The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1932, Page 4

| a J ‘ 4 id oe ad Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932 | Yorker | Porty USA | ., Ine, daily axexept Sumday, at 0 |} | 4 2 ALronquin 4-7906, Cable “DAIWORK.” the Dally Worker, 00 E. 18th St., New York, mW. ¥. Dal fly Publishing Y. Tel Adéress and mall SUBSCRIPTION RATES: wywhere: One yeer, of Mankatis B six months, $4.50 The Fight Against the Ford Wage Cut HE wage cut in all Ford plants makes crystal clear the meaning of the Dearborn massacre carried through o March 7th by Ford’s gunmen and the police of Mayor Mv phy of Detroit. The raids and arrests of Communis leaders of t Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Councils, of mi nt workers throughout the Detroit area which followed the butchery of four workers and the wounding of a score of mre, had a similar meaning. All this furious onslaught and mobilization of the armed forces of Ford and the city government against hungry workers was preparation for the most drastic single wage By_mall Boron Canada, 3% per year: 75 cents per menth. cut in the c: period—from $6 to $4 per day. The revival of the criminal syndicalism cases in Bridgeman, Mich., against Comrade Foster and 18 other Communists, the “request” of the state attorney to the supreme court for a date on which to bring Com- rade Foster trial, are unquestionably part of the Ford drive to deprive workers of leadership and disorganize their ranks in the face of a wage cut which lowers the Ford scale below that of 1914. * * T it necessary to throw into the struggle against this new attack on the present starvation standards of werkers by Ford, the bloody- handed apostle of the discredited American doctrine of “high wages and high production levels per worker,” the full forces of an aroused and determined fighting organization of Ford workers, backed by the might of the entire American working class—not a single gection of which but has had its wages cut, its work time and income slashed or abolished entirely. The Ford workers in Edgewater, N. J., by their strike action, have | given a fine example to their fellow workers in Ford plants throughout | \ the country—even though their militant action suffered from lack of organization and experienced leadership, Had the local organizations of the Communist Party carried thre igh a policy of concentration upon this big plant and had the Trade Union Unity League been on the spot to organize the workers of this big autoplant, the necessary leadership would have been present to carry forward this struggle and organize these workers. The growing radicalization among the toilers, including the auto workers, shows the need for more resolute and energetic efforts to take up the leadership of the fight against wage cuts. * * * ‘HE sharpness and sweeping character of the attacks upon the Ford workers, the forerunner of similar attacks on other workers in line with the direction of the whole capitalist offensive, creates a situation which admits of no further delay in the organization of the working class battle front. It is necessary that the Auto Workers Union through the medium of the connections it has with big sections of Ford workers come forward with a program of action for the principal Ford plants which, drawn up and endorsed by committees of Ford workers will, in the face of this effort to drive workers below the pre-war standard, enlist mass support for militant struggle to defeat the wage cut and arouse thousands of workers against this latest Ford “philanthropy” and the whole bloody regime of robbery and opression he personifies. With a cynicism which is an assurance that Ford has the pledge of support from his fellow capitalists and the two party government of American capitalism, he has launched this new drive on workers only a month before the presidential election. Of the Ford theory of “high wages and big production levels per man” nothing is left but the blood- stained soil of Dearborn, the moldering bodies of four murdered workers, the shattered limbs of twenty more and—the “high production levels per man.” The inhuman speedup remains. The immediate reply of workers to the ruthless attack by Ford can only be by the organization of the widest net work of rank and file com- mittees of struggle and the preparation without delay of a mass counter- offensive led by such committees and the Auto Workers Union affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. The Communist Election Campaign which includes the fight against ‘wage cuts is shown by Ford’s wage slash to be an integral part of the struggle of the Ford workers and of the whole American working class. The Dismissal of Oakley Johnson . MHE DISMISSAL from the College of the City of New York of Oakley Johnson, for twelve years an instructor in English, is a clear case of persecution for revolutionary work- ing-class beliefs and activity. This is much more than a threat to freedom of opinion in municipally-owned and managed educational institutions. It is unmistakably an act intended to intimidate the entire teaching staff in New York and whip them into line for Tammany and the capitalist interests it represents. It is directed against those teachers and instructors who are aligning themselves with the working class, and joining those revolutionary intellectuals whose break with capitalist ideology is sym- bolized, as Johnson’s has been, by active support of the Soviet Union, of the struggle for the Scottsboro boys, of the World Anti-War Congress in Amsterdam, of the heroic battle of the Kentucky miners, and finally of the Communist Party election program and candidates—Foster and Ford. « * * challenge to the right of teachers and instructors to take part in revolutionary working class struggles, to support the Communist Party in election campaigns and in its main task of organizing and leading the working class in its constant battle against the bankers and bosses for its daily bread leading up to the struggle for power, is inherent in the | dismissal of Oakley Johnson. | ‘The Johnson case differs from the case of Nearing, Levine (University of Montana) and others occuring previous to and during the world war in that their discharge was the result of their coming into conflict with the interests of some particular capitalist group (steel, copper, etc.), while the persecution of Johnson, in a municipal college, shows that it is the general interests of capitalism that are being protected in this manner. This is characteristic of this phase of the imperialist epoch, It shows what a hallow mockery is capitalist democracy. It is likewise characteristic, and indicative of the manner in which the policy of the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy and its off- shoots parallels and even anticipates the persecution policy of capitalist | fovernment, that Linville and Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union are now trying to expel Solon De Leon, Scott Nearing, Donald Henderson and | the eft wing group in the union which they lead. | * * # HERE are large numbers of working class students in City College. This accounts for the struggles that have taken place there during and since the war, against militarsim (although this had a strong pacifist linge) and against the suppression of free speech and assemblage. The issues are clear. Elementary political rights of teachers are*to be wiped out by the unrestricted use of the economic weapon by the agents of the bankers and bosses—the denial of the right to work which brings with it the threat of starvation is to be used against instructors who take the side of the working class in this period of ever increasing mass misery. The demand for the reinstatement of Oakley Johnson is a basic de- mand for both instructors and the student body, not only in C.C.N.Y. but in other colleges as well. A united front battle on this issue will rally great support in City’ Coilege and in other colleges and universities. The organization of such a struggle without delay, directed against the “honest and respectable” Mayor McKee, Tammany Hall and its city gov- ernment and the City College Board of Trustees who by this act of poli- tical persecution have shown openly their role as policemen for the and bosses, can ft the reinstatement of Oakley Johnson and PARTY The Unions andthe‘Daily’ Press Meeting By N. FELD T is highly significant that the Trade Union Unity Council of New York is calling a Press Meet- ing of representatives from all unions, T. U, U. L. Leagues, oppo- sition groups in the A. F. of L., and from various shops. The meeting will be held in New York tonight. Ce aa LIFE FOr the first time in the history of the revolutionary trade unions, he T. U. U. C. is calling a Press Meeting of representatives from all mions, leagues, opposition groups i the A. F. of L. and shops. That such a meeting is necessary 1 important, not only to clarify position of the Daily Worker n connection with recent struggles conducted successfully by the Trade Union Unity League, but also to make clear the relations of the T. U. U.%, to the Daily Workér, no one can deny. A WRONG APPROACH For a long time the leadership of the T. U. U. L. did no think of the Daily Worker as a weapon which can play an important role in building and strengthening the revolutionary unions. It is also true that the Daily Worker has not in the past paid sufficient atten- tion to the task of rooting the only English militant paper among the workers in the trade unions. That. a sharp change and a definite turn has been made by the Daily Worker in regard to the trade unions can be seen from the recent unmasking of the anti-working- class “non-partisan” policy of the A. F. of L. officialdom in a very convincing manner. ‘The exposure of the Zausner- Ackerly clique by the Daily Worker revealed the great indignation of, the rank and file membership of } various locals among the painters of the Brotherhood against the A. F, of L, bureaucrats. Cais want UT what happened after the splendid job done by the Daily Worker? Did the exposure reach the rank and file of the various locals for whom it was written and whom it directly concerned? No— with the exception of several hun- dred copies of the “Daily” which were circulated by Local No. 1. The issues of the Daily Worker which carried the entire