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...I found signs of the vigorous growth of labor organization among the steel and refinery workers . of the great industrial | area which stretches from Gary to Chicago...

...in the other, a martyr in jail for 20 years...

...at'the end, in the one case a lynching or an execution, at the very best, a long jail sentence...

...The following state officers were elected: William Munroe, Cumberland, chairman...

...The remainder of the ticket incudes William A. Toole, veteran S o c i a l i s t , propagandist, for Attorney General...

...Roosevelt's personal popularity continues, but there is a lot of talk and some action about the necessity of some independent political action through a new party...

...The Communists sought to make another "agitation case" out of it, and on the very day of Terzani's acquittal their paper carried a bitter attack upon the defense for "bungling" it...

...And by con entrating on that single objective justice was one and the men a "quitted, as was T rzani...

...Freedom Is Won For Two Wronged Men T W O remarkable cases were decided during the past week, iii !noih of which prominent Socialist attorneys figured prominently...

...One cannot help but think of the Terzani case...

...Charles S. Bernstein, Baltimore, editor of the Maryland Leader, and Kenneth Douty, Baltimore, state organizer...

...If, as the crowd told us afterwards, we had been less well knows we would have been badly beaten up...

...In the one case a great agitation might have been staged, much money raised, demonstrations held, and there would have been another came cclibie...

...and I have met plenty...

...Subsequent eventl proved I was right when the victims of his persecution were acquitted...

...Hut there is something to he said also for the point of view in approaching cases of that kind...

...All this trsveling and speaking is interesting and encouraging from a Socialist standpoint...

...In Michigan automobile production and hence employment are already over the peak and on the downward slope of the hill...

...Also, the record stands for anyone to form whatever conclusions there are to be drawn...

...Everywhere the relief problem is serious and inadequately met...

...And there, toi;, by emphasizing th...

...In Panama theru were all the ingredients of a possible Dreyfiis c a s e - - m i ! i t a r y plans, national jit ters, a Jewish officer who lied r a d i o ' friends at home...

...One o f t h em w a s T a y l o r v i l l e , scene of many labor troubles, a town and a county in the grip gf the representatives of the Peabody Coal Co...

...and even in New Vork things might have been made hot for him...

...and that isiwhy Waldman made the long, tedious trip to Panama to defend the man without a fee...

...But-by careful and intelligent preparation the facts of the insults heaped upon him by the Southern "gentleman" were determined and corroborated by^the dead man'* brother, who testified that the cab-nan had done exactly right in derendingi himself...

...In either ease angry factional quarrels between different points of view as to how the defense should be run, with the lives of two men almost totally forgotten...

...The * b e a u t y of this fertile country in springtime is dimmed by the s e r i o u s drought which, if it continues much longer, will save AAA the trouble of starving us into prosperity...

...L. H. Lacey of CumDerland for Controller, and Irvin Middlekauff, Hagerstown, for Clerk" jf the«Court of Appeals...

...The poor fellows arc importnnt figure" . . . hut they are still in jail...

...Christian County "Justice" • HAD a taste of what passes for justice u * Christian County, Illinois-—note the naawl Douglas Anderson, Socialist candidate for Congrsai in the district, and I were making the second of t series of brief speeches, some in t h e open air sag some in halls, in the more important towns in tat district...

...It will be one of t he chief problems of the Socialist convention to face this situation wisely and tret the best out of it...

...He pledged himself to a vigorous campaign on the party's platform...

...TIMELY TOPICS E D I T O R of The N ew Leader: I Khali have to omit Timely Topics this week because on the day they should be written my schedules required me to drive 275 miles and make three speeches in Illinois...

...The taxicab driver had been vilely insulted by the Southern "gentleman," and had struck only when the latter mo.cd up -n him bre.ndish.ing a gin bottle...

...In both cages race prejudice wan an important factor...

...It was "bungled" so badly that Terzani is free, Art Smith i.nd Moffer are in jail and the Khaki Shirts virtually destroyed...

