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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
April 4, 1941
Cab Calloway and His Or-
chestra Coming Here for
Sugar Testimonial
Judge George Murphy Foley on Committee
Out for Re-Election
For Amity Dinner
with a decided hatred for intoler-
ance of all kinds. In 1939, when
anti-Semitism was all too preva-
lent among some of his co-re-
ligionists, he became a member
Candidate for Common Pleas of the committee of Catholics to
Judge is Outstanding Liberal fight anti-Semitism. Following
Catholic
this he became a subscriber to
the Voice which was the organ
Among those who participated of that committee and with sev-
in the general arrangement com- eral other like-minded people of
nical High School last February,
which voiced the sentiments of
munity Council at the Cass Tech-
the American people of this vi-
cinity of all faiths against the
outrages perpetrated by the
Nazis in Poland and other Nazis
controlled territory.
Mr. Foley has practiced law
in Detroit for the past 20 years.
He is a graduate of Notre Dame
mittee, named by Mayor Jeffries his faith disseminated thousands University and stands high in his
for the purpose of promoting of copies of this magazine among profession.
Detroit's first civic amity dinner the Catholics of Detroit. He is
Judge George Murphy, discuss-
Cab Calloway and his famous
Cotton Club band are coming ing his candidacy for re-election
to Detroit, Saturday, April 5, to the Recorder's Bench, stated:
direct from the heart of Harlem, "The work I began to make the
to play at a great celebration Recorder's Court one of the fin-
at the Eastwood Park Ballroom,
honoring Maurice Sugar, general
counsel of the CIO United Auto-
mobile Workers Union, on his
to be held April 22, is Daniel R.
25th anniversary in the labor
Foley, one of the candidates for
movement.
the Common Pleas Court. This
Sugar began his labor practice
movement was started by the De-
by representing the AFL De-
troit Round Table of Catholics,
troit Typographical Union and
Jews, and Protestants of which
has represented practically all
Mr. Foley is an active member.
the labor unions in Detroit, in-
The Round Table is affiliated
cluding the Detroit and Wayne
with the National Conference of
County Federation of Labor and
Christians and Jews.
various A F L International
Mr. Foley is well known as a
Unions.
person of broad and liberal views
Today, as general counsel for
the UAW-CIO, Sugar is attor-
brother Frank Murphy (present
ney for 400,000 automobile
workers throughout the United
U. S. Supreme Court Justice),
who had been elected to the Re-
States and Canada.
corder's Court bench. In 1926
All his life Sugar has been
and 1927 he was an instructor
a vigorous fighter against war,
in law at the University of De-
Fascism, anti-Semitism, and dis-
troit.
crimination against the foreign-
born. He is currently fighting
Hit!erism and Fascism by acting
for the UAW-CIO in all their
cases against the Ford Motor Co.
JUDGE GEORGE MURPHY
and Henry Ford, who was dec-
orated by Adolph Hitler.
est of its kind in the country is
The Sugar celebration is spon- barely started."
sored by State Senators Lee Wil-
The recent decision handed
kowski, James Burns, Stanley down by the United States Su-
Nowak and Charles Diggs; Wal- preme Court legalizing picketing
ter Bergman, AFL Teachers' was preceded by a similar deci-
Union; Henry Sazer, Hat, Cap sion on the part of Judge Mur-
and Millinery Workers; R. J. phy four years ago in the strike
Thomas, pres., UAW-CIO; George of the Butchers and Meat Cut-
P. Addes, secy-treas., UAW-CIO; ters against the United Beef
Regional Directors Richard T. Company here in Detroit.
Frankensteen, Richard T. Leon-
Judge Murphy has acted as ar-
ard and Leo LaMotte; and num- bitrator and concilitator in many
erous others.
cases between local unions and
Admission to the affair which their employers and has been
will be attended by political not- highly praised by both the em-
ables from the City and State ployers and the unions for the
and AFL and CIO union leaders fair and impersonal manner in
is 75 cents. Tickets may be ob- which he has handled their prob-
tained at the Sugar for Record- lems including those of the Team-
er's Judge campaign headquar- sters' Union, the Iron Workers'
Union, the Window Cleaners'
ters, 458 Book Building.
Mrs. Lydia Kahn Levin is one Union and others.
In 1924, Judge Murphy took
of many endorsers of Maurice
over the law practice of his
Sugar's candidacy.
also an active member of the De-
troit Round Table of Catholics,
Jews and Protestants which is
affiliated with the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews.
MEDALIE HEADS
N.Y. FEDERATION
The election of George Z. Med-
He is one of the founders and
an honorary member of the As- an°, former United States At-
sociation of Ca t h o l i c Trade torney, as president of the Fed-
Unionists which is in the fore- . eration for the Support of Jew-
front in advocating the cause of
social justice to all in this vicin- ish Philanthropic Societies of
ity b o t h by its activities and New York City, was announced
through its organ, the Michigan on March 31, following a meet-
Labor Leader.
ing of the board of trustees at
Mr. Foley was chosen as a the Federation Building, 71 W.
delegate to represent this asso- 47th St., New. York.
Mr. Medalie succeeds Benjamin
ciation at a protest meeting
staged by the American Jewish J. Buttenwieser, who served as
Congress and the Jewish Corn- Federation's president since 1938.
RE-ELECT
JUDGE L. EUGENE
SHARP
to the
Common Pleas Court
EXPERIENCED — COURTEOUS — ABLE
ENDORSED BY:
Bar Association—Detroit Citizen's League—Labor
And by the following Attorneys:
Norman Snider
Lewis H. Manning
Jerome A. Rothenberg
George Parzen
Benjamin J. Safir
Irvin Burdick
Leo A. Mandell
Joseph E. Bessman
Aaron Fellman
Arthur Gould
Abe A. Schmier
Samuel Reiss
Louis E. Letzer
Leo Gottfurcht
Samuel Babcock
ELECT...
GERALD K.
11 It I E Ig
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Circuit Judge
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OVERSEAS WORLD WAR VETERAN
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GRADUATE
PRACTICING ATTORNEY-17 YEARS
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MICHIGAN-2 YEARS
ASSISTANT PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF WAYNE COUNTY-6 YEARS
Officially endorsed by all Organized Labor
PROVEN FRIEND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
ENDORSED BY:
IRVING BERNARD ACKERMAN
ALAN N. BROWN
JAMES I. ELLMANN
A. LEWIS FINEBERG
WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
MAXWELL E. KATZEN
HYMAN A. KRAMER
AARON KURLAND
MORRIS LIPSHY
BENJAMIN MARCUS
L. MEYRON MARKO
IVAN I. MEISNER
LOUIS JAMES ROSENBERG
LOUIS ROSENZWEIG
HENRY P. ROSIN
HENRY M. ROTTMAN
BENJAMIN J. SAFIR
SIDNEY M. SHEVITZ
JOSEPH H. SIEGEL
LEONARD SIMONS