The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Workers ConVict Hillquit
AS COt4nter>ReV0lutionist
Socialist Party Exposed In Anti-Soviet War
Front of Capitalist Exploiters

AFTER listening TO the evidence pre-
senteds by g. number OF witnesses on
the basis of the prosecutors charges
and the defense, presented respec-
lively by. Comrades Max Bedacht
and Sam Darcy, over one thousand
workers pronounced Morris Hillqmt
guilty Of being a social-fascist enemy
of the working class and his party
of being a counter-revolutionary
capitalist tool at a mass trial at Cen
trail Opera House last Thursday
night. In the evidence as presented
by Bedaent and Darcy and by the
various witnesses the working
class history of Hillquit was revealed
as far back as 1913,
Bedacht pointed out that the place
of Hillquit in the ranks of the capi-
talist enemies of the Soviet Union
was not strange, as some of the
members of the socialist party stat
ed, but altogether to be expected
since as part of the enemies of the
working class he could only be
found in company with the rest of
the enemies Of the workers. Because
of the dangerous, situation that the
crisis has created Tor the capitalist
class HillquiJ now comes out openly
in the attack on the Soviet Union
by becoming. attorney for the former
owners of Russian oil fields who
were appropriated by the Russian
workers and peasants. In the past
years Hillqlut tried to hide his en-
nifty to the working class but now
that his bosses demand an open
stand he hurriedly complied.
Hiliquit's Action Represents Party's
Anti Soviet Stand.
Comrade Darcy, who was appoint
ed to act for the defense since, as he
stated, none of Hillquit's fellow So
cialists" had the CUTS to appear at
the trial when asked to do So, plead
ed guilty for his client on the charge
that he was an enemy OF the work
ing class but pleaded not guilty on
the charges which have been pre-
ferred against Hillqmt by members
of the socialist party and by groups
of the Young Peoples Socialist
League. These people have charged
that Hillquit's acting for the ex-oil
owners against the workers and
peasants of the Soviet Union was
against the principles Of the socialist
party and the Second International
Darcy pointed out that EIillquit's
action was no different from that
of Abramovitz whose attacks against
the Soviet Union had been run in
the socialist weekly, the New Leader,
and not one of the Socialists had
raised a whisper of protest at the
time.
Obermeier Of the Food Workers
Union, pointed out in his testimony
that it was socialist lawyer, a col
league of Hillquit, who had obtained
the Injunction for the market where
Steve Katovis was murdered by a
Tammany policeman last year. He
showed further that the injunctions
that have been obtained against the
militant food workers have been OBJ
tanned by members Of the bosses
party of which Hillquit is the ma
tional chairman.
Betrayed Worker Clients.
The other witness Louis Lyman.
of the Needle Trades Industrial
Union, Nessin Of the Unemployed
Council Salzman of the Interna-
tional Workers Order, clearly exposed
the bosses part that Hillquit and his
party have played in the betrayal of
the workers in the shops and in the
fraternal organizations, and the OPP
preston Of the unemployed workers
who have been evicted by such So
cialists as Panken Of New York and
the socialist officialdom of Reading
and Milwaukee. Hyman's story
showed that Hillquit as a lawyer for
workers organizations had been gull
ty of such betrayal and robbery of
his clients that the dirtiest Tam
many lawyer would not have been
guilty Of. Not only was Hillquit the