The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-26
TORTURE PORTER
IN AR MY JAIL;
LIFE IN DANGER
Weak From Beatings
in Prison
Continued from 4nne ONE

happen W MIN ms TRENDS would
know about it.
With the exception of her own.
the attorney writes, not a single
letter from his defense was turned
over to Porter. This was because
IN her letter, the prison officials
saw notification to Porter that he
would be visited by the sender, and
confiscation Of such letter would
be heard of.
The international Labor Defense
announced yesterday that they have
hired Attorney Lowe to visit Por-
ter regularly.
a A quotation from the attorneys
tier will show clearly that the
s'lson authorities carry on an or
J anized campaign of terror against
eporter. participated in not only by
the official guards and jailers but
also by stool-pigeons carefully
planted among the prisoners for
this very purpose. The attorneys
letter says:
Attorneys Letter.
John stated that the man who
passed the thing to him, threw it at
him and against his chest with such
force and violence that his chest be-
came sore, through the continuation
of this practice for several days. He
protested to the sentry that he
could not stand it, it was paining
him so, but the sentry did nothing
to relieve the matter. The prisoner
threw the tile at one time with such
force that had John, in turning and
passing it on to the next man, not
dropped it, he would have caused in
Try to the third man to whom he
Gas to pass it. That because of the
vain he was suffering, and because
of the danger of inflicting injury
upon the third prisoner, he dropped
the thing to the ground. At this,
the sentry ran and sprang upon him
and beat him over the shoulders
with club, and had there not been
other prisoners present. John ex-
pressed himself as believing that
he would have been very severely
beaten and perhaps killed. He says
that his shoulders are still sore and
bruised by this beating on Nov. s..
In the presence of this officer Ma
jor Berry, he stated that he could
be beaten up by sentry and killed
and none of his friends would know
what happened. That the word of
the sentry would be taken and the
report given that he had attacked
the sentry"
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25. -
While information leaks out that
John Porter, the young New Bed
ord textile strike leader, is in dan
FER of being tortured to death by
rs jailers, twenty-five revolution
airy workers are serving 80 and 60
day Jail terms because they dared
demonstrate for Porter's freedom
at the War Department in Wash
ington.
A. Lawrence, leading function
airy in the National Textile Work
ers' Union, the New Bedford sec
ton of which Porter is vice pres
ident and Ben Thomas, member of
the Workers (Communist) Party, are
confined in the Ocoquin Jail, Geo.
quin, Virginia, for so days each.
Both men have families dependent
Int Il
chosen serving Jail term than pay
ing the huge fine demanded by the
Washington court.
And as the other true revolution
airy workers, the other twenty SEN
fenced also chose to forgo bail and
payment of fine and are serving 80
day terms at hard labor in the same
prison. Among the 20 are included
trade union leaders, leaders of the
Communist Party and of the Young
Workers (Communist) League.
y A protest mass meeting is being
called by the Workers Communist
G9arty, Young Workers (Commu-
nst) League, Young Pioneers, In
ternational Labor Defense, the All
America Anti-Imperialist League,
the National Textile Workers Union
and the American Negro Labor
Congress. These organizations call
upon the Philadelphia workers to
protest against the arrest and i'm
prisonment of the 20 workers parti-
cipating in the Washington demon
stration against the War Depart
ment, to protest against the impris-
onment of Porter and against the
Philadelphia police terrorism against
working class meetings. The meet
ing will be held Friday evening at
8 o'clock, in the Labor Institute, $40
Locust st.
The speakers at the meeting will
be Norman Tallentire of the |. L.
d., Paul Crouch of the Anti-Imper-
ialist League, Herbert Fam, nation
al secretary of the Young Commu-
mist League and Herbert Benjamin,
district organizer of the Workers
Communist) Party. A speaker
from the Young Pioneers will also
a1IroSc the r,ootipoe