How Soon Can I Go Home?” Hugo Ernst, General President of Covered in the Rosenberg Case
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Last Ditch Clemency Fight in Rosenberg Case World Protest Rises in Effort To Save Couple By Harry Frankel With their execution scheduled for their wedding anniversary, June 18, repeated batterings against the walls of “justice” have thus far failed to secure a stay of execu Vol. XVII - No. 24 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS tion for the Rosenberg couple.®' Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sion for a few days. The Supreme in the Sing Sing death house Court, if it rules again in the after a hysterical 19511 trial which case, will have to do so by June featured flimsy “evidence” of 15, on which date the Court’s espionage and a vindictive death present sitting w ill end. verdict motivated by political NEW EVIDENCE hatreds. (In an important new develop Demands for a new trial are ment of the clemency campaign, based upon new evidence un “How Soon Can I Go Home?” Hugo Ernst, general president of covered in the Rosenberg case. the AFL Hotel and Restaurant A handwritten document by David Employees and Bartenders Inter Greenglass, central prosecution national Union, one of the largest witness upon whose testimony the ih the AFL with its 400,000 mem government case rested, shows bers, came out for clemency by that an early version of his story signing a Rosenberg petition. was quite different from the later Also, on June 1 the Uruguayan version which, under coaching Every Gl in Korea Is Asking Chamber of Deputies passed a from the FBI, he produced in resolution calling for clemency court. Details contradict each with onlv one dissenting vote. other in the early and later Attorneys Emanuel Bloch and stories, and at many spots Green- John F Finerty (who served in glass makes it perfectly apparent that he was “building up” a yarn Generals, Politicians the past as counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, for Tom Mooney, and under FBI tutelage. for the Commission of Inquiry The Greenglass document is info the Moscow trial charges dated “Saturday, June 1050.” He Of Both Parties Fear against Leon Trotsky) represent wrote it almost a year before the ing the Rosenbergs, have taken trial, for the information of his their jjlea to the U.S. Supreme a tto rn e y, O. John Rogge, and Court for the fourth time. In the in it tells what he told the FBI. Bring-Boys-Home Drive meantime, Federal Judge Irving At one point Greenglass wrote: R. Kaufman again refused a stay “I stated that I met (Harry) B}r A rt Preis of execution and a new trial. Gold in N. M. (New Mexico) at “ How soon can I go home?” The Rosenbergs have appealed 209 Hick St., my place. They (the Kaufman’s refusal to the U.S. FBI) told me that I had told him This “ first reaction of all soldiers interviewed” by the Circuit Court of Appeals, which to come back later because I Associated Press after the signing of the prisoner of war has, at this writing, reserved deci (Continued on page 2) agreement in the Korea truce negotiations is causing night mares for the Wall Street war-makers and their Washing ton agents. They are painfully recalling the giant “ bring us home” demonstrations by the GIs after World War II. SWP Asks Clemency All the capitalist political spokesmen,* as a cease-fire ap pears close, are turning their ^ attention to the “main danger” — the American soldiers in Korea For Rosenberg Couple and their folks here at home. The Cost The official attitude is summed NEW YORK, June 10 — Farrell Dobbs, National up by the Scripps-Howard news Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, sent a strong papers: “ Administration w ill fight 0? Korea message of "protest on the Rosenberg case to President any ‘bring the boys home’ drive U.S. battle casualties since Tru Eisenhower today. The message 5- with everything it’s got.” man announced the Korea “ police calls attention to.the flimsy evi bodies of two helpless victims. We Thus, generals, corporation ex actio n " on June 27, 1950, accord dence in the case, the hysteria demand that you extend executive ecutives and politicians of both in g to a U N sum m ary on M ay 29, surrounding the trial, the recent- clemency to the Rosenbergs, and major parties are joining in a. total 136,129. Jy uncovered new evidence, and give them a chance to prove their drive to stem the anticipated There are more than 1,500,000 the unprecedented severity of the innocence in a fair trial. nation-wide demand' that this veterans of the