Read and get wise. How Los Angeles welched [poster]

Los Angeles: Caplan-Schmidt Defense League, [1915]. 16x17 inch poster, fold-creased, some foxing, especially around creases.

Five years after the conviction of the McNamara brothers for the bombing of the Los Angeles Times (a case in which they were defended by Clarence Darrow), this poster declares that new evidence shows collusion between business interests and the judicial system. The Caplan-Schmidt Defense League was working on behalf of anarchists Mathew Schmidt and David Caplan to defend them against charges in the same bombing.
"Five years ago Los Angeles was the scene of one of the bitterest labor struggles in the history of our country. When under the pressure exerted by all the coercive agencies of police and judicial authority and on the advice of sincere, but misguided humanitarians, the McNamara Brothers accepted living death and entered their plea of guilty, the public thought that the curtain had fallen upon the last act of the drama... Let it be known then, that those very elements, who hounded Clarence S. Darrow through two trials on the charge of jury fixing; are the very same whom we now brand publicly before the world with packing the Grand Jury that indicted the McNamaras as well as D. Caplan and M. Schmidt charged with complicity. Here is the newly discovered sensational evidence, supported by numerous affidavits, which has been made the basis of a new motion to set aside the indictment, by Attorneys Fred Moore and Charles H. Fairall, for the defense."
At the center is a "Facsimile of letter from F. J. Zechandelaar, Secretary of the Merchants & Manufacturers Ass'n. to Earl Rogers, specially hired prosecutor in the so-called dynamite conspiracy case, showing the long arm of Big Business cunningly concealed behind the solemn dignity of our judicial machinery." Also reproduces statements of Caplan and Schmidt, and lists subsequent anti-labor cases following similar patterns.

Cat.No: 338403

Price: $750.00