The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-18
Capitalism Promotes Judge Parker

against capitalisms entire judicial system, and
resistance to the capitalist social order ITSELF
Judge Parker is merely capitalisms judicial
mouthpiece He has served his master well in
the past. He is now slated for promotion.
The White House president Hoover), in
defending Judge Parkers Red Jacket (Conso-
lidated Coal and Coke Company decision
against the West Virginia coal miners efforts
to organize the unorganized, stated that Judge
Parker was merely carrying out correctly the
decisions already handed down by the United
States Supreme Court. This is clear confess
sion as to the capitalist class (anti-labor) char
acter of the profit systems judicial oligarchy,
which welcomes Parker even as it wept over
the passing of Taft.
Deaf Ear to Workers.
This is the same U. S. Supreme Court that
recently refused even to listen to the appeal
of the three workers, Muselin, Resetar and
lima against the conviction and savage SEN
tence to five years Imprisonment returned
against them in the courts of Western Penn
sylvana. 1t is in Western Pennsylvania that
two of Hoovers cabinet members are dominant
industrial Notwithstanding of the Treas
ury Mellon and Secretary of Labor Davis The
only crime of Muselin, Resetar and lima was
seeking to organize the steel workers of the
Monongahela Valley, especially in Aliquippa.
1t was to be expected that energetic support
for Judge Parker's appointment should come
from the textile mill owners of Gastona, N c.,
like A. B. Carter, president of the Carter Tex
tile Mills, who joined their lynching mobs with
the efforts of their government to send sixteen
strikers and organizers to burn in the electric
chair because of their efforts to organize the
brutally exploited textile slaves of the South.
In spite of the massed protest of workers the
world over seven of these defendants were con-
victed and sentenced to 1T years imprison-
ment. This case is now on appeal to the North
Carolina Supreme Court and will be fought
through to the United States Supreme Court.
1t is very clear that the Gastonia mill owners,
who led in the destruction of the National Tex
tile Workers Union headquarters and the
Workers International Relief station, and in
spired the mob that murdered Ella May and
kidnapped and flogged Lell, Saylors, Wells and
others, would very much like to have their
judicial lackey, Judge Parker, write the Su-
preme Court decision sending the strikers and
organizers of the National Textile Workers
Union to a living death in their prisons.
Socialists Uphold Private Property.
Yet it IS clear that any appointments that
Lewis, Thomas, Green or White might offer,
would serve the same purpose. The socialist
Judges in Milwaukee are the best upholders of
the right of private property. The placing of
SucD gOOO men as BranQelS ana Holmes IN
the black robes of the United States Supreme
Court did not alter the class tyranny exercised
by that tribunal. Sacco and Vanzetti were
burned to death just the same in the electric
chair in Massachusetts; Mooney and Billings
are still imprisoned in California after ID years.
the judicial oligarchy with Brandeis and Holmes
in its midst serves the capitalist master as
loyalty as ever.
Yet the appointment of another Branleis
or Holmes is the only alternative that the
Greens, Lewises, Thomases and Whites have
for the selection of Parker. Benjamin Gitlow,
carrying out the renegade program of Love-
stone, also protests the appointment of Parker
on the same basis, thus teaming up more
closely than ever Gas already predicted) with
the fascist and social fascist enemies Of the
working class.
Class Enmity Towards Negroes.
Judge Parker's bitter enmity to the Negroes
was voiced in his declaration that
"The participation of the Negro in poll
tics is a source of evil and danger to both
races, and is not desired by wise men in
either race, by the republican party of
North Carolina"
Yet the hundreds of thousands of eligible
Negro voters in the South are disenranchised
with the approval of the Supreme Court The
attitude of Judge Parker and the position of
the Supreme Court has class basis
There is no opposition to Negro capitalists