PARDON OMEN GiVEN ANT ANtT A BY GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA Sixty Year Year Od Social Socia Worker V Was Vas Under 14 Year Sentence BEFRIENDS I. I W. W V. V W V. V Young Holds She Was Vas in inNo inNo inNo No Sense a Criminal Crim Crim- Criminal inal J. J SACRAMENTO Calif Ca Ii June 21 By By The Associated Press A A year seven fight tight In the tho courts over the conviction of oC Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney prominent Oak Oakland land social worker on a charge o or 01 violating the California criminal syndicalism law came to an end last night when Governor C. C CYoung C C. Young Issued an unconditional pardon to the year old defend defend- ant The pardon frees Miss Iss Whitney of 01 the stigma of 01 a convict and spares her from a 1 to 14 1 year ear sentence in San Quentin prison which has been the tho object of much muc of at her welfare t work I Executive clemency clemenc was request request- requested ed cd by hundreds of at people in all alt walks of life after r the tho United States State supreme court had twice considered the tho case ease and upheld both the constitutionality and Miss Whitneys Whitney's conviction DIDN'T ASK ASIC PARDON Miss Whitney gave up the tho fight ht after tho the supreme court had pro pro- pronounced pronounce pronounced l Its last lost word She main main- maintained maintained tamed that to have havo asked a par par- pardon pardon pardon don for herself would have been beena a tacit admission of ot guilt She was arrested In Oakland In November 1919 after delivering a speech In defense of ot John Mc- Mc Hugh accused I. I W. W W. W leader Her arrest came after aCter she had defied city authorities by making the speech In explaining his reasons for the pardon Governor Young main maln- maintained tamed that Miss Whitney could not be bo classed at a a. criminal Concluding his word state state- statement ment he said SOX REASON FOrt FOR I I am Issuing a a. pardon for Cor Charlotte Chat Anita Whitney In spite of my Insistence that under all ordinary circumstances the tho vcr ver diets of our courts must bo ho upheld In n spite of or the undoubted constitutionality constitutionality ot of the law under which she was wn convicted in spite of or the fact that the courts have adjudged that in Joining the Communist Labor La- La Laor bor or party she violated the crimi crimi- criminal criminal nal nat syndicalism act In spite of ot my m belief beller that nothing Is Is' more necessary necessary sary than to Instill into our peo people plo pie a healthy respect for Cor the dig dig- dignity dignity dIgnity and majesty majest of ot the law lawI lawI I I am Issuing this pardon par lon be be- because b because cause I do not believe that under ordinary circumstances this case would ever have havo been brought to trial rial because the abnormal con con- conditions conditions conditions attending the tho trial go a along along long long ong way toward to explaining the verdict of or the Jury because I 1 feel that hat the criminal syndicalism act was vas primarily intended led to apply to La o organizations actually known as advocates of or violence terrorism or sabotage rather than to such or or- organizations organizations as the Communist La- La Laor Labor Labor bor or party OTHER REASONS SO S. S Because the judges who have been connected with the tho caso case as aswell aswell well veil as the authors and some of oC he the strongest advocates of or the tho law under which Miss 1 Whitney was convicted unite In urging that a pardon be granted because not only the evidence at tho the trial but also elso the testimony of or all Miss 1 Whitneys Whitney's acquaintances show her Continued on Page T Two o. o PARDON GIVEN ANITA WHITNEY Continued from Page rage One to have the tho utmost respect for law lawand lawand and to be averse to violence In any form because her Imprisonment might possibly serve servo a harmful purpose by reviving the warring spirits of tho the radicals through making her their martyr because whatever may be thought as to the folly of oC her misdirected sym sym- sympathies path Ie Miss Mss Whitney life lite long friend of the unfortunate In any true sense Is not a criminal and to condemn her at 60 years ears of ago agoto agoto agoto to a felons felon's cell Is an action which Is absolutely unthinkable