The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Demand RELEASE
J0BLESS LEADERS
Answer the Capitalists
Class Vengeance

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Lester and Raymond out of court
back to their cells.
Judge Flood looks and acts like
the famous "Bloody Judge Jeffries"
of British history: A smooth faced,
dissipated looking man with fishey
eye, who snarls and bowls at the
defendant, and smirks at the prose-
cution witnesses. The assistant dis
trict attorney is an oily piece of
capitalist machinery, with the
slicked locks, and little mustache of
the villain who swindles the widow
out of her farm in an old-style melo-
drama.
How They Treated Dyer.
Open class justice, directed against
the workers, typified Magistrates
Grain attitude toward the arrested
workers who were brought before
him.
/ Victor Dyer's case was tried just
before the case of the five leaders
Of the demonstration of 100000
workers demanding Work or Wages,
was called.
Dyer's left eye was bloodshot. A
long black and purplish scar covered
his left cheek. He had three stitches
in his head. He was one of the
hundreds of workers viciously beaten
on Whalen's orders. The charge
against him was assault on an Of
ficer."
Stool pigeon Keeny testified
against Dyer. His testimony was
so weak-he couldn't say who hit
him, if anybody; somebody brushed
against him from behind-that the
Magistrate had to help him out.
"You don't know who hit you,
if anybody" asked attorney Buiten-
kant ?" "Well, l couldn't see behind
me-" admitted the surly provocateur.
What had happened was very
plain. About five dicks had severely
beaten Dyer and then arrested him
for assault.
The Judge Imagines Things.
The judge called Keeny back on
the stand, after Buitenkant proved
that Dyer was a dock worker who
had been working steadily until a
day before the March 6 demonstra-
ton, and was on his way to cash
check on 18th and Broadway.
"Did you see this man hit you?"
said the judge, very much chagrined
because of the evident flop of the
stool pigeons to identify worker
whom they beat up mercilessly as
their assailant.
'No, but when l turned around"
said the refreshed stool-pigeon, 81
saw Dyer with his hands up"
ibid you say that before ?" asked
Buitenkant.
"Sure he did," chimed in the
Judge, with his spirit of helpfulness
for the prosecutor and the capital
lists behind the case. 81 heard him.
Mr.. Reporter, read the record"
Thn record was read twice, and
the Judge was forced to admit that
stool-pigeon Keeny had said nothing
of the kind. The Judge was so
eager to find Dyer guilty that his
brain manufactured imaginary testi-
mony against Dyer.
However, in spite of the fact that
Dyer's bruised and battered eye and
head shrieked louder than any words
uttered by the states stool pigeons,
the Judge coldly and brazenly said:
guilty"
What Was the Sentence?
He did not have the nerve to
pronounce sentence against the
worker Immediately, but had him
whisked away for finger-printing
and other police maneuvers. What
his sentence is was whispered in
obscurity. Up to this minute the
Daily Worker does not know the
fate Of the beaten worker, Dyer.
1t is this same Magistrate Flood
who is scheduled to try the case
against Foster, Minor, Amter, Lester
and Raymond. The testimony of
Keeny is sample of the evidence
that will be brought in, under the
grooming of Whalen and Grain,
against these leaders of the Com
munist Party and the Trade Union
Unity League.
The hypocritical mask is COM
pletely torn off the capitalist courts
in this case. 1t is a case of open
class vengeance of the capitalist
class as an answer to the 100000
unemployed for daring not to starve
in silence, but continuing to organ
lie against capitalism and to con-
tinue their fight for Work or Wages.