story of the Zausner-Ackerly betrayal should have reached the entire member- ship of the painters’ union, and thousands of copies distributed. The same may be said of the Fur Workers’ Industrial Union, al- though the Daily Worker was late in giving sufficient atetntion to the splendid work carried on by the Fur Workers. The union did not find it necessary to circulate the “Daily” among the strikers. Even some of the leading comrades tried to keep away the Daily Worker sellers from entering the strike hall. Even now there is a complete resistance on the part of leading comrades in bringing forword the Daily Worker before shop workers during the inside meetings. DUTY OF FRACTIONS Many more similar facts can be brought out to show the impermis- sable atitude on the part of lead- ing comrades in the trade unions, but I believe that all these short- comings will be brought out at the Press Meeting. That is why such @ meeting is of great importance, not only for the Daily Worker, but also for the trade unions. The fractions in the unions must help the Daily Worker become tne leading organizer and agitator of our revolutionary trade union movement (the militant unions and opposition groups in the A.F. of L.) The Daily Worker can be made a popular paper in the trade unions, providing the fractions in the op- position groups and T. U. U. L. will begin to raise the prestige of the “Daily” and not hide it from. the membership. <5 Se 'HE forthcoming Press Meeting on Oct. 7 should be of a character to work out demands towards stimulating the activity of the fractions in the unions. Plans will be made for the election of a Pro- visional Committee to be elected, to be merged with the Daily Worker Conference Nov. 13. When the trade union delegates go back to the unions, and shops they should seek to organize a thorough discussion on the role of the Daily Worker in the present struggles; and on the basis of all clarifications, delegates should be elected to the Daily Worker Con- ference Nov. 13. Letters from Our Readers DON’T HIDE THE DAILY Chicago, Tl. Dear Editor: With this letter I want to make this suggestion about the Daily Worker. We have distributed hun- dreds of thousands of handbills of various kinds—not a word about the Daily. We have put posters all over the country of various types, such as Foster's meeting, Comunist Election posters, etc. Not a word about the Dafly Worker. May 1st demonstra- tion speakers said nothing about the Datly Worker. August ist demon- stration speakers said nothing about the Daily Worker. A thousand-fold different things that went on—noth- ing about the D. W. The only time workers see the D. W. is when they see someone selling the Daily, and they don’t know what kind of a paper it is and the ones knowing don’t say anything about it but fold it to such a small way and stick it in their hp pocket instead of reading it wide open or carrying it in such @ way as to be seen. I am making this suggestion to you for this general advertisement of the Daily Worker in all leaflets and in all posters in a manner that people check the development of a new campaign of espionage and intimida- don which his dismissal undoubtedly inaugurates, can read the D. W. and its address of publication and ofices. —G. P. I “Say Buddy—Is That a Republican, Democrat or Socialist Speaking?” “I Don’t Know, I Came Here After the Announcement!” —By Burck What Have Socialist Rulers of Milwaukee Done for Workers? Forced Labor, Clubs for Jobless; Employes; “Radical Squad,” Virtues of ‘Capitalist Administration Wage Cuts for City Gangsterism--All By M, C. (Article TM) There is a standing ordinance on all city jobs which provides that, the prevailing rate of wages which must be paid—that is, union wages. , How do the socialist officials” get around this? They sign contracts specifying that the union rate of wages are to be paid. In reality, there are secret agreements with contractors where the wofkers are forced to give wage rebates back to the company. The recent case was that of Joseph Lorenz, a con- tractor on the Solomon Juneau High School. Dozens of workers testified, that, in the records, they are supposed to be earning so much an hour, but when pay day comes around they are compelled to turn back a portion of their wages to the contractor. Just how the con- tractor splits up has not yet b-en disclosed. ‘ CUT DOWN PRISON FOOD— BUY MACHINE GUNS The bosses shout “economy,” which means more wage-cuts, less unemployed relief, and the social- ists see to it that this program is carried out. For example, Sheriff Benson recently boasted that he saved $7,000 on the food bill for the county jail as compared. with his predecessor's last three moriw.is | in office. How was the sheriff able to do this? By cutting down the ration, by reduced quantity and quality of food in the county jail given to the prisoners. Further- more, in the past, visitors were per- mitted to bring food to the prison- ~ ers. But, under “riot-gun” Sheriff Benson, this cannot be done, but money can be turned over to the ; office and of course the prices charged to the prisoners are higher than on the outside. What was the $7,000 “economy” used for? To buy four more squad cars equipped with machine guns for the sheriff's office to put down the unemployed or employed who may struggle for the right to live. ‘The Milwaukee Journal recently scolded the other capitalist poli- ticians for resisting the socialist proposal for the merger of the city and county governments, “As a rule mergers are sound. Consolidations are necessary if gov- ernment is to be kept within bounds and if it is to cost less money. “The socialist proposal to merge bureaus is basically right. It is up to non-partisan aldermen to coop- erate. It is up to them to help get this sort of economy started in the City Hall.” This praise of the bosses’ press should convince the workers that socialist leaders are the agents of the capitalist class. It is the so- cialist leadership that pushes the drive against the living standards of the workevs in Milwauke2 Coun- ty, = everything to keep them in power, PROUD OF POLICE THUGS In their cry for the merger, the “Milwaukee Leader”. .points..out: in a‘series of articles that: “Merger would yield betier po- lice service.s” The “Milwaukee Leader” is very proud of the guardians of the law, of those who club. workers at the relief stations, who send them to jail for months, They say: “Milwaukee policemen are schooled in all phases of public work. They are instructed in a school which was one of the first to be established in the United States, which ranks with the New York city police school.” In a small pond, the fish are smaller—certainly smaller than the fish in the ocean. In a small city, the pickings are smaller. Have we graft and gengsters in the “miracle city”? Of course! Tammany May- or Walker tried to explain about money he received from the cari- ous. corporations .as well as the rake-offs" given to him by taxicab companies, etc. Only a few weeks ago, Mayor Hoan tried to explain.. what he did with $7,000 profit from ie sale of war-time food stuffs, and supplies. Hoan was going to usher in the “socialist. millenium” during the last war, and the mayor went into the marketing business, using the funds of the city govern-.. ment, ‘Thousands of dollars profits were made. Everybody in Milwau- kee.was wondering what happened to these thousands of dollars of ‘profits? HOAN USES PUBLIC FUNDS “In the meantime, as the years dragged on, Hoan loaned some of this money to a private company in which he was interested. He raised the fund in a business ver- ture, moreover, he kept from the ciiy some $6,000 in principle and interest due to the use of city property and’ time of employees when the sales were being made. This accounting, long past due, was not made until a council in- vestigating committee had uncoy- ered the facts.” i It will be noted here that the mayor used this money for his own company. The Socialist Mayor Hoan is not only a good leading member of the Elks where he rubs shoulders with the other bosses, bankers, ete., but that he is one of the owners of the American Metal Products Company in Mil- waukee employing hundreds of workers. Yes, and at 25c an hour. Recently, a bemb-shell was thrown into the ranks of the social- ist politicians in the “miracle cit That is why the bosses do 4! when the examiners invest! | money on the basis of their “per- ; in framing women in order to fill the closed Security Bank of Mil- waukee found that this bank was giving loans to all the leading So- cialist Party officals. For example, Mayor Hoan and Sheriff Benson had nates. there for $600 each dated July “2n@ this~ year. No security was given for this, The socialist city attorney, Ranskin, borrowed $1,350; a member of the County Committee of the Socialist Party, Mr. Quick, borrowed $1,000; Mr. Hampel, socialist assemblyman, borrowed $100; and some of the socialist supervisors got loans of $100 each, In all, the socialists got 3,250 from a bank that just closed its doors, and received all this 3 sonal” signatures. Last year, the press of the U. S. was full of stories about the doings of the vice squad in New York, and the stool pigeon system employed the pockets of the politicians, de- tectives, and police generally. At that time, the socialists shouted that “it was horrible.” Let us look at the “miracle city,” which has a socialist administration and a so- cialist mayor, ang what do we see there? The same system used by the Tammany police in the fram- ing of women by the vice squad and morals squad, prevails in Mil- waukee. This came to light recent- ly in the Hostetler case. Hostetler was the “ace” detective of the Mil- waukee police force, He was pro- moted as head of the vice squad. Now, Hostetler is up on trial: fac- ing a statuary charge of his deal- ings with a/17-year old girl, Mar- garet Gross. Now it is revealed that this girl was used as a “Jure” by Hostetler as a member of the morals squad, The Milwaukee Sen- tinel of July 15th quoted Hostetler as saying: “That police and other public offeials were as guilty as he was,” and he threatened to “do some talking’ in the event the charge against him was prosecuted. Hostetler further pointed out; “Police and other city officials have been with me in. the com- pany of the girl.” THE SOCIALIST VICE SQUAD This is not