The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

Il DTOOhIyn 10 JOIN Ine NaLlOIlal lex
n May Day. Judge Sabbatinni, the
2 loud-mouthed watch dog of the
bosses, took a look at the workers
and put their bail at $500 each for
the most of them, and $1,000 for the
rest of them.
When the International Labor De-
Tense came down to get all of the
information, and get the workers
out on bail, at first, they we're told
that there were no such prisoners.
Then the Jail heads told the Inter
national Labor Defense, that they
only had 8 of those pulled in. Final
ly, Buitenkant, of the LID, went to
the Gates Ave. Court to protest
the high bail. Sabbatinni answered
that he would do the same to every
Communist arrested, and would like
to beat them up in dark room just
as he threatened once before to a
Young Communist
Throughout the entire seven days
that the workers spent in Raymond
Street Jail, the courts continually
refused to accept bail on various
legal" grounds Wthen money was
sent to the jail to the Communists,
most of it was never received and
still hasn't been recovered by the
LID.
All the Communists arrested, even
if you were only 16 years old, as
was the case with one, were put in
cells together with the gangsters
and hardened criminals. The thieves
and murderers like Rockefeller,
Morgan, Doheny, Sinclair, Whalen,
the Kayser Corp. eetc., pull off
their tricks because they stand for
the highest symbol of the capitalist
state. But the petty criminals, those
who were not hand in hand with
the politicians and financiers are the
ones who go to Jail. A sailor, by the
name OF Robinson, honorably dis
charged from the navy, had been
tramping the streets for 3 months
looking for job as a longshoreman,
was pulled in and given months
for vagrancy. Two shoe strikers,
daring to defend themselves against
the boss, We're arrested. The minute
the keeper finds out that you are
a Communist, you get or 10 days
extra. When the criminals swear
and curse and use the filthiest Ian
guaee imaginable. it is o. X.
When a keeper hears Commun-
list defend the rights of the working
class, and try to explain to the other
prisoners, he gets 5 extra days.
When girl Communist dares to
protest against the rotten food,
she is put into a padded cell. In
spite of all this, the IA Communists
in the Raymond Street Jail show all
the other prisoners a wonderful ex-
ample of Communists. They always
spread propaganda on the walks.
They always carry on discussions
from their various cells. The Young
Communist League even held
class, one morning for an hour on
the subject of Communism and the
Working Class.
Every night, the prisoners called
for the "Bolsheviki" to talk or sing
their rebel songs. When the Com
mufists left Raymond Street Jail
they sang the "Internationale," to
which many prisoners tried join in
singing, and even to the extent of
raising their fists in the manner of
the Young Communist League.
Many of the Negro working class
prisoners left their names with the
Communists and promised to come
to Union Square when they left
jail. The prisoners in the Jail now
know in what manner the Commun.
/ lists fight and as one Communist
shouted as he was leaving, "The
only way out to freedom for the
working class, rs through the over
throw of this government, and
the establishment of a workers and
farmers government"