"SHE GOT WHAT SHE DESERVDED"
"SHE GOT WHAT SHE DESERVDED" LATEST c*mrnnWtnW*^t*ctoL JUSTICE By John W. Edelman ^TROCDSBT-*RG. a Pennsylvani 3 hamlet la the Poconos, ha given smertm what may yet be " l a e r t ....
...Many of them have equities in their homes—or thought they had equities before realty value* shrunk...
...I t refused t o indict the slayers of the Fr^Tr""* girl because the District Attorney introduced evidence that led th* jurors to believe that when killed, the Bachman girl waa in the company of a young man who was carrying around a can of yellow paint...
...Shun had issued against the strikers, a certain Mrs...
...In railroading too, Um smaller 1 number of men were doing a lugger Job...
...If Hoffmann waa in this city when somebody's window was hrehsn...
...The booklet is a revelation of distress as it affects the thousands of unemployed in Los Angeles...
...Building stone in inexhausUble quantities and of the finest type abound...
...The workers had been obliged to work a 13-hour shift often without any lunch period...
...The* ta I moment when one of tat...
...They cannot for one whole day swing a pick or shovel, or push a wheelbarrow full of dirt or rock—to say nothing of five successive days...
...But the significant and sensational feature of this appeal is the character and standing of the men making i t This booklet was not gotten out by obscure reformers or by persons unknown whose hearts have been touched...
...He also gave th* delegation to understand that so far as he was concerned, strikebreakers ware perfectly Justified in carrying firearms...
...If the need were any leas vital, I would not write in this urgent vein...
...To these former wage and commission earners, financial* disaster has added a still more pitiful army—men in advanced years who came to Los Angeles to retire, invested their means to what they thought was safety, aad bow find that income has stopped aad principal is probably lost...
...It is replete with statistics relative to the number out of work, what has been done to provide work, and what has been and is being done to feed those unable to find work...
...When the first indictment returned against Hoffmann waa proven by defense attorneys to have been illegally drawn, and technically shuaetlv...
...Ths recent bund SB turns into aa equally Bp toe panic grows awnrsl * j crash cones...
...In the second place...
...Fines amounting to as much as $18 a week were Late January, the°auk workers sent tor a leprassatBtnis of the a aaanthng of fths Msawaota^rotS ers arranged...
...e e When defense attorneys pointed nest in their address to the Jury that no conspiracy had been proven to th* extent that no two persons had ever gotten together to agree to do the things alleged, LeBar told the Jury net to worry shout that but to go right ahead and convict Hoffmann if they behaved he Was in Btroudsburg when windows were broken and atones thrown at houses...
...The Jury, however, did not sustain these last two...
...Alberta Bach maim was killed on February 21...
...Their lost to kin was so great that when the deer-rifle jammed after five shots, on* of the strikebreakers puBed an automatic from his' hip holster and continued to shoot...
...LeBar not only got three counts on which -Hoffmann was convicted hut two Ottawa also, charging conspiracy to murder...
...MUer, wife of one of the Bachman girl's slayers, testified that at "some union meeting, she couldn't remember which one, either Hoffmann or Jensen Shaw, local leader of th* strikers, bad told the strikers to do away with strikebreakers by sending their autos over embankments...
...With aa effort to earn his salary, Judge | Shun saved the day for America by tipping off LeBar to resubmit the indictment to the Grand Jury which was sUU sitting and bring back a good one, warranted to stand the wear and tear of blind Justice...
...LeBar was willing to admit his unfitness for office and drop the case...
...Beneath this UUe, th* outside cover of th* booklet is the subtitle which says, "Read This Booklet Through," and beneath that in smaller type is this significant statement, T t contains facta wnsch cannot be advertised r* In a letter accompanying th* booklet, which is being sent through (the mails to responsible citizens of the community, and signed by Joseph Scott, prominent attorney and civic leader, among others is this statement: "Those who apply to these relief agencies are not the, ever-present poor...
...he was guilty of conspiracy" LeBar insisted, "no one in this courtroom can believe that any Btroudsburg boy or girl would throw a atone at somebody's window unless they were told to do so by that super-criminal, Hoffmann...
...In toe meantime proU [ greatly Increased aad tt . a n y Increased demand...
...The mill ran as a union shop...
...every ssteal that to not planted ups* » est ground goes to p>so» fortune overtakes not tst-J lent concerns alone bat m which to ordinary times W aged to keep their besW water...
...As may be expected, a few unAmerican "malefactors and hoodlums"— as the Bar Association in a formal motion characterised the strikers—voiced displeasure with the action, or rather the lack of action, of the Grand Jury...