...Clarence W. Whitmore, chairman of the People's Unemployment League of Baltimore, with thirty branches, brought greetings from the league...

...And that is why the Jewish Daily Forward took up the case and aroused the Jewish people to the defense of the victim of race prejudice...

...It frJHit 25 delegates to the convention, including both white and colored...

...Miss Klisabeth Oilman, daughter of the late Dr...

...facts and only i h e facts W a id men won Osmun's freedom...

...I was held incommunicado for about an hour by men who refused to s a y what the charge was against me...

...It is impossible to give too much credit to Comrades Waldman and Solomon for their fine, brilliant and courageous work...

...Samuel M. N e i - stadt, Baltimore, secretary...

...M. L. Polin of the Maryland Leader was ^chairman and Dr...

...Anderson and I expect to bring both criminal and civil action against one at least of the deputy sheriffs, a man named Betterton...

...In N e w Vork Charles Solomon won acquittal for a Negro taxic a b driver who had struck an i n t o x i c a t e d Southern "gentleman" in s e l f - d e f e n s e , the assailant subsequently dying...

...Professor Mitchell is a popular teacher, and has been a lecturer at the Rand School in N e w York...

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...Anderson was then arrested...

...Now, there are t w o ways of handling such incidents...

...About all the l aw there is in the county is in tb* guns of the deputy sheriffs, ugly customers pais by the coal company...

...Stirring resolutions were adopted and a fine campaign was planned...

...And the case litis become, not at defense of cruelly wronged victims of insane prejudices but a propaganda ease...

...Over 75 d e l e g a t e s attended...

...I'l Panama there is no doubt that Corporal Osman'g race was the basis of the -infounded suspicions against him...

...acquittal of men in danger of cruel injustice...

...Much money has been raised, one element has damned other elements as traitors and scoundrels, while insisting upon running things its own way and having complete charge of every detail of the case...

...These gentry arbitrarily refused to permit any public meeting in Taylorville, When Anderson and I nevertheless began the meeting i n front of the Court House, I was at one*, arrested by the ntost ignorant and bullying typt of deputy sheriff I have met...

...Meanwhile, Anderson went on with the meeting, which after twenty minutes was broken up l>j two successive sets of tear gas bombs, thrown without warning at an orderly meeting in which wert women and children...

...In the cub driver case and the Osmiui ease the dofiyise sought for one thing only...

...It i s this sort of thing that we have got to fight throughout the country, whether in the Imperial Valley in Callfornia, or in Illinois, or anywhere else...

...Finally the State's Attorney, a^ man named Coals, appeared and released us—still without exStiSnatios and without g e t t i n g t h e promise he sought from ui not to hold any more meetings in the county...

...AAA still tends to encourage organization, but there is a marked and steady decline in the popularity of both NRA and AAA...

...Prof...

...The v hole defense was based upon tht L.cts, nothing elt-e...

...Hroadus Mitchell of the f a c u l t y of Political Economy of Johns Hopkins University was chosen candidate for Governor at the s t a t e convention of the Socialist Party held here...

...Hi did, however, lecture me on the speech I made at i meeting over a year ago in which I had said that I he should be superseded in a certnin murder trial ia which he was clearly prejudiced...

...S. M. N e i - stadt was secretary of the convention...

...MITCHELL HEADS TICKET IN MARYLAND BALTIMORE...

...the defense was clean, straightforward and efficient...

...In Panama Louis Waldman won acquittal for a young J e w i s h non-commissioned officer Court-martialed on the charge of sending secret plans of fortifications, presumably to the Soviet government...

...If the former incident had occurred in the South there is no doubt what the outcome would h » \ e ieen...

...Daniel Coit Oilman, first president of Johns Hopkins snd long a devoted Socialist Party worker, was chosen as candidate for United States Senator...

...There has been an enormous amount of agitation over the Scottslioro boys...

...Any Negro-who raided a hand against a white man, no matter what the provoetohion, would have Icen lynched...