Don’t worry, fellow-worker,
all we’re going to need from now on is guts.
-Frank Little
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday August 24, 1917
Chicago, Illinois – Anti-War Prisoners Enter Bridewell
Cover of the International Socialist Review for August 1917:
A reminder of our Fellow Workers and Comrades now behind the prison bars-
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121 Behind the Prison Bars
One hundred twenty-one men entering Bridewell Work House, Chicago. They were sentenced to one year’s hard labor by Judge Landis for refusing to register.
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One Hundred and Twenty-One Men
THE following accounts of the trial and imprisonment of 121 Socialists and members of the I. W. W. who voluntarily gave themselves up to the sheriff rather than register is taken from the Chicago newspapers.
Judge Landis first won fame by fining the Standard Oil Co., $29,000,000.00—which of course was never paid.
