The Cotton Factory Times. — 1915-07-16 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MOWN. Fothergill and Harvey, of Medea Up to 1905 the political prisoners were lea Wood and Rook Nook Milli, Littleborough, seYerely treated titan the ordinal-, criminals addressed meetings of the operativm during the Stolypin changed all that. Unendurable tortures dinner hear an mend..., on the deettawity of and indignities are heaped upon the prisoners, from thvteettemoosethe to theca, ie.. the most insulting form of addrese to the applioa- }erve,nod he eettid toot soS thee, lead any rnoney unless he had already lent money re tion of ohs knout, Brutal warders and oversems are encouraged in their cruel treatmeut of time the Geyerhtheet. without apeei,tha any a.m. PriPoner.. A learned man, • full' otanittteufdoctor, he could tell them that the firm had st.Thi.a received 100 strokes with the knout for not ntand- tht.thee,ea „thethetah, an emer to put at. the int at attention, hands down at "inspeetion," and disposal of the Government a very large earn of for slightly gentimilating while speaking. Ihe money. The duty of all of them wan to work condition's are so had that many prisoners prefer herder than they had ever worked before, and an suicide. If they 'succeed in mrrying out their wish provide for what might be a very bard tirne. Fle their cell mans are cruelly tenured for not pre- hat, a norong iattptensoos ad the effecta of the great European War. Banks failed, and throughventing it. In Orel Prison one loan Sudish brftV'd so hard Falaa hi. °ell mates...l'd I'e. out the country short time was worked, and to him to hang himself that they contented, covering ,n-mr moon th„...ete eothoete eterpee„„e. Reek their hear% that they might nm see m hear ths I Nook Mill as it was in those days was entitYle .. (INV 11,,Inti, ItgliCh were te releme trier COMTIICI, tile-no • im ivemd Notl nun front his miseries and knowing that there weuld I ,seittiarot working.. and tere peet. vai,,ea were paid. be no ffeOpe. for them from the flegaing which Foe- frog ttate p g horn., 4.. 9,, would be thew punishment. The hardahips in the a thoth. prison are so terrible that out of 120 only 55 ~me If any of them could net afford to buy ss. left alive after a period of fire months. vouches, continued the epeaker. the firm would The Food, find the money if the operatives would animas The food in the prisons n atrocious, the bread to pay it back by weekly inetalmentt. being in many eases uneatable. and seam is thought sultable food even when maggots are found floating in it. For even the slightest offences prisoners are put in the clock toll. which is often damp and cold, and irregularly heated, being sometimes far too hot, and at other times many degrees below zero. One -mnrade present mad that when he left the dark cell he wan unable to see for some confiderable tree. Is it wonderful that =dime is common, rod that in P1MP,C1.8.1.5 the prot.t against the cruelties hes taken the form of what may be deecribed as a " mass suicide." when numbers ef prisoners take Maps to kill themselves with piecce of broken glase? This form of protest led the Government to say that flogging should be administered with more motion, and re punishment 30 days in dusk cells eubetiteted. Thus the dark cells are always full. It may be stated that a dark cell is a hole without window, often too low to permit of the prisoner stapding up, with no ventilation, rarely or never cleaned, in winter very cold and to tweeter stamen,. In winter water is fee , quently poured on the floor of the sell, in which • the prisoner is obliged to lie. Small Pebble WOes on the floor of the oell is also another form of torture. Since the n-MIT began the overseeen have bed practically a free band in dmling with prieoners. The Donna has limn trembled but twice, and then merely for the voting tel the War' medit. There are no organisation. in Rn.ia to take up th 6 question. Nearly all the trade unious have been diead other working chew mganisations of  met? Do .yeu.tay 'tmas but a beautiful dream?  Ala! it was no dream to me. I would live it o'er Memorya,g= art my slave; bring back to me I claim Every moment my chum and I spent on Tot:lunardn's heights, Now bank to des, bonutiful Centre Vale; it is one of try fancy's flights. , Memory., thou art any friend, no longer slave art  Thou'rt just the sort of oompany for a fellow Ilea I vow. " Ramsdellme, Wood." say ye, right gladly wM I re. We revel now in fairy glen, my chum, myeelf, end Co.  Do yen remember, cce, the walk up to the ; Tema joy to livo, a 4 ride by side we gaaed on banded mil. 3.1 y heart beets high as naemory draws moteb Chute hallowed spote so clear. Australia kere's Todmorden friends, and leave. •  With a tear.