an isolated case. Re- cently, Helen Gricbel,» walking on the street with a Negro was arrest- ed by the “socialist” cops and charged with vagrancy. The police compelled the girl to act as a “de- coy” in order to frame Mrs. Elinore Robinson on a “moral turpitude” charge. This was disclosed in court. Another case that came to light was that of the Tanck sisters, Mar- tha and Emma, The morals squad also tried to frame them and when Policeman Sheeran was exposed, he replied: . . “Well, if the police stood on Frenzied Speed-Up In Ford’s Dearborn Plant Rebellion Grows; Forth Myth Fast Disappears As Exploiter Cuts Wages of Workers By GEORGE COOPER (See Editorial on this Page) OW when the capitalist press is full of attacks on the efficiency of management of the Soviet fac- tories, and when it. tries to con- trast certain minor and passing difficulties in the opening of the more than doubled number of new factories in the Soviet Union with what is called “Ford Efficiency” it is worth while taking a look at the Ford plant itself to see how it stands the strain of a capitalist crisis, When the Ford “high wages” and welfare myth is being culti- vated in the capitalist press, it is interesting to see just what those wages are, while “songs of pros- perity” and “renewed production” are being sung, it is worth while to-see whether there really is much renewed production in that typical American factory, the Ford plant. 3 DAYS A WEEK The key to the Ford factory is the foundry. The number of motor blocks turned out there is an in- dex to the amount of production of the entire plant in all factories. All foundries, whenever possible, are worked three shifts, for shut- ting a foundry-down any part of the day means rebuilding fires, etc., sharply increasing production costs. As a matter of fact, Ford has run his whole factory hitherto on a three-shift basis. But today, even the foundry is open only three days a week, running only one skeleton shift! Tek OO ‘OR three months no motor blocks at all for the new four- cylinder car have been turned out, which means a complete shut down on the main basis of Ford’s busf- ness, The only work in the foundry is on the “V8,” which is what the single skeleton shift is working on. Other departments work at the same rate. In the “B” building die room only 15 per cent of the ™men who were working there in June, when the plant was already down- to less than half capacity, are still employed, three days a week. Five men out of 400 in the crank shaft department, the same three days. And so on, down the line. There was a complete shut down from the middle of August to the second week of September, and the men expect the plant to be shut down again within the next few weeks. NOTHING IN SIGHT Rumors circulate in Detroit, no doubt spread by Ford's, that the shutdowns and the skeleton staff means that Ford is getting ready to change to a new model. But this is completely disproved by thé fact that the die and tool men are not working either; a new model would mean new dies and tools. So it is right in the middle of the regular schedule that Ford's is | practically shut down. Reliable figures are that 15,000 men are working three days a week, out of the 120,000 full-time men at capa- city. This means the plant is working at 6 ‘per cent of its schedule. But actual production, I am in- formed from an authentic source, is even less. “The foundry is like @ Madhouse” a foreman told me. “Superintendents and foremen run around like chickens with their heads cut off, the men are pushed , beyond their strength and break down or revolt, ‘quitting even though they know it other job.” means no SOON TEs Ford is break. 1 ing with the men who were hi generals in happier days. REVOLT BREWING In an attempt to keep his most loyal men with him, Ford tries to keep on department superintend- ents and general foremen—by pute ting them back on the bench, The former bosses hate Ford as much as his most exploited workers do, Openly expresséd dissatisfaction, once undreamed‘of in Ford's, ig heard, right unter the noses of Ford’s “service men” thugs; men say what they please, with no fear of secret service men. One group of 30 men in the foundry, whom Ford needs and had been coddling by finding work for them, when ordered to shift to’ a harder job, flatly refused to go; what is more significant, they were not fired. For Ford is beginning to fear the hatred of his men. One of the men in the revolting group told me that the plant would have been shut down altogether months ago, except that Ford is afraid to lay off the inner core of skilled men without whom, the plant cannot run. Once they were his most loyal, because most favored, slaves. Now Ford fears the effect of a lay-off on these former devoted servants, who already, as he knows from his stool pigeons, hate the very mention of his name. ‘Torn between fear and cupidity, Ford nevertheless is trying to ease off part of the load of the crisis, on the backs of his workers. While the Ford wage was still nominally $6 a day (before the $2 wage cut, on October 1) the men in the Yp- silanti generator and the Flat Rock plants were gettingy $3.60 a day when they worked. The Dearborn