New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 9

e [} -4 a [ v ! \ f ¢ coines another story. . WHALEN DEFENDS RADICAL EXPOSE Law Experts Say He Violates ' Penal Code Giving Names York, March 12 (®—Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen to- ) day defended his action in giving names of communists to their em- ployers as being an effort to block mass action. 3 He made his statement after 18 professors of the law school of Co- lumbia University and others had voiced criticism of the campaign to weed communists out of indistrial or- ganizations, “Any man or woman.” said Mr Whalen, “has the same right to be a communist that he or she has to be . democrat, republican, churchman or heist, provided always that he or keeps within the law and con- nes his or her communism to dis- cussion and acts which are lawful.” Justifies Identification “When the communism of the in- dividual becomes, to use the com- 4 munist term, ‘mass action,’ that is to Y say group action looking toward the destruction of lives, property and the public peace, such as the Union Sauave affair of last Thursday it be- “Where we have definite informa- tion of plans (o commit crime that includes among other things, the placing of men in certain organiza- {ions or businesses, it is our duty to block such plan: If that involves identifying the persons so placed to their employers that will be done.” i In their protest the Columbia law professors described’ Mr. Whalen's action in naming communists to their employers as a “flagrant viola- tion of the civil liberties.” J. McKeen Cattell, former profes- gor of pyschology at Columbia Uni- versity, in a letter to the police com- mission said Mr. Whalen was violat- ® ing the federal penal code. Norman Thomas, prominent so- clalist, said he planned to present a petition signed by liberals to Mayor v James J. Walker demanding Mr. Whalen's removal as police commis- stoner. * LK PRODUCTION . SHONS DECREASE . Falling OF in Connecticut Low- ers New England Rate 2 Roston, March 12 (UP)—For the first time on record for this scason of the year, a decline in milk pro- duction in New England was report- <’ cd by the New England crop report- ing service. Average production per cow on March 1 was 2.2 per cent below r] ¥ebru 1 but 3.5 per cent above that of a year ago. Compared with February, there were slight increases in Massachu- (Y settes and Rhode Island but ma- terial decreases in the other New lingland states. Average daily pro- duction per cow for New England as a whole was 1 pounds, compared with 15.91 pounds February 1, 15.08 pounds March 1, 1928, and 13.52 the five-year average. ases from the average of a year ago of 9.1 per cent in Maine, 1 per cent in New Hampshire, 6 per cent in Massachusetts and 21.2 per cent in Rhode Island, were part- ly offset by a decrease of 1.9 per cent in Connecticut. No change Was re- ported for Vermont. The proportion of dry cows to all cows in New England increased from 4 23.2 per cent on February 1 to 24.7 per cent on March 1. A year ago the proportion was 25.2 per cent and the five year average is 24.4 per cent. In Maine, dry cows were 26.5 per cent of all cows on March 1; New Mampshire, 23.5 per cent; Vermont 30.7 per cent; Massachusetts, 17.3 per cent: Rhode Island, 143 per ® cont and Connecticut, 20.7 per cent. . 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