The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-13
Judge Martin, Gambling
Machine Vendor, Linked with
Untermyer, Shyster Lawyer

were either destroyed or so involved
that it could learn nothing.
For another one of his fraudulent
companies, the Buckmoran Corp.
borrowed $4,000 from the City
Trust Co., bank which one of his
friends, Judge Mancuso, looted so
thoroughly that it went into bank
ruptcy soon after.
For still another company, the
Match Corp. of America, Martin
was given 10000 shares of stock
valued at $11 share for the right
to use his name in selling the stock
and for his aid in getting brokers
to float it. Thieves never do trust
each other, and the brokers refused
to have anything to do with Martin,
judge or no judge. When the match
company asked for the return of
the $4,000 shares, Martin at first
demured but ultimately came across
with all but 10000 of them. He is
still holding on to the 10000 shares
despite frantic demands by the
match company that he return them.
When demands of the investors
in Martins companies became so
insistent that nothing but one of
Tammany's fake probes would still
them, Martin appointed Samuel IN
termyer as his defense counsel. Two
or three pertinent facts about I'm
termyer's career may be worth
while noting, inasmuch as his oc-
casional love-taps at Tammany cor
ruption have misled some workers
into believing that he is somewhat
Of a ''liberal."
Untermyer, Crooked Friend of
Labor
If Untermyer is liberal, Jimmy
Walker is Buddhist scholar. I'm
termyer is one of the slyest and
most rapacious shysters this side of
Philadelphia, which according to
tradition is their original habitat.
Untermyer is neck-deep in the graft
which he attacks occasionally much
like the Socialists" in an attempt
to create the impression that he is
"a friend of the people"
The United States Supreme Court
which rarely gets excited about the
most brazen sort of capitalist BAN
ditry, once libeled Untermyer a
thief and threw his case out of
court. When Curry and his pirate
colleagues refused to waive immu-
nifty before a grand jury which
would never have involved them with
any but minor graft issues in any
case, Untermyer, along with Steuer,
another prize scoundrel, and Walsh,
supposedly a great "friend" of la
Dor, signed a manifesto in which
they complimented Curry and the
other Tammany chiefs for insisting
on their rights" Rights to hold
New York's toiling masses in bon
dage while they are robbed by cap
italist exploiters, they mean.
Demands Secret Probe
Untermyer's first demand when
he became Martins counsel was that
absolute secrecy surround the hear
ing of the investors charges against
the Judge. A sham battle was then
staged between the investigators"
and Untermyer over the question.
After several weeks of playful scuf-
fling around, and after the original
decision had been reversed, it was
decided to keep the hearing open.
But Untermyer's tactics gained
his objective. By the time the SIN
vestigators" had made up their
minds as to the amount of secrecy
that would surround the probe
everyone of Martins colleagues who
might have been forced to testify
against him had "flown the coop"
Disappeared as if they were Su-
preme Court judges to be ques-
toned for pocketing a million dol
lars in a crooked bankruptcy case.