The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
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Radek, Kameneff and Marx had their
day in court and books written by
these famous working-class leaders
were entered as Commonwealth Elk
hibits.'
Upon cross examination by attor-
ney Ferguson for the defense Lennon
testified that he examined the lit
erature taken by the Farrell police in
their raids upon the Workers Party
hall, and the room occupied by the
defendant and three other workers.
Mrs. Matusak, Y. w. G. A. social
worker from Pittsburgh aided Lennon
in translating such literature as he
considered seditious.
The prosecution introduced as sedi-
tious literature during the first day
of the trial a box full of literature
alleged to have been seized in the de-
PENDANTS room and a large trunk full
seized at the Workers Party hall on
Greenfield st. Very few pieces of
literature contained in the box or
trunk were properly identified by the
prosecution and the defense took up
most Of the afternoon session COM
polling Lennon to identify this litera-
ture.
Bible There, Too
Such books as, How to Be Your Own
Doctor, Bible Stories, How to Be-
come an American Citizen, novels by
Cork and other authors, Dictionary,
Grammar of the Standardization
languages, Mineralogy and Geology
and the Croatian-American first read
er used to teach English in the schools
along with a copy of the Liberator
and Soviet Russia Pictorial were
found in the trunk and box by the de-
tense. The readers of the DAILY
WORKER can judge for themselves
as to the seditiousness of this litera-
ture. The defense once and for all
settled what was contained in the
trunk of mystery.
Exhibits entered by the prosecution
by authors outside of the Workers
Party were all objected to by the de-
Tense. This was a blanket objection
effecting all of the prosecutions ex-
hibits not properly identified as hav-
ing to do with the Workers Party.
The court overruled the objection and
allowed all of the prosecutions exhib-
it's to be entered as evidence against
the defendant.
Priest Aids Prosecution
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publication issued by the Jugo-Slav
federation of the Workers Party was
entered as evidence. These papers
we're not translated, altho the evil
dence was that they were carefully
scanned for seditious matter by a
priest in Farrell whose name was not
mentioned by Lennon in his testi-
mony.
The DAILY WORKER and RAD
NIX enjoy second class mailing rights,
testified Lennon, the same as other
newspapers using the U. S. mails
According to Lennon the national
headquarters of the Workers Party is
located at 1909 N. State ST., Chicago,
ILL.,, and that this organization holds
no mass meetings under its own name
and maintains no other offices than
the one in Chicago.
Paul Valeditch Of Farrell, was
called to the witness stand by the
prosecution and testified that the
Workers Party in Farrell rented a
hall owned by him on Greenfield
street and held their meetings there.
No attempt was made to conceal
these meetings which were held dur
ing the year of 1924, up until they
were raided by the Farrell police
early in the winter of 1924 which re-
suited in the seizure Of literature and
the indictment Of six workers charged
with being violators of the Sedition
Law and proclaimed by the press as
instigators of the Red Terror
Tells of Street Meetings
Prosecution Myers called John
Burgranas, a Croatain living at 2O2
French street, Farrell. as the last wit
ness for the prosecution. He told of
the defendant, Andy Kovacovich,
making sidewalk speeches to crowd
of s or 10 workers on French street,
Farrell, during the summer OF 1928