The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1925, Page 4

eid ene med CROUCH AND TRUMBULL BEING . PERSECUTED BEHIND WALLS OF # ALCATRAZ ISLAND PRISON HELL (Special to The Dally Worker) ’ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 14—Paul Crouch and Walter ‘Trumbull, Communist soldiers imprisoned in Alcatraz Island for their defense of Soviet Russia and the rights of Hawaiian colo- nial tools of American imperialism, are deprived of practically all personal rights and the authorities spare no efforts to make life unpleasant for them. All books were taken from the red soldiers, even tho many of them are authorized by regulations. Crouch was not permitted to receive ten books sent to him since his arrival in the military | prison or to know the name of +—— we gannet Heve Mots Photo | BRITISH SHIPPING. Another instance, typical of the pol- STRIKE IS NOT DEAD; NOT EVEN SLEEPING icy of the authorities, was the refusal of permission for Crouch to have more SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 14.—The unofficial strike, which the than one photograph in his cell. Regu- lations do not specify the number and | other prisoners are permitted to have | shipping bosses thot they had crush- ed, broke out anew yesterday when 130 seamen and firemen and sixty any number of pictures in their cells. This brutal act of the prison admin- istration prevents Crouch from hav-| ing pictures of both his father and his mother. | stewards refused to sail on the roy- Alcatraz prison regulations (pre-| al mail steam packet liner Ohpo. pared by the commanding officer) _ state that “no sensational paper of | Storm Near Danville. radical views is permitted.” The ex: | DANVILE, Ill., Sept. 13—Thousands ecutive officer declares that a publica-| of dollars worth of damage was done tlon advocating any socialistic prin-|to the town of Crescent City, in Iro- ciples is sensational and not permitted | quois county 77 miles west of Wat- in this “institution.” |seka, in what.seems to have been a Denied DAILY WORKER. | purely local storm, 10 buildings were Therefore Crouch and Trumbull can-| blown down, and 6 of the inhabitants not receive the DAILY WORKER or|Teceived injuries, but none of them any publication that does not have the | Serious enuf to be taken to a hospi- ©: K. of the American white terror. | tl. This is in violation of the federal law governing prison administration| Crouch, also, is employed at the (Statutes of U. S. of A., Section 1356,/88me work. His health is very poor revised) which states that prisoners/@0d he has lost fifteen pounds in can receive newspapers, without any|Welght since his imprisonment. Be- reservation or qualification. cause of the state of his health, he Bar Criticism of Capitalism. asked for a transfer to indoor work see where his services would be of Army officials spare no efforts in (DAILY WORKER FUND STIL their endeavor to follow the example of Russian czarism. A captain at Al- catraz told Crouch that personal let- ters from ffiends containing political ideas not in agreement with capital- ism would be treated as sensational radical literature and would not be delivered. This captain stated that two letters from the Internatinoal Labor Defense for Crouch and Trumbull are being held by Alcatraz authorities. Robbed of Writing Privilege. Prisoners on Alcatraz Island are per! ed to write two letters each greater value and which would be less injurious to him. Discrimination. He was informed that his request would not receive even consideration until he had worked as an outdoor laborer for a month or more. Other prisoners who are more capable of doing and who wish to do outdoor’ work were given indoor jobs im+ mediately after their arrival. A military prison is the worst place in the world for one to be ill. Last week Crouch was accidentally injured so that it was almost impossible for him to walk. Nevertheless; he had t | gggeceeesseeceeesexccecccess) 00st literature week if they have stamps. The gov- ment is supposed to give prison-| Continue at his task. two stamps per month. But at Trumbull a True Rebel, present they do not receive even that) Walter Trumbull is scheduled to be allowance. One has no means of | released February 6, 1926, if no “good writing to friends and relatives for|time” is taken from him before that Stamps if he has none at present. A| date. He intends to come out of prison prisoner cannot give stamps to aN-/as he went in—a militant fighter for other who has none. the cause of the working class—but Crouch and Trumbull are not per-| with an even stronger determination mitted to correspond with other polit-|to work unceasingly for the emancipa- ical prisoners. In letters to friends, | tion of the w« “s from wage slavery. they