The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04

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he remarked as we said good-by, "but
it is very hard to live in America"
His last ten days in the United
States certainly had been tough
enough but of course no one with the
makings of good American citizen
ever gets into the Tombs.
The Tombs edition Of The DAILY
WORKER has made it's appearance.
According to the oldest keeper, this
is the first event of its kind in the
history of the prison, and the editor
and business manager are the reci-
pients Of warm congratulations.
The general program of the Tombs
DAILY WORKER is Liberty, lin
caps) Life and Pursuit of Happiness"
Among its immediate demands is
One-Hour Day for keepers and
jailers-from II Noon to P. NJ. It
is stipulated that this period shall
also be their lunch hour and that
during this time all gates, doors and
turnstiles of the prison shall be un-
locked. A penalty Of fine or i'm
prisonment. or both, is to be enforced
against any keeper or jailer who eats
his lunch within one mile of the
Tombs.
The attempted suicide by hanging
of fellow-prisoner furnished the first
number with a story which Harvey
O'Connor would have characterized as
"great stuff" Application for police
cards having not yet been 0. KID,
the editor was unable to be on the
scene, but a trusty whose nose for
news is as keen as Sylvan Pollack's,
but who lacks his long and varied
journalistic training, covered the
story for us in very satisfactory
manner.
We were moved to compliment this
young Cub "a "dip" Of uncanny
skill) for the enterprise he displayed
in securing a picture of the hangie-
bangor, which had been taken in
Sing Sing, by frisking him before he
had recovered consciousness.
Thanks to this triumph of repor-
torial energy, the Tombs edition came
into the corridor with the lifelike
likeness of the principal actor in this
tragic drama proudly pasted on its
first page, seooping every other paper
in the city.
Some criticism was caused by the
fact that in the rush Of getting to
press we inadvertently left the Ro-
CUES gallery number on the photo
graph, but these few complaints
quickly We're drowned I'm great
wave Of approval Of the mastery way
in which the Tombs edition Of The
DAILY WORKER had handled this
great human interest story.
The bitterest criticism, strangely
enough, came from the man whose
terrible plight we had trumpeted to
a sympathetic public. But as he had
been handcuffed in his cell TO pre-
vent further suicide attempts, we
ignored his verbal letter to the editor.
We have a good working knowledge
Of picturesque profanity, but we
must confess that he used a number
Of words and phrases which were new
to us and which we were unable to
translate.
With the exception Of this re-
grettable incident the Tombs edition
went over big.
Features Of the first number in
clude:
Exclusive lin The Tombs) photo
graph Of an anti-British imperialist
demonstration in Moscow, pictures Of
"Lindy' and his father and mother
with a news item stating the editor
Of the Tombs Edition had spoken to
many meetings Of farmers and
workers with Lndy's father in Min
nesota, and a Women's Page. 1.-THE
T m BIS Edition Of The DAILY
WORKER has a position open for
q Young and energetic woman WIG