The labor world., 1916-06-24

witnesses to- prove. that Bridget Ken
ney wa4 hot 1n the crowd that day
but wap in, tho. motor Garland they
were indicted and must stand trial
as "rioters.ss and t"inctteFss fo riot"
They had simply. disclosed their iden-
tity as strike Syhipathizers,, and that
was enough for the dragnet.
Policemen Indicted.
The ten policemen, constituting the
entire police force of North Braddock.
exercised their liberty to refuse to
guard the Steel Trust plant
against their neighbor workmen who
were striking. Those ten policemen
were indicted and will be tried and,
If possible, branded as felons for re-
fusing to perform their duty"
The Pittsburgh politico-legal Grim.
inal process is a. perfectly devised
machine for the perversion Of justice.
The jury In Pittsburgh is a hand
picked thing-the pickers being the
two politicians who happen to be
highest in the Democratic and Re-
publican votes for jury commission
ers, the politician who happen to be
elected sheriff and the Judge who
CHANGED to be delegated from the
common pleas court to sit and act
with the :. Jury commissioners.
'tProminent" men, bankers, lawyers,
politicians and others, are asked by
these, jury controllers to suggest
names for the jury wheel. It can be
imagined what fat chance men of
real labor sympathies have of getting
their names in the jury wheel. The
commissioners and their associates
can reject any names submitted. They
pick where to go for suggestions.
From 5,000'sto 5000 names get into
the wheel each year. out Of the 2o0,-
900 or so of men who live in .Alleg-
| heny county.
The political machine which directs
the legal administration of injustice
in the Pittsburg industrial district is
directed, owned and controlled by the
Steel Trust and it's associated finan-
| cial interests. The officeholders in
! this political machine, who's family
trees grew in London, Limerick
Bethlehem, Paris and Berlin, foster
and play upon prejudice against
| Foreigners whose family trees grew
| in Croatia, Lthuania, Sicily and Po-
| land. They resort to this and every
other sort OF political trick and in
tellectual fraud to cover both the
| methods Of their persecution and the
animating motives Of their practices.
All In Common Pot.
Out Of this mess Of legalized in
justice one good extra.legal thing ia
coming. That. good thing is the per-
ception by all groups (and hitherto
e. at - 1A NJ
mutual interests, their mutual nee
| essities OF standing together. Rep
resentatiNes: Of: organized and :: unor-
ganized :: workers in: the Pittsburgh
district have been victims together
and have resented the injustices to-
gether. As@union and non-unipn, So
cialist and otherr workers have been
| prosecuted and. tried .together,> so
lawyers for; the American Federation
Of Labor, for. the Socialist party, and
for the= leeaa{, spaall slfad{eratione ~ called
the American Industrial union, and
lawyers >> individually, employed or
| volunteering their services have
worked together in court, throwing
| the fortunes OF All defendants. into
a common pot ~.IThe American. Fed-
Grafton, Of Labor Cor its affiliated
| International Association of Ma
chinists) has sent from Toledo its
| regular. attorney, Frank IL. Mulhol-
land. The, Socialist. party, has sent
from Chicago it's attorney, Seymour
Stedman. The local attorney of the
A. F. Of L., John w. Gloeckner, and
| William J. Brennan, also a Pitts
burgh labor lawyer, have worked
with the first two national lawyers
| and with William H. Pratt for the
American Industrial union. The de-
Tense work of the trial lawyers re-
fleets the union for defense that all
workers are beginning to feel the
vital need Of, against such private
ownership Of public law and justice
as thins Pittsburgh persecution OF
uorIxoY.a has, examn1ed