The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

forts Of the capitalist class and its
agencies, police and courts, it is one
not intended to relieve the condi-
tions of the unemployed, but to sup
press them. The verdict is one
more instance of many by the ruling
class to attempt to pass over to the
exploited workers and the starving
unemployed the burden of a capt.
talist economic crisis and to pre-
vent their protest against it.
"The case centers around the at
tempt of the police commissioner to
abrogate the right Of the workers
to the use Of the streets and squares
of the city. In this suppression
every political right was abolished.
Such rights are only for the graft
ers, for Doheny and such persons.
The right Of bail, of trial by jury,
was abrogated and this court played
| its part in that"
Sensitive About Jury.
Here Judge Solomon interrupted
and gave a lengthy alibi, saying
that the question of jury trial was
settled net by this court, but in
general sessions. He ordered Minor
/ to confine himself to the question
Of the sentence.
Minor continued: eve were de-
MED in our trial the right to present
evidence after the state had pre-
sented what was obviously cooked
up case. We had no defense. We
are not surprised at this, we know
it as capitalist class justice. We
were tried in fact not only for the
protest on March 6, but for the COM
ing greater protest demonstration
on May 1.
Rothstein Murder.
eve were arrested at the orders
of a police commissioner put in to
cover up the Rothstein scandal. :"
! Here Minor was again stopped by
the judges.)
District Attorney Grain repre-
sents the most VIGOROUSLY corrupt
political machine in the United
States" said Minor, "and Grain
says that this is his most impor-
tant conviction. Our trial was con-
Quoted by the prosecution as such
an officer would naturally conduct
it. It was an outrageous mockery
of what is called justice. The YER
dict was decided upon before hand"
Here Minor told of the verdict
being rendered by one judge, with
out consultation with the others, as
soon as the evidence was stopped,
showing that all had made up their
minds to convict, regardless of evil
dence.
Minor told of the boasting of AS
sistant District Attorney Unger
during the case, showing that he
knew the verdict was all arranged.
Joins With Vitale.
"This court is joining with vi
tale, Muscowitz, and :"
Here the judges all began talking
at once, and Minor was permitted
to say no more. Evidently corrup-
ton on the New York bench is a
sore point with those judges who
have not as yet had graft openly
proved against them. One judge
was heard shouting: 81 refuse to
hear myself insultedl"
Stop Amter At Once.
Amter didn't get very far. when
the crooked mayor of New York
and the crooked mayor of Berlin, "
he began, and was checked off.
Same Justice AS SaccO Got.
Raymond stated: 81 claim we
stand here convicted of no other
crime than belief that the workers
have a right to the use of the
streets the same as foreign poten-
tates. We had no illusions about
the fairness of this court. We have
received justice--class justice. 1t is
, the same kind of justice that oul
comrades in Massachusetts, Saccc
, and Vanzetti F. :"
Here Raymond was also howlet
donw by the judges and forced tt
stop by bailiffs.
! However, he was allowed to con
: tinue on his own particular case
1 and pointed out that the convictions
| standing against him were the same
: sort of convictions as this one
n Cooked up, against worker, b!
= capitalist class court"
t Solomon made his little speech
!, saying that freedom Of speech ant
assemblage were to be preserved
/ but that "this assemblage was ;
}. detriment to the city," and that "be
n lieving Foster, Miner, Amter ant
? Raymond are the prime movers,
. he sentences them to be taken t,
the county penitentiary and Their,
e confined" (No mention of how
many years, but the limit in tn,
r state statutes is three years.)
5 The judge then made the usua
gesture of fairness, and, declaring
the young worker, Lesten, "misled'
by the others, sentenced him t.
thirty days in the workhouse.
, Same Judges.
, The judges were Max Solomon
James ]. McInerney and Daniel F.
/ Murphy, the same three who tried
: the case and gave the verdict.
, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney