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LOESCH CHARGES
OF CAPONE RULE
1932
CHICAGO ILL ROST
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1932,
DENIED BY LABOR
Chicago Federation Says
Lawyer Is Raising a
OFF FOR QUIZ
"Smoke Screen.'
Terming "maliciously untrue" the
charges by Frank J. Loesch, president
of the Chicago Crime commission.
that "fully two-thirds of all unions
in Chicago are controlled by or pay
tribute to Capone's terroristic or-
ganizations," the Chicago Federation
of Labor today sent Chairman Borah
of the senate judiciary committee a
letter defending the federation and
attacking the elevation of Federal
Judge Wilkerson to the United
Appeals court.
"It is significant," the letter reads
"that Mr. Loesch endeavors to avoid
personal responsibility for his state-
ment by alleging that it represents
the opinion of others, that somebody
told him so. Thus he shows a cau-
tion that is hardly praiseworthy, for
he perpetrates an injury and then
disclaims his own act, laying it to
others.
"The real issue before your com-
mittee, of course, is that of the fit-
ness of a judge who has been nomi-
nated for promotion.
Call Judge Prejudiced.
"We believe Judge Wilkerson to be
prejudiced against labor, and that
his actions and decisions have been
un wise and/unfair in that he has
issued njunctions unwarranted by
either morals or law.
George E. Q. Johnson, federal dis-
'Mr. Loesch, we understand, dis-
trict attorney, who was off to
agree us. Instead of arguing the
Washington today in answer to a
point calm and dispassionate
summons to appear tomorrow be-
manner, he resorts to a smoke screen
fore Senator Borah's committee,
of vilification, evidently for the pur-
which is considering the promotion
pose of obscuring the real question
of Judge Wilkerson. Johnson is to
We now challenge his sincerity in the
be questioned about the "deal"
whole matter.
with Al Capone at the time of the
"As a defender and supporter of
gangster's trial.
Judge Wilkerson, he justifies the de-
nial to great masses of working peo-
ple of legal rights established under
LOESCH CHARGES
laws intended to protect defendants
charged with crime from arbitrary
punishment by autocratic judges
without proper trial.
OF CAPONE RULE
Called "Insincere."
"As a prosecuting attorney he evi-
dently agreed with those who believe
such arbitrary procedure to be so
DENIED BY LABOR
dangerous to human rights and liber-
ties that it cannot be safely used in
criminal cases. Yet as a politician
and lawyer he is still the same indi-
vidual, and how can he hold both
views and yet escape the charge that
Chicago Federation Says
he is insincere, or at least irra-
tional?'
The letter points out that Loesch
Lawyer Is Raising a
in an address before the Californie
Aeademy of Criminology, told how
'Smoke Screen.'
he secured the aid of Al Capone in
policing an election.
"The knowledge of the Loesch ad-
venture was withheld from Chicago
(Continued from Preceding Page.)
at the time, to be served up as a sort
of 'choice morsel' in another city,"
control of the state judiciary under
the letter says. "A sorry proceeding
the present method of nominating
from beginning to end.
judges in political caucuses the let-
Source of Facts Assailed.
ter reads. "The entire trade union
The letter also charges that Loesch
moyement in Illinois has long bran
has relied on the Employers' Associa-
opposed to the met
tion of Chicago for his information in
the extension of th
relation to trades unions, and alleges
dicial
that that organization "stands for the
ruthless annihilation of the right of
organization among working people.'
"We are interested in the fear ex-
pressed by Mr. Loesch as to possible
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