can speak only of personal mat-| “pPyigon hh; ips and the white ters. Aleatraz prisoners are given but| terror, bad are, are not suf- sheet of paper for each | ficient to cause me to.avoid imprison- and they cannot use personal] ment in the future as the price of my ery. | work for Communism,” Trumbull de- Forced to Do Injurious Labor, | clares. Despite the need of the Alcatraz | has failed in its efforts to make him band for more musicians and the de-| believe that the workers’ cause is not sire of the band ter to have Trum-| Worth the persecution its soldiers are bull, a pre musician, in it,|forced to endure. the prison administration refuse their | Crouch Not Weak Before Persecutors. consent and are keeping him on the| paul Crouch is equally determined outdoor laborers’ detail. to fight aganist capitalism and im- perialism at every opportunity, even Fal T, LES FoR tho that decision may mean long im- s AF) ueresewae tome one “4 statio. prisonment or death. “I ask no mercy from capitalis: Crouch says, “and I expect no justice from its tools except such as they are | forced to give by the iron fist of la- bor.” Keep Up Campaign. | The protest of the workers against the brutal imprisonment of Crouch jand Trumbul, which resulted in great reductions of their sentences, are con- tinuing to have effect. In a letter to I. M. Crouch, father of the red soldier, a brigadier general of the war depart- ment staff writes that the Crouch- Trumbull case will be reviewed by the adjutant-general, Crouch is devoting most of his ; Spare time to a study of the Russian language, He hopes to ‘visit Soviet Russia after his release and take les- sons from the workers’ republic. Crouch desires that publications, in Russian be sent to him and that Rus- sian speaking comrades write to him in that language. Boys Want Letters, Crouch and Trumbull state that, they are unable to answer many of’ the encouraging letters sent to them by class conscious workers. Neverthe- less, they are eager to receive letters SS ESEEEEEEEESS | from Communist fighters and hope Coins to the Next their unability to answer will be at- *% tributed to a lack of gratitude and ap- Educational Meeting preciation on their part. : wltke “Letters from most encouraging events in the life of BY WERMINIG ZUR MUHLEN TRANSLATED BY IDA DAILES 75 Cents $1.25 Duroflex Cloth Covers Bound THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. SOUTH SIDE ENGLISH BRANGH |* sir"Stsmmemcatiose ae ace | WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA soldiers should be addressed to: : Paul Crouch or Walter M. Trumbull, / The speaker will be Bidg. 68, Alcatraz, Calif, * MAX BEDACHT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 8p. m. 3201 South Wabash Avenue. “Tt you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- He says capitalist militarism | comrades are the| i $1000 SHORT OF FIRST WEEK'S GOAL AS HUNDREDS RUSH IN THEIR SUPPORT Altho the totat receipts to the Save the DAILY WORKER Fund fell almost a thousand dollars short of the amount set dur- ing the first week, the increasing number of supporters coming forward seems to indicate that the readers of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Party branches are determined to meét the emergency 100 per cent. Monday's mail brought remit- tances from more supporters than any previous’ day. Small remittances from individuals and a number of big'’ones from | organizations brought the total for the day to $906.49 and the grand total to over $4,000. Bion The most encouraging feature of the drive is thé ‘widespread response being secured. While a large sum of money jis necessary and therefore it is essential that every contributor giye as much as possible, what is more important still is for every single mem- | ber of the Workers Party, every reader of the DAILY WORKER | and every other working man or woman “(and child too) to take | part in this campaign to save the DAILY WORKER. WITH A_ VIGILANT, ENERGETIC AND DETERMINED MASS MOVEMENT BEHIND THE DAILY WORKER OUR ORGAN CAN NOT BE DESTROYED BUT ON THE CONTRARY} ;CAN AND WILL BECOME THE FLAMING TORCH-BEARER OF A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT INCREASING, ALWAYS IN SIZE AND IN POWER. : The time to do your part in forwarding the accomplishment of this task is NOW. : Monday Adds Heavily to the Number and the Results J. J. Steinbach, Hiteman, la..$ 100]German Br., Chicago, H. Bilterman, Hiteman, la. 100 ONE BR ira: . 460 S. Slav W. P., Republic, P. 5 00 | Slovak Br., 1 W. P., Chicago.. 1200 Imbro S. Celcic, Republic, Pa.. 300) English Br., W.. P., San Fran- Eng. Br., W. 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P., Cicero,, 1600 —_ M. Bemstein, Bronx, N. Y, 200 Received Monday . . $906 49 Konon Simon, New York.. 100] Previously acknowledged $3132 23 M, Sternberg, Bronx, N. Y, 500 os Julius Gobel, Chicago .. 