The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-08


Mine Workers Union, to question his
members whether they are reading a
democratic paper at the time of cam
paign who attack him for his support
of republican candidates. Everybody
knows that as far as politics are con-
cerned, every member has a right to
belong even to party which attacks
and opposes the party of which the
leader is a member. 1t has not been
proven that these members who are
on trial here have taken their orders
and their opinions from sthe Freiheit
or any other organization. You have
never proved that and you are not
able to prove that.
In the union, as they have stated,
and nobody has contradicted their
statement, whatever they do comes
from their own convictions. They do
things because they believe in them,
and they don't do things in which they
do not believe.
have some articles written by the
same Mr.. Yanovsky of the same char
acter, and I'm not going to waste your
time in quoting them because they
are of the same nature that | have
just read to you, but even stronger.
Nothing that is said in the Freheit at
the present time can be compared
with what was said at that time by the
same Mr.. Yanovsky against the very
same leaders whom he is serving at
the present time and from whom he is
taking orders as to what to write.
wanted to bring over here Mr..
Olgin himself, since his speech is in
question, to establish whether he said,
as two or three doubtful witnesses for
the prosecution testified, that we
must take a big hammer and smash
the International Is this true or not
1t stands to reason that no one knows
better what was said at that time than
Mr.. Olgin himself.
oIuin a Proper Witness and the
Only One.
1t was no more than proper that we
should permit him to come here and
state what he said at that meeting,
because, as / said in the beginning
and in the course of my cross-exam-
nation, that this Olgin is one of the
best and most fluent and eloquent
speakers in the Jewish labor move
ment, and that he spoke for nearly
an hour, and even a stenographer
would not be able to take the minutes
as quickly as he spoke.
Since it has ben quite a few
months ago, and nobody took down
any minutes as to what he said, we
can not rely on our memory or on
the memory of few individuals who
claim that they have heard him say or
use that phrase.
Trial Chairman Has Various
Constitutions.
Olgin was not permitted to come
here because the chairman, who
knows so well the constitution, says
It is not in accordance with the con.
struction of the International to per
NIT one who is not a member of the
union. But this chairman evidently
has different constitutions for5 differ
ent occasions. In one place he has
one constitution and in another place
he has another constitution.
1t is known that there was trial
against several of our members,
namely Bookman, Alex Cohn, and an
other whose name l don't remember
1t was question that these members
accused one of our officers of taking
graft. Presum was the name of the
officer. These people were tried fol
not being able to prove to the salts
faction of the committee that he had
taken graft.
We have point in the constitution
that if you bring charges against an
officer and you cannot prove these
charges to the satisfaction of the com
mittee so that he should be convicted
the people that bring the charges are
convicted instead for slandering or be
smirching the good name of. the offic
ers. That is perhaps one of the rea
sons why good many who have
charges to bring against officers re
frain from making them, because Il
district attorney would know that il
he is going to bring anybody to court
and the jury would not convict, thai
he himself will be convicted, he would
be very careful before he would pu
anybody on trial
5orenstein Had Bosses as Witnesses
However, at that particular trial,
believe the same presiding Judge
Brother Borenstein, was there, ant
there he had different constitution
He admitted there not only non-mem
bers of the union as witnesses, bu
contractors and sub-contractors. Theil
names are Levine, Sachoquitz, anC
Shanehouse.
These people surely are not mem
bers Of the union, and belonged to al
organization with whom we have oc
casionally to fight, because | do no
think the union has adopted a new
philosophy that instead of preaching
that the interests of the workers an,
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