The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27
Liberty in Boston

group being given the same welcome cheers. When
the cheering subsidized the first question asked our
newly arrived comrades was: "How many of you
taken in this time and how many more are
waiting to go the line ?"
Evidently the laundering challenge of our many
voices chanting the "lnteTnatonale" was more than
hosts could endure for three cops walked to the
end of the cell-corridor where they stopped for
bit and then walked out grinnng sheepshy. Our
noses discovered the meaning of their mys-
terous mission when the sickening fumes of "stnk
bomb" was waited into our close damp cells. By
the way, this is crime under Boston Claw" but
after all weren't we only workers? What difference
The ladies in the smoke-filled guard room were also
given taste of chivary practised by Bostons'
STINK bomb-throwlng guardians of law and order.
Perhaps this was not enough, for when several of
the ladies requested the privilege of using the
toilet they were ushered into cell section
and in plain view of the male occupants of the cells
they were told to use the vile accommodations of
an empty cell where all the scum of the underworld
are confined.
Later in the day Powers Hapgood arrived and was
locked up in our section. After hastily outlining
the situation Outside" he Joined us in singing and
cheering until he suddenly taken from his cell
and whisked away to the Psychopathic Hospital
where he was held for some time ncommunicado.
Perhaps the most interesting part of our soiourn
behind the bars was the sitting out of two strange
fellow prisoners" who were suspected of being
stool-pigeons Just before the last line of pickets
was brot in, rol-call of each cell was suggested
everyone was asked to give his ce-mateS his name,
address, occupation and reason for being on the
picket line. All were able to give satisfactory ac-
count of himself excepting stranger on each
side of the Jail. These two had been busy thruout
the early parto visit" while bail was being
arranged in asking all sorts of trick questions etc.
and had aroused suspicious One Of these fellows
was found was told by one of the pickets with
gun on his person and was later observed chatting
with officer before being assigned to one of the
cells which held from four to five prisoners When
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was in Boston, he replied 81 was sent by certain
organization to do certain thing" What the or
ganization and what the Certain thing" could
nowhere to be when the pickets were arraignd
in court Tuesday morning.
After being arrested for carrying placard on
the Common. William Patterson, president of the
American Negro Labor Congress- was told by the
arresting officer that 'this is the first have seen
a Niger bastard who is a Communist" Patterson
was singled out by mounted policeman who tried
to ride him down, only the fact that he Patterson)
lodged around tree saved him from the sharp
hoofs of the horse. After being released on bail
Patterson took his place the State House picket
line and found his way into Jail where once
he the object of the vicious race-preiudce
of thick -skuled police.
These are only few instances of some of the
examples of rabd fascsm prevailing in Boston, they
are the facts which never see the light of day in
the capitalist papers until given the proper angle
by labor-hating editors | have also tried to por-
tray the splendid spirit of solidarity of the workers
who carried their unflinchng protest in the face
of the most ruthless repression known to Boston
since the days of the Boston massacre