Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-09

of a portierre, and sheet, contribut-
ed by friends, makes the regulation
iron bunk shelf look like a downy
couch. Much would have been
brought her by friends and sympa-
thizers, to make her lot easier, but
this was stopped by the Jail authori-
ties, so that this sheet alone repre-
sents the material advantages of her
environment over the other prisoners.
We ask you to realize what mental
torment must he hers. Other pris-
oners may, in the freedom of the COP
r1dors, join in games and gCner diver
slons, while for her there is but the
four walls of the cell in which your
informant said she never was!
| We contend, too, that she is not
prisoner in the sense of criminality,
for she has broken no statute, she
simply did not agree with a Judge
whose opinion has been since dis
agreed with by higher court. And
we claim taht even should this gov
eminent find it necessary to imprison
woman to prevent itself from totter-
ing, that common decency would pro-
vide for her Imprisonment where there
were provisions for women.
We again beg to remind you that
her Imprisonment is actually the re-
suit of her poverty, for it is the re-
suit of the failure to procure the in
excusably high bond Of $4,000 cash de-
manded by this judge, pending the de-
cision of the higher court, which, SO
far, has reversed every decision OF
Judge Dayton's appealed to it, in like
Labor matters, that the failure to
procur bond is because the United
Mine Workers, of which organization
she is not member, but (whose strike
she was supporting to the extent of
trying to get shoes and clothing to
the Children of the destitute miners1,
simply has not the money left to
put up the cash bond for the prison
ers In this case, which would total
NEARLY $4,000, and that the organiza-
ton has already been compelled to
expend practically 100000 in defend
ing their members against decisions
iof Judge Dayton, and though they
lhave won upon appeal to the higher
courts, this procedure had been SO
lcostly as to have finally reached the
point where they finally have no
more money available.
We also beg to remind you that the
Jstrik ethat brought about the cases is
over. Since the cases cannot be con-
sldered IN any light other than strike
cases, and since the strike is termina.
TED. then there is nothing left not to
satlsfy except the greed of the corpo-
rations that provoked all the trouble.
ana surely even this should now be
SATISFIED. No good purpose can be
serVedsby her continued Imprisonment
even from the viewpoint of the prose.
cutting corporations.
In closing we wish to respectfully
remind you that our expectation OF
harness from yonr Office is not salts.
ned by your expecting your informa.
ton to come from government officials
whose business it is to prosecute,
You could hardly expect them to take
the impartial view necessary for un.
biased opinion. To you, in your posi-.
ton, should come the views of both
sues, TOT, though both be preiudiced.
your Office could. thus find where reas.
on and justice and mercy lev. and
II you strayed at all from the laws
unfeellng harshness and the narrow
path OF precedent, you would be for.
given in this world and the next if
your learning was toward kindness
and sympathy.
We do hope that you will See this
case IN favorable light and bring
about her speedy release.
Yours very truly,
Special Committee of the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly, .
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