The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
ANOTHER STEEL
WORKER ON TRIAL
FOR "SEDITION"
Pinchot's Steel Trust
State to Blame
Especial to The DAILY WoRKER)

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER)
MERCER, Pa, June 3O.-The trial of
Amy Kovacovich before Judge Nc
Laughry was resumed with ex-captain
Myers of Pittburgh as the chief prose
cutor, with county attorney Richard
of Mercer county as his assistant.
Attorney J. w. Nelson of Mercer,
Pa, was at the defense table with
chief counsel for the defense, 1. E.
Ferguson.
The first witness called by the
prosecution was chief of police Sam
Leyshock of Farrell who told of the
raids which the Farrell police depart
ment has conducted under his direc-
ton against members of the Workers
Party in Farrell and of the raiding of
their hall and places of residence and
the seizure of literature alleged to be
the property of the members. Ley
shock concluded his first appearance
on the stand by identifying the ac-
! cused worker as one Of the men ar
rested by his police.
w. p. Literature Shown.
At various times during the session
Leyshock was called back on the wit
ness stand to identify literature and
minute books alleged to be the prop
erty Of the Workers Party and the
defendant. Koyacovich lived in a
boarding house on Greenfield street,
Farrell, and occupied one room with
three other workers. Leyshock iden-
titled literature seized in trunk in
this room as being property of the
defendant. This was admitted along
with a trunk full of literature taken
from the Farrell headquarters of the
Workers Party as exhibits for the
prosecution. In all the prosecution en-
tered 35 exhibits against the defen-
dant ranging from a membership card
in the So. Slav branch of the Workers
Party in Farrell to a trunk and box
full of confiscated literature. The de-
tense objected against the admission
of such exhibits and was overruled by
the court.
The prosecution called the same
Serbian witnesses as they used
against the first worker, Tony Kovac-
ovich, at his trial in May last. They
testified that the defendant distribut-
ed literature and was active in work
ing class affairs in Farrell. Selling
and distributing literature and being
secretary Of the W. P. branch in Far
rell is the principal charges against
the defendant steel worker. Most Of
tho sarbtaR witnesses for the prose-
cution displayed more or less hostility
against the defendant and it was
necessary for the defense to request
the court to have one witness correct
his conduct in replying to questions
put to him by the defense.
Branch Minutes Read.
Mrs. Mary Matuysak, social worker
for the Y. w. c. A., in Pittsburgh, was
called by Myers to identify certain
piecesfof literature and minute books
she had translated from the Croatian
into the English language. Mrs. Ma
tuysak testified that she is a widow
with several children and that she is
of Serbian birth.
Myers read the minutes of the w. P.
branch in Farrell translated by Mrs
Matuysak, in English, to the jury.
This same evidence was introduced
in the first trial. The prosecution read
of Red Sundays" where Farrell
workers devoted the day collecting
funds with which to purchase bread
for the famine sufferers in Russia and
Germany. Other acts of kindness re-
corded in the minutes were read. The
Farrell branch has been a live wire
branch according to its minutes and
has no reason to object having its
record read before any jury.
Dick "RadlesI Expert"
d. of ]. agent Lennon, of Pittsburgh,