davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1925-04-24

tify. Thursday was the day appoint
ed by the assistant corporation coun-
sells office and sanctioned by the court.
The defendant is at liberty on $25 col
lateral.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
BISHOP BROWN LOSES.
Gets No Reply to Second Letter
to Manning.

NEW YORK, April 24.-Not hav-
ing received a reply to his second
letter to Bishop Manning. Bishop
William Montgomery Brown will re
turn today to his home at Gallon
Ohio, he announced tonight
Bishop Brown, twice convicted of
heresy and now awaiting final trial
by the House of Bishops, had asked
for permission to speak at the Cathe
dral of st. John the Divine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16

labor movement and of the liberation
movement of the peasantry.
Apart from desertion from the army
Of which there were alone In 1921,
1897 cases registered by the authori-
ties, we must consider the crimes"
which are considered as political
crimes. In 1922 the police had regis
tered the following numbers Of these:
State treason and other political
crimes, 1890 cases; revolt and resist
ance against the authorities, 24,219
cases; disturbance of public order
(strikes, etc., 24.2OS cases, thus a
total Of 61,S42 cases.
If we even suppose that rs per cent
of these cases are not in direct con-
nection with the class conscious pol
itical movement, there remain still
$4,000 cases. Supposing even that 20
per cent of these prisoners have been
released after some days from the
police jails, that 30 to 40 per cent
have been released after the examin-
alton thru the judge, there still re-
main $4,000, 900 persons who have to
pass thru the imprisonment on re-
mand which usually lasts in Poland
up to two years.
Extend White Terror.
There are still other official state
ments-also published in the Stats
teal Westnik, which prove the extern
sion of white terror. In 1921, 2,S73
persons were tried for "crimes against
the state" and in the year 1922, 4,142
persons were tried for the same
crime" Similar figures for 1923 and
1924 are not available, but we know
that white terror continuously in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
The Latest Wave of Terror in Poland

crease, but on the contrary, grows
from day to day.
The Polish political prisoners are
divided by the authorities in a num-
Der Of different cathegories according
to the character of their offense:
State treason, revolt, resistance
against the authorities, desertion
from the army, offenses against the
laws of public order and even falsifi-
cation of documents constitute, par
ticularly with regard to the illegal
existence of the Communist Party and
the trade unions, big number of
crimes"
According to the officials state
ments contained in the Statistical
Vestnik of Reich Pospolitika" (chap-
ter XXI, Administration, Justice,
page 1880 in the year of 1928 there
are in Poland 749 courts (apart from
the military courts) $40 prisons and
"a jails. There are 1886 judges, pros
ecutors and their assistants. The
number of police officials in Poland
was 1888 in 1928, and together with
the frontier guards 95,377. It must
be stressed that there are 32,76O or
binary policemen and 953 commissars
and sub-commissars and 2,2S9 secret
police agents, quite apart from the
many persons who are paid specially
for every service.
AS a sign Of the growth of white
terror we must mention that there
were in 1922 only 1854 secret agents.
One spy usually has to supervise 10
to 20 persons. This conveys a gen.
eral idea of the apparatus which has
as its purpose the destruction of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Material for the Revolutionary Museum

NEW YORK.-There is a revolu-
~ tionary museum in Moscow, in
which there is gathered all the ma
terial pertaining to the revolutionary
movement Of Russia. One section Of
this museum, which was established
by the society Of former political
prisoners and exiles," is devoted to
the life, sufferings and activities of
former political prisoners and exiles,
this section being called the museum
of prisons and exile"
This society is collecting material
consisting OF correspondence from
prisons and from exile, letters and
articles about prisoners and the pris-
ons, programs of affairs to aid the
prisoners, pictures and post cards,
photographs of the prisoners and the
jails, etc.
The society has representatives in
all countries to collect the material.
The representative in this country is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16

decks, you may still see the ruts and
grooves worn in the wood by the
dragging chains. This is not medic
val tale Of capitalists treatment of
workers. 1t happened yesterday.
Look thru the penal institutions of
today-the police stations with the
third degree, the bureau, the rubber
hose, the goldfish, machine guns poi
son gas, state police strikebreakers
and what not.
Substantially we are better off than
the workers of 17SO-but, considering
the strides of science-the highly
centralized form Of production-rela-
lively how much better OF are the
average workers-with a standing
army Of two million unemployed
deaths, starvation and suicide result
ing therefrom?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
The Convict Ship Comes to Chicago

attached to them.
For very determined attempts de-
vice invented by Captain Price was
used. 1t consisted of an iron neck
band and an iron waist band con-
nected by so short a chain that the
wearer was bent almost double; this
in turn was attached to the ankle
chains. A man wearing this devfce,
if he fell down, would have to wait
uAtil some one picked him up and put
him on his feet again.
As the convicts, crippled with
chains, could neither walk up OF
down the companion ladders, a sort
of elevator arrangement, worked by a
windlass, was used for bringing them
up and lowering them into the holds.
Are We Much Better of Today?
If you get chance to walk her
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creased during these years. 1t must
furthermore be added that in 1922,
478 accused were sentenced to death
and that 56.4 per cent Of all death
sentences have been carried out.
How can we explain this extern
sion Of white terror in Poland?
Above all we must not forget that
in those countries where the intensi-
fication of class antagonism reaches
its elimination point, the ruling class
throws away the mask of democracy,
and increases its terror to the utmost.
The growth of white terror proves the
increase of the revolutionary strug-
gle and the approach of the decisive
battle.
An international Struggle.
Above all we must remember the
historic mission which Poland has to
carry out for international capital.
!. O., to play the role of bulwark, a
barrier of international .counter-revo-
luton. For this reason the feudal-
bourgeois Poland must be on the one
hand a war camp and on the other
a country of prisons.
Lenin realized and appreciated this
circumstance and the Importance Of
the conquest of Warsaw by Commun-
ism for the international revolution.
For this reason the working class and
the revolutionary peasantry of Po-
land, who are fighting on this ex-
tremely difficult post at the revolu-
tionary front and try to overthrow
this center of International counter
revolution, must receive the unanim-
GUS support of the workers of the
whole world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
BY T. DoMBAL.

Prison-this is the word which I'M
der the present conditions in Poland
does not only mean for all revolution
airy fighters in Poland the loss of their
freedom for many, many years, but
above all time Of physical tortures
and inhuman, degrading treatment by
the bourgeois hangmen.
The prisons of democratic" Poland
with regard to the barbarian treat
ment Of the prisoners, have by far
exceeded the sad fame of the czarist
dungeons and can today only compete
with the prisons of the colonial coun-
tries.
Centers of Disease.
To the unheard of sanitary condi-
tons in the wet and dirty cells with
masses of vermine, making the pris-
ons center of serious diseases and
running the prisoners for life, to the
disgusting and insufficient food, of
which every prisoner, who does not
receive additional food from the out
side, will gradually starve after a per-
iod Of one to one and half years, to
the systematic maltreatment of the
prisoners, are added the degrading
tortures which are intended to hurt
the human dignity of the prisoners.
Everyone, from the lowest prison
guard to the director, uses all possible
means to torture and degrade the
prisoners.
Contain 1000 Reds.
At present the Polish prisons con-
tain about 5000 to 1000 political pris-
oners, number which does not de-
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Comrade Rose Baron, who has been
authorized to collect all possible ma
terial for the society in America. Com
rade Baron asks all sympathizers and
interested persons 10 assist her in
collecting the material Comrade Ba-
ron was very active in the relief So
ciety for political prisoners and exiles
in Siberia" before the Russian revo-
luton and has already sent to Mos
COW the archives which were in her
possession. This, however, is not
sufficient.
There are hundreds Of Russians in
this country who were in Russian
prisons and in exile under the czars,
and who have very valuable material.
This material should be sent to Rose
Baron, 10S East 14th St., New York
City.
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democracy has more subtle weapons
existing today. When some one be-
gins exposing these-beware
Stole S15-Gets Life.
One of the five hulks was devoted
to the use Of women convicts. There
was no material difference in the
treatment or accommodations. Eliza
beth Stott and her child (smalI chill
dren were forced to accompany their
parents and undergo the same penal
ties) made the mistake Of forging a
check for fifteen dollars, for which,
at the age of %. she was sent up for
life.
Captain Melville, whose crime con-
sisted Of stealing a potato pie, value
two pence, from bakers cart, was
also given long term. Donovan was
a case Of mistaken identity. He serv-
ed 16 years and died from the conse-
Quences two months too late to learn
that some one else confessed to the
crime he was sentenced for.
Harry Powers, he was Irish too,
was transported for shooting the
squire's game.
OF course, the men mentioned are
not, perhaps, the worst cases of per-
secution Of the frank and file" as the
bourgeoise of 1890 would say, as it
would take large "Who's-Who" to in
clude them all.
Let US look at some of the Convict
Jewelry" aboard the Success" There
are the following-the airless dun
geons and condemned cells, the whip
ping posts, manacles, branding irons,
leaden tipped cat-o-nine tails, the
coffin bath, the iron lady and nipple
ments Of torture that would make the
Spanish inQuisition pale into insight
canoe and all because the offenders
were workingmen who were forced to
steal in order to live.
How They Used Convict JeweIry.
Upon arrival the convict was fitted
by a convict smith with a pair of
ankle irons weighing thirty-five
pounds, and he was placed in a cell
in the lower deck. being allowed one
hour out Of every twenty-four on the
upper deck for air and exercise. The
cells were supposed to house not
more than three people, but due to
demand for more space than was
available, they sometimes contained
five or six.
At the end of two years. If the con-
vict's conduct had been good, the
thirty-flve pound ankle chains were
smitten off, and Sseven-pound ankle
chain substituted. Those who at
tempted to commit suicide, either by
jumping overheard or in any other
way, had an iron ball Of fifty pounds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
BY JAN Wit.

IN the 18th century EngIand's eco
nomic and toll system was such
that the people were forced at times
to snitch fowl or so from the large
estates of the lords. For this they
were given when caught the death
sentence and often Punishment to Aus
tralia, then the convict isle of Great
Britain. Numerous convict ships
were used and each captain Wed with
the other to excel in creating instru-
ments of torture.
The pride of this fleet, "The Sue
cess" is now on exhibition in Chicago
at State St., and the river, Captain
John Price, son of Sir Rose Price, was
held most responsible for the inhu-
man cruelties practiced on the hulks.
He certainly invented some of its
more exquisite torturA Venturing
too close to a chain gang of thirty-two
Success" convicts, who had been
taken ashore to build a prison, some
one bounced stone hammer on his
head SO emphatically that he never
smiled again.
Seven Were Hanged.
All the convicts in the gang were
tried for the murder, fifteen of them
convicted, and seven hanged. Some
one put in a plea for one of them, a
youth, named Burke, on account Of
his age, 16. But it was found he had
been convict for five years so must
necessarily be desperate character,
so he was hanged, too.
But the murder brot about an inves-
tigation, and Australia was shocked
Orders were given to pull all the sea-
cocks and sink every hulk forthwith
and it was done. The Success"
lay at the bottom of the ocean for
five years. Due to some legal hocus-
pocus she had not been condemned
properly with the others. So some
enterprising American got permission,
presumably for pecuniary considera-
ton, to raise her; which they did.
She was scarcely damaged by her five
years immersion, due perhaps to her
Burmese teak, and tremendously
strong construction.
She proceeded under her own sail to
England, and from there to the
United States. At present she is
waiting your inspection for the nom
inal charge" of fifty cents. 1t is esti-
mated that over 20 million people
paid admission, which would make
around ten million in profits. Surely
that is going the English one better,
exploiting ancient torture devices.
Capitalists do not care about some
one showing old devices Of torture. as
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c'mon Over!

II you have day, an hour or minute to spare-why
cmon over. There is so much work piled up on the
small force in office that need your help very
badly to insert letters address, seal and stamp envelopes
and many other little jobs that have swamped
If you volunteer your services that's fine way to help
the DAILY WORKER. Well be glad to you-so just
for fun, cmon over!
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Get a sub-make another Com
munist!
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
/ ANKY GEORGE
|. FACES GIANTS
TOMORROW
Gregg and McNamara Harris
Choices for Today's
Mound Duty
BY KIRK MILLER.

