Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Unknown

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Human Rights in the Soviet Union subjected to numerous other forms of repression, including the banning of its publications from the US mails (not only from second class status).75 Sixty-four I WW offices around the country were systematically raided by the federal government on 5 September 1917, who seized tons of official and personal correspondence, organization minutes and financial records, stickers, buttons, cards, membership lists, leaflets, pamphlets, circulars, books and office equipment, much of which was introduced as evidence in the various IWW trials. The US army directly suppressed the IWW in the Pacific Northwest. In Montana, troops raided the Flathead County IWW headquarters and held local members in confinement for several weeks without filing charges against them. In Washington state, the army raided IWW halls, closed the Spokane headquarters, broke up IWW meetings, searched freight trains for 'Wobbly' workers, arrested organizers and gaoled dozens of 1 'Wobblies'., releasing only those 'willing to work without agitating strikes' and who the army felt would not be 'a menace to the best interests of industry'.76 De facto martial law was implemented in the Northwest during IWW members.77 Y § P In September 1917 one of the leading socialist papers in the country, The Milwaukee Leader, was deprived of its second class mailing rights and all first class mail addressed to Tiie Leader was returned to the sender. The District Court < ;case No one can read them without becoming convinced that they were printed in a spirit of hostility to our own government and in a spirit of sympathy for the Central Powers; that through them, appellants sought to hinder and embarrass the government in the prosecution of the war.78 The other leading socialist paper, The New York Call, received the same treatment.79 The post office ban on these two newspapers lasted until December 1919 (13 months after the end of the War).80 The socialist Seattle Union Record received worse treatment. In late 1919 the Attorney General closed its office because it urged workers to 'kick the governing class into the discard at the next election'.81 In January 1920, three men were arrested in Syracuse for distributing leaflets describing ill-treatment of political prisoners and calling for an amnesty meeting. They were sentenced to 18 months in gaol for: 'disloyal language about our form of government and the military forces, language designed to bring them and the Constitution into contempt, inciting resistance to the United States, and obstruction of recruiting'.82 Numerous other left-wing publications were suppressed by the post office including the Nation of 14 September 1918, The Public (for an article suggesting higher taxes and fewer bonds); Hie Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register (for reprinting an article by Jefferson arguing that Ireland 168 hould be a republic); The Gaelic American (for suggesting that the Irish were not enthusiastic about fighting for Britain); Tfie Irish World (for stating that the trend of French life and ideals had, for a century, been toward materialism); and The Masses. After suppressing the August number of The

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