The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
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THE WORST TORTURE OF ALL.
Translated by Brian Rhys

HE Chains said coming back to Rumanian prisons for
the last time there's nothing awful than that What
cngng strength while you
drag along yourself STILL weight binds DOWN.
get and walk, and it bites into at every step.
GAS rule your chains invisible for live in underground
corridors and cells where night night and day gloom But sers
meen they're transferring fetching before
the judge the prison you see those chains Of yours
for the backined monster underneath the flesh
,grips you at ankles and wrists with fourfod jaws
Though left chains behind they're living yet know
IT was very frontier happened not
very long Turkey; these five had
escaped from the Ruanan prisons
nightmares, they recalling
of their nightmare from which they had miracuouy
of those village evenings when each
hair-raising tale calls ghost in his turn.
listened knew that what these escaped prisoners saying
things the Europe of 1926 and declare Them
EYES," said Spridon. "But there's than that" IA
cage-a ockwork Basil spiru said They
pendulum while YOU can't much as stir finger you're weged
inside like wooden soldier standing to arms It's cell and strait
jacket, a coffin and cuirass."
cage spdons description made
it live again. his words seemed culver out of his very flesh till we
that cage that bodies constrained
they kept you The food get water and
of bread; sometimes nothing at alstarvaon After
three days legs begin SWELL and the swelling creep upward
Then chains break through the skin and eat into flesh
Sometimes after days restwhen drop to the ground like
broken China they put you back for ten days more that's what nap
pened several times to Max Goden He was tough un
like had to make tremendous efforts before he could d
"AND what about the Ghe said JON "The Ghera boy'
IA hole followed the If stand
shoulders would sticking out But got disappear
nothing visible the top For that must
squat they make fast forge
with sides, until block the hole nicely.
There you stay twelve months and three times
filthy allowance of maggots and beans Some
times too they pour hoe but they don't fill
you'd drowned and would suffer
myself the glassafer coming back to the
world old there said Jon Il looked like one OF
of fathers poorer brothers.
like there's ready to call
dirty tell Why I'll be downright pleased!"
DUT was Virgil continue the CHASTITY tale;
"Theres that-wor than hammering bones.
flesh they and clip off only just sto
dying or out there know they
lodges for killing off simultaneously
"There's Disease; they shove it into your body ~ =
Spiridon and Jon.
talking of disease dealt out straight like the
basnado you e1anthemoticus, to
give horrible That's another of their lodges for
breaking spirit political prisoners Rumania Only this
be seen, and it gets in everywhere.
absolutely stepped in this diseasesoaked
Gaaa the matter of that the bourgeois newspapers
you're bourgeois and that then
you hush Gaata reeks sweat showers down
yphu the skin of the floor, under the skin
dirt the DOORS the OF the
columns and pillars.
he with typhus of with the others The
with their blood nothing left to do when their patient
they only like hot meals they apply the
survivors.
(To be Continued) h&$as G44