The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
WARDEN ORDERS
PRISONERS TO
beat Up CUYNN
3 Young, Workers On
Criminal Syndicalism'
90 BY SENDER GARLIN.

yourselves, because there are GAO eX.
service men here, and if you DOM
yo,N might get q lab on the nose"
This is what Warden P. f. Tho
mas of the Ohio State Penitentiary
a. Columbus told Charles Guynn anC
rom Johnson when they entered The
institution December 81 to begir
serving sentences of ten years each
Under the Ohio criminal syndiralism
law
Guynn. an organizer for the Ma
tional Miners Union, came to Pitts
iurghs today for the first time since
he was released on $4,000 bond
about ten days ago. Since that time
nc has been in the Eastern Ohio
mine field in connection with union
work. Tom Johnson is also out on
bond pending appeal, and Lii An
drews, the third defendant, who was
sentenced to ten-year term in
Marysville Raformatory for Women
was released at the same time. All
three are being defended by the In
ternational Labor Defense, which
raised the bond necessary to bring
about their temporary release.
Looks Fine Outside.
''The outside of the prison looks
fine" Guynn says. Gawns, shade
trees, flowers and all the rest that
makes the place look like a swell
country club or college" BuS once
inside the unscalrable eighteen-foot
we'll with its high turrets upon
which ~est machine guns and hand
grenades this pictures chang s
Quickly, ne says. Though he has
a powerful physique, Guynn lost
fifteen pounds as the result of his
confinement and the prison diet.
So intent were they upon separat-
ing the two workers that the prison
authorities placed Johnson in the
Knitting mill, where he sat sll day
III idleness.
Ordered AmericanizatiOn''
Both men were well known to all
the guards and to many of the pris-
oners when they arrived at the pen
itentiary. They later learned that
on the morning OF their arrival the
warden had called together group
Oh prisoners, eX-service men, to his
office where the deputy warden told
them that "two Reds, Bolsheviks
who are opposed to our form of
government are coming in today to
start a long stretch. Eager to in
cite them to violence against the
two .workingclass fighters. the Of
fetal told The men that these fell
lows are against the L. S, govern
rent for which you boys risked your
lives in France. It'd be good idea
if you Alnericanize these birds"
And before he had finished his man
ual of arms the deputy warden hint
ed broadly that if the two workers
were not ameneale to the American
ization process that a smuggling
would maybe bring 'em around"
Hardly were Guynn and johnson
locked into their cells when secret
notes Began TO come to them from
several friendly prisoners on the
same. range, telling them of the
meeting in the office of the warden.
wieSc Get Vile Food.
Fer breakfast -mush, syrur and
black eJffee; or bread, gravy, black
coffee, without sugar; for lunch
stew so4 hash, bread and black cof-
fee. For suprer-gravy and pota-
toes and tea without sugar. This is
the diet served the inmates Of the
renitentiary. And no food is per-
lnitted to be sent in from the out
side except on Thanksgiving and
Christmas. Their reading matter
is limited to Wild West stories and
the s14Biberty" magazine, They can
write only two letters month, and
these only to their nearest relatives.
az Prison Congested
The Ohio State Penitentiary was
built originally to accommodate" D.
700 prisoners. But now AGO are
confined within its walls. Nearly
1000 prisoners work in the wooden,
Knitting and cotton mills. Others
work in the machine shop, planning
mill, soap factory or laundry. For
this work the prisoners are paid
four cents a day (for single mem
and ten cents a day for married
mem, and the prison authorities let
it be strictly understood that no
sum to exceed $50 can he learned"
ly any prisoner regardless Of the
length of his term-and this, in
cidentally, 10 be paid only upon re-
lease.
Bosses Behind Conviction.
The three defendants were con-
victed by jury of farmers and
housewives in common pleas court,
Belmont county, on the basis of a
lcaflet distributed in connection
with the August 1 anti-war demon
stration held in Martins Ferry, Ohio,
town dominated by the coal oper-
otors and steel bosses. Tie jury
"deliberated' for five minutes be-
fore brirg ing in It's verdict.