...Feldgeise, a Philannsphj*/ Attarany-for the Mammoth MUX as assistant district attorneys...
...While this booklet is a gruesome recital, it dees not tea th* whole horrible story of poverty and woe, which have hit Los Angeles like a besom of destruction, leaving crime and despair in its wake...
...Immediately be-County Detective Gorgy, the Mill man war* at th* horns of the il ilk* liieeheis and had seen thi , srsenal of weapons which was beWhen a group of Alberta Bach , menu's feUow-etrikers called on thi , Sheriff that morning and demanded that be arrant the killers ths Sheriff flatly refused...
...The Federal government publishes an index number of the physical volume of production in manufacturing for the years in Which it takes its census of manufacturing...
...I t refused t o indict the slayers of the Fr^Tr""* girl because the District Attorney introduced evidence that led th* jurors to believe that when killed, the Bachman girl waa in the company of a young man who was carrying around a can of yellow paint...
...to Wisconsin, they increased 4...
...Hoffmann was convicted on much -amor* unassailable and ~4issjajlraey 4* isimiiH assault aad Battery em awe Laesag Hnreeg*> Horace Storm and other perBotoas mischief iyy\ throwing...
...e e When defense attorneys pointed nest in their address to the Jury that no conspiracy had been proven to th* extent that no two persons had ever gotten together to agree to do the things alleged, LeBar told the Jury net to worry shout that but to go right ahead and convict Hoffmann if they behaved he Was in Btroudsburg when windows were broken and atones thrown at houses...
...Labor was unfortunate during the Hefimann trial in having the Judge, Samuel E. Shull, President of Monroe and Pike County Courts, and" Baarae...
...While District Attorney LeBar found It Impossible to get the murderers indicted by the Monro* Grand Jury, it waa a cinch to 'get the conspiracy indictment against Hoffmann...
...loyal ti their employer end not strikers walk th* Stooudsburg streets free from uiismntlisi and eppanid eel by th* Monroe Grand Jury, thi District Attorney, the local new* papers and th* bar sisnslsHun To th* same Institutions credil must be given tor the conrictiox of Alfred Hoffmann, nnkm oigenixer, on charges of conspiracy...
...No mention is made of the miles of vacant small store buildings, never again to be occupied, or of the thousands of tenanUees flat and apartment house structures, which may or may not be reoccupied in the uncertain future...
...It must also be remembered sad adequately memorialized someday, that Judge Shun was responsible for the prosecution of Hoffmann...
...L sThenever he forgot to ask a > to Sgyanht aiajiallnhya/5 to grant LeBar a special prosecutor to assist* him in the anhTSns cane...
...If, for Instance, to toe generation gone by, a farmar's crop of grain happened to be larger than he needed, he stored up toe grain against poorer years, sad when his barn was full, he would feed his cattle with toe residue, or, a t wont, let it lie sad spoO, I t is otherwise with toe modern system of commodity production...
...In' stead, to* owners of todostry used i toss* lsboi saving devices solely i to increase profits, aad incidentally i to nsersses aiiauufliij main, wtthi out giving toe working class a s a i whole a single nickel to to* way ' of a a increase to total pnwiueTs That the employing ctoas win do anything else voluntarily may well be doubted...
...Late last year, however, the silk textile mills in Stroudsburg became organized and in this way some accidental contacts with unionism were had by the hosiery workers...
...Hoffmann was convicted on much -amor* unassailable and ~4issjajlraey 4* isimiiH assault aad Battery em awe Laesag Hnreeg*> Horace Storm and other perBotoas mischief iyy\ throwing...
...These state figures teU practically ths same story of a further alight but steady decrees* in employment Probably it was the lowest paid workers who suffered most from this reduction in the working force...
...At this point it must not be for- ' gotten that while the situation in Los Angeles is indescribably bad, it is no worse than that which ex- i ists in other American cities, of i similar size...
...never were the charms of the fair sex so cheap and so easily secured...
...A request to this effect was made by the father of the murdered girl...
...As may be expected, a few unAmerican "malefactors and hoodlums"— as the Bar Association in a formal motion characterised the strikers—voiced displeasure with the action, or rather the lack of action, of the Grand Jury...
...Neat-9 served with a copy aifi...
...Perhaps the fact that the conspired murders never took place made them Indictable in the eyes of the Grand Jury that refused to return a true bill on one that snuffed out the of e of a striker...
