The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-27
new YORK LABO..
FIGHTS MOVE TO
JAIL WEISDORD
Hold Protest Meeting
on Wednesday
BY ESTHER LOWELL.
ederated Press staff correspondenC


Federated Press staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 25.-- mo one
shall be raiIroaded to Jail from the
Passaie strike. The joint committee
for defense will fight to the finish"
This is the cry calling all possible
supporters to the mass meeting at
Star Casino, 1o1 East 10TH street,
New York, on Wednesday, April 20, at
8 p. m.
Every friend of the 10000 striking
wooden workers of Passaic, Garfield,
Clifton and dye house workers OF
Lodi is expected to join this united
campaign. Frame-ups of workers and
strike speakers now and after the
strike ends must be prevented, the
committee says emphatically.
The joint committee for defense is
sponsoring the mass meeting. 1t is
martialling all forces for the fight in
the courts to protect Passaic strikers
in their rights to organize, to speak
freely, to assemble, to issue their bull
etin, to picket peacefully, and to have
their own leaders. The organizations
united in the joint committee are the
American Civil Liberties Union, the
International Labor Defense, the
League for Industrial Democracy, the
United Front Committee of Textile
Workers, the Passaic Strikers Relief
Committee, the New York Emergen-
cy Committee for Strikers Relief, and
the Federated Press
Speakers already announced for the
gigantic mass meeting ale Albert
Weisbord United Frclt Committee ar
ganizer and strike leader; James P.
Cannon of the International Labor De-
Tense; Norman Thomas, League for
Industrial Democracy director; For
rest Bailey of the American Civil Lii
berries Union; Robert w. Dunn, au-
thor of The Labor Spy with Sidney
Howard) and American Foreign In
vestments. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
will be chairman.
Seek to jail Weisbord.
Albert Weisbord is out on heavy
bail, $4,000, for four indictments in
Passaic county and $4,000 for charges
yet to be given the Bergen county
grand jury from Garfield Robert
Dunn is out on $4,000 bail pending
Bergen county grand jury action on
Garfield charges. Dunn was arrested
as he was leaving the scene of Sher-
if P. Nimmo's riot after this hysteri-
cal officer had read the riot act. