Don’t worry, Fellow Worker,
all we’re going to need
from now on is guts.
-Frank Little
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday May 15, 1918
Chicago, Illinois – Worse and More of it in the Cook County Jail
In Chicago, the Federal Trial of the Industrial Workers of the World is ongoing. The prosecution has been presenting its case, beginning on May 2nd, and shows no signs of wrapping things up any time soon. As Chief Prosecutor, Frank K. Nebeker, drones on and on, reading in his unrelenting monotone from the I. W. W. literature and letters seized in the federal raid upon Union Headquarters, the defendants, the jury, and the spectators struggle to stay awake. Meanwhile, we pause to remember that not all of our fellow workers have been able to secure bail, and they remained locked behind the bars of the Cook County Jail. From behind the bars of that institution, the class-war prisoners have managed to smuggle out the weekly menu from the Cook of Cook Jail.
From The Industrial Worker of April 27, 1918:
SOURCES
The I.W.W. Trial
Story of the Greatest Trial in Labor’s History by One of the Defendants
-by Harrison George
IWW, ab/ 1919
(date of pub per ad in Butte Daily Bulletin of Mar 5, 1919)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d01368761a;view=2up;seq=1
Re: Jury selection begins April 1, 1918
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d01368761a;view=2up;seq=14
& Note: Prosecution rests June 19, 1918, at 4:50 pm
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d01368761a;view=2up;seq=60
The Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-May 3, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/355069469/
Re: Prosecution’s opening statement May 2, 1918
-by Frank K. Nebeker of Salt Lake City,
Chief counsel for the government
and assistant United States attorney general.
(Note: H. George gives incorrect date for Nebeker’s opening statement.)
Rebel Voices,
An IWW Anthology
-ed by Joyce L. Kornbluh
PM Press, Sep 1, 2011
(search; eat bye and bye cook county jail)
https://books.google.com/books?id=n2ATBwAAQBAJ
Can also be read online, scroll down to page 337:
https://libcom.org/files/rebel-voices-2_0.pdf
Industrial Worker
(Seattle, Washington)
-April 27, 1918
http://depts.washington.edu/iww/Industrial_Worker.shtml
The Industrial Worker
-by Chris Perry and Victoria Thorpe
http://depts.washington.edu/iww/Industrial_Worker.shtml
Note: source for location of IW during time period:
April 1, 1916 to July 6, 1918
IMAGE
Remember Political Prisoners by Bingo, OH Sc, Mar 10, 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/016-mar-10-1918.pdf
See also:
Tag: IWW Federal Trial Chicago 1918
https://weneverforget.org/tag/iww-federal-trial-chicago-1918/