...While it is issued by the Community Chest, it must be remembered that the Chest itself is an agency of the Chamber of Commerce, Um Merchants and Manufacturers Association and ths Better American Federation...
...Wages prior to this time were substantially below the Union scale...
...For almost four years the firm succeeded in operating with help trained locally...
...They have been "white collar men" an their Uvea...
...Proportionately, as many are out of work and hungry In San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Um smaller towns and cities...
...tion they •=> held are] Union officii...
...Persons coming to Los Angeles from Eastern industrial centers claim that the change of residence closely resembles a Jump from Hell into Heaven...
...gtr toot *f to* Jsdjsrtv...
...Almost anything planted in the ground will grow profusely, and there are hundreds of square miles of idle fallow land awaiting Um farmer's plow...
...For Instance, comparing 1933 With 1938 in New Tork state, payrolls declined 3.7...
...SSuler sad other persons...
...There are bigger and better limestone formations and more mountains of cement than any other state can show...
...Labor was unfortunate during the Hefimann trial in having the Judge, Samuel E. Shull, President of Monroe and Pike County Courts, and" Baarae...
...represent Neither does it can attention to the fact that coincidentally with the publication and careful circulation of this booklet, $380,000 are being spent by the AH Year Club to advertise in Eastern magazines and newspapers the wonderful advantages and possibilities Los Angeles offers to investors and newcomers, this money being an outright donation to the AH Tear Club from the taxpayers through the city treasury, the entire fraud being perpetrated at the instigation of the Chamber of Commerce, with the sanction and connivance of the city authorities...
...they are soon sn*f ' t h e necessity of pronuaf opportunity in order set] [ I behind to the compettB j "The devil takes t h t fl In the meantime ths §m | toe increased quastirftt I becomes ever more essfl warehouses ful up T e tJ [burly goes on...
...cod— BOB si j to tamper with the automobfie of Floyd Andre.'* ' • • • Th* peculiarities of Grand Juries have bees remarked before but the Monroe panel is worthy of especial consideration...
...Flimsy as this testimony was...
...L sThenever he forgot to ask a > to Sgyanht aiajiallnhya/5 to grant LeBar a special prosecutor to assist* him in the anhTSns cane...
...They do not belong "on the county," and Um county has no funds with which to oar* for them...
...LeBar glossed over the fact that easing the time of the alleged WBaBdrsry against Kreege and the others, they had not yet gone back to work, were still members of the n*ion and were cooperating in all strike activity...
...About four years ago, the manufacturing was shifted to Stroudsburg in an effort to get away from the union...
...L sThenever he forgot to ask a " l a e r t . Bachmaa, pretty and 25 • Sunday School teacher bat ate a bcadiry striker, Ilea hi • wind Her alayen, four men...
...There is plenty and to spare, and it should be available to every man, woman and child who desires to come here to live...
...The total ton miles of ; revenue freight hauled by'the Class : A railroads of this country, to- creased from 1919 to 1938 by 28%, i aad even increased over l92Vbyvices aad speed-up -systems to in' crease profits aad for no other 1 purpose...
...he was guilty of conspiracy" LeBar insisted, "no one in this courtroom can believe that any Btroudsburg boy or girl would throw a atone at somebody's window unless they were told to do so by that super-criminal, Hoffmann...
...at aw* • goods increase...
...Early in February, the company posted notices of a wage reduction...
...Since then, JUlO out at the »trikaa^2H bitter severity sssfl • the whole h i s t a H I tions...
...and in Maseachussette, they decreased 15...
...When the first indictment returned against Hoffmann waa proven by defense attorneys to have been illegally drawn, and technically shuaetlv...
...For the total payrolls from 1919 to 1927 increased 3.7% despite the reduction in the working fore...
...Hun, he jailed as a material witness...
...During a recent hearing on a plea by the Mammoth management to make permanent a sweeping injunction...
...Although th* state's witnesses confined their tsettmony to the conspiracy to murder, the Jury coavictad TtorTBisiin on the minor counts on which no testimony had been heard...
...meet his oblige:.an* as (Next comes to* turn of •» j facturer He also bet sal !debts that fall dee: mm j cannot pay him, be toe...
...Yet this marked increase to productivity was accomplished by actually fewer workers...
...It must also be remembered sad adequately memorialized someday, that Judge Shun was responsible for the prosecution of Hoffmann...
...The decade prior to 1939, was marked by the rapid introduction of new labor-saving devices and speed-up' systems, so that productivity per worker has increased very greatly th every line...
...Moreover, the total production of society is not carried on to a systematic way...
