The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-16
Steel Cells for Labor,
Coy Hotel Room for
Shepherd, Millionaire
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

ODHT, WHI1aTn D. shepherd, OF the MoCntock nit
lion, under the shadow of the death of young "Biy"
McCntock last December being domced by the states
attorneys office in loop hotel States Attorney Grove
IS very soIlcItous tor his millionaire prisoner
workers haven't much to interest Them the surface
in this fight for million dollars. Chief Justice Harry olson
who claims his own brother died under mysterious crcu-
stances is inferred Shepherds hands, trying to prove
that Shepherd inocuated young Mccntock with typhoid
germs causing his death. crime murder Murder
has often been committed get money But as long ago
as last December, nearly three months ago. the charges
against Shepherd had gone young McCntocks
body taken from its grave for autopsy All this time
Shepherd has been allowed his freedom go come as
he chose.
Workers therefore, very interested in the fact
that the prison cell that Shepherd gets three months after
serious charges hurled at him. is comfortable room in
fashionable loop" hotel, for detention purposes only
Let the workers remember sacco and Vanzett thrown
into prison on the imsest circumstanta evidence held
While trame-up could be completed against them. They
sill sit in prison in the shadow of the electric chair aItho
their innocence has been established
Let the workers remember Mooney and Billings serving
life sentence in CALIFORNIA; state prison. They put
behind bars immediately they were picked the chosen
victims of big business They still in prison spite of
the fact that every legal attack upon has square
Let the workers remember Ford and suhr, also victims
OF the ruling class of California toers in the hop fields of
that state thrown into prison of keeping
fellows in submission.
Let the workers remember the raids on the Michigan
Communist convention, in Michigan, when workers
crowded into filthy county jail and there held for long
period before their release could on the OUT
against them that they had Assembled with" each
other.
It is we'll that the workers facts, along
with many others that show the workings of class Justice
be brought often their attention They
not be told too often that there law this country
for the ch another for the for the members of
the working class another for members of the capitalist
class.
Shepherd has the million. He can hire good lawyers.
is charged that he has private detective service in his
employ. He will be well taken Of He has committed
crime against capitalism Instead, to getyour pile is
considered audabe achievement under the present social
system Once having got it, it isn't often that the methods
questioned Shepherds case is rare exception.
Shepherd in the custody, in "hote ROOM" of States
Attorney Crowe the antabor prosecutor How different
when Grove goes after the labor unions and their members
Then he has his police patrol wagons backed the build
ngs that house union offices; workers and their belongings
seized carted off of the thest as in the
land the north side" prison. They held without ball.
if at all, indicted and charged with some crime framed
against them.
Their big crime of the class crime of organ
izng the workers. of building labors power States Ator
ney Grove ready to invoke capitalist justice against
workers. just his predecessor Macay Hoyne conducted
itaist class feared Iabor's militant spokesman.
The Shepherd-McClntock should help the workers
understand little better the class justice that assais them
Capitalists not worried o'ermuch if few millions,
or less fall into the wrong pockets.
worried if the capitalist system of private
ownership falls into the hands of the working class, to be
destroyed and succeeded by the Communist society that
knows capitalists, no classes, no class justice.
should help them to organize better to fight the cap
tast system that breeds favor for the rch persecution
for the poor. should help them resolve and fulfill the
solve destroy that social system
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