Don’t worry, Fellow Worker,
all we’re going to need
from now on is guts.
-Frank Little
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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:
