Word: jails
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...bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder, and all gangmen and impulsive female murderesses will be confined either to the screen or to the jail...
...Third: Make jail sentence plus fine imperative in case of every offender...
...jurors. They were indicted. Two other men, one a labor leader, the other a detective, were subpoenaed to give evidence. They declined to talk on the ground that it might incriminate them. The State granted them immunity. They still refused to talk. They were sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. They jumped bail, one was recaptured, the other gave himself up. They went to prison...
...under any circumstances. But a better explanation appears to spring from the emphasis on "sentenced". It is generally true that the undergraduate does not labor hard enough at college. But he will not do otherwise until the idea that any labor on courses comes in the nature of a jail sentence is eradicated...
...This danger to the organizer and to those who hear him is no myth: I have been in non-union towns and cities where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist...