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OY!!! . 4 , = re ¥ +. ™. ae 0-19 (11-22-55) : “+ a MREIREIGU F191 An Editortal > ANOTHER LEGAL ATROCITY was committed in the U. S. District Court Tuesday afternoon. A federal jury, ‘after deliberating eleven hours, declared George Blake “Chamey, Alexander Trachtenberg and four other Commu- nists . Smith Act. ef guilty” of violating thought contro! provision of the Canviction of Chamey, Trachtenberg and their oo- endants. James E. Jackson, Jr., Sidnev Stein, Fred M. “Fine and William Norman for the “crime” of thinking read- ing and spealing their minds, was a sharp and stupid attack “Against our time-honored Bill of Ri “Americans to think and speak freely. -- =-~--This trial, carried on over a period of more than three whts, the right of all “months at a tremendous expense to both the tax-payers and defendants, has proved one thing: that the Department of . Justice and Attorney General Brownell are continuing to Zbame our country in the ey rtheyworld. ; This was the seventeenth Smith Act trial in which - “‘Gmmunists were convicted on the trimped-up charge of conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the govern- Pa - es of the democratic peoples of fre Tolson os 7 Nichols i ; Boardmar . Belmont fdason Mohr Parsons Roser Tare Nease Vinterroed Tele. Rot —___ _ ,, Holloman ——__— _. Gandy 2s | ment U4 force and violence. During the period covered | the indictments in these Smith Act trials the Commyn Party of the U-S. in its constitutions and programs vigr ously denounced conspiracies, force and violence and a vocated a policy of peaceful transition from capitalism socialism in line with the wit! of the majority of 4 population. _ ' The defendants were vividly accurate when lev ® -elared the basis of the verdict was a “combination of pa political informers and anti-Communist prejudice.” The 4s the firm conviction held br objective Observers ‘at #] trial that the evidenee was as tainted as thal confessed | Harvey Matusow in the second New York Smith Act ti “It was this false testimony which caused Judge Edwa new tial for Chamey and Trachte flee, or Harvard Law School, wo : bel [, Dimock to order rg. “When political utterances are made a crime, police spies and eaves-droppers are necessary.” - : Piscussing the political spy, Prof. Chaffee said: te enormous power to imagine words whi Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News ———__—- Wosh. Star ——__—_—— N.Y, Herald ———_— Tribune N. ¥. Mirror _——_—- N. Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker __—___—- New Leader _—-__-—_- _ _ Date —ale—g-195 fI2-2-7t. 2 0