Hellraisers Journal: From The Liberator: Prison Poem from Leavenworth by Conscientious Objector H. Austin Simons

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Quote EVD, Soul in Prison, Statement to Court Upon Conviction, Sept 18, 1918———-

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday April 13, 1920
Leavenworth, Kansas – Prison Poem by H. Austin Simons

From The Liberator of April 1920:

Prison Poem by CO H Austin Simons, Liberator p42, Apr 1920

From The Liberator of July 1919
-“Try the Big One” by Maurice Becker:

CRTN, M Becker, GS for Political Prisoners, Lbtr p8, July 1919

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote EVD, Soul in Prison,
Statement to Court Upon Conviction, Sept 18, 1918
https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm

The Liberator Internet Archive
-March 1918-Oct 1924
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/
The Liberator
(New York, New York)
-Apr 1920
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/04/v3n04-w25-apr-1920-liberator.pdf
-July 1919, page 8
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/07/v2n07-w17-jul-1919-liberator.pdf

See also:

Tag: H. Austin Simons
https://weneverforget.org/tag/h-austin-simons/

Tag: Conscientious Objectors
https://weneverforget.org/tag/conscientious-objectors/

Note the high death toll among the CO Prisoners:
WE NEVER FORGET
Political Prisoners of World War I Repression Who Lost Their Lives in Freedom’s Cause, 1917-1931

The Conscientious Objector in America
-by Norman Thomas
-intro by Robert M. LaFollette
B.W. Huebsch, Incorporated, 1923
(search: Simons) -see pages 205-6 & 216-19
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ft9MAAAAMAAJ

Tag: Maurice Becker
https://weneverforget.org/tag/maurice-becker/

Tag: General Strike
https://weneverforget.org/tag/general-strike/

Tag: Class-War Prisoners
https://weneverforget.org/tag/class-war-prisoners/

Tag: Political Prisoners
https://weneverforget.org/tag/political-prisoners/

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Masters of War – Bob Dylan
“You hide in your mansions while the young people’s blood
flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud.”