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Men in Chains
Page, Myra | November 13, 1935 issue

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The term chain gang is a literal description of the plight of prisoners who have iron cuffs fastened about their ankles and are often spiked and usually chained to the iron cuffs of some twenty other men. A man who can last ten years on a chain gain is exceptional. Labor's opposition to the chain gang is growing, reinforced by the increasing indignation of liberal-minded people of the professional and middle class. When an attempt was made to reestablish in Travis County, Texas, the system of chain-gang forced labor, a delegation from the Austin Labor Council and other workers' representatives voiced such bitter protest at the Commission Court's hearings that the plan was indefinitely postponed.

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CHAIN gangs; CONVICT labor; PRISONERS; DEMONSTRATIONS; TRAVIS County (Tex.); TEXAS; UNITED States
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