AUGUSTA, Co., April S.--For to.
mOrfow's opening exhibition game
&C Clark Griffith Stadium against
the New York Giants who viii not
have appeared there since they were
hulnhled by Walter Johnson on o..
tpber 10 last, Manager Harris has
IN store q treat for Washington
fans. said treat being the selection
Of George Mogridge to hold back
the Gothannites.
George ID going great guns these
days. his left-handed slants com.
pletely riystifying the Mobile Bears
the last time out. Indeed, he has
TO guard against going stale. In
ell probability Zachary will twlrl
the final on Saturday
Vean Gregg and Jimmy Mona.
mara are today's choices to hold the
Giants in the last Cotton Circuit
game. Thus you see Harris ID
planning on southpawing the Giants
to death. -
Fred Marberry, who stepped on o
ball during practice before yesser.
days game and twisted his right
ankle, will have to keep off that
strained puppy for q week, Mike
Martin told him today.
Big Roy Carlyle, who batted balls
way across the State Of Tennessee
from Memphis last year, has got TO
consult an eye specialist when he
gets TO Washington. In nine times
at the bat as q pinch hitter during
this spring Carlyle got his first
base blow yesterday. He cIaims lie
has been seeing dark speclxs in front
Of his eyes most Of this spring.
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
USE
Unfinished
BALL PARK
Connie Denies HE Club Will
Play h PhiIIies'
Yard

PHILADELPHIA, April s.-Ru-
nlora have been afloat that the
Maclxn1en would play their first ten
American League Tits at the
Phillies Park, owing to the new
stands at Shibe Park not being
completed. But today Connie Mack
denied such and emphatically stated
that the White Elephants viii start
the campaign on their own BALI
wick.
at win require several more
weeks for the completion Of the
stands" ssaid Connie. ESQ we have
arranged to have the wokrmen
knock off on Saturday Of this week
IT. order to get the lower left field
pavilion in shape for the openinG
game next Tuesday. On April %,
the day after we finish the series
with Washington, work will be re
sumed. until we return from q
three-day jaunt In New York. Fol
lowing the series here with the
Yankees, we win be on the road
until May 81. and I feel sure that
the stands will be ready for the
Washington series. which start here
on that day"
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
run
WILL FEATURE
BIC MEET
Waters and Lowe Rivals in
Harvard-YaIe VS.. Oxford
Cambridge Games

The outstanding event at the Ok
ford Cambridge VS.. Harvard ale IN.
ternationaI games in the Harvard
stadium in July, in prospect, - the
meeting between "Soapy' Waters,
Of Harvard, and Douglas Lowe, u
oxford, the Olympic S0O-meter
champion, in the laalf-mile run. This
duel should be one Of the greatest
track contests Of the early sum-
mer.
OF the intcl collegiate game5, the
Americans chances in the h9gn jump
are rated below par Van Geyzei,
OF Cambridge, who halls from the
East Indies, il clearing six feet
three inches consistently this spring
Unless one Of .he Harvard!Rale
ieapers show a marked improveln 5nt
between now and July, Uncle sam
is doomed to Nove this event. CHI
ford, of Yale, Is the most promising
of the American string. He dld
six two" as a freshman at Yale,
but has not gone particularly well
since that time.
The Rritons will also show a real
contender in the vault in Wright,
Californian. who is now a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford. He has done Il
feet 6 inches. and may give the Yale
sky climbers some trouble.
II Bayes Norton, the Olympic
sprinter, IS pointed for the -quarSer
mile as is indicated now, this event
should land in the Harvard-YaFe
column. Norton figures to defeat
BIZ Stevenson, the former Princeton
star, now at Oxford by five yards.
The Washington times., 1925-04-08


