Hellraisers Journal: From The One Big Union Monthly: “Hypocrites” -by Ammon A. Hennacy, from Atlanta Federal Prison

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Quote Ammon Hennacy, Book of Ammon p136, 1964———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 17, 1920
“Hypocrites” by Ammon Hennacy, Written in the Hole at Atlanta Prison

From The One Big Union Monthly of November 1920:

Hypocrites by Ammon A. Hennacy, OBU Mly p35, Nov 1920

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Hellraisers Journal: The Wire City Weekly, Prison Magazine, “daring enterprise in American radical journalism.”

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Quote P Grosser, Wire City Weekly, Prison Experiences of CO, early 1930s———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday September 27, 1919
Leavenworth, Kansas – Wire City Weekly, Prison Magazine

From The Liberator of September 1919:

A Prison Magazine

THE latest and most daring enterprise in American radical journalism is-or doubtless we should say was-the Wire City Weekly. It is the product of a group of men whom the United States Government has imprisoned, tortured, and some of whom it has killed, in the effort to break their spirits. It is the last and most flagrant proof of the failure of that effort. It has already been extinguished by the huge hoof of American militarism; but it has existed, and should not be without honor among us.

The Wire-City Weekly. Published every week at Wire City, Kansas. Circulation-secret. One of the 1,500 Bolshevik papers in America. Barred from the Postoffice as First Class Matter.

Wire Weekly, Prison Mag detail, Liberator p48, Sept 1919

So runs the description at the top of the editorial page. It is the organ of the Soviet in the United States Disciplinary Barracks, the military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

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