...SSuler sad other persons...
...Not only were the 4 killers permitted to remain at large, they also went to work the next day in the hosiery mill where a strike fore the murder had taken place, 1 was in progress...
...the Union did not approach the worker nor waa any union propaganda carried on...
...LeBar was willing to admit his unfitness for office and drop the case...
...Natural gas and undeveloped water power sufficient to run every factory on earth are here The Eastern advertisements by the All Tear Club concerning the sunshine and scenery characteristic of this section are not overdrawn...
...Perhaps the fact that the conspired murders never took place made them Indictable in the eyes of the Grand Jury that refused to return a true bill on one that snuffed out the of e of a striker...
...he was guilty of conspiracy" LeBar insisted, "no one in this courtroom can believe that any Btroudsburg boy or girl would throw a atone at somebody's window unless they were told to do so by that super-criminal, Hoffmann...
...For Um average number of employees, to manufacturing waa 8,997,921 to 1919, and 8,349,756 in 1927...
...Capitalism And Industrial Crisis By Karl Kautsky > [Th* following excerpts art iakei I from Kautsky's ''The Class Strug git," the English translation bein . made in 1910.1 , rj-iHE great modern crises whicl \ X convulse th* world's market , arise from overproduction, 'which ' in its turn, arises from toe plan ' leesaess that inevitably character ises our system of commedltj ' production...
...That none of the men connected with this appeal understand even remotely why conditions have , come that make it necessary goes without saying...
...Three of her companions were wounded in the same fatal encounter...
...I feel certain that after you have read the accompanying article pamphlet, and I earnestly urge you to follow closely the story It unfolds, you wj...
...Conspiracy, not as night be BWegsaed to destroy the peace sjf salad at th* owners of the Mammoth Hosiery MUL or to destroy the yellow-dog irfVicrfirt at the nun, or to obtain the re-employment of seventeen union work* ars dismissed because they attended • union meeting, or to send the two hundred strikers back to work * under decent conditions and a proper living wage...
...confidence btssfi r I credit grows boundhnnm • h a s money seeks to t d ' c a p i t a l to make-it proaf 1 dustrial giddiness taksjl [ of all...
...Railroading,'1 for instance, far from absorbing displaced Workers was adding to the number of the unemployed...
...At such times Um *** I trial SsnBBsgUsm 'Is shea* j very center...
...e e When defense attorneys pointed nest in their address to the Jury that no conspiracy had been proven to th* extent that no two persons had ever gotten together to agree to do the things alleged, LeBar told the Jury net to worry shout that but to go right ahead and convict Hoffmann if they behaved he Was in Btroudsburg when windows were broken and atones thrown at houses...
...J It is at such si***M*rj fact becomes nwet fisrBM the modern productive i*9J becoming most becoming more sad • * * f ellable with to* system m tion for aale, aad tost prt ership to toe meant et tfJJ tfJJis growing tats s greater curs*—first * * • of toe pmcawtytoss...
...There is an unwritten, but none the leee prevailing law in Stroudaburg, that t o c a n y a can of paint daring strike times is a greater and far more heinous crime than killing a woman, whose most solid link with a criminal career was teaching Sunday School...
...TbouaBBl ish from cold and hunger • they have produces ts»|| clothing, too macs too* *• many houses...
...hundreds of such heads of families, the work offered under city bond Issues affords no relief...
...This was not a steady increase, however, for the total payrolls in manufacturing declined 1%% from 1928 to 1937...
...A fining system enforced by the company was used to penalize woiheis whose attitude towards management was not sufficiently submissive...
...A request to this effect was made by the father of the murdered girl...
...I t refused t o indict the slayers of the Fr^Tr""* girl because the District Attorney introduced evidence that led th* jurors to believe that when killed, the Bachman girl waa in the company of a young man who was carrying around a can of yellow paint...
...a Pennsylvani 3 hamlet la the Poconos, ha given smertm what may yet be " l a e r t . Bachmaa, pretty and 25 • Sunday School teacher bat ate a bcadiry striker, Ilea hi • wind Her alayen, four men...
...The 88 want tshaj Justice of the pease * * • with unlawfu: tsaanskni terf ering wl th as oshnrfl duct of his duty...
...oa toe contrary, it is left to each producer to estimate for him serf the demand there may be for the goods which h e produces...
...After lisj?B Using of ths stTBavi swkT**^^ m *a $000 fines on t S fH hosiery striken banana local leade-t on ooaa**9 charges...
