The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
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IN Jail For Us
By Michael Gold

In Jail For Us
NEVER prisoners It is despite the best
Of resolutions very them These ana women
50 to jail FIGHTING working justice They go
the outside the fight goes on and
remember their comrades VINO were
The campaign to force recognition of political
prisoners started BY the National Committee Prisoners to
help our comrades in jail
highly interesting letters this subject one from
prisoner Southern JAIL white worker who fought against those
who Cypress our Negro corades who
tuberculosis JAIL but the battlefield Just the same
From a Southern Jail -.
Daily plans the National Committee in reference TO
reading political prisoners this in the hearest
thank personally for driving this plan
forward through the prominence you are giving IN our press
my before starting six months sentence made
elaborate plans for thorough study Of Marx and Ienn while mere
heavy nsinhcance thus
ample supply of reading matter Imagine how
material has confscated Luckily am
getting Daily here regularly and able to follow events
theic reading and study spiritually condemned
nay Passos
Outline of History is all could pick among this
congaoratn intellectual junk opinion those
the authors little credit to have been placed
in library.
hope this the undertook viii be fastened
the greatest speed throughout the country
7 am in here serving Sznonths sentence growing out ngh
against the jim Grow law in this state am white worker who
Jumped at the throat Of the OppressOr Of the Negro ma-
Letter From a Fighting Miner
THE letter from Leo Thompson who was sent up for two
ngon County He contracted TB hhy they
North trying fight the TB. bugs"
spirit that will crush The working
be defeated lose battles but it will
win the
you and that damtess heart
pumping until every Of captalms tb germs
Il have read about the case of comrade weinein in Sing Sing
immediate daily growing
serving longtime
all over the country gotten per-
experience; for ex-poitcal myself
Seven months ago finished serving Wo-yea term In one OF
cuest and toughest as in Pennsylvania sent because
Of my activities as ORGANIZER Of the striking miners in wahn7to
County in the 1881 strike found that contracted TB and as
six of these months confined TB sensoium
in middewesten aeand I'm still here Fighting tuberculosis
aehtfm experience compared to DONG time IN that inferno OF
the Malonsso your imagination mixing
corades have through Twenyear old Eddie Sherwood
year his
Eddie s the bricks" is he viii be human
congratulate
Political prisoners for having undertaken campaign for the rgcog
political prisoners
in my opinion together with the
organizations endeav to American public keenly
growing doing time in various
penal institutions merely for fighting for the elementary
and civil rights We must make the intensely
the sadiscay inunan and butazng systems punishment
ing RIGHT NOW in the henholes and dungeons democratic
c2ed America Tor one could relate personal experiences and
eyewitness that would shocking
the fakery peno-
oss like Warden La"es OF Sing Sing who Systematically spread
illusions through his ghostwtten
radob-oadcas about the hunaneness of conditions
racket Of Of
hmantarianim unsupecng really
cruelty disped without exaggeraton We vou9 n1 another
life behind prison
Concrete Suggestions
"Concreey the National the
Political the LID the material tangible
results? The important thing is to maintain
behind practically
totally different
boseois tries systematically destroy
dmozng its militant
the bouosie nmdate the revolutionary
ineecuas and smpazers who still free Inside the prison
walls the dpcabe hunkeys of the
the mitsncy through methods
andote counacng this paralyzng
of
How this contact be established maintained?
develop workers
lin the must develop correspondents who will
in touch with comrades the letters
psonawihou political really
letter refreshes gives
him strength, confidence
nelanchoha cynicsm pessin1sm
The question of reading material
next to the food Importance political
would be glad to miss a
Daily Worker interesting personal experience
entire getting
copy of our Dailywhich struggled still
by whom You should have how this
Daily received by could
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slang for guards By the time
knew each artJ by neart