The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Workers
HitTerrOr
In Ballot
AN Candidates Backed
By Communist Party
Gain in California
Especial to the Daily worker


Aug. 31.-Tremendous work
ing class resentment to the
recent wave of terror
launched against workers
organizations is shown in the
primary election turns
coming in from California, Leo
Gallagher, attorney for the Inter
national Labor Defense, candidate
for Supreme Court Justice on an in
dependent ticket endorsed by the
Communist Party, polled 10000
votes with about 600 precincts still
uncounted. In San Francisco Gal
lagher is now close second.
Leo Gallagher, internationally
famous labor attorney, defended
many of the workers who we're
Jailed following the recent raids on
workers headquarters after the
general strike. Last year he de-
Tended the members of the Labor
Sports Union who ran in the 1892
Olympics bearing placards demand
ing the freedom of Tom Mooney.
Active for years in the Mooney
Case, Gallagher led the fight for
new trial in 1888. He was part
of an international committee to
Investigate conditions in Nazi con-
centration camps. Last year, run
ming for the Office of Municipal
Court Judge in San Francisco, he
polled 69,273 votes.
Communist Vote Large
In the early primary returns to-
day, local Communist candidates
also polled large votes. Meyer
Lesson, Communist candidate for
Superintendent of Schools in Oak
land, received 5,579 votes with some
precincts still missing.
A large part of the protest votes,
early returns indicate. were diverted
into channels of the demagogues
who are making political capital out
Of the red raids" Judge Lazarus,
for instance, led Steiger, Deasy and
the rest In the field for the Office
Of Superior Court Judge. The sig
nif1cance of this can be seen when
Il is understood that Lazarus freed
$50 of the workers arrested during
the general strike, apologizing to
them for the arrests.
Judge Steiger, on the other hand,
imposed heavy sentences on all pris-
oners who came before him and
issued the most provocative anti
Communist statements.
Ben Lindsey, the liberal judge,
who protested the anti-red terror,
received twice as many votes as all
his opponents put together in the
Office of Superior Court Judge of
Los Angeles.
AS far as incomplete reports for
the non partisan candidates, run
ming on ticket endorsed by the
Communist Party show, in San
Diego county. Leo Gallagher polled
BIAS votes; Wilmer Breeder, run
ming for District Attorney, polled
3.498; Herman C. Bullman, running
for Superintendent of Schools,
polled 3,545, as against 1,4o0 last
year.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. -
Seventy-two workers have been ar
rested in California for labor ac-
tivities during the past six weeks,
the 14th District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense reported to-
day.
Fourteen are still in prison, while
eighteen have been released on bail
totalling $4,000. Sentences i'm
posed total 86 months. Three work.
ers were given suspended sentences.
Thirty were discharged without
trial after being held for "investi-
cation"
The second trial of Joseph 10th,
one of seven workers arrested at
the June 1 relief demonstration
has been set for Sept. by Judge
A. A. Scott, after the defense at
torneys won a mistrial verdict.
The same jury had convicted
McShann, Hendricks, Sanders and
Tennery. w. T. Seasons was ac-
quilted, and Arthur Milton has not
vet been tried Milton, a 67-year-
old worker, was SO badly beaten by
the police that the prosecution
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