...LeBar glossed over the fact that easing the time of the alleged WBaBdrsry against Kreege and the others, they had not yet gone back to work, were still members of the n*ion and were cooperating in all strike activity...
...But within to* circle of capitalist production itself special branches of industry take to* lead, as for in stance, to* Iron and spinning industries...
...Feldgeise, a Philannsphj*/ Attarany-for the Mammoth MUX as assistant district attorneys...
...Perhaps the fact that the conspired murders never took place made them Indictable in the eyes of the Grand Jury that refused to return a true bill on one that snuffed out the of e of a striker...
...Conspiracy, not as night be BWegsaed to destroy the peace sjf salad at th* owners of the Mammoth Hosiery MUL or to destroy the yellow-dog irfVicrfirt at the nun, or to obtain the re-employment of seventeen union work* ars dismissed because they attended • union meeting, or to send the two hundred strikers back to work * under decent conditions and a proper living wage...
...The largest ocean filled with flab and presenting the finest harbors are at hand...
...tor dsHltl I goods, but no money...
...BEFORE THIS DEPRESSION By Alfred Baker Lewis TH E present depression is the culmination of a fairly steady process which has been going on for the past eight or ten years...
...Of the Great White Collar Class, the book says: "The stock market collapse, the real estate market collapse, the reduction of forces in offices in oil, finance and other companies, the discharge of salesmen from stores have brought to disaster the plans of thousands of men—head* oi families—who never dreamed that they might become objects of the Community's compassion and generosity...
...Others with him in Um Community Chest are like-minded in this regard...
...FOR MERCY'S SAKE" Western Cities Present Tragic Picture of Suffering und Destitution By George H. Sheaf THE words forming the heading of this article constitute the title of a small booklet Just issued by the Emergency Relief Appeal of the Community Chest of Los Angeles, Calif...
...and thnjnns were not n-:i?ec of H A D the Injunction unhl ssBnl fcr contem;: had bssta-H teen of the 52 la J a ] 9 for content-- oi court M two heard were Jena] young strike ieader, ssffl er-in-law, Ezra KanM%9 Uve in the strike 8hSM kle were fined $500 eeaVfl 80 days In jail The j f l the two men to s s s jB freed them to uphold *jl tuUon of the Units...
...Figures from the various states show approximately the same result of payrolls Just holding their own...
...Joseph "Scott who issued the appeal, possibly is Um best known private citizen in California, and one of the wealthiest, He is an arden.t champion of Um present social order, and his hatred of men and movements whose color is red or even pink is boundless...
...MUer, wife of one of the Bachman girl's slayers, testified that at "some union meeting, she couldn't remember which one, either Hoffmann or Jensen Shaw, local leader of th* strikers, bad told the strikers to do away with strikebreakers by sending their autos over embankments...
...they are families of men with splendid employment records who, in normal times, are able to face the world proudly aa self-dependent, aastaadtog citizens...
...Not until th* strikers threatened to take the law* into their own hands and bring the killers out of the saffl and throw them into Jau, did a deputy sheriff do that very thing...
...At such times ts»J priatiOB of the «nsfi * small producers, smell das* small capitalists goes ee 8 As a matter of »«B * 1 among Um large casttslW survive get rich b o o t y* tag a crisis two iniporto* take place: first, toe e*j tion of the "small fry": •** concentration of pro**** fewer hsads, aad the**accumulation of large a**| Few, if any...
...The Jury, however, did not sustain these last two...
...But it could as a matter of course, cause ne injury so long as toe producers produce for toe satisfaction of their own wants...
...With Los Angeles as its metropolis, Southern California probably is Um richest section in Um United State* in natural resources and agricultural and manufacturing possibilities...
...The state's case against Hoffmann consisted of the testimony of five renegade strikers, who had beam leaders in the strike originally but had seen the light and gone hack to work in the mill, that th* organizer had urged the strikers during a union meeting, to "shun scabs off the street, smack 'am in the face put sugar in the gasollns tanks of their cars and hurl their autos over high embankThe defense produced eighteen •llsnssn, Including Hoffmann himself, who testified his only advice waa to picket peacefully, shun liquor and firearms and refrain from violence because "violence never won a strike and lost the sympathy of the townspeople...
...Shun had issued against the strikers, a certain Mrs...
...If any one does, his published statements belie his private thinking...
...In appealing to the agencies for aid, they are acting with the desperation of the absolutely destitute...
...Southern California easily could feed, clothe and house the entire population of all the states Weet of Um Rocky Moun-• tains, and then have plenty of room for all Um needed golf grounds and airplane landing fields...
