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VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
to a fine of 500 marks or three months' imprisonment,
and a similar penalty was incurred by anyone
who gave a prohibited association or meeting a place
of assembly.
2. The circulation or printing of a prohibited publication
entailed a fine not exceeding one thousand
marks or imprisonment up to six months.
3. Convicted agitators might be expelled from a
certain locality or from a governmental district, and
foreigners be expelled from federal territory.
4. Innkeepers, printers, booksellers, and owners
of lending libraries and reading rooms who circulated
interdicted publications might, besides being
imprisoned, be deprived of their vocations.
5.
Persons who were known to be active socialists,
or who had been convicted under this law, might
be refused permission publicly to circulate or sell
publications, and any violation of the provision
against the circulation of socialistic literature in
inns, shops, libraries, and newsrooms was punishable
with a fine of one thousand marks or imprisonment
for six months.
77/. Power conferred upon authorities.
1. Meetings may only take place with the previous
sanction of the police, but this restriction does
not extend to meetings held in connection with elections
to the Reichstag or the Diets.
2. The circulation of publications may not take
place without permission in public roads, streets,
squares, or other public places.
3.
Persons from whom danger to the public se-
or order is
apprehended may be refused resi-
curity
dence in a locality or governmental district.