The daily worker., 1929-05-08

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/ nearly a could
stand with shoulder against wall and with A
outsretched could touch the other wall with the M
tips of my fingers: 1t was about 10 feet long <Ae S
At o'clock at night taps sounded by ~ xgW
bugler lights IN ~
ing aroused at 6So with the buglers notes ~
of revele. At hour lined in long GEysr
ready to go into the dining when
surprised with the music of brass band We
marched long files the as the first taking the
In few minutes all seated facing the music Then the walters
with huge of bread which could have much
he wanted Other walters with Stew boiled potatoes
apen The kitchen arranged with big boilers and
ca all the food except the bread steam cooked method that
seemed to make everything taste alike
already prison clothes
Our records not yet complete The next day photo
graphed with numbers heads measured by the Ben
system, fngerprints CT both hands
THEN Chaplain my brief
tion with the prison skypot told
in the country used bars and locks One of them prison
confine body. imprison his
he had And the bank that kept his guarded
almost united opposition churches religions kind resulted
being issued that who did
Sunday morning should remain the cells But though
not interested the Chapan wanted out of their
cells, they following
to the hospital where stripped and weighed vaccnated and
Now might be said that began life big
% Jim Thompson w given the job of oVer pse of
concrete of whom members of the LWW
was an 1ww" He was told that he was
act M he a % W sd he M n qa @ ond he's or an all INV S He @
tell feler All little sab nah CELL an that
One morning Thompson and his the cell
set up and boe together with the liquid between They
the bolts and the the boards and flowed all
the floor 1t was set as hard as concrete could set
The guard reported the the Deputy Warden who
court call for Thompson and the next morning he the
office When the Deputy Warden read him the law against sabotage
what meant the of fine and imprisonment Thomp
son. M there any one in % your gang who has got for yOu
The Deputy Warden then asked WELL how did this thing
Thompson could only reply he didn't know
He went back his job somewhat crestfae
said to him. WELL why did the responsibility
money than do and don't get any You better quit this job of
was no more trouble with the sab cat
GROUP of the LW.W.s working yard.
foreman of this but he wasn't hurryng
the guard that seemed to think that there wasn't work
talking theatenngly rather loud boys
investigation seen any one
hit him. the matter dropped but forgotten
with nothing than a
C cell house for Negro prisoners There
mutny army Houston Texas got acquainted
with of these exsoders who had formerly been
the time the soldiers 1895
guard the miners who then in the pen.
My sight became bad that could not work longer the
where the who had their being
leased got their new clothes suit hat shoes underclothes shirt
deparing from the The whole $s
they left the pentenary was
the only place where one could a real happy smile
did a. the work The records the office of the
ngh the Berton SYSTEM photographs finger prints
taken BY the prisoners The filing clerks prisoners Typsts
bookkeepers prisoners.
Aside from the guards there other civilians
prison oae member of the Department Justice who was sup
posed to look after the records; physician
alor the Chaplain and there have been
There were several from the prison while there
After tho count and discovery
hey would blow the wildcat whistle the house
A. soon a. tn. wildcat would begin blow yell
from the prisoners the different houses though
f them knew who it who had sing in
mighty voices "Goodby good uck Don't come back
SO IT, Go it! of a bich!"
food You get Bill Hayecoods cy oh sLscrpo, for