The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-27
CROUCH DENIED
APPEAL BY US.
CIRCUIT COURT
Soldier Must Serve Out
Full Term
Especial to The Daily workery


SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, June U.s.
An appeal for writ of habeas corpus
against the decision of the lower court
in the case Of Paul Crouch, former
soldier in the U. S. Army division
stationed in Hawaii, has been denied
in decision just handed down by the
United States circuit court of appeals
for the ninth circuit. There was no
dissenting opinion, Judges Gilbert,
Hunt and Rudkin arriving at a una
nimous view.
|. L. D. Lawyer.
The appeal was argued by the we'll
known labor lawyer of California,
Austin Lewis, who was retained by In
ternational Labor Defense.
Circuit Judge Gilbert, in rendering
the decision of the court, held that
Crouch was triable by a general court
martial and that the court had juris-
diction over him. The decision re-
fused to recognize any of the points
raised by the defense for the appellant
and declared that all that had happen
ed was as it should be, and that Paul
Crouch must remain in Alcatraz Mill.
tary Prison to complete the three year
prison term to which he was sentenced
in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Arrested With TrumbuII.
Paul Crouch was arrested together
with Walter Trumbul in their quart
ers at the U. s. army post in Hawaii.
Both of them we're regular soldiers in
the army, but they have been active in
the formation and conducting of the
Hawaiian Communist League, which
had some seventy.five soldiers in its
ranks.
Altho this organization held regular
! meetings openly in the barracks, and
it's letterheads and envelopes were
printed in the army print shop under
the direction and with the knowledge
Of the officers, Crouch and Trumbull
were suddenly called out of the ranks,
and arrested for having organized a
secret society,"" which is violation of
the laws of Hawaii.
court-MartIaI.
The declaration that the league was
not a secret society, but one which
was known to exist by almost every
one in the barracks, was of no avail,
and the court martial sentenced Paul
Crouch to forty years imprisonment
and Walter Trumbull to twenty-six
years.
The protest of American workers
and labor organizations, caused the
+. officials of the army to reconsider
their savage sentences and they were
soon reduced from forty years to three
years, and from twenty-six years to
one year.
Served His Year.
Trumbull has already completed his
year of Imprisonment. In his tour
from coast to coast thousands of work
ers gathered to greet and cheer his
courageous work and unflinching stand
for the rights of soldiers to organize
clubs within the army to counterfeit
some of the anti-labor propaganda
which the army man is subjected to.
If the decision of the circuit court
Of appeals is the final legal resort, it
means that Paul Crouch must remain
in Alcatraz Prison until February
1928, when his three year sentence ex-
pires.
Cooperative for Sacco-Vanzetti
NBWBERRY, Mich, June "a. - The
meeting OF the members of the New
berry Cooperative Association of this
city today went ON record for Sacco
and Vanzetti and urged the granting
of new trial demanded by common
justice. The resolution was forwarded
to the governor Of Massachusetts,,
Alvan T. Fuller.
Literary Society Protests
Frame-Up of Sacco-Vanzetti
EASTON, Penn, June 4. - The
Lithuanian Workers Literary Society
of America, Branch 10, has gone on
record for a new trial for Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo VanzettL announces
it's secretary Felix Urba. The resolu-
ton has been sent to Governor Fuller
of Massachusetts.