Show x f ne MR hy DU cegles EL nelea leased aed by features Pea tare tures S I 1 perceived at tw time the A AS trial of a section of the tha taft hartley bartley law before judge ben moore in washington was rious alous business justice frankfurter later remarked marked le that he saw evidence of df an inside job the defendants were the CIO C 10 and its psalm sing ing president philip murray the gethsemane kid THE CIO C I 1 0 AND MURRAY HURRAY ARE AHE LATCHKEY LATCH KE KEY Y PALS OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN frankfurter in effect accused the department of justice of slipping clipping its own client a mickey finn actually we know and so does frankfurter and so did moore that the he D r of J was politically opposed t to 0 this law it is a alcan law the CL CI 0 and murray are not only democrats but big contributors ely by the decision of moore who is also an avowed democrat his party mr Tr party and the party of the defendants would gain or lose a slush fund of millions judge moores party hopefully looked to him to ratify the use of that money with which it could corrupt the ballot in the 1948 presidential election in an opinion supporting the claptrap clap trap in the defendants own political pamphlets moore justified their hopes old den ben moore came through I 1 put it straight to moore to say whether he ever was or never was a partner in a charleston 4 W va law firm which represents john L lewis and the united mine workers I 1 asked him to say also who plucked him out of charleston to sit in washington and who assigned him to this case moore an gets awer arid and although no ivo my questions answer bously had bad no bearing on the taft hartley tase case he threw in a slantwise mention of contempt well any citizen had bad a right to ask those questions and the bluff just made me more suspicious however if it bascon was wa scon contempt he should have done his stuff NOW LET HIM CITE frankfurter Y FOR CONTEMPT we may get a more thorough statement of frankfurters suspicions and objections to the conduct of the D of J when the opinions of the supreme court are written I 1 now have discovered an opinion conof of the fourth circuit court of appeals unanimous too which lays jays moore out with the most violent flogging of a federal judge by a higher court that I 1 have ever read ababa A baby boy 13 months old wandered onto therall the railroad roa d tracks tracks and a a yard engine cut oft off his bis hands the first arst jury disagreed the second gave the baby the verdict was reversed on errors but the ahe court of appeals said also that the judgment as was excessive in the third trial before judge moore the jury gave the baby he refused to set it aside as excessive but the court of appeals said it certainly was and figured that vie he boy could have an income of a year for life and still leave an estate of recognizing the painful nature of 0 the case the court oti of 0 appeals still condemned moore for inciting the jurys sympathy and for an argumentative presentation w which h I 1 c h must have prejudiced the defend ants case one juror e even v e n moore made mad e arf an affidavit Is that they all wrote partial pardal down a big 6 figure added them up and divided by 12 to get but it was for his treatment oi of the he locomotive fireman fireman and his partially to the plaintiff that thai the court sl df appeals gave moore the worst of his bawling out the tha fireman was corroborating the engineer the engineer said he didiot did not take his eyes off the tracks to wave to three little boys about feet from where the baby avas was incidentally two of the little boys boya were were brothers of the baby they the engineer waved THE THIRD KID S SAID ik I 1 D HL HE 4 the fireman said not to my knowledge was the engineer waving moore said the question wa was i s do you know know that that no ho wi sut A no sir 10 I 1 i see him waving at af anyone f moore that the que tion alon do you know he waving A ill 1 I see him moore bloore answer do yon yeti know lie he gasn wasn t waving A ano no he moore that ithac the ques tion do you know he be waving A well sir J moore interrupting you ton know whether you yon dor do or not do you know that he be waving at homebody ome body A 1 11 I see him blin waylay waving it no SW 1 |