...That these men, who but a short while ago were sounding the virtues of Los Angeles as the nation's whitest spot in the matter of fundamental, progress and prosperity, should now be secretly circulating a booklet among themselves which they admit "contains, facts which cannot be advertised," is a commentary upon a situation that needs little further elaboration...
...These are toe two roots out of which grows toe crisis...
...They could easily have 1 shared a part of the gala with la' bor by reducing to* hours of monotonous toil so that more maI chteery might have meant mere ' leisure for all...
...cod— BOB si j to tamper with the automobfie of Floyd Andre.'* ' • • • Th* peculiarities of Grand Juries have bees remarked before but the Monroe panel is worthy of especial consideration...
...Stroudsberg as well as correct...
...Vegetables from this section are Shipped to ail points of the world...
...Labor was unfortunate during the Hefimann trial in having the Judge, Samuel E. Shull, President of Monroe and Pike County Courts, and" Baarae...
...No effort was mad* to uiilisilss th* aasaJoysss at that time and the nuiawa wire advised to avoid a strike If possible, A committee inter slew ad the a rm and after some discussion the wag* count controversy was settled by a compromise: other grievances were to be rectified...
...As may be expected, a few unAmerican "malefactors and hoodlums"— as the Bar Association in a formal motion characterised the strikers—voiced displeasure with the action, or rather the lack of action, of the Grand Jury...
...LeBar not only got three counts on which -Hoffmann was convicted hut two Ottawa also, charging conspiracy to murder...
...In ettaw words, 7 * fewer workers What this moans in terms of a fairly stow but ominously steady increase in unemployment can readily be imagined...
...If we are going tc raise wages sad shorten the hours of labor to proportion a* new machinery aad speedup systems ere put into use, employers as a class win have to be made to do i t Tt seems plain that to* oaiy way to malt* them do that is to hold over them toe threat of public ownership, by starting now on a vigorous campaign for public ownership of public utiUttos, to bo extended in turn to all large scale consolidated industry a s fast as the government cam be fitted to undertake such a task...
...The state's case against Hoffmann consisted of the testimony of five renegade strikers, who had beam leaders in the strike originally but had seen the light and gone hack to work in the mill, that th* organizer had urged the strikers during a union meeting, to "shun scabs off the street, smack 'am in the face put sugar in the gasollns tanks of their cars and hurl their autos over high embankThe defense produced eighteen •llsnssn, Including Hoffmann himself, who testified his only advice waa to picket peacefully, shun liquor and firearms and refrain from violence because "violence never won a strike and lost the sympathy of the townspeople...
...Flimsy as this testimony was...
...Hoffmann was convicted on much -amor* unassailable and ~4issjajlraey 4* isimiiH assault aad Battery em awe Laesag Hnreeg*> Horace Storm and other perBotoas mischief iyy\ throwing...
...Her* District Attorney LeBar'i whole effort seemed to be concentrated on proeJng that a can of yellow paint was carried in the automobile Th* testimony at the coroner's inquest described the shooting aa a veritable orgy by a competent Sergeant of State Police who made an investigation at the request of the strikers' attorney.The four men fired IT shots and two loads of buckshot from a dear-rifle, an automatic, an old .82 calibre revolver, a shotgun and a a old Spanish revolver...
...The state's case against Hoffmann consisted of the testimony of five renegade strikers, who had beam leaders in the strike originally but had seen the light and gone hack to work in the mill, that th* organizer had urged the strikers during a union meeting, to "shun scabs off the street, smack 'am in the face put sugar in the gasollns tanks of their cars and hurl their autos over high embankThe defense produced eighteen •llsnssn, Including Hoffmann himself, who testified his only advice waa to picket peacefully, shun liquor and firearms and refrain from violence because "violence never won a strike and lost the sympathy of the townspeople...
...They do not appear to realise that the breakdown is world-wide...
...Married women aad girls galore are competing with each other in their desperate efforts to sell their bodies for bread...
...In New Jersey, they increased 2.2...
...tfanMM - gin to fed the Wetnv' { f perlty...
...With the consideration of an old friend, he neglected \o confiscate the corpse of the girl...
...While District Attorney LeBar found It Impossible to get the murderers indicted by the Monro* Grand Jury, it waa a cinch to 'get the conspiracy indictment against Hoffmann...
...There is an unwritten, but none the leee prevailing law in Stroudaburg, that t o c a n y a can of paint daring strike times is a greater and far more heinous crime than killing a woman, whose most solid link with a criminal career was teaching Sunday School...