plant paid $5 to a large part of the men. Beside this, as anyone can see who walks down Miller Road and looks in the tool room of the foundry building, boys from Ford’s “Trade School” who are paid a small nominal wage, have displaced the regular men. SAVES TAXES Practically all the men who are still getting occasional work are from Dearborn and Inkster, Ford- controlled towns whose atmosphere is not unlike the coal company towns of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Thus Ford keeps the cost of relief in these towns down, thereby saving himself tax money. Men applying for relief in Dear- born and Inkster were taken di- rectly from the relief station to the Ford plant, to take the jobs of men who lived in Detroit, where at least 100,000 of Ford’s former men live. But even Dearborn and Inkster are now filled with unem- ployed Ford workers, and her: where his name was once ere one now hears “Hank” Ford curse) ‘ as a murderer and bloodsucker, | Much of this feeling was latent ‘ for years until the Ford Massacre. Since then, however, feeling has crystallized so, that in three days talking to Ford men, I found none him. And this includes even the hated “service men” of both the uniformed and secret service divi. sions, through whom Ford has al- ways terrorized his workers. Pera? haps the most significant fact it the whole situation is that sei vice men will talk to you abo Ford: and the situation of the pla: When these thugs begin to turn on their boss, then indeed the Ford heavens are falling, QUESTION A worker has fust written to the Daily Worker asking why the Daily Worker doesn’t campaign for birth control as a solution to suffering from unemployment and wars. ANSWER To this worker and to other workers who may have been fooled by this capitalist “analysis” of cri- ses, an analysis made, by the way, hundreds of years ago when the population was much smaller than it is today, we point out that what appears like “overpopulation” is only the great and increasing army of unemployed manufactured by the capitalist production process. Capitalism needs a permanent re- serve of unemployed workers, by which it maintains its ability to exploit. ENOUGH FOR ALL We have enough productive power in the United States to feed every man, woman, and child, and have plenty left over. But capital- ism is based on and inevitably in- creases unemployment and hunger. As unemployment is increased by capitalist exploitation, the home market narrows and the need grows for an expanding foreign market Questions and Answers for capitalists, which drives them into the butchery of war. The greater profit to be derived from the exploitation of colonial masses, as well as the desire of the imperialist powers to reconquer the Russian market and especially to destroy the workers’ land, the So- viet Union, and is the chief factor pushing capitalism to embark on @ new world slaushter. i THE COMMUNIST PARTY STAND Make the population as small as, you like, capitalism will inevitably create its) army of unemployed, capitalism will inevitably spread the hunger upon which it bases its exploitation. Therefore we tell this worker who looks to birth control to ‘solve’ the crisis: The Communist Party opposes restrictions on birth con- trol and favors a movement to abolish all present restrictions on contracept ‘c measures, But the only way out for the workers is the united struggle ef the work- ers against. the bosses’ hunger and war program, is the fight for un- employment insurance and against wage cuts, and to fight for the overthrow of the system under the leadership of the Communist Party. ceremony, we'd never make any arrests.” It is a daily occurance for work- ers to be picked off the streets and thrown into jail charged with va- grancy. The keeper at the House of Correction admits that so many workers’ are locked up every day and given a few months jail sen- tences that he. cannot keep track. of them. ‘The reason he cannot give figures is due to the fact that the records do not make any dis- tinction between an innocent un- employed worker and an ordinary criminal. i poites eal At present the ice are the houses of workers and hustling them off to the identification bu-~- reau. Militant workers are grabbed on the street, rushed to jail, mug- ged, finger printed and thrown out. . If they. complain, they are told “try and get redress.” - Some society dame named Seeley was given a jail term recently for speeding. Before Judge Page could recognize the “mistake” the press was howling about the “injustice” and the socialist city attorney, Ri kin, came crawling to Mrs. Seeley guaranteeing her “all the constitu} tional rights,” while at the sam: time, workers are beaten and in_jail incommunicado. ia Mrs. H. K, Curtis, a clubwoman, interested in seeing only Mrs. Seee Jey freed, blurted out the follow- ing in a statement to the press which gives an idea of capitalist justice in the “miracle city.” “What I saw in district court so far exceeded by imagination, of what it could be like that I am convinced that something must be done to correct police court evils. I witnessed 151 Posed of at the rate of i. é | 4 , { who would say @ good word =|