Korean war; an sentence. The full text follows: Farrell Dobbs most unpopular war in American other half-million members of all National Secretary history be really ended by bring armed forces are still engaged President Eisenhower ing the troops home at once. in Korea. W hite House Voicing the views of Eisen Money cost o f the w a r so fa r W ashington, D. C. hower the Assistant to the Presi for the U.S. Army alone, accord dent Sherman Adams in a public Mr. President: Race Terrorists ing to Secretary of the Army address on June 7 spoke of the Robert T. Stevens, is about $T5 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg “danger” of a Korea truce. He billion . have been convicted of espionage Indicted in Florida warned of a repetition now of South Korean battle losses as and sentenced to die on June 18 Six members of the Ku Klux “the ‘terrific pressure' brought o f A p ril 30 are estim ated a t on the basis of a patched-up, Klan were indicted for perjury on upon every member [of Con 2-56,001. F ifte e n U N allie s sustain perjury-ridden “case” that was June 4 in Miami Florida. The in gress] to see that the World War ed losses to ta llin g 13,512. jammed through the courts in a dictment by a Federal grand jury II ‘boys got home at the earliest 'Combined Chinese and North few hysterica! days. is the first move to bring to possible moment.' ” (Associated Korean battle losses are estimat House Opens Way Press, June 7.) Thousands who have studied justice the anti - Negro terrorists LEGLESS VETERAN MAKES HIS TENTH ed a t 1,347,000. the evidence have been convinced who have been conducting a cam Gen. Walter B. Smith, Under ” 2 000,000 civilians have been that there was no fair trial. Hun paign of burning, bombing, flog For Impure Foods Secretary of State and former killed in the war so far,” said J. dreds of thousands of others, Ambassador to Moscow, declared ging, attempted kidnapping and “Let (lie buyer beware!" This APPEAL IN '’DISLOYALTY” FIRING Donald Kingsley, agent general with no special legal training or “we cannot relax” and must keep m urder since 1919. is the slogan the House of Repre of the UN Korean Reconstruction knowledge of the case, are w illing the troops in Korea “for some The charges of perjury are in sentatives seems to have had in WASHINGTON, June 4 — Order because his case It ad been S> Agency, on M ay 22, 1951. On to concede a possible violation of period” even if a trace is signed. connection with a long list of mind when it slashed the appro James Kutcher today appeared referred back to a higher level | June 6, 1951 — two years ago — the law by the Rosenbergs, but. In Seoul, Lt.. Gen, Maxwell D. racist acts described by the grand priations for the LLS. Food and before the Loyalty Review Board than the Branch Loyalty Board. South Korean ambassador Dr. are horrified at the unprecedented Swiss Socialists Taylor “said today an armistice jury as “a catalog of terror that Drug Administration. If the of the U.S. Civil Service Com Second Kutcher was not in You Chan Vang said there were use of the death .penalty in a would not justify departure from seems incredible.” The murder of Senate does not restore the fund, mission lo seek reinstatement to formed of tile specific nature of Hit 'Blood-Verdict' then “nearly 3 million” civilian peace-tim e espionage case. Harry and Harriet Moore, NAACP consumers will have little or no his job in the Newark Veterans the charges against him in time The following telegram was (Continued on page S) casualties. New evidence in the form of leaders in Florida, on Christmas government protection against A d m in istra tio n . T his was t-he to prepare an adequate defense. sent to the U.S. Embassy in material exhibits which the prose n ig h t 1951, was only mentioned rotten foods, poisonous drugs and tenth appeal made by the legless Third, and most important, the Switzerland by the Swiss So cution, never produced at the trial by the grand jury. gyp products. veteran in his five - year fight evidence did not sustain the find cialist Workers League. has been uncovered by the Tlie NAACP, while hailing the The reduction in funds means against the government loyalty ing of disloyalty. The only basis “Protesting against blood- defense. Some of this evidence indictments as a “good begin that the small staff of 897 will purgera. for such a finding under the Tru verdict in Rosenberg case WALL STREET BEWAILS demonstrates perjury on t.he part ning,” called for unceasing effort have to be cut by about 110 em He was represented at the man Order would be that Kutcher .