The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-25
JUDGES THREATEN
BAN WITNESSES
Defense Demand Right
to Show Movies


session court, Part 6, yesterday very
grudgingly granted Foster, Minor,
Amter, Raymond and Lesten, mem,
bers of the committee elected by the
unemployed workers of New York,
a postponement until April II, to
prepare their defense in the prose
cution for voicing the demands OF
the workers for unemployment in
surance. Meanwhile the Labor
Jury, elected by the Trade Union
Unity League, was barred from the
courtroom by police. Great num-
bers of workers tried unsuccessfully
to enter the courtroom in the New
York Criminal Courts Building.
A mass-protest movement of tens
Of thousands in many cities against
the hundreds of, arrests of workers
for participating in unemployment
demonstrations in many cities on
and before March 6, is developing.
The judges in the New York case
made the time as short as it was
humanity possible, and still give
some color to the fiction of "fair
trial" in the capitalist court.
In the brief session held yesterday
the actions of the police in exelud-
ing the labor jury and other work
ers from the courtroom revealed
that it is the intention to try these
delegates elected by the 10000
who demonstrated in Union Square
March 6, in high-handed manner,
with the public barred. A jury trial
has already been denied. A strong
guard of police reinforced the regu-
lar court attendants at the doors of
the courtroom, in the basement of
the old criminal court building next
door to the Tombs prison, and
barred not only the labor jury, but
all others. Only prosecutors, de-
PENDANTS. lawyers, reporters and
those subpoenaed as witness were
admitted. The ruling class wants
no publicity on this railroading, ex-
cept what comes distorted through
the bosses newspapers.
Demand Entrance. ..
Charles Hope, a Negro laundry
worker and foreman of the Labor
Jury nominated by unions and IN
employed councils, elected by 10000
workers at the mass-protest meet
ing Wednesday, appeared at the
head Of the labor jury and demanded
entrance. "s,
Eve were elected to sit in court
and watch this case" he said to the
police lieutenant, "and we intend
making a report to the thousands
of workers and unemployed who are
demanding the immediate release of
their delegation"
The police not only barred them
from the courtroom, but ordered
them to leave the building. They
insisted on their right to be present
at the trial, and finally were. al
lowed to stay in the hallway, but
not to come into the courtroom or
listen to the case.
Yesterday the jury issued state
ment, protesting vigorously against
the trial in secret, announcing that
they would continue their struggle
to be present in the courtroom.
Get No Public Trial.
At $3.50, before the judges ap-
feared. an attendant bounced on the
spectators who had filtered through,
and chased them from the court
room. 1
go on" they said.
"Isn't this the case Of Foster,
Minor, Amtere Raymond and Les
ten!" said a worker.
"Yes, that's why you can't stay"
Don't these men get a public
trial?
"No!"
Jealous police, determined to pre-
serve the secrets of Tammany jug.
tice" even tried for a time to bar
Robert Minor, one of the defendants.
Eleven Times in Court.
Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the
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