All do hail to Messrs. Coveleskle,
the grand old boy that he il, and
young Harry Kelly, the Memphis
marvel. who held the Giants in
the last three frames, getting out
of a hole in the tenth after South.
worth had doubled with none out.
In fact 1t was not the fault Of
either of these Griff hurlers that
the Giants knotted the count, FOR
Martina had relieved Coveleslkle
in the sixth when the score was
to in the champions favor.
With one out in the sixth, Kelly
spanked a home run into the deep.
est corner Of the field, midway
between the left and center sta.
tons. In the seventh, with one
gone, single by Hartley, double
by Greenfield, a triple by Groh and
sacrifice fly by Southworth &C.
counted for three runs.
1t was i'm WashingtOn's half
Of the seventh, when they were
three runs behind, that they
again revealed how they can
fight when they are on the light
end OF the seasaw that three runs
were eased across after two
"cEc uOWH-nnAnu you.
Peck got four wide ones. ad
vanced on Tate's single and scored
on Carlyle's single to center, the
latter being q. pinch hitter for
Martina. Tate had pulled UP at
third, McNally ran for CarlyslS
and McNeely was hit by a pitched
ball, filling the bases. None other
than Harris then came through
with a single, scoring Tate and
Mentally, Rice got a base on balls
| and he and McNeely were left
| stranded when Goslin forced Harris
| at third.
Washington's first run came in
the second at the expense Of MI.
Scott. Judge walked, stole second
and was sacrificed to third by
Bluege, later scoring on Peck's
single to left.
Things dragged along through
the customary stretch with no
verdict. Southworth threatened in
the Giants half of the tenth by
doubling with none out, but Kid
Kelly was as cool as a bank
presidents heart and Southworth
was the last Giant to see a base.
With none out in the Griffs'
tenth try, Goose Goslin, who had
had a blank day with the willow,
singled to center, went to third on
Judges bingle out of reach of
Young and scored when Kelly
threw wide to the plate when he
was relaying. The crowd was on its
| feet and didn't take the trouble
to get off them, walking right out
Of the park and away to their one
and respective homes
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
AMERICA LOSES
DAVIS CUP
STARS
TiIden and Richards Firmly
Entrenched In Front OF
Typewriters
BY DAVIS J. WALSH.


HHBSEUNDSAUtSsSA
NEW YORK, April S.--WIlliam
T.. Tilden and Vincent Richards,
respective national champion and
his runner.up In the national rank.
ing list, are lost to the American
Davis cup defense and tournament
tennis in general for the season OF
1915 unless there ts.sa hurried re.
vision Of the playq r.writer rule.
Richards today set at rest any
doubt that might exist on the sub
ject by declaring himself out from
behind the net and In at the front
OF a typewriter. He added that he
was merely echoing the sentiments
Of Tilden.
The latter, according to Richards,
II confident that the United States
Lawn Tennis Association will re-
write the rule before the Davis cup
issue comes to q head. II the
association does not, neither Tilden
nor Richards IL likely to take q
racquet in hand during the impend.
ing season except for exercise and
purposes of exhibition.
cit all comes down to . question
OF our bread and butter" Richards
said. "The association has passed
rule, forbidding us to write line
on tournaments in which we are
competing. That is just the time
when our employers want our
articles. Even II the employers
were willing to abide by this con.
dition, they, couldn't be expected
to pay our salaries while we play
tennis.
"If / wanted the day Off 70 90
swimming, couldn't expect to be
tnofd Poy. ~ nv fha aarnA f0kAn
IL couldn't expect my salary to
week or ten days playing tennis
I am q married man and have
more than myself to think Of
Need say more?"
The young man did, however. He
added that he, for one, would not
be a party to the American team
that is supposed to be headed for
Wimbledon this summer. Neither
will Tilden nor. for that matter.
william NJ. Johnston, according I'd
Richards. This statement lenda
color to the impression that the
American invaders win just about
represent the competitive strength
Of Fort Wayne. Ind.
Asked why Tilden, member OF
the special committee that drafted
the latest player.writer rule, rub
| Der stamped the proposition when
not in favor Of 1t, Richards de-
clared the American champion had
! no alternative. Six members OF
the seven.man committee favored
the rule, as drafted. Tilden he
said, merely climbed on the band
wagon as a passenger, not as q
musician.
The Washington times., 1925-04-08
IS READY
TOS|GN WITH
WE|NERT
HeaVyWeights Slated to Meet
in Polo Grounds Early
in Season

NEW YORK, April s.-Harry
Wills, negro challenger for the
heavyweight title, will sign romor'
row to meet Charley Weinert,
Newark, N. j.. heavyweight at The
Polo Grounds early in the outGoor
season, according to a statement
made today by Jimmy DeForest,
matchmaker for the stadium. Wills
passed up a chance to meet Tom
Gibbons for the milk fund while
awaiting word on his challenge to
Jack Dempsey.
Weinert staged a comeback by
easily defeating Luis Firpo in
twelve rounds at Newark.