The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-19

strations held in New York, culmin-
ating in the Great Union Square
demonstration March 6.
Whalen repeated all the stuff
Wood revealed about the use of the
police department in an effort to
get shoe strikers deported. He jus
titled the shooting of Katovis and
Gonzalez as "self defense by the
patrolmen." He said Patrolman
Harry Kurowitz shot Katovis while
Katovis was attacking him, and IN
the next line read that Katovis was
shot in the back. No one called his
attention to t at contradiction.
Oh, Those Juries!
Whalen read what he called the
criminal records of shoe strikers.
and of Irving Potash. Nothing was
made of the fact that Potash hasn't
been convicted of the cases of as
sault against him, except that juries
are very unreliable.
The committee asked for the Grim
inal record of Foster. This was a
bad mistake, for Foster hasn't any
criminal record, except a conviction
for speaking on the streets, % years
ago. Whalen lodged neatly, and
read them Raymond's record instead.
Raymond, migratory worker, has
been framed in a couple of cases,
as many other migratory workers
have been framed when crimes are
committed, and the police need 4
goat.
Saw They Weren't NaturaIized.
Whalen told of $4,000 at the
funeral of Katovis. He told of 90
900 paid admissions at the March
Is Defend the Soviet Union" meet
ing in the Bronx. Later, in regard
to this meeting he said that the
worst of it was there were 200 school
children taking part in the pageant
Building the Soviet Union" and
singing songs that were disrespect-
full to American officials and "our
form of government"
But, looking over that great
crowd, 81 saw that fully 95 per cent
of them were foreigners" In an
swer to a question, and with a
straight face, "No, they did not
look to me as though thew were
naturalized."
Whalen, like Lyons yesterday, has
it in for Randolph Mcneil, the
sailor who was arrested and slugged
nearly to death for going to the
rescue of a woman whom a plain
clothes man was beating up at the
city hall demonstration Feb. &c.
AS is usual in these cases, the
police filed a charge of assault
Against Mcneil to justify their own
brutality. Whalen omitted to men,
ton the fact that he was not con-
victed. In addition, they wrote a
statement for Mcneil, during then
third degree, by which he supposed
ly admits "his organization paid his
way to New York to take part in
this riot" Mcneil did not make any
of the statements ascribed to him.
Framing Spivak.
Then, late in the afternoon, they
got around to the forgeries.
First, there was Whalen's coun-
ter attack, an attempt to frame and
discredit Spivak.
This took the form of report
from police lieutenant that a
white guard Russian leader named
Diamharoff came to him and said
that Spivak and another man tried
to get him to testify that he forged
'he documents.
Djambaroff sat in the department
Of justice room where the commit
tees hearings were held during this
testimony. He is evidently one of
those "un1eE cover men" who will
probably testify at the week end
junket of the committee to Fish's
summer home in Connecticut.
The printer Max Wagner, was
assailed by Whalen as the possessor
of a criminal record 1.-TWO charges
of violating the censorship on "in-
decent" literature). Whalen didn't
investigate Wagner to see whether
he really printed these documents.
all but one alleged to have come
from Moscow. Whalen didn't look
in the shop to see whether Wag-
ner's type really was the tyne used
in the documents, because wagner
was clea'ly an unreliable person."
Contradictions.
But he read alleged translations
of the allegc1 documents to the Fish
Committee. They have already
MAY 8 and May 1877 been fully