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Rudowits Fund Scandal Revealed In 1909 Meet Debacle
The Chicago Inter Ocean details how Christian Rudowits, a political refugee, drew funds from Socialist and uplift groups, with about 700 dollars raised in nickels and dimes. Most of the money financed stenographic reports and publicity for rallies supporting Rudowits, while Rudowits himself received only 35 dollars. The piece traces the defense effort, the Colonial Theater meeting, and internal league changes and payments to figures like Clarence Darrow, Judge Julian Mack, and Jane Addams, noting disputes over who paid which bills.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Christian Rudowits
Chicago
Csar
Chicago Daily Socialist
Redewits
Rudowits
Defense Fund
Rabbi Hirsch
Walter L. Fisher
Graham Taylor
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Julian W. Mack
Raymond Robins
Russia
Pouren Defense Conference
New York
Clarence 8
Darrow
United States
Foote
Political Refugee League
Colonial Theater
International Theater
Seventh Regiment
Citizens’ Committee
Hull House
Miriam Yampolski
Mack
Dean Wigmore
Northwestern University Law School
Dally Socialist
Daily Socialist
Clarence
Charles Cheney Hyde
Political Refugees' League
League
Patrick I. Riordan
Gustave T. Fraenckel
J. C. Bentall
Phillip Angsten
Mise Seabel McLean
Jane Addams