To protect the Government of the State of Rhode Island and the Government of the United States of America. Penalty inciting the gov of the or the States, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Section 1. Any person who shall wilfully speak, for utter, print, write or publish any language intended to against incite, provoke or encourage forceful resistance to the enment State of Rhode Island or to the United States of state America or a defiance or disregard of the Constitution United or laws of the State of Rhode Island or of the United etc. States, or shall advocate any change, alteration or modification in the form of government of the State of Rhode Island or of the United States except in the manner provided by the Constitution or the laws of the State of Rhode Island or by the Constitution or the laws of the United States or shall advocate any change in the form of government of the State of Rhode Island or of the United States by means of revolution or violence or shall advocate the assassination of persons occupying public positions or offices created by the Constitution and laws of the State of Rhode Island or of the United States, or shall advocate, incite, provoke or encourage the destruction, burning, blowing up, or damaging of any public or private property as a part or incident of a programme of force, violence or revolution, having for its purpose the overthrow of the form of government of the State of Rhode Island, or of the United States, or shall wilfully display publicly any flag or emblem, except the flag of the United States, as symbolic or emblematic of the government of the United States or of a form of government proposed by its adherents or supporters as superior or preferable to the form of government of the United States as prescribed by the Constitution of the United States shall be guilty Penalty for teach ing, etc., anarchy, etc.. or assault or killing of government offcials, etc. Penalty Certain meetings may be dispersed as unlawful assemblies. of a felony and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding ten years or both. § 2. Any person who shall wilfully teach or advocate anarchy or the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the State of Rhode Island or of the United States, or of all forms of law, or opposition to organized government, or any person who shall wilfully become a member of or affiliated with any organization teaching and advocating disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or advocating or teaching the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally of the Government of the State of Rhode Island or of the United States, or of any organized government because of his or their official character, or advocating or teaching the unlawful destruction of property, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding ten years or both. § 3. If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act and one or more of such persons does any act to effect the object of the conspiracy each of the parties to said conspiracy shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding ten years or both. § 4. Any meeting at which any of the things forbidden in sections 1 and 2 of this act are advocated, taught or discussed, or any meeting called for the purpose of advocating, teaching or discussing any of the things forbidden by sections 1 and 2 of this act is hereby declared to be an unlawful assembly and may be dispersed in the manner provided for dispersing of riotous, tumultuous and treasonable assemblies in section 7 of Chapter 341 of the General Laws. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SOUTH DAKOTA CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM CHAPTER 38 (S. B. 12) RELATING TO CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM. AN ACT Entitled, An Act Defining Criminal Syndicalism, Prohibiting the Advocacy thereof, and of Crime, Sabotage and Violence or other Methods of Terrorism, or the Destruction of Life or Property, for the Accomplishment of Social, Economic, Industrial or Political Ends, Prohibiting Assembles for the Advocacy of Such Purposes, Making it Unlawful to Permit the Use of any Place, Building or Structure for Such Assemblies, and Fixing the Penalties for a Violation of the Provisions of this Act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: 1. Criminal Syndicalism is hereby defined as any doctrine or practice which teaches, practice or advocates crime, sabotage (sabotage as used in this act means willful and malicious damage or injury to the property of another), violence or other methods of terrorism, or the destruction of life or property, for the accomplishment of social, economic, industrial or political ends. The advocacy, teaching, support, practice or furtherance of any such doctrine, whether by act, speech or writing, or by any means or in any manner whatsoever, is hereby declared to be a felony and punishable as such, as in this act provided. Any person or persons who shall, by act, or speech, or in writing, or by symbol, precept, suggestion, example or illustration, advocate, suggest or teach the duty, necessity or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence or other methods of terrorism, or the destruction of life or property for the accomplishment of social, economic, industrial or political ends, or shall print, publish, utter, sell or circulate; distribute or have in his or her possession, or display any book, paper, document, writing or article in any form which shall contain, or advocate, advise, teach or suggest, any doctrine that social economic, industrial or political ends should be brought about by crime, sabotage, violence, or other means of terrorism, with intent to suggest, exemplify, illustrate, spread or advocate any of the doctrines of criminal syndicalism, or shall organize or assist in the organization, or become a member of, or assemble with, any persons, societies, associations, groups or assemblages of persons formed for or engaged in the teaching or advocacy of any of the doctrines of criminal syndicalism, or who shall, directly or indirectly, through or by the use of any liquid, compound, chemical, or artificial or mechanical apparatus or current or other device whatsoever, in any manner destroy, or attempt to destroy, contribute to or cause the destruction of life or property of any description, or who shall have in his possession any liquid, compound, chemical or artificial or mechanical device whatsoever, with intent to destroy life or property, in the pursuance or furtherance of any of the doctrines of criminal syndicalism as defined in this act, shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one nor more than twenty-five years, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 2. Wherever two or more persons assemble for the purpose of advocating or teaching, or suggesting or illustrating, in any manner whatsoever, any doctrine of criminal syndicalism, or of any of the acts defined or referred to in section 1 of this act, such assemblage shall be unlawful, and every person participating therein by his presence or who shall aid or in any manner instigate the holding of such an assemblage, shall upon conviction be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one nor more than twenty-five years, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 3. Any owner, agent, custodian, occupant, or superintendent of any place, room, structure or building, who shall permit therein any assemblage of persons for any of the purposes prohibited by the provisions of this act, or who, after notification that the said place, room, structure or building are so used, shall permit such to continue, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than twenty-five years, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 4. Whereas, There is now no law in this state defining and prohibiting, and providing a penalty for, the offenses described in this act and the passage of this statute is necessary for the public safety and convenience of the people of this state and the preservation of the state government, therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 23, 1918. WEST VIRGINIA House Bill No. 104 By W. S. JOHN, of Monongalia County. Passed February 13, 1919 Including Mr. John's statement in House of Delegates and communication addressed to the United Mine Workers of America by friends of labor in the House of Delegates. AN ACT To foster the ideals, institutions and government of West Virginia and of the United States, and to prohibit the teaching of doctrines and display of flags antagonistic to the form or spirit of their constitutions and laws. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to speak, print, publish or communicate, by language, sign, picture, or otherwise, any teachings, doctrines or counsels in sympathy or favor of ideals, institutions or forms of government hostile, inimical or antagonistic to those now or hereafter existing under the constitution and laws of this state or the United States, or in sympathy or favor of the propriety, duty or necessity of crime, violence or other unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing economic or political reform, or in sympathy or favor of the overthrow of organized society, the unlawful destruction of property or the violation of law. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession or to display any red or black flag, or to display any other flag, emblem, device or sign of any nature whatever indicating sympathy or support of ideals, institutions or forms of government, hostile, inimical or antagonistic to the form or spirit of the constitution, laws, ideals and institutions of this state or the Cnited States. |