Montana labor news., 1934-05-24
Strikers to Meet Anaconda Officials
Preliminary Plans Will Be Made
Racket AcqmttaIs Give
Sam insult Hope

CHICAGO-(FP)-Failure to CON
Wet alleged racketeers and failure to
make previous convictions stick are
giving Samuel Insult hope that Chica-
go legal processes will be similarly fut-
lie in his case. Indicated as using the
mails to defraud prospective investors
in his lettering utility syndicates, as a
fraudulent juggler Of assets in anticipa-
ton of bankruptcy, as an embezzler of
company funds and a major thief, be-
sides facing income tax suits and civil
suits by defrauded investors, the man
who with Al Capone ruled Chicago in
the interest of big business and high
finances is confident that the law eth
er cannot or will not touch him.
The half million dollars spent by the
state in a vain effort to convict the
cleaning and dyeing racket case de-
PENDANTS, which included an attempt
to catch the alleged higher-ups, showed
that an apparently watertight case and
lavish expense were not sufficient to
impress the jury. A few weeks earlier
the much-hearlded convictions of Chi
cago's socalled public enemies had been
reversed by the state supreme court.
The unjust law under which anyone
could be convicted if the prosecution
produced a couple Of witnesses to say
that the defendant had a bad public re-
putation was declared unconstitutional
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Chicago's cleanup of public enemies
and racketeers therefore SINNERS down
to federal convictions in income tax
cases. Actual gangster criminals es-
cape conviction on real crimes as cas-
lily as the magnates of industry and
banking have done. So Insult is hope
full.
An elaborate build-up of sympathy
has begun for the aged fugitive from
justice who was finally brought back
to the scene of his financial manipula-
tons, his political corruptions, his for
mer influence ove newspapers, judges
and schools. He is pictured as pen
niless though he lived in luxury in At
hens. His son, Samuel Insult, Jr., in
dicted with his father, is played up as
a pious upright young mar who valian-
tly refused to Il away. A grand
stand play against 100000 federal bail
has been made on the p%retense that
Insults cronies could not raise that
sum. The papers print tales of wild
owls wishing to offer mortgaged little
homes as security for the old exploiter's
bail.
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The strategy Of the R~oosevelt's ad-
ministration in taking such great pains
to make Insult face the music is sub
ject of much gossip in financial circles.
1t has long been known that Insults
associates did not want him to return
for fear of the revelations he might
make that would blast their regulations
and perhaps the restored confidence in
Chicago banks. The three principal
banks we're heavily involved in insult
schemes and the Dawes bank in parti-
cular was up to its neck in them, just
avoiding breaking federal statutory IL
mutations by legal hairsplitting.
Insult, though giving cash from his
companies to candidates of both old
parties was regularly republican in III
inois, Frank Smith, whom he financed
with spot cash for more than SIPS 900
dollars and got into the U. s. Senate,
was thrown out by that body for cleo
toral corruption. Both Illionis sena-
tors at present are Democrats. One
theory is that Roosevelt, while failing
to chase husky and healthy money
changers out Of the temple, is never
theless putting up a show by getting
after the down and cutters.