The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-23
WOLFE ASSAILS
PASSAIC Police
FOR new crime
WeiSbOrd Arrested for
Introducing Speaker
lspeeIaI TO The palIy wOrkerl


NEW YORK, April 20-When Ber-
tram D. Wolfe, director of the New
York Workers School and member Of
the Workers Communist Party,
learnt thru reading news items in the
metropolitan press that Albert j.
Wesbord, the Passaic textile strike
leader, was charged with having intro
duced Wolfe at a meeting in Passaic
and held under $4,000 bail on this
charge he made the following deelara-
tion to the press:
PassaIc Has New Crime.
II learn from the New York City
papers of April Is that one Of the
three crimes charged against Alder
j. Weisbord, which have resulted In
his Imprisonment in Passaic, is the
crime of having introduced me at
meeting. 1t appears then that the
mere act of introducing me at public
meeting in Passaic is sufficient to Qc-
casion the arrest of citizen and his
being held on the astounding bail of
$4,000.
Il do not know whether this strange
tribute to me on the part of the Pas
sale authorities is due to my past ac-
tivities or to the speech made by me
after being introduced at meeting of
Feb. "a
Arrest Weisbord.
THE newspaper account reads: He
(Weisbord) is charged with melting
hostility to all government in that he
introduced Bertram Wolfe of the COM
munist Party at a meeting Of Feb. "a
My speech at the meeting Of Feb. "a,
as | and several thousand witnesses
will recollect, was a summary of the
facts as to the enormous profits made
by the textile barons of New Jersey
from their underpaid workers.
chose as my text banner carried in
the line Of march in the parade of
Feb. 20 which read: Bosses open
your books and show us your profits
Summarizing the results of the inves-
legations of a research worker of the
Workers School, who studied the cor
poration reports of the Botany, the
Gera, the Forstmann-Huffmann and
other textile mills involved in that
strike, / showed that these profits
were indeed enormous, running up
into the millions, before ever the wage
cut had been made and | promised to
turn over these statistics to the strike
committee in order that when the
bosses should come crying poverty
and inability to restore wage cuts,
these facts as to profits could be rub
bed into their noses This is an ade-
quate summary of my speech of Feb.
"a for which not but Weisbord has
been arrested.
Lawyer Raps Authorities
81 am moved to ask the Passaic
authorities why they do not make me
responsible for this heinous offense
in place of Weisbord. No existing
law makes the chairman of meet
ing responsible for what speakers, in
PRODUCED by him, may. say. At best,
he is but my accomplice and | am
compelled to agree with the statement
of Weisbord's attorney, Mr.. FEEDER, as
reported In the Times OF April IS,
when he said: I would-point out that
Introducing man is no crime, Weis-
bord-was passive listener. The
overt act, il any, was on the part OF
another person (meaning mel. Yet
on this charge. he (Weisbord)i is be-
ing held in $4,000 bail, Sir on the
overt act Of tho ofhar naraon,
IF the Passaic authorities we're
really interested in furnishing the sup.
posed criminal instead of holding
Weisbord in Jail. so that he cannot
properly direct the strike, they had
ample opportunity to arrest me when
he introduced me second time at
meeting on Tuesday, April 6. Yet
no move was made against me at that
time.
Wolfe Hits Absurd Charge.
AS to the charge that am against
all government as also stated in the
accusation against Weisbord for hav-
ing introduced so dangerous a person
age as myself-this is absurd. am
opposed to the present domination OF
governmental authorities in the tex
tile area OF New Jersey by the textile
barons and in favor of q Workers and
farmers government In America as
innumerable speeches and writings Of
mine amply attest"
Iinife for' recognition and dafarsa,