The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-03
STRIKERS HAVE
NO RIGHTS, SAYS
PASSAIC JUDGE
Workers Determined to
Protect Selves

PASSAlC, NJ j., April !. - CIVIL
rights are now a thing Of the past
In Passaicl The Passaie police court
officials refused to issue warrants for
the arrest of Zober and twelve police
men on charges Of atroeIous assault,
merely because the compliments were
strlkersl
Fifteen complainants with attorneys
from the Civil Liberties Union went
to the police court to keep their APP
pointment with George M. Rice, clerk
Of the court, who had said he was
''too busy" to issue warrants for the
arrest Of the police thugs on Satur-
day, but would meet them several days
later. Abram Walks, of Paterson, was
called to the private Office of the clerk
where he met Police Judge William
Davidson, the clerk, and Chief Of
Police Richard o. Zober. Davidson
did the talking.
Refuses Rights to Strikers.
IT will not accept any complaints
in this court from any of the com
plainants who are involved in the
strike" he said.
Here are two complaints sworn by
people who are not strikers. Will you
accept their complaints?" asked Mr..
Walks.
II will not accept any complaints
in this court against any member Of
the police department or any special
policeman as long as the matter I'M
der complaint is anything that the
police did while in the performance
of their duties" said Judge Davidson.
The refusal Of Judge Davidson to
allow warrants to be issued will not
prevent the American Civil Liberties
Union from taking further action on
the hundred or more cases of clear
violation Of civil right in Passaic that
have been investigated by their at
torneys. Other legal measures will
be used.
Courts Serve Big Business.
New York newspapers had no diff
fculty in securing warrants against
Passaic policemen from the same
court that refuses them to strikers.
Warrants which they swore out on
March %, thru their attorneys, charg-
ing three Passaic police with brutally
assaulting Martin ]. McEvilly were
not refused by the court. The
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City are able to set the ma
chinery of the law in motion to pro-
tect their members against unjustitied
assault, while strikers and strike SYM
pathizers are denied even the issu-
ance Of a warrant.
The brutal beating of workers on
the picket lines has caused Albert
Weisbord to issue statement telling
the strikers to protect themselves
from similar brutalities in the future.
Eight hundred pickets, who marched
in orderly procession from the Botany
mill to picket the gates of the Pas.
sale Print Works, which they wish to
bring on strike, were scattered by
mounted police, and many were
seriously hurt when struck by police
clubs. Eight strikers were arrested
and dozens Of others were dubbed, in,
Guiding Jack Fila, an non-striker, who
was returning from work on the night
shift of a dye works in Hidden and
received a serious head wound.
strikersI Protect YourselvesI
Weisbord's statement advising the
strikers to protect themselves from
the brutal assaults of police thugs
follows:
From the very beginning the
United Front Committee of Textile
Workers has insisted that all picket
lines that were to be formed were
TO be peaceful as well as powerful
This the workers have carried out tc
the letter, but in spite of the peace