The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

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report Of what actually occurred at
these proceedings.
It is the excerpts-published verb
atim-from the complete report of
the proceedings that are played up"
by the capitalist press under eight
column headlines, plus what is not
reported at all, that creates In the
reader the picture of what actually
happened.
The enormous headlines, for ex-
ample, which proclaimed that Betty
Cow had frustrated Reilly's at
tempt to shake her testimony, we're
complete distortion of what actu-
ally took place, as careful scrutiny
of even the verbatim" partially
complete, reports will prove. Reilly
cross-examined Betty Cow that day
with the view of bringing out that
she was the intimate friend of Red
johnson, an apparently easy-living
sailor who was shipped to Norway
shortly after the kidnapping; that
she frequented roadhouses with him.
and that she had been in the COM
pany of many men in Detroit when
she had lived there. Reilly's purpose.
OF course, was to try to prove that
Cow liked the company of sophisti-
Gated men, and that when she lived
in Detroit she might have been
friendly with members of the no.
torious Purple Gang in that city
who have been accused of being the
actual kidnappers of the Lindbergh
/ baby.
What Press Omissed
And did Betty Cow actually make
Reilly look foolish, as every capital
ist paper in New York and almost
certainly in the United States, de-
clared, quoting the "yerbatiM" tes-
timony? On the contrary. Reilly
made his point every time. Not
only did Cow admit the three points
that he was trying to prove, but he
actually forced her to contradict
herself twice in her testimony on
important points. Something, none
of the capitalist papers mentioned,
although it was hidden in most of
the verbatim reports which they
carried.
Then there is the enormous
amount of wordage being carried in
the capitalist press to the effect
that the population of Pennington
is in white heat over the trial.
The purpose of these stories is to
try to convince the American work
ing class that not only are the
newspapers vitality interested in the
proceedings of the Hauptmann trial.
but that the local workers are too.
1T is perfectly justifiable for you.
as workers, to be interested in this
trial to the exclusion of your real
interests" the capitalist press is
saying, because the workers of
Pennington, whose interests are
similar to yours and who know more
about the case than you do, are in
terested in 1t as much as we are.
And if the workers of Pennington
are interested in this case. you work.
ers needn't be ashamed of being in
terested in it, too"
But what are the facts9 The
workers of Pennington, as the Daily
Worker reported the very first day
of the trial, are NOT vitality inter
ested in the trial, precisely because
they know too much about it. Last
week this reporter happened to be
present when photographer took
shot" of Pennington workers who
were waiting to be allowed to en-
ter the courtroom. There were
certainly no more than Is to 80
workers punched together in line,
but as the New York journal car
ried the photograph the next day.
under the caption "swirling crowd
tries to enter COURTROOM the pic
ture seemed to prove that half the
population Of the town was wait