Fresh Evidence of Frame-Up Accumulates in Terzani Case
Beffel, John Nicholas
Fresh Evidence of Frame-Up Accumulates in Terzani Case By John Nicholas Beffel FRESH charge* reflecting on the conduct of District Attorney Charles S. Colden in the Anthony Fierro murder cast...
...We certainly do know more about Smith than Mr...
...Judge Neil of East Aurora charged that girls whose moral level was so low as to be a menace to others in the community were hired out at sixty «*nts a day, the money going to the state...
...This year's entertainment promises to be the best the General Defense Committee has ever put on here...
...The union's applications for temporary injunctions were granted...
...Esther Friedman will preside, and every Socialist woman is urged to bring a friend along...
...The benefit, which will in* dude dancing, will be staged in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place...
...Following the meeting the code will be rushed to Washington, Progressive Slate Elected By Press Assistants' Union AT the recent election of New York Press Assistants' Union No...
...Two suits were brought by employers and two by the union...
...Decision is pending...
...This is the third event of...
...The A. F. of L., through Vice-President Matthew Woll and Organizer Hugh Frayne, has pledged full support to the association in its efforts to bring about improved working conditions...
...the) Brooklyn Forum's 1183-34 season...
...The affair will mark the appreciation of comrades for the fine campaign conducted by Solomon, Laidler and Crosswaith, and will serve aa reception to the Bridgeport victors...
...The Family Miracle Loundry and the Queen Palace Laundry brought suits for permanent injunctions...
...The state pays tbe institutions for the upkeep of the Inmates, but the salaries do not always go back to the state, - ToDmeN.Y.ri»r>fiitM and Bridgeport Victon The three saajar candidate* in the recent election In New York, and Conrad** McLovy and Schwartskopf, may*« and city clerk of Bridgeport, will be the gaeet* of honor at a dinner arranged by Local New York on riday, December 8, in Debs Auditorium, 7 East 15th Street, at • p. as...
...But our investigators in Philadelphia have learned that when subpoenas were served on other prosecution witnesses there last week — prior to Saturday — they were told they would not have to appear Monday, because the trial would be postponed...
...We hope this will be a great success...
...The fact remains that the feebleminded girls, though they may be capable of working, are not necessarily capable of protecting themselves against the many evils they encounter...
...ACCOUNTANTS TO SUBMIT NEW CODE Amendments to the code of fair practice and woiking conditions covering accountants are being drafted by the Public Accountants' Association, just organised by the American Federation of Labor...
...It has reported accurately for every cent it has raised...
...15, has been issued by Norman Thomas and the City Central Committee of the Socialist Party...
...He said the defense committee seemed to know more about what his chief witness is going to do than he did...
...The bill was passed, however, during the war hysteria, on the specious "patriotic" plea of shortage of workers...
...The object of this Socialist women's annual gathering is to review the special activities they have engaged in during the last year and to plan for future work looking to the growth and welfare of the Socialist Party...
...Colden also would know more about him if he would read the newspapers...
...Brief reports will be given as follows: "What We Did in the Last Campaign," Kate Gerber...
...Tickets for this event and sub* scriptlons for the balance of the season, at a considerable saving, may be secured at the Socialist Party office, 7 East 15th Street, or at the box office of the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
...I hope that its Christmas Fund entertainment for the help of political prisoners and thsir families will be a success...
...Among those who are participating In the sessions, being held in the Muhlenberg Branch Library, are the following: Clifton Fadlman, Everett Dean Martin, Houston Peterson, Richard McKeon, Nathaniel,Peifer, Irwin Erdman, Scott Buchanan and others...
...Mr...
...These girls are exposed to physical and moral abuse...
...Fresh Evidence of Frame-Up Accumulates in Terzani Case By John Nicholas Beffel FRESH charge* reflecting on the conduct of District Attorney Charles S. Colden in the Anthony Fierro murder cast were made Wednesday, following postponement of Athos Teraani's trial until December 11th because the prosecution could not produce its main witness, Commander Art Smith of the fascist Khaki Shirts...
...There is a bastardization process going on in the 'best homes' of the state, very much on the style of the South...
...Two years ago, the question came to the fore again...
...and Bronx Boulevard, involving 200 workers, continues in force...
...election of officers, executive committee and N. Y. representatives...
...Report of unit chairmen...
...Beedie and other officers of the union asked Mrs...
...Plans have been made for a meeting of public accountants within a few weeks to be addressed by prominent A. F .of L. officials...
...Kay was elected president, William Reihle, vice-president, Michael Morris business representative and recording secretary, all progressives...
...Proceeds from the sale of tickets, at 26 cents each, will enable the sending of Christmas checks to the prisoners and their dependents...
...Music will follow, with refreshments...
...15th, and I unhesitatingly recommend support of this entertainment to Socialists and others...
...Judge Thomas Kadien of the Queens County Court granted a two weeks' adjournment Monday despite objections of Arthur Garfield Hays, chief of defense counsel...
...The result of the election vindicated the opposition of the progressives...
...Only a limited number can be seated and those anxious to go are nrged to send in reservations at once, at only 91 per plate, to Julius Gerber, 7 Kaat 15th Street...
...Eleanor Herrick, in charge of the mediation activities of the local NRA Board, to mediate...
...The progressives also opposed imposition of an alleged contract on the local union by the International Union last April which would impose the burden of two operators to three automatic feeding machines on the men...
...themselves capable were allowed to work...
...These people are not in a position to take action, because only poverty would have caused them to send members of their families to a state institution in the first place...
...Others to be represented are the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Trade Union Unity League, and New York locals of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...I take a particular satisfaction in recommending its work...
...The lecture is under the auspices of the Brooklyn Forum...
...Smith is manifestly a paranoiac with delusions of grandeur, and with all the cruelty that goes with paranoia...
...The Afternoon Classes," Clara Rothstein and Sarah Volovick...
...To free itself from a union contract, the Erasmus Laundry of Brooklyn brought complaint against Samuel Rosenzweig, general manager of the union, charging "criminal coercion" because acting for the union he "compelled" the employer, under "threat" of a strike, to sign a contract...
...Colden spoke resentfully in court about statements by the defense committee assailing his office for inactivity, and about a radio attack on him by Norman Thomas...
...The purpose of the meeting is to obtain a full expression of opinion from as many accountants as possible as to the details of the code...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, at that time the Governor's wife, replied in-a letter that "it should be very easy" for the community to have the girls barred from the neighborhood If they were tonaidered undesirable, but she *«oU also that only girls who had ffvad...
...RADIO WORKERS ARE LOCKED OUT Two hours before the holding of a scheduled conference between officers of the Rudio Factory Workers' Union, 112 East 19th St., and the Emerson Radio Co., 641 Fifth Ave., 800 employees of the company, who are also members of the union, were locked out, according to William Beedie, union organizer...
...Time and again attention has been drawn to the horrible plight of these unfortunates—and then the matter is dropped...
...A decade and a half ago, when A. I. Shiplacoff was in the Assembly, he successfully fought a bill introduced by Assemblyman Davis of Rome, N. Y., which endeavored to legalize the pernicious practice of exploiting the feeble-minded in domestic service...
...The man they pointed out was permitted by Assistant District Attorney Joseph Loscalzo to leave the state in company with Smith, "who has shielded him ever since," the Terzani Defense Committee declares...
...15, indorsed the entertainment and dance arranged by your body for the benefit of the political prisoners...
...Julius Gerber, executive secretary, writes: "The City Executive of the Socialist Party of New York City, at its meeting Nov...
...8, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn...
...The state institutions involved in this practice, according to a report, are the one at East Aurora mentioned, the State Custodial Asylum at Rome, and "schools" at Syracuse and Letchworth Village...
...Defense investigators are searching in several cities for Smith, to aid Colden in carrying out his promise Monday to bring him to testify "by whatever means possible...
...SOCIALIST WOMEN TO ASSEMBLE FOR BIG GET-TOGETHER DEC...
...In these dialogue* the audience will actively participate...
...It was announced that the remainder of the program includes debates between Fennor Brockway and- Fred Henderson, Scott Nwring and Norman Thomas, George Gordon Battle and former Judge Jacob Panken, and between Max Eastman and B. Chtrnay Vladek...
...23, the progressive forces, led by Comrade Leonard C. Kaye and Michael Morris, ex-president and ex-organizer respectively, won a victory...
...His anthologies are in use in all schools and colleges...
...Kaye and Morris had carried on a campaign against the surrender by the union, supported by the local officers, of the union's contract to International President Berry...
...Feeble-Minded Girls Are Farmed Out as Servants By Charlotte C.lassman •THERE exists in New York State * a group of people who can best be designated as workerpatients...
...If my engagements permit, I shall be present Dec...
...This experiment consists of the introduction of the-Socratic dialogue in discussion of social, economic and historical subjects, to revive and modernize a dialectical method which has proved very valuable in the history of philosophy...
