Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must be the result of bludgeoning by an organized proletariat.

Indications that the NRA in now beginning to face the realities of making a capitalist system work are given by the fact that labor has been denied its demand for representation on the committees which govern coded industries. As a sop the government may provide for boards of laborers and consumers to "observe." This is typical of the gradual way in which labor must be cased out of the picture, after having been put in with much idealistic fanfare.

The Transcript, being thoroughly convinced of the divine goodness of capitalism, often carries the best account of developments in Washington, for it has no qualms about stating things baldly. Its account reads: "The most vigorous pressure from business convinced officials that to grant it (labor's demand) would wreck the present relationship built up in NRA. Industrialists who made the representations to Hugh S. Johnson came away satisfied." Amazing how "convincing" "vigorous pressure" can be, and so "satisfactory" too.

The makings of another Sacco-Vanzetti or Mooney-Billings case were nipped coldly when the jury in a Queens County Court declared Athos Terzani, taxi driver with a mission, not guilty of the murder of his friend Anthony Fierro. Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor for conviction not justice; and also there were loyal Khaki Shirts who were willing to swear that Terzani fired the shot that. . .

The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in at this timely point and conducted a thorough investigation. In the trial chief defense counsel Arthur Garfield Hayes brought out the rank rottenness of the state's case and was able to get one Samuel Wein, "Major General" of the Khaki Shirts to perjure himself and tell who the real killer was, a man named Moffer. If only the case had come up somewhere outside of New York, thereby preventing the Union from hearing about it until after there had been a conviction, it would, without much doubt have become another cause celebre.

Thus did the United States prove that a class justice is not always meted out in her courts. And thus did a liberal organization deprive the American Communist movement of one more martyr. TERTIUS.