The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-29
DANES
AID COURTS TO
TRY COMPETITOR
Police and Associated
Charities Cooperate

IOT SOlIclIluB LuHuS On the SII6el lOl
a mission granting aid to needy peo-
pie whom the Associated Charities
and their ilk had refused to help, on
a charge Of vagrancy.
It developed during the trial that
Mrs. Gross had persisted in carrying
out the orders of Mr.. H. H. Mars,
president of the Humanitarian Heart
Mission, which stands ready TO sup
ply relief to needy workers rejected
by the so-called charitable agencies
that work so closely with the city and
county government as to be at times
indistinguishable from the state po-
iitical machine.
Under cross examination witnesses
for the prosecution from the Com
munity Chest and Associated Chart
ties were forced to admit that they
and the police collaborate to the ex-
tent of answering each others tele-
phone calls. They did not deny that
a representative of these so-called
charitable agencies may have turned
in the complaint resulting in the ar
rest of Mrs. Gross.
The prosecution contended that she
should have had license to solicit.
But no such license had been required
of Representatives Of the Community
Chest, the Salvation Army, the Jim
Goodheart Mission and others who re-
ceive salaries of several thousand a
year and are far from need.
Affidavits by Mrs. Gross and her
friends show that these so-called
charitable organizations had stirred
up prejudice, thru the city churches
and other religious organizations to
such an extent that no trial judge in
the county could give her fair trial.
A change of venue was secured and
a Judge called in from Boulder. The
afidavits also show that the same sort
of bond as had been accepted before
in such cases was refused tho the per-
son offering to sign her bond pos
sessed many times the amount of real
estate required. The affidavit also
states that the prejudiced judge be-
fore whom this bond came for ap-
prevail, stated as his reason for re-
jectieg the bond was that he did not
feel like adding further criticism of
the bunch at the city hall"
Mrs. Gross had previously been
given a so-called trial in police court
by being confronted with representa-
tives of the Community Chest and
Associated Charities together with
city police and plain clothes officers
without opportunity to defend her
self.
When the Judge from Boulder open
ed court an effort was made to keep
the public from hearing the case. The
authorities tried to clear the room Of
all except persons absolutely neces-
sary to the case by asking if all pres
ent were Witnessed Their nerve
only failed after a vigorous protest
by the attorney for the defense.
In the trial evidence tending to
show cooperation between the So
called charity institutions and the
capitalistic state, the nature Of the
cases rejected by the Associated
Charities, Community chest, Salvation
Army and Jim Goodheart Mission but
helped by the mission employing Mrs
Gross and what the Humanitarian
Heart Mission and James Eads
Howe's organization have done 10
fond oIotbo ond bouca +ho ,,uan,pIov
ed and what Mars had done to free
sane people held in the insane ward
of the General Hospital of the city and
county of Denver.
representatives of so-called charity
showed that only those who believe
that few or no able bodied men should
receive aid, on the theory that they
can get work are employed by the in
situations. The husband Of Mrs. Gross
testified that he had repeatedly sought
employment from sources indicated
by the Community chest and Jim
Goodheart Mission, and was able 10
secure but one nights work in many
months shoveling snow off the city
streets.
Testimony was also given showing
that these charitable agencies force
the needy to sell their furniture and
belongings before aid is given. The
bulk of the money that is collected
for these charitable" institutions and
used to pay high salaries for investi
CATION, and little is paid out in relief
come from workers. These charity
institutions try to keep a maximum
number of workers bidding against
each other in the labor market to
drive wages to the minimum.