The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-07
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cage that fights for the workers.
Third Letter to "Daily."
In third communication to The
- DAILY WORKER, Gordon reports
the taking of his picture for the
rogue's gallery and gives further des-
criptions of prison life.
They're getting me sick" he
writes. every morning I'm searched
for perhaps concealing a weapon. Who
the devil wants to commit suicide for
measly reformatory sentence?
don't. It won't give me anything ex-
cept a grave and it will cause unnec-
essary bother and sorrow to some 9TH
ers. l presume all sentenced inmates
here are likewise searched.
II counted 40 names engraved on
the cell walls. One fellow seemed hap
py to be sentenced to Hampton Farms
New York City Reformatory), boast
ing that he is the big shot of First
Avenue. a jewel thief. Another makes
the unpretentious assertion that he
is sentenced to Sing Sing for robbery
From 20 Years to Life"
"a third one appears proud to stats
he is in Jail for his second robbery
The last statement on the walls tells
CT sentence of from 20 years to life
NY most heartfelt sympathies are ex-
tended &c the last young brother.
ut is pity that all the fire and
spirit symbolized on the walls should
be turned against the capitalistic sys-
TEN by the individualistic, futile meth
DDS of assault and robbery Even into
these has bourgeois theology crept
with the great disadvantage to the
forward-moving labor movement.
Pop was here this morning. He
treasured me that all that can be done
is being done to release me. l don't
have too much hope of release, but
IFS worthwhile, think, putting up a
stiff fight so that if q case against
the Communists or our DAILY
WORKER comes up again, our CAPT
talist courts will proceed with the
prosecution with the full knowledge
that the defendants will tight it out
to the end.
Taken to Be Photographed.
II was interrupted in the midst of
the harmless occupation of manicur-
ing my finger-nails and trying to re-
call whether it was % or 80 cock
reaches killed yesterday by an order
to go to the pen to have my picture
taken before going to the farms ct
makes me smile to think that my pic
ture was in a Wisconsin paper as a
scholarship student and now it will
be featured in the rogue's gallery.)
"After being fairly stifled in some
part of the jail, we were put into a
thoroughly sinking calaboose and
driven through the streets-through
the sinking East Side streets--until
we reached the pen at 59th ST."
More Funds Needed.
These letters from Gordon that have
been appearing in The DAILY
WORKER record the feelings and i'm
pressions of a victim of the class war.
The DAILY WORKER is also VIC
tim of the class war. In an earlier
letter Gordon expressed the hope that
the readers of the DAILY" would re-
pay it's $500 fine ten times.
In view of the fact that The DAILY
WORKER is now faced with $50,00o
libel suit instituted against it by
Adolph Lessig, former labor spy,
and must also fight the federal in
dctment that threatens to jail Will
liam F. Dunno, ]. Louis Engdahl,
Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman, ten