500} TOTAL TO DATE «$4038 72 As Much as You Can and as Soon as You Can But Whatever You Can You Must To Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- | Name; ..... BU e S ievissecsshscnvennaash Citys |, wiesvamenianeune icssssahadipthkaetenstconddtvety, MEROAS 2, jos Peserevereeseeaees Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. pha THE DAILY. YWORKER ~ EMPLOYERS’\LACKEY, DRAGGED IN ] as Diether Wome 2a ad BY LABOR FAKERS, HOOTED DOWN AT SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRATION By FRED HARRIS,“ ¥ (Worker Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 14.—After referring to the main speaker of*the evening as a competent man of labor affairs, whose advice on matters pertaining to organized labor should be taken as a lesson by the union man and woman of San Francisco, Jim Gallagher, reactionary labor leader and chairman of the Labor Day festival introduced Ernest March, former secre- tary of the State Federation of Labor of Washington, and for the last few years “governmental conciliator” of the Department of Labor, as the Labor Day orator to the assembled multitude of willing listeners, rallied together in the Civic Auditorium, to hear a message of importance. Using many words and much energy, Mr. Marsh wound his oratorial trail thru a labyrinth of statistical confusion, testing the length of his audi- ence’s patience to the utmost limit. #——————+——______________. The greatest achievement of organ- ized labor, according to Marsh, is its industrial insurance or workmen's compensation law, guaranteeing them a subsistence after they have been crippled for life by the tools of pro- duction owned by the capitalist. Referring to the American employ- ers as the most humane and far-sight- ed men, Marsh contradicted himself in the very next words by stating that the employers of the northwest lumber industry had been most hos- tile to institute the eight-hour day, and that it was only due to the war time measure of the federal govern- ment in establishing the eight-hour day that the employers could. now see the advantage of the same. It was while he was showing the reduc- tion of the numbers of industrial strikes in the last few years, and while he was outlining a scheme by means of which the government is going to prevent all strikes in the future, that the assembled men and women put an emphatic halt to this long and wearisome tirade by hoot- ing, whistling and clapping their hands in an unmistakable manner. Marsh at first took this outburst to be a well-meaning applause and began to resume his argument; but again the masses made themselves heard, and again Marsh had to stop speaking. However, tho white in his face with anger, Marsh persisted in speaking only to be halted again by the noise of cheers. , There is something definite in an applause approving the speaker if de- monstrated at the right time. But there is also a definit demand ex- pressed at the wrong time. A speak- er is either made or beaten hy a Drop- er or improper ovation. Marsh had Bootleg Is Poisonous. Ninety-five per cent of al! liquor now being comsumed in the United States is poisonous. That was the statement made by Prohibition Director E, C. Yellowley as he announced that he would begin next week a series of conferences with local officials im all sections of the Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin .prohibi- tion district. SAAN The Book RUSSIA TODAY TODAY No book in years has created such a stir thruout the labor This impartial report of an official body of British Labor, travelled unhindered thru every sec- tion of Soviet Russia, ‘should be in every workers hands. It is a most complete report covering of life in the world’s very first work ers’ government. occasion to learn a lesson as to what men and women of labor want. After the hostile demonstration of the audience was properly understood by the platform, the chairman came to the rescue imploring them to si- lence and respect, but to all futility, Marsh, wishing to save his face, pro- ceeded: “In conclusion, I wish to state,” and again. the same noise of disapproval, and Marsh never stated what he had wished to state in con- clusion. The curtain was drawn, and thus ended a farcé, which the labor skates had been so careful in plan- ning. To the DAILY WORKER:— I am giving the DAILY WORKER to another worker here, when I am thru with it, and he promised that he will subscribe when he gets a little money. I don’t know when my shift will start to work to enable me to earn a piece of bread. I have already been without work for six months. 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