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Read " Soviet Russia , " official organ of Friends of Soviet Russia , published fortnightly- $2.50 a year 367 March , 1922. ] THE MESSENGER - Editorials prison LET THE CLASS WAR- AND POLITICAL for relief and the support of dependent families prisoners help any may PRISONERS GO ! of and to who be released . 7. Co - operate with the I.W.W. in forming a local , HAPPILY redoubled efforts are being made to committee for general amnesty. .This committee force the government to let all persons out of should arrange a series of meetings designed to attract jail who are there for the violation of war - time laws . intelligent members of the community . Urge all ex Party , the The Socialist General Defense Committee isting in organizations your to co - city operate in the ; no and the Civil Liberties are sparing pains in campaign Union local ask each specifically to pass resolu a . a fighting general amnesty , for Petitions for mil tions and to send copies to President Harding Attor . signature being in 200 cities , lion are circulated ney General Daugherty the General Defense Commit It is to be commended also in the different bodies tee of the I. W. W. and the National Office of the working political prisoners for the freedom of that Socialist Party . they particularly stressing case of the are the I.W.W. , 8. Urge general amnesty not individual clemency . group especially singled that has been out for un , it , Urge as a as an not concession nor act of grace merited government persecution . but as a matter of justice . In all appeals or discus Judiciary It very timely the Com was stated before sions emphasize these facts : , , holding a hearing on amnesty mittee that the rich ( a ) All other nations have released their war have nothing to fear from the law citing the case of prisoners . a slight he released as spies in Nobbe who was for illness after ( b ) All persons actually convicted the in a . I. was jail for few months The W. W's must United States have been set free . be ready to is almost die before clemency even con ( c ) Peace with our late enemies has been officially . testimony of ex - sidered for them The two service declared . , , of Legion in men members the American the interest ( d ) The Espionage Act has been repealed . of amnesty something of introduced the dramatic ( e ) The 98 Industrial Workers of the World still into the hearing . in Leavenworth are now serving sentences solely for by These efforts are re - enforced a forceful address their opinions . All charges pertaining to alleged in by of Eugene of general am Victor Debs for the cause dustrial offenses were reversed the Appeals Courts . nesty . Add to these a children's crusade to Washington to HAITI tell President Harding why he should let their fathers . HAITI is America's Corea and Ireland The atroci , come home to them and their mothers and the most ties committed by the American Marines upon the , callous indifferent and unconcerned should be ready Haitians are comparable only to the ravages of the : as - eager to co operate follows and , ; ; British in Ireland India the Belgians in the Congo , 1. Urge President Harding to grant amnesty either is . Imperialism and Japan in Corea American veri by to . telegram or letter Be sure include substantial , tably running riot in Haiti . Its brutality hypocrisy facts as the basis for release . and sinister motives have been exposed by the white . to or 2. Telegraph write immediately the Hon . began light of publicity time and again The Nation , Andrew J. Volstead Chairman of the Committee on the exposé by despatching James Weldon Johnson , , , Judiciary House of Representatives Washington and Herbert J. Seligman to Haiti to inquire into the , urging the immediate release of all political D.C. up by American occupation , which was followed Dr. , prisoners thus giving support to those who will appear Arthur Gruenig's work in Haiti during the McCor in belialf of the political prisoners at the public hear in mick Committee's investigation of conditions the , ing on the 16th of before this committee month in this of black republic .