The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26

lenge OF the world proletariat, led by the
Communist International!
Both cases ended with a ''hung' jury, which
dehberated for many hours. They acquitted
three workers and failed to agree as to the
rest. Several were found among the jury who
evidently could not stomach the boss terror
IN its rawest form. One juror was tried and
found guilty, several days later, for contempt
of court when some fascists among the jury
revealed that she purchased and read during
the trial the Daily Worker.
New Boss Tactics.
Sensing the danger of the repetition of
similar trials the new trials of these cases
saw the change of tactics by the chamber of
commerce forces. Nearing the end of the
first day of the new February 26 case trial
(began Sept s. the judge suddenly stopped
the proceedings of jury examination by Sklar
and Spector and launched into lengthy TRADE
against the workers stating that because he
is "powerless" to stop their propaganda and
because he discovered" in the law books it
Is impossible to punish them as they already
served long prison terms, he therefore dis
misses the charges against them and orders
them removed from court to their prisons.
When he added that an additional sentence
may harm" the two workers chances"
with the parole board, his hypocrisy was
Immediately exposed by himself when at the
demand of the l. L. D. attorney he refused
to apply his decision to Horuchi, who is
also serving AZ years in Folsom. Sklar and
Spector were not given a chance to reply
because of their quick removal from the
august presence of "his honor" by guards.
Horiuchi Immediately demanded the right
to take the place of his fellow-workers as
the spokesman of the workers on trial. This
was denied by the judge. The following day
Horiuchi and another worker-defendant COM
PEELED the judge to permit their self-defense
alongside with the I. L. D. attorney acting
for the other four defendants The japanese
worker then made a statement in which he
characterized the dismissal of Sklar and
Spector as attempts to muzzle the workers
expression and thus more successfully accom-
pllsh the railroading of the rest of the work
ers-defendants-t long jail terms He de-
manded the dismissal of the entire case and
was supported in this by all others, through
the !. L. D. attorney. This was promptly de-
MED by the trial judge. He then proceeded
in stopping all the efforts of the workers
spokesman to bring in the class issues.
As the new trial of the Paris Commune
case was scheduled the following day in the
same court, Spector who with another de-
PENDANT charged with battery" lin
reality self-defense), was brought again into
this court. When the case was called by the
judge for re-setting, Spector awaited himself
of the present opportunity and made a
statement exposing the action of the Judge
and demanding the dismissal of the Paris
Commune case as one resulting from police
terror. The judge replied by denial of the
demand and by informing Spector that he
dismisses the charges against him alone, CIV
ing similar reasons as previously stated
When led out Spector threw into his face
that by their actions he proves the courts
the faithful tool of the chamber of commerce.
AS the February 26 case trial proceeded the
judge became more vicious against the defen-
dants as well as the I. L. D. attorney. Later
upon the repeated effort of Horiuchi to ex-
pose his hypocrisy, the judge was forced to
dismiss the Japanese worker as well. His
place was taken by another worker and the
trial continued with the workers fighting
for the right to bring into the case the class
issues underlying the cases where workers
are brought to trial.
Workers viii Continue Fight.
The above described proves clearly the
correctness of the policy of the revolutionary
working class organizations, the Communist
Party and the l. L. D. in exposing, right
within the enemy's camp, the true character
of the capitalist courts as faithful servants
Of their masters. 1t also serves to shatter
whatever illusions there may still linger in
the minds of the workers as to the "justice"
and democracy" of which the liberals pratt,e
1t likewise proved that the release of the
class war prisoners can only be gotten by the
organized mass pressure of the toiling masses.
All the boss terror, through its police, its
courts, its servants-the A. F. of L. buro-
cracy and the socialist party, cannot stop
the toiling masses in its struggle against
fascist terror used by the bosses to crush
the revolt of the workers by driving under
ground its militant leadership.
The workers on the outside must give their
mass support to their fellow workers on
trials by packing courtrooms during the
trials and by organized demonstrations of
solidarity, so that all the toilers in shops
and factories, mills and fields receive the
proper knowledge of the true role of class
justice.
The pending, at the present time, appeal
against the brutal sentences of AZ years for
the now serving in San Quentin and Folsom,
six Imperial Valley militants can be only
made effective through nationwide protests
by the broad masses of workers. Only the
mighty protests of the masses can compel
the abolition of the vicious Criminal Syndi-
calism Act and the release of the Imperial
Valley prisoners. Only the organized mass
pressure will save our six Atlanta, Ca, COM
rades from the electric chair and will open
the prison gates for Foster, Minor, Amter
and Raymond and Mooney and Billings and
all other class war prisoners.
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