The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
.3FUR WORKERS
ARRESTED and
BRUTALLY BEAT
Released on $3.50
Bail
Especial to The Daily wOrksrl

NSpeCiat TO ne Gaiy WoTkeII
NEW YORK, April os-Three fur
workers arrested on Monday, April 10,
for plcketlna shop in Rockville
Center, L, l., were released from
Mlneola Jail on Saturday and at Union
Headquarters this morning told Of the
guerilla tactics which police officers of
Nassau county employed against them.
NJ. Bessoff, Leo Franklin and M. L.
Maxim were held without ball until
last Saturday when thru the efforts
Of the union and Its attorney they
were released on $4,000 each.
Third Degree.
Third degree methods were used on
N. Bessoff and after hours Of grilling
he was forced to sign his name to a
confession which he did not make and
which is utterly untrue. The union
will contest the use Of this in the trial
of the workers which is set for next
Monday, May 8.
Detailed Statement.
M. L. Maxim has written a detailed
statement of the treatment given him
and his fellow workers as follows:
I'VE were taken down to Rockville
Center police station latter being ar
rested for picketing) and were locked
I'D in cells while waiting for examina-
ton by the police. About two hundred
detectives and police officials visited
the prisoners and made all kinds of
threats.
Held Incommunleado.
I'VE were kept in cells until about
10 o'clock that night, without being
allowed to call anybody, in direct
violation Of the law which states
prisoner may make two calls. Then
we were handcuffed and taken to
Nassau county police headquarters at
Mineola, L. I. AS soon as we arrived
there we were told to take off our
hats and coats and were searched,
after which the detective wiped the
floor with our hats and coats. We
were then taken to a large room.
Bessoff was taken away and about hall
an hour later was told to get into
the same room to which he had been
taken. Five detectives entered with
me.
Beat Prisoners.
"They started to slug me with rub
Der hose, blackjack, fists, feet. After
they asked me a question they would
start to beat me again. They kept
that ND for about two and half hours,
and then I was told to go upstairs.
While going up the stairs there was a
lineup of detectives, and each one took
a kick at me until 1 reached the finger
print room. They started to slug me
again. This lasted for about an hour.
Then nv ingerprints we're taken, and
I was taken downstairs again. There
l met my friend again with black and
blue marks all over his body from the
treatment he had received. In this
room there were only two benches and
a washbasin. We stayed there all
night, and were not given anything
to eat.
Continue Torture.
"The next day we were visited by
detectives every half hour, and every
time they saw us they either kicked
us in the stomach or punched us. AT
about 1870 in the afternoon the dis
trict attorney came in, and his first
words were, Are you the buns that
we're doing all the beating-up in this
colony!" He then used vile language
10 us. At 8 o'clock we were taken in
front Of the judge to plead, after which
we were bonded over to the prison
warden.
81 am now suffering with pains all
over my body, especially in the hips
and back as a result of the treatment
given me-"