Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia, Mo., where a Negro was lynched last week, two men were arrested charged with " taking into the County Jail implements for use in releasing a prisoner charged with a felony." Later a grand jury returned five indictments against leaders of the lynching mob. It was not reported whether they were indicted for murder or for jail delivery...
...shouted Foster, " crucified Christ because he tried to teach the world. He ran the capitalists out of the temple and they hated him for it. To-day the capitalists don't crucify us for preaching overthrow of their rule. They simply try to send us to jail for ten or fifteen years! The trials at St. Joseph were unique, because we were not charged with favoring any of the doctrines opposed by the syndicalism law of Michigan. We were tried merely for being present at meetings of a party that believes in revolution...
After an absence of eight years of adventure, agitation and jail in foreign parts, Jim Larkin, Irish Revolutionist recently deported from the United States, arrived in his native Dublin. He was greeted with cheers by many thousands of Irish workers and marched through the streets to make a speech at Liberty Hall, with two bands playing and red and green flags waving...
...Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture in America with obtaining their money under false representations. Nine of these promoters...
...night, an hour before the Sabbath. A gang of sturdy white men, geared out with ropes and revolvers surround the jail. They curse the sputtering Sheriff, and sledgehammer at the steel walls. Then, acetylene flames; and soon the leader has dragged out a Negro. The gang, now quiet, packs for the country. Fifty automobiles follow, respectfully curious...