The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-18
BULGARIA WORKERS PROTEST GOVT BAN
ON SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE CAMP
Delegations Workers Organize ton Visit Mrs Ada Wright Scots
Mother Pledge Support for Mass Fight to Free Boys
HUGHES VICIOUS
WORKERS ENEMY
Chief Justice Acted
for Bosses, Grafters

This record of the United States
Supreme Court cries aloud the
warning to the white and Negro
workers fighting for the freedom of
the ScottsbOrO boys TO intensity the
mass fight, to increase their protest
actions and in every possible way
exert still greater pressure on the
capitalist high court. This warm
ing is further emphasized by the
personal records of the justices
composing the Supreme Court.
Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice,
has long record of defending big
capitalists and corrupt politicians in
their raids on the public funds. His
anti-labor record is notorious. He
was once the law partner of Paul d.
CraVath, described by the authors of
More Merry Col Round" as "for
many years the confidential agent of
Thomas F. Ryan, multi millionaire
and insurance operator whose corpor-
ations were notorious for corrupting
legislatures"
PROJECTED Corporations
AS governor of New York, the pres
ent Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court protected large corporation in
terests by yetoing measures affecting
them, such as a two cent railroad
fare bill. For this protection of their
interests, the corporations saw that
he was regarded with appointment to
the United States Supreme Court by
President Taft He faithfully served
his masters for six years on the Su-
prsme Court, leaving his perch "above
the struggle" to act as republican
standard bearer in the presidential
election campaign of 1916. After his
defeat in the presidential campaign
he went back to his private law prac-
tees and became the darling of big
business and his first case was in
defense of a notorious Tammany
graft contract" (Authors of More
Merry -Round.") He shamelessly
used his connections on the Supreme
Court to champion corporation in
terests before that court, itself an
able defender of these interests.
Lawrence Workers Note!
At attorney for the American Wool
en- Company, one of the most vicious
wage cutting corporations, Hughes
successfully fought a tax levy on the
tremendous profits of that company
maneuvering on a needle point with
the specious argument that cloth was
not clothing, and was therefore moi
subject to tax.
He was appointed Secretary o.
State in the notorious Harding ad.
ministration, and sat alongside Har.
ry M. Daugherty. Albert B. Fall Qatel
convicted and imprisoned in the Oh
Scandal cases. and Edwin DENLY
never raising his voice against theil
depradations. He found time, how
ever, to carry on a vicious and Sian.
derouS attack against workers rult
in the Soviet Union.
Again we quote from the author!
Of More Merry Go-Round;"
He 'waged a stupendOus battle
for the programs of big corpora
tiOnS abroad, especially the oil in
terests, and in Turkey was charged
by the American owned Turkish
Petroleum Company with discrim
ination in favor of the Standard
Oil interests which later retained
him as attorney"
Opposed Labor Legislation
Since his reappintment to the Su
preme Court, Hughes has Opposes
all legislation, forced through States
legislatures under pressure of publ
Indignation, aimed at limiting tn
huge profits Of the capitalists or at
fording some slight protection to la
Dor. Among other anti-working elias
acts, he he stabbed in the back, eve
the mild provisions of the Longshore
mems and Harbor Workers Compen
sation Act, interpreting its admins
tratiye features in such a manner a
to make it imperative.
Such is a brief survey of the
anti-working class record of the
Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court. With the anti-working class
anti-Negro record of the court as a
whole it must serve to rally the
workers and all honest intellectuals
to an intensification of the mass
fight TO smash the hideous lynch
verdicts and free the innocent
ScottsbOrO boys.