...The victims are not only the inmates themselves, but their relatives, who are in many cases aware of the abuse suffered by the unfortunates...
...The strike of the Radio Factory Workers' Union against the Cornell Dubiller Condenser Corporation, 232nd St...
...Colden Would Save Face" "These discoveries are simply new evidence of what I have repeatedly charged—that either the District Attorney's office is partner to a frame-up or it is shockingly careless of the rights of an Innocent man if only it can save its own face and have an indictment for murder against some one, no matter whom nor on whose testimony he is held...
...the concert on Jan...
...It is to be hoped the people of Queens County will wake up soon to the real character of the man on whom their District Attorney relies to send Terzani to prison...
...We know also that Smith telephoned from his lawyer's office in Philadelphia to Colden's office around October 16th and warned the prosecution that he would not testify in this trial unless he received the fees due him for his testimony before the magistrate and the grand jury...
...SOCIALISTS ENDORSE DEFENSE COMMITTEE'S BENEFIT AND DANCE CTRONG indorsement of the **' General Defense Committee's annual Christmas Fund concert and entertainment, to be held on Friday, Dec...
...Uhtermeyer is one of America's most widely read poet abroad, and at home is generally recognized as one of the most brilliant poets of his generation...
...A progressive was also elected In the Junior Branch ns vice-president Great American Poet at *| Brooklyn Forum Sunday IOUIS UNTERMEYER, the famous poet and critic, who was termed "the most versatile genius in America" by Assy Lowell, will discuss "What Americans Read and Why" this Sunday evening, Dec...
...prisoners In jail in Yakima, Wash., and numerous others...
...Norman Thomas, in a letter to Herbert Mahler, writes: "The Defense Committee has don* a splendid job in helping political prisoners and their families...
...Modern Dialectics at Muhlenberg Forum A unique experiment will be A unique experiment i* being undertaken by the Muhlenberg Forum in connection with its weekly lecture program...
...Union demands are 55 cents per hour minimum wage, a 86-hour work week, and union recognition...
...Educational Tripa to Art Science and Industry, Exhibits," Estelle Abramson...
...Colden and his associates pleaded in court that they couldn't go to trial because Smith told a process-server in Baltimore he would not come to testify," declared Norman Thomas, who heads the Tenant Defense Committee...
...The next term of the Afternoon Women's Class at the Rand School begins Monday, January 8, 1:80 to 8:30 p. m. Sessions are devoted to the Socialist movement and public speaking...
...Colden," said Norman Thomas, "for we have taken the trouble to investigate that racketeer's actions thoroughly...
...Guest speakor will be our standard-bearer in the recent city campaign, Charles Solomon...
...Victorious in all cases, the union was represented by Charles Solomon and Louis P. Goldberg, Socialists...
...LAUNDRY DRIVERS' UNION WINS SUITS •yHE Laundry Drivers' Union, * Local 810, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has won four notable legal victories growing out of Injunction suits incidental to its organization campaign...
...9 (SOCIALIST women in Greater New York will foregather for a big night at their annual get together party Saturday evening, December 9, at the Rand School Studio, beginning at eight sharp...
...These people, inmates of state institutions for the feebleminded, are hired out at sixty cents a day, thus receiving all the disadvantages of the unchampioned worker and none of the attention due a patient...
...In a letter to The New Leader, Comrade Shiplacoff writes: "The abuses against these boys and girls are shameful...
...The union brought suits against the Flushing Queenshoro Laundry and the Kleen Laundry Service to restrain them from breaking contracts to employ union men exclusively...
...Meyer A bra m son of the United Hebrew Trades, Rachel Stone of the I.W.W., Charles I. Goldman of the Pocketbook Workers' Union, Frank Wedl of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators, Local 499...
...It has been estimated that in 1930 over 8,000 male and female patients were committed to these institutions, Rome having the greatest number...
...The prisoners include Mooney and Billings, Matt Schmidt and James McNamara in California, the seven Kentucky miners serving life sentences, the I.W.W...
...the national women's committee will also take place...
...While these discussions will be planned to adhere to a strictly logical development of the subject, they are In no sense debates...
...On the night Fierro was killed, in a Khaki Shirts meeting in Astoria, Tersani was held for the murder solely on Smith's accusation—after Terzani and another eye-witness had identified a Khaki Shirta member as the slayer...
...Five members of a labor jury of nine, representing as many labor organizations, attended Monday's hearings, and are to attend the trial and render their own verdict Those present were: Samuel Krinsky of Philadelphia, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 23
