The Trials Omladina Trial

alois rašín

the national liberal party began develop small backing in austrian-hungarian parliament; young czechs had avenue vocal opposition. in bohemian diet well, young czechs made dramatic growth, defeating rivals 11 seats. storms of protest began gaining attention in habsburg monarchy , in austro-hungarian government. began aggressively demand universal suffrage due relationship workers acknowledged fact such legislation or change bring nlp thousands of adherents, including working class. scholars such alois rašín of progressive movement, antonín hajn, , jan slavík concurred, , on march 17, 1893, slavík presented universal suffrage bill parliament. opposition mounted , demonstrations followed. june 18, 1893 saw crowd of 30,000 while on may 15 (st. john s day), group of students draped huge noose around statue of emperor franz i. straw broke camel s occurred on december 23, 1893. change in governments due political inefficiency brought new political regime headed prince alfred windischgrätz. hardline approach , newly drawn reichsrat (lower house of cisleithanian parliament) voted 185 73 uphold state of emergency in fürst von thun s bohemia. governor declared proverbial martial law , after political murder on 23rd of december, omladina connected murder of police informer rudolf mrva. carte blanche prosecute, government arrested 76 omladina conspirators aged 17–22 , charged 2 working class omladina members actual murder. while czech press, , radical groups denounced murder, government pressed onward. josef soukup aptly stated mrva case 1 tare among wheat . trial began on january 15, 1894 in closed military tribunal. charges ranged conspiracy high treason public disorder revolutionary activities. prominent progressives such dr. alois rašín , josef Škába among incarcerated. sentences came highly anticlimactic 6 defendants of murder case received ten years each. 62 other defendants received sporadic jail sentences collectively accumulated 90 years in prison.