The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-04
SOCIALIST PLOT
TO JAIL CONN.
WORKERS FAILS
Too Rotten for EUen
Capitalist Judge
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and revolutionary movement Hurwit2
entered, an ignorant individual with
a filthy tongue. He butted in and
was told to keep out of the discus
sion. He singled Weismann out, cal
ling him thief and swindler, spittingt
at him, and raised chair to strike
him. L. Abelson and the writer jump
ed up to separate them.
Weismann was led away from the
hall, to prevent further trouble. Other
workers, attracted by the noise, left
the meeting of the Jewish society for
colonization in Russia Qcor), came
down, among them Abe and Louis
Abelson, and Resnikoff
Hurwitz, by that time, had fallen to
the floor, and started yelling. When
he was asked to get up, he replied
''I'll show all of you. I'll stay here
till policeman comes" Hurwitz had
himself examined by a doctor, who
saw two scratches on his head, the
doctor admitting in court, that the
scratches might have come from fall
ling.
Hurwitz had cut lip, made by the
edge Of a door, slammed by woman
to prevent him from getting bottles
he was after The whole thing sim
mers down, therefore, to a drunken
ignoramus, Hurwitz, who started a
fight with Weissman, because the lat
ter is not as strong as some of the
others there.
Not Mass Plcketing, but Mass Arrests
Fellows shun mass picketing, or
any form of militant working class
action. But they believe in mass ar
rests Nothing is too dirtyofor the
yellows Of New Haven. Hurwitz is
one of small group mostly insurance
agents. cheese merchants, and other
petty bourgeoise, who comprise the
dead Jewish branch of the socialist
party Since the yellows lost control
of the Labor Lyceum year and a
half ago, they have sabotaged every
undertaking of the organization.
They have advised others not to
help the Labor Lyceum association of
which some are member Other yell
lows don't belong to the association,
and throw mud at it from the side
lines Hurwitz deliberately provoked
fight in order to give black eye to
the Labor Lyceum, and to the left
wingersi in control. That is why Abe
Abelson, president of the Labor Ly-
ceum association was dragged in.
The Dirty counter-RevoIutionary.
At the trial, Hurwitz claimed that
the fight started when he challenged
us to do in New Haven what we were
commencing in China. He told the
court that when he came into the La
Dor Lyceum, "THEY WERE TALK
ING REVOLUTION, and l told them
if / was big man, would send them
out of the country" He said, that
this was the remark that caused us
all to jump on him. His main wit
ness admitted not seeing who struck
Hurwitz. The case was a. frame up
on the face of it, for seven men would
not leave one with just two super
fetal scratches. Competent witnesses
testified to the story given above
Poor innocent Hurwitz testified that
he didn't spit at Weismann, nor strike
him, nor raise chair. The socialists
left the court room, deserted, even a
capitalist judge being unable to come
to their aid, after a socialist inspired
newspaper attack on the Communists
for a week
Concerted Attack on Lyceum.
Last Saturday, the goth, the Labor
Lyceum had a tag day. The right
wingers boycotted and sabotaged.
Sunday, the ultra conservative Re
gister" printed an editorial Helping
the Reds" in which it was charged
that the Communist Party of New
Haven had collected funds for prop
uganda, and that the Labor Lyceum
association was the local Communist
organization connected with the Com.
munist International. This was days
after the fight in the Labor Lyceum.
This set the Jewish workers of New
Haven thinking. They remembered
the statement in the Times Leader
last July charging that the Workers
Party was a branch of the Russian
Communist Party, sent in by Morris
Rice, socialist chairman Of the Dis
trict Committee of the Workmen's
Circle, who has since then been called
"informer" This time, the workers
drew the obvious conclusion.
The conclusion was strengthened,
when the Journal Courier of Thurs
day, June 25th, carried column and
half story about the arrests. It car
ried Hurwitz's version of the fight,
and presented typical right wing ex-
PLANTATION OF the struggle in the Labor
Lyceum, calling the Labor Lyceum
and the Workers Party one and charg-
ing that the moneys collected at the
Tag Day by the Lyceum we're for COM
munist propaganda. The, story shows
plainly that the socialists furnished