...SSuler sad other persons...
...Apparently they think that if enough charity la dispensed at the present time, none wui be needed later because of the resumption of prosperity...
...With aa effort to earn his salary, Judge | Shun saved the day for America by tipping off LeBar to resubmit the indictment to the Grand Jury which was sUU sitting and bring back a good one, warranted to stand the wear and tear of blind Justice...
...County Detective Calvin C. Gorgy furnished an admirable example of how the up-state police function in such a situation...
...AU employees of the Mammoth Mill in Stroudsburg were obliged to sign "yellow dog contracts...
...Conspiracy, not as night be BWegsaed to destroy the peace sjf salad at th* owners of the Mammoth Hosiery MUL or to destroy the yellow-dog irfVicrfirt at the nun, or to obtain the re-employment of seventeen union work* ars dismissed because they attended • union meeting, or to send the two hundred strikers back to work * under decent conditions and a proper living wage...
...As Attorney Holmes, counsel for the Mammoth Mill and President of the Bar Assocaiticm of Monroe County declared, "The god-d little r a t got Just what Sh* deserved...
...X "It is this class of people which In ever increasing numbers has been coming to the agencies of the Community Cheat, asking that they be allowed the bare necessities for aonUniting to Uve, to send their children to school, to hold on, as valuable citizens and residents of Los Angeles, until they can get on their feet again...
...osa tell* they win survive toe earn to* horrors of to* gcdsBH of production, the inw*** a UveUhood, want, J>K>***j crime, reach at sack tn***j tog proportions...
...cod— BOB si j to tamper with the automobfie of Floyd Andre.'* ' • • • Th* peculiarities of Grand Juries have bees remarked before but the Monroe panel is worthy of especial consideration...
...The agreement reached With the management was violated in every particular...
...everyone must buy what he needs...
...Southern California leads in the production of oranges, lemons, grape fruit, walnuts, avocado pears, and the deciduous fruits...
...Judge Shull did not hesitate to inprosecute Hoffmann...
...In toe first place, when the system is once wall developed, no one produces for himself, but for someone else...
...to Pennsylvania, they declined 33...
...Th* moment any of thaw receives A special Impetus —be it thiTsagh th* opening of extensive railroad lines, not only does it expaad rapidly, but it hnpam tke I it has received to thi iaa " I trial organism Csfsasl ' - l a r g e their rstlWIitia*• 9 new ones, increase th) si I tion of raw and stasayi h lals sad employ e r r shnt * taneously with all (to sat, l-1 sad wages go up...
...There is an unwritten, but none the leee prevailing law in Stroudaburg, that t o c a n y a can of paint daring strike times is a greater and far more heinous crime than killing a woman, whose most solid link with a criminal career was teaching Sunday School...
...For...
...The Jury, however, did not sustain these last two...
...During a recent hearing on a plea by the Mammoth management to make permanent a sweeping injunction...
...LeBar glossed over the fact that easing the time of the alleged WBaBdrsry against Kreege and the others, they had not yet gone back to work, were still members of the n*ion and were cooperating in all strike activity...
...A strike took place at The immediate Issue which provoked the walkout was the rati ami of the firm to reinstate men who had been axed...
...Only a Dickens could do Justice to the situation in describing it with his pen...
...These are distinctly our own neighbors...
...Travelers from San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle assert that, if anything, conditions in those northern cities are worse than to Los Angeles...
...He swung into immediate action after the shooting and arrested, not the four men who end the shooting, but one of the men who had been wounded...
...As Attorney Holmes, counsel for the Mammoth Mill and President of the Bar Assocaiticm of Monroe County declared, "The god-d little r a t got Just what Sh* deserved...
...Tt says nothing of the efforts made by the several brands of radicals to t ry to reach the starving workless workers with an explanation of the causes of their unemployment, and how all attempts by the radicals to put over a campaign of education are ruthlessly suppressed by the police, and that irrespective of the movement the radical...
...In the present instance, however, the gravity of the situa- • tion is so obvious and so completely beyond their comprehension that their biggest and best cry is, "FOR MERCY'S SAKE...
...Yet there were 7% fewer people at work in 1927, than in 1919...
...Two days later, the firm fired seventeen men who had been active in protesting against the wag* reductions...
...Truly, capitalism has almost collapsed in Southern California, so far as K relates to caring adequately for the needs of Um people The "big men" in charge who have undertaken Um responsibility of meeting the emergency seemingly understand neither the causes nor the remedy...
...Under, the rule of large production industrial capital steps ever more to toe treat-aad takes control of the whole capitalist mechanism...
...j In sentenciag the ttimu ShuU declared that t h a t! .ally on such thing « V picketing" and accmntJB workers, ncre of wsaagJJ injuncUon from a ,nwH ground, of trying to daam authority of the la* tfl courts...
...loyal ti their employer end not strikers walk th* Stooudsburg streets free from uiismntlisi and eppanid eel by th* Monroe Grand Jury, thi District Attorney, the local new* papers and th* bar sisnslsHun To th* same Institutions credil must be given tor the conrictiox of Alfred Hoffmann, nnkm oigenixer, on charges of conspiracy...
...The men displaced by manufacturing were certainly not absorbed in transportation...
...Yet 200,000 persons to Los Angeles alone are Jobless and on the verge of starvation...
...This index number shows an increase of 27.3% between 1819 and 1927, which waa Um latest year in which the census of manufacturing was taken and is available...
...in Delaware, they increased 1.7...
...want to make as generous a response to this appeal as you possibly can...
...As Attorney Holmes, counsel for the Mammoth Mill and President of the Bar Assocaiticm of Monroe County declared, "The god-d little r a t got Just what Sh* deserved...
...If then* assertions are true, then Um situation throughout the United States is indeed bad...
...At such that see' • i f every undertakiat*JKj i j per...
...The highways a r e filled with, tramps . great strong men and boys—who' stretch out their hands in vain for help...
...The Community Chest was sponsored and is now managed by Um biggest sad wealthiest men and women in the community...
...Just aa soon as the modern system of production baa outgrown its first stags, no one except the producer of coinable metals can buy before he has sold...
...loyal ti their employer end not strikers walk th* Stooudsburg streets free from uiismntlisi and eppanid eel by th* Monroe Grand Jury, thi District Attorney, the local new* papers and th* bar sisnslsHun To th* same Institutions credil must be given tor the conrictiox of Alfred Hoffmann, nnkm oigenixer, on charges of conspiracy...
...Not every one had a Job in 1919, and there was naturally a considerable increase in the population during these years...
...That the Sheriff of Monroe County is not th* only eonsUtuted authority to entertain fantastic notions of law enforcement was slMian ' a t the Coroner's inquest into t h* girl's death...
...The average number of men hired by the class A railroads in toe ; country, which includes practically an the railroad mileage in the United States, in 1819, was 1,913,433, and to 1939, It was only, 1,- : 880,890, a reduction of 13.8...
...If Hoffmann waa in this city when somebody's window was hrehsn...
...Feldgeise, a Philannsphj*/ Attarany-for the Mammoth MUX as assistant district attorneys...
...Thirty-afe 2 were arrested by { y l peaceful pi: keting saf8*1 Jail...
...The sight of old people and children quarreling over Um contents of garbage cans is common...
...While District Attorney LeBar found It Impossible to get the murderers indicted by the Monro* Grand Jury, it waa a cinch to 'get the conspiracy indictment against Hoffmann...
...Or they might : have used labor displacing maehia• ery to raise wages, so that toe i year by year could buy more...
...market has been satiatei ' toeJees, productic- deal , One producer does not hi j toe other Is shout, sad « l a lucid interval, mlsgn*j I arise in toe mini of M I talist...
...If Hoffmann waa in this city when somebody's window was hrehsn...
...Over-production, it | the sense of more being produce: than is actually needed, may occui under any system...
...Si j Thus one beakruptcy MM other until a general tsM suss...
...J' t i l e establishments assf] the goods receive* froaM ' facturer months before t t Jar* yet unsold...
...Ott production is second to none in the country...
...Judge Shull did not hesitate to in" l a e r t . Bachmaa, pretty and 25 • Sunday School teacher bat ate a bcadiry striker, Ilea hi • wind Her alayen, four men...
...The Mammoth 80k Hosiery Mills of Stroudsburg and Philadelphia, formerly conducted all manufacturing operations to Philadelphia...
...SHE GOT WHAT SHE DESERVDED" LATEST c*mrnnWtnW*^t*ctoL JUSTICE By John W. Edelman ^TROCDSBT-*RG...
...LeBar not only got three counts on which -Hoffmann was convicted hut two Ottawa also, charging conspiracy to murder...
...There are no federal figures in : manufacturing later than 1927, „ and Um figures for the 1939 cen- I sus of manufactures are not yet available, A number of states, i however, gather figures within I their own borders which bring toe picture down to 1929...
...9 Commonwealth and to Snm injunction...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 21
