The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
Gay,s Deadly Ruling
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held in The Haymarket. They were
particularly protesting against the
killing of six workers by Mccormick
plant Pinkertons.
Workers Leaders.
This meeting was attended by
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago,
who listened to speeches by certain
leaders prominent in all of the
strikes at that time: August Spies,
Alfred R. Parsons, and Samuel
Fielden. The mayor admitted after
ward that the speeches were not lille
gal and did not incite to violence. A
rain storm arose, the mayor left,
the meeting was disbanding, with
Fielder closing his remarks, when
after the Mayor had stopped to speak
to the commander of ITS police held
out of sight near the Haymarket,
these police attacked the crowd in
four sections. They opened fire on
this peaceful audience, and during
the fight, some one (there was never
any real evidence to show who and
no bomb thrower was ever caught)
threw a bomb into the police, killed
seven of them, and wounded about
so.
Arrest the Strike Leaders.
Many were arrested and released,
but seven strike leaders and editors
of radical papers were tried on
charges of murder and conspiracy;
one, Parsons, walked into the court
on the first day of the trial of the
seven, and was added to the list.
Parsons was editor of the Alarm
and Spies, another defendant, was
one of three editors of the Arbeiter
Zeitung. All Of thoseearrested were
selected obviously because they were
leaders Of the strike movement, Just
as Gastonia police on June 7 of this
year after the shooting of police
chief during his attack on the
strikers and after his men had shot
first caused the arrest of all of the
workers leaders who could be found
in that vicinity.
The Chicago prosecutors made, to
be sure, a feeble attempt by means
of the testimony of a certain Gill
man, a police stoolpigeon, sleeping
in the police station, receiving gifts
of money and food from the police,
to prove that one Schnaubelt (never
arrested) threw the bomb, and that
Parsons lighted it.
The Indictment" Argument.
Judge Gary, trying the case, swept
all this evidence" aside in disgust,
basing the charge against the men
in his instructions to the jury on
another theory: He said:
'The conviction has not gone on
the ground that they have actually
any participation in the particular
act which caused the death of
Policeman began, Gone of seven
kiiled) but the conviction proceeds
upon the ground that they had
generally by speech and print, adj
vised large classes OF people, not
particular individuals, but large
classes, to commit murder, and had
left the commission, the time and
place and when, to the individual
will or whim or caprice, or what
ever it may be, of each individual
man who listened to their advice,
and that in consequence of that ad-
vice, somebody not known did
throw the bomb. Now, if this is
not correct principle of the law,
then the defendants of course are
entitled to new trial"
No one seriously accused Parsons,
Spies, Engel or Fielder of throwing
that bomb, just as no one seriously
accuses little Sophie Melvin or Vera
Bush or Amy Schechter or Fred
Beal, for example, of aiming guns
at Chief of Police Aderholt-but
Parsons, Spies, Engel, and Fielder
were hanged, and the electric chair
yawns for Sophie Melvin, and IA
other Gastonia workers and organi-
zers.
Frame-Up Tactics.
How was this accomplished in
Chicago, and how will they try to
do it in Gastonia?
First, by packed jury. Governor
Altgeld, when he pardoned Samuel
and Michael Schwab (sen-
fenced to life imprisonment and Os-
car Neebe Sentenced to Is years.
points out that the jury was picked
by a bailiff, one Henry l.. Ryce, who
selected only ten non-workers from
a working class district, and those
ten hangers-on of the police station.
The most Of this jury of worker
enemies a d M: e d before they
stepped into the box, they were pre-
JUDGED against the defense and |
wished to hang the defendants, but |
hat made no difference to the Judge. |
No matter what evidence wac mo !