 306 of the Italian Code) of having carried on simple anti-monarchist or antl-Fasclst propaganda, nor that of having entered into agreements or created organisations for carrying on such propaganda...
...Not one of the outstanding victims among the hundred* of enemies of Fascism sent to the galleys by the Special Tribunal will recover hi* liberty...
...At the present moment it is a question of adversaries, snd it is sufficient to give the impression of a generosity which the Fascists carefully avoid from exercising in reality...
...Not the "crime" of having slandered the King or other Fascist constitutional institutions (Article 290) nor that-covered by the aame Article—of having piUorled Fascist "justice...
...Everything was promised from the political point of .view, but everything will have been given only to the thieves, bankrupts and ebaders of all the fiscal, financial and customs laws...
...Its greet say sll those whs sre s bit familiar with The New Lesder," is the report that comes from Wilho Ksllio with four new sabs...
...Not one of the crimes which can be laid at the door' of nearly every one of the fugitives is included in the amnesty...
...and the most shameful Indulgence was prac-practiced...
...A reduction of their sentence by five years will be all, provided these heroes had not incurred other sentences in the past, even if they were of a politThe Duce Gets Greet Credit for ''Madness,'' While His Savagery Increases...
...But-as was t o b e 0 xpect-ed—this is simply an-other lie to add to the collection of rewarded servilities...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 22
