The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
By WILLIAM ID. HAYWOOD.
PART 81.

THE Jail in the heart Chicago
and Dearborn Street 1t is fObddng and filthy old structure
barred windows like gashes cliff the
the windows high from the street The glass had long lost s
transparency because of of accumulation of
dust. and cobwebs The cells built in tiers
back back. barred the outside walls A&ES4zM
The cells were painted black and were dirty with Y A
dust and tobacco spit rusty iron basin and Il NM%
heat and water pipes Shiny and rusted ~ 4W
old and dirty mattress of old and C+r#yn
lumpy The scanty bedding filthy, reekng Wsae9
with vermn and disease It was three PAGES from
furniture, STOOL the bed had the lower
bunk n IN looking up the old newspapers on the bottom of the
1t was old issue of the Chicago daes There
the screened electric globe outside the door, All the
@ p o n e fOr @ hours day To- read was
two hours in the afternoon the prisoners let out for
and walked slow measured and corridor
called the bupen It always gloomy the
the sun had shone was wet and slippery with spit and slime
political prisoners
In the morning
calling "Cups OUT We held cups through
bars truy filled them with noxious fluid substitute
the meals substantial but often the food unfit
prison with vile stencil All the men
showed their plates off the galleries onto the floor below the air
filled with cabbage and strips of beef
this terrible prison the IWW were
held over year until their trial finished.
newspaper started among called Canopener"
which afforded of the opportunity the
had of little He had cells and sold tobacco
VISITING dp we're anu T oe d F Ga prisoners W needed
from those who came to see us by two hanch two feet
as every one stood against the talking those who had
to who behind the other One satisfaction
out of visit at this medley many
almost impossible to hear what being said to
The hospital and bathroom disgrace
muniy This many condemned, still
filled with the unfortunaes of society
EVERY meeting, selected by
Program Committee would make speeches. recite original
or tell stories One Sunday told story which called The Mon
key Strike in California" 1t
which the exploiting class would 1 began:
to rid themselves members of the The first move on their
part introduce japanese workers the orchards
Some OF the little yellow men Joined the !WW which, unlike
many labor unions America admitted them the white
men of any other color.
under the miserable conditions imposed by the members the Fruit
and began purchasing land for Themselves becoming
pettors of their former employers.
Fearful that the japanese would buy the entire rugrowng
section of California having already
Vaa Valley laws we're by the legislature forbddng the sale
restricting their immigration the United already
law restricting the immigration of the Chinese
"he frugrowers again compelled employ migratory
labor until wonderful idea developed the conventions
gsed that would possible monkeys pick pack
This decided without hesitation and steps taken
to get a lot of monkey fruit pickers
"The chimpanze breed decided the intelligent
Splendid little houses all nicely painted built equipped
for the monkeys They actually fed taught
to do.
got ripe brought their friends from
the city see how ngenious they solving the labor problem
"The monkeys houses, arr
matte with the rpened fruit When
redy climbed the trees But instead of doing they had been
taugho bring the fruit down and mscevous
little rascas would dart about selecting the choicest
CT two. throw the rest away and go after
Before the day and the monkeys with paunch full
had back to their houses much damage DONE
"The had another next
day each monkey had muzzle put
They went into the trees rapidly enough but of
would pick fruit They busy
themselves of the frighfu continuance that
eating and enjoying themselves.
"The rugrowers in awful predcament many
the the who egretfy replied
they amenab to the
could have them imprisoned and perhaps shot,
monkeys he had jurisdiction"
In the nrt issue Hayoood tells Of the ariual of
the Boshevik revolution Russia
jail Of Haywoods book given
rneaOal subscription for to the Daily Worker
On May Day-mobize for the struggle against colonial
oppresson Long live the revolutionary struggle for the
liberation Of the oppressed peoples!