The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-06-24
FOREIGN [ABORERS
ARE 'AN|ER|CAN|zED'
Judicial Criminal Process Against
Workers In Pittsburgh Per-
version c>Justice.
VICTIMS OF d.. state sto,,
ARE PUT In o'pttoi ;,
Terrible Injustice Brings About
Combination of Both Organ
lied and Unorganized Men.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. June "a
The Steel Trust is "Americanizin the
Foreigners" in the courts of Pitts
burg.
The judicial criminal process
against workers in the Pittsburg in
dustrial district is so terribly per-
credible. 1t saves itself from ex-
pie can hardly believe the true
stories told of it. Some day the peo-
pie generally are going to believe and
know the facts concerning the
politico-judicial process as directed
by the Steel Trust against the work
ers in the district, and them
On June 8 jury in the quarter
sessions criminal court of Pittsburg
convicted II men of 'rioting and in
citing to riot" on the day (May y
before the fight at the Edgar Thom-
son plant of the Steel Trust when
the guards behind board fence fired
into the crowd of strikers and
lookers-on and killed three Of them
outright, fatally wounded two or
three others and seriously wounded
about three score more
Victims of Dragnet.
!, The terrible perversion of justice
. in this proceeding is that the men
. and women convicted and put on
; trial and thrown into Jail to await
! trial are simply the victims of the
Pittsburg dragnet process of break
ing up any movement for the better
! ment Of the workers by arresting and
; prosecuting any and every person at
all prominent or influential in strike
! leadership. For nearly four weeks
after the slaughter and wounding of
stayed in the Pittsburgh Jail who
connection with the fighting that
their names were not even mentioned
In that connection in the first trial.
When the case went to the jury at
that first trial, the jury had to be re-
! minded that these men had been on
trial and that they cou;o not be
turned loose" from Jail until the
) jury had formally acquitted them.
: And just as soon as they and a few
$ others were acquitted in that first
trial they were indicted by the grand
jury (Which had been kept in con-
tinuous session) without a shred Of
new evidence-possibly to protect the
sheriff who had thrown them in Jail
and who presumably was liable in
damages on his bond for depriving
them of liberty.
Liberty! Liberty in Pittsburg for
workers who wish their families to
be fed and who demand decent work.
Ing and living conditions!
Anna Bell, young working woman
who had been a strike leader, took
the liberty of stepping from the side
walk to the street to get a better
view of the marching workers. She
was put in Jail for that on the riot
ing and melting to riot charge and on
the charge of being accessory to the
murder of her friends, although she
was not near the fighting. She is
in Jail yet, although acquitted at the
first trial.
About 5000 to 5000 workingmen
asserted and exescised the liberty of
marching from a Westinghouse plant
in East Pittsburg to a Steel Trust
plant in North Braddock and there
to call to the other workers to come
and join the strike. But that was
the crime" in the Pittsburgh GRIM
1nal process, for which the active
men who were feared by the Steel
Trust and the other employers were
arrested and jailed and prosecuted
and convicted and made subject now
to penitentiary sentence.
Bridget Kenney, strike heroine of
1914. took the liberty OF riding in
friends automobile to see the end
ing Of the parade to north Braddock.
Che was arrested and tried but ac-
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