Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary that academic men, those in the colleges and universities, take some action in regards to the 34 men who are now languishing in prison for merely speaking their mind during and following the war," said Professor Harry F. Ward g. '98 of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in an interview recently after his address at the old South Church on "The Future of Private Property...
...Labor has done all it can," he continued," to free these men who are suffering a prison term because of using their right of freedom of speech, a principle which every college or academic man maintains to be sound. These men have been placed in prison during and following the war under the Espionage Act of Congress and are doomed to serve five to twenty-year terms unless some power greater than that now exerted takes hold...
...evidence. They declined to talk on the ground that it might incriminate them. The State granted them immunity. They still refused to talk. They were sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. They jumped bail, one was recaptured, the other gave himself up. They went to prison...
...This can certainly not be said of conditions in this country. A labor organizer is in reality almost a pugilist, so aggressive must he be in order to continue his work. He is constantly in danger of being thrown into prison and even of worse punishment. Capital in this country does all in its power to discourage the organizer. Thus, a man who is an organizer may lose his position and because of the capitalistic organization be unable to get another. This threat of capital has a significant meaning to men with wives and children. Because of this, many...
...same paper (The News of the World) is printing a daily article " by one of his former companions in distress." Respectable papers (like The Times) protest: " There is an end to all prison discipline if every prisoner is allowed to carry on the profession of journalism from his cell. . . . Are these indulgences extended to every prisoner with a literary turn...