Show A 4 W iii A H w w w y WESTBROOK I 1 I 1 skulduggery buggery in the courts AFTER FTER jimmy was acquitted in federal court in chicago congressman pred A hartley coauthor co author of the taft hartley labor emancipation law said bald he any any too sure that the department of justice was leveling in this thi sease case I 1 have been thinking the same thing about other union cases and torne gome other department of justice jobs they are getting very careless you know what leveling means of course it Is a poetic term from the prize fighting racket to level is to put forth your best efforts lorts ef as the prize fight commissioners any aay lots of times I 1 have thought that the department of ef justice put forch forth its beat efforts effort sAn in cases involving union gorillas goril lai or moving picture people or ideological refugees there Is a tact fact about the duty of the federal judges which few of us know and most of those few seldom remember A federal judge is supposed to sniff out skulduggery done in hla his presence and to denounce any obvious or negligence on the part of the district attorney whether for benefit beneat of the govern government mentor or of the defendant I 1 dare say there have been cases where federal judges had scolded district attorneys tor for bearing down unfairly on defendants but I 1 challenge you to cite any case where a judge got disgusted and bowled bawled out a prosecutor for willful and obvious neglect of the peoples interest and failure to do his best I 1 nay it is high time one of them did |