THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGE Vol. II SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulasky Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 256 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor: LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS VOL. II SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1918 No. Page 377 383 The Trial The Trial By Ludwig Lore Soviet Russia Speaks to Britain By Maxim Litvinoff By LUDWIG LORE 384 387 Armed Peace on the Pacific By Sen Katayama 388 404 The Chief Task of Our Day By Lenin 405 409 Laborism and Socialism By Louis Fraina 410 431 An Open Letter to American Liberals By Santeri Nuorteva Sixty five minutes of deliberation, and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty on all four counts against all of the 101 defendants in the courtroom. And at that, this polite pause of one hour and five minutes was nothing more than a matter of form. As soon as Judge Landis had finished his instructions to the jury, the foreman of the jury might have honestly declared: Will it please the court. The jury agrees to a verdict of guilty on all counts!
It is this that makes us so furious when we hear from the lips of Haywood and the leading attorney of the defense not to mention sanctimonious clergymen and subsidized newspaper reporters statements that are fairly sticky with sweetish sentimentality and sickening in their lying hypocrisy. We have had a fair trial. The prosecution, the jury, the judge everybody was fair to the extreme, to the utmost. And yet, the 101, everyone of them, were found guilty, everyone of them is staring a thirty years prison sentence in the face! It must be said at the outset: These men did not have a fair trial because the possibility of a fair trial, of unquestioning and unbiassed judgment, was, from the very first, oåt of the question.
Judge Landis, with all his sympathetic urbanity and informality, with the best intentions in the world, could not bring 432 454 Reconstruction in Russia 455 491 Editorials 492 520.
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