THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says By WILLIAM T. EVJUE YESTERDAY A REPORTER FOR The Capital Times addressed this question to Marian B. Rogers, attorney for the state board of bar commissioners and president of the...
...Some more buck passing...
...They made a thorough investigation and did what they thought they had to do...
...There is now some literature on this desk signed by "The Dane County Communist Party, Box 183" which has been distributed over the weekend But is there any union label on the literature...
...The Chicago Tribune and the Hearst papers...
...We presume that if an inquiry is directed to the board of bar commissioners that they will pass the buck by saying their board is a creature of the supreme ocurt and that the board can make no pronouncements without the consent of the court...
...There is a Communist element in the Madison CIO council which pulls all possible wires to make impossible demands of employers in accordance with the Communist tactics of causing all possible disruption and discord between employer and employe...
...Would they not have said: "There you are, Roosevelt is already getting ready to go into a war on the side of the Allies when the time comes...
...The world being what it is today, there is an occasional gleam of comfort in the headlines...
...I am only an attorney and if he (Evjue) wants any information, he must get it from the board of bar commissioners...
...In this instance, however, Mr...
...The Dane County Communist party circulates much literature in this vicinity...
...Roosevelt had sounded a call for big appropriations for a system of national defense, what turn would the rabid anti-Roosevelt haters of the McCormick-Hearst crowd have taken on such a proposal...
...Gas attacks...
...The Milwaukee ,'ournal carries a story announcing that the Milwaukee County Industrial Union council (CIO) has starter', a chain letter campaign "to help '.eep the United States out of war...
...We hope that the readers of this column will read the editorial in today's newspaper...
...derived from the Albanian word "bukur," meaning joy...
...For years the disciplinary authorities directed by the Wisconsin supreme court seem to have had one code of discipline for big corporation lawyers and another code for the smaller and inconsequential lawyers...
...Walt's appointment gives assurance that the old home town of Merrill will be adequately defended...
...Il is in line with their present tactics in seeking to bore from within in the labor union organization...
...We want to submit a fair question to our readers and even to Col...
...But they don't bother themselves to practice what they preach...
...The Iowa county case has become exceedingly embarrassing to Mr...
...The Communists are now operating behind other fronts like CIO council*, the Workers' Alliance, the...
...All Walt needs for a uniform is the lumber jack outfit he wears when th» thermometer gets down to 30 below in mid-January...
...They are no longer to the open and the members of the party are not permitted to divulge their membership In the party...
...Walt will have to do to repel the attack is to light up that old corn oc'o pipe that he has been using for 20 years...
...McCormick and Mr...
...Rogers is not serving a private client...
...Evjue knows nothing of the kind, but Mr...
...seemingly unable to waive their bitter hatred of Roosevelt in a period of national emergency, have been harping on the day in and day out cry that Roosevelt has done nothing to promote an adequate system of national defense...
...Rogers replied: "I am unable to disclose any Information about that case...
...Roger's reply is the familiar trick of the lawyer seeking to duck and evade by contending that he is precluded from speaking because of the confidential relationship betwen law:yer and client...
...I can disclose nothing at any time...
...That's enough to keep anybody out of the sanctum...
...The state board of bar commissioners is an aggregation of corporation and utility lawyers who are as cagey as Mr...
...Hearst: If...
...ground...
...Rogers and in order to dodge the issue he employs the familiar device of passing the buck by saying that any information concerning the Iowa county case must come from the state board of bar commissioners...
...Morgan, and others will break away from the daily skat game to face the approaching enemy...
...Wisconsin Council for Social Legislation, peace organizations, youth organizations, and Negro congresses...
...The Editor Says By WILLIAM T. EVJUE YESTERDAY A REPORTER FOR The Capital Times addressed this question to Marian B. Rogers, attorney for the state board of bar commissioners and president of the Wisconsin Bar association, and Arthur W. Kopp, the referee appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme court to hear foe testimony in the case against Attorney Darrell D. Maclntyre: "Why has nothing been done concerning the former district attorney of *Iowa county who was found to have received money from violators of the law who sought protection in that county...
...Kopp, he replied: "I can't answer that...
...When the above question was directed to Mr...
...indeed, hasn't every effort made by the president of the United States to sound the call for an adequate defense been met with the charge that he was trying to get us into the war on the side of the Allies...
...Pres...
...Kopp was an attorney for the former Iowa county district attorney...
...Have the people forgotten the position that was taken by these Isolationists on the repeal of the embargo...
...And so the person seeking some information about the Iowa county case lands at the doorsteps of the supreme court where one meets the taboo that it is sacriligeous and lese majiste to address any inquiries to the members of the court...
...Readers of this column will recall that The Capital Times pointed out that Mr...
...But while the Communists seek to compel the unions to make all sorts of demands of employers, they don't bother to abide by union rules themselves...
...That case was fully investigated by the state board...
...Lieut...
...Evjue does know that Mr...
...He is presumed to be serving the state of Wisconsin,—at least he got $3,365 for his services as attorney for the state board of bar commissioners in 1939 although no one seems to be able to ascertain what he did to earn this money...
...The Capital Times believes that the citizens of Wisconsin have a riight to ask why it proceeds against srme lawyers for violations of professii nal conduct and gives immunity to other lawyers...
...The Communists always like to pose as the champions of labor and to give the impression that they are spokesmen for labor...
...The basic fact in the Communist tactics at the moment is that revolution is possible only where there is mass discontent...
...Bucharest is known the "city of joy" because its nan...
...In one instance, Mr...
...133 in the grist that steadily emanates from the general staff headquarters in Heil's office...
...Evjue is a Wisconsin taxpayer...
...Chil-sen communicating the news to his military base at Brassard's where such stalwart defenders as George Gilkey, Len Schmitt...
...To the above question Mr...
...Whenever the Communists note the absence of the union label on the literature of other people, they noisily acquaint the public with the fact...
...Just like an attorney representing a private client, I cannot give out any information...
...We note that Gov...
...We are going to sleep better nights,—the old home town is now safe...
...The Wisconsin taxpayer has a right to know for what purpose public funds are being expended and he has a right to know of matters of public business carried on by public servants...
...If any Nazi fifth columnists seek to storm the Merrill Daily Herald, all that Col...
...The editorial constitutes a direct challenge to the Wisconsin supreme court and the state board of bar commissioners in the matter of cleaning up the state bar and stopping unprofessional conduct...
...It is not so difficult to spot them because the terminology they use Is almost identical with that found in the official Communist paper, the Daily Worker...
...Heil has appointed Walt Chil-sen as a colonel,—we believe that Walt Is No...
...The Milwaukee county CIO, like the CIO council here in Madison .is dominated by Communists, son, is dominated by Communists...
...We suspect that Col...
...But judges and lawyers still seek to build a tradition that members of the Wisconsin Supreme court, the board of bar examiners, and the high moguls among the Wisconsin Bar association constitute a class apart that is sacred and immune from public scrutiny...
...Kopp bobs up as a referee appointed by the supreme court and sits in judgment on another attorney against whom charges of unprofessional conduct have been made...
...When the waterworks siren sounds the approach of the enemy, we can see Col...
...You will have to ask them about it...
...This Is only another manifestation of the attempt of Communists to-utilize the "Keep Out of War" sentiment for their own purposes...
...Evjue ought to know that...
...Uniform...
...Chilsen will soon be hitting th» trail for Washington to get appropriations for a couple of destroyers to be stationed at Big Eddy on the Wisconsin river to halt any Invasion from the south...
...within the last four year period...
...Now the isolationists in congress are falling over themselves to vote unanimously for the president's preparedness proposal while they at the same tilme, with the finesse of the politician, seek to blame Roosevelt for their own shortcomings...
...Kopp Is an attorney for an attorney against whom serious charges of unprofessional conduct had been made and in the next instance...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
