The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Rep. Bachmann, the Raving Anti
Soviet Racketeer

Union But IT is very enLghtening to know
that in Moundsville, w. Va, in Bachmann's own
congressional district, only u miles away from
Wheeling, there is located the notorious Mounds
vile State Penitentiary, where forced servitude
and involuntary convict labor are conducted
along truly American business like methods.
myself have gone through visiting the Mounds
vile Pen, I have seen and talked to convictS
who are forced to slave in the chair, broom and
tailoring shops and coal mines of the prison
for exactly nothing in wages anywhere from s
to ii hours daily. The prison is real fire
trap, containing over $500 inmates when it is
originally intended to accommodate only 300,
and about 1000 at the maximum. incidentally,
members of the National Miners Union are SER
wing ten years of agonizng tortures in this hell
hole on "frame-up' charge. Messrs Bach
mann, Fish & Co., you do not have to go 5000
miles to the Soviet lumber camps in Siberia to
investigate forced labor" why not investigate
some real, genuine 100 per cent American forced
labor in the Momdsville Penitentiary in Mr.
Bachmanns first congressional district?
When Comrade William e. Foster appeared
before the Fish Commission some time in De-
cember, 1880, he ruthlessly exposed the vicious
Jim Crowism practiced in the United States
Mr. Bachmann became hypocritically insulted
and demanded Foster to be more Specific"
whereupon Foster correctly referred him to his
own state of West Virginia. Yes, right in Bach
mann's home town. Negro workers are bounded
down like dogs, bulldozed and tortured by
drunken dicks, thrown into Jail (many times
without triaD, and even run out of town in
true Southern lynch-fashion Negro members
Of the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union
Unity League were arrested and held incomrnll-
nicado and actual atter,nts made tn throw
them bodily into the Ohio River from the Wheel
ing and Belmont Co. Bridge. In Mr. Bach
nlann's own city, the Wheeling Steel Corpora
tion-controlled city council had the crust TO
pass the chain gang law" 100 per cent
American institution of forced labor Negro
children in Wheeling are segregated into fire
trap dilapidated old shacks that are misnamed
schools" Under the above Chain gang law"
the bosses courts are enabled to railroad unen1-
ployed workers to the chain-gang where they
are forced to slave for nothing on bread and
water for 10 days If they are found guilty Of
refusing to take jobs for 20 and rs cents per
hour. Is this what you call free American la
Dor, Mr. Bachmann, or isn't it pure and simple
Jim Crowism and forced labor of the worst
kind?
But 1t should be remembered that Mr. Bach
mann Is supposed to represent "the best tradi-
tions of American citizenship and patriotism
There is another racket in which Mr. Bachmann
is dominating associate of his father, Mr.
Charles F. Bachmann, outstanding business man
In the Ohio Valley. The Bachmanns are known
also to own whole string Of buildings in the
notorious Main st. red-light district and head
quarters of the local underworld In this red
Light district, part Of which is owned by the