The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES

political advisor, the attorney general Of the
state, to the trial, and the assistant attorney
general and the City Solicitor of Baltimore And
they didn't come there then to prevent the l. L.
D. lawyer from seeing Jones, because when the
Governor saw what kind of fight the workers
were putting up he was afraid and sent the at
torney general and his assistant and the City
Solicitor into Court to find way to let the !. l..
D. lawyer see Jones without having to admit
that they were wrong So they said that they
were perfectly willing that Jones should have
the I. L. D. lawyer for his lawyer if only Jones
would say that he wanted him. OF course they
knew, what Jones would say they brought
Jones into Court and asked him and Jones said
yes, he wanted the I. L. D. lawyer for his lawyer
and always hod wanted him, but that the war
den and the states attorney wouldn't let the
I. L. D. lawyer in to see him.
So now Jones is being defended by working
class lawyer. But this is not the end of the
case. The case is still supposed to be tried be-
fore Judge Bailey in Cambridge. And of course
Judge Bailey will never let that case get out of
his hands if he can help it. He wants to SEN
tence Jones to hang He wants to be sure that
it is done He wants to keep the lid tight down
on the story Of corruption and graft on the
Eastern Shore that resulted in the death of
Jones boss. And he wants to show the white
and Negro workers that there is no use in Or
ganizing together, that the police and the boss
courts win anyway
Only Working Class Can Free Jones'
The 1. L. D. lawyer has now filed a new
petition in the case demanding that the case
be moved from Cambridge to Baltimore for
trial. Governor Ritchie has had the papers and
petitions in the case sent to the Attorney Cen
eral to see what ought to be done. But Gov
ernor Ritchie already knows what ought to be
done and he also knows what he would like to
do He would like to leave this case in the
hands of Judge Bailey and he is waiting to see
what the workers are going to do
The I. L. D. demands that the case be moved
to Baltimore That Jones be tried before jury
of white and Negro workers and not before
jury of rich white farmers or business men, That
the charges against Helen Mays, the 22 year old
I. L. .. investigator who was arrested and then
released on bail just in time to be caught by
the mob and beaten, be dismissed. That Gov
er1lor Ritchie have the Mayor Of Snow Hill and
the other mob leaders arrested and that Judge
Bailey be inpeached
Workers! Stop the Legal Lynching Of Jones!
Governor Albert c. Ritchie whose address Is
Annapolis, Md, and the attorney general of
Maryland are waiting to see what the workers
Jones he will surely be hanged by Judge Bailey.
And just as surely the whole boss class and
their tools, the police, will know that they can
handle the workers, that the workers will stand
for anything And wages will be cut again and
again. There will be no relief for the starving
unemployed or their children. And the workers
who one at a time protest will be railroaded to
jail to rot there just as Tom Mooney has been
rotting in the ails OF California for the last Is
years because he dared to organize the street
car workers there against wage cuts The po-
lice framed him up on murder charge ard
the workers have not yet organized sufficiently
to get him out.
Workers! Stop the legal lynching OF Orphan
Jones! Get Tom Mooney out Of Jail! Save the
Innocent Scottsboro boys Save the white and
Negro Harlan coal miners now on trial. You
can do it by organizing together in the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. BY holding mass meetings
and protesting 10 GOV. Eitchie, stating your de-
mands. BY getting your churches and your
labor union branches to send in protests No
power on earth can save Orphan Jones except
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