The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-21
Hatred of CapitaIisrn's
Police System Revealed
In Chicago Court Trial
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

HATRED for the police given of the for
the mot guilty" verdict returned BY Chicago Jury
Albert AnseIm charged with the killing of two policemen in
a street battle
This was the case that the local kept press and the 100
per cent? prosecutors sought to convert into propaganda
not only against italian immigrants but also into attack
sharp
One need harbor the slightest sympathy for the
Genna millionaire booteggng outfit in order to draw the
lessons of this trial. Workers who permit themselves be-
shine beyond commseraton when they get into trouble
But the reactions of a community in of this kind
where the whole propaganda power of the ruling class has
been into hysterca effort prejudice
against all foregnborn is worthy Of serious attentions
pecay when the open shop Better Government Associa
ton had carried the entire matter Washington and asked
for investigation by the United States senate that could
have been easily framed to continue the aaen stream OF
malicious faIsehoods.
Capitalists seldom go jures. They haven't the time
Jury duty is beneath them. The Scaise-Ansemi jury
made up of railway employee, machnist bookkeeper wag
driver, iron worker, chauffeur book store secretary
foreman, signal engineer mechanic shoe sales
and butter roller The first ballot stood nine three
for the mot guilty" verdict that of the urymen
reported to have stated their views Chcagos police sys
tenn. Some of these interesting They worth
peatng:
certain thing Just little
and the in and d the and pnched ALL Just
for nothing"
remember and kids in swimming
the drainage canal the with and
another, once,
when the picked bunch of fellows suspicious characters
nothing"
They're always after when out in automobile
broke in the chauffeur "one when going miles
hour and he told the judge going hyfou judge
believed him."
There None of the police officers with whom
these jurors had personally in contact involved
They manifested hatred that had been developed against
the police system.
Not of those jurors had evidently in conflict
with the police system it is used by employers during
strikes. Their hatred had therefore, yet found foot
hold on class basis. But that will come in time.
Passaic, New Jersey in the minds of millions of work
snow identified with the by the police of gas
against strikers That is shocking large masses of soldier
workers, who the European in 1917 and
1918, into doing real thinking.
But the plans before congress, to fnger-prnt,
photograph, and classify all foegn-born workers in the
land will naugurate police spy system that must inevitably
reveal the capitalist state to the whole working class popu
aton the evepresent power behind every of perse
cuton.
The ScaIse-Ansem has brought light healthy
hatred for the American police system among ordinary
workers American captaisms efforts to entrench and soI
dy its thru the adoption of the police methods of the
deposed czarism will develop the hatred of labor class
not much against the police system but against the
capitalist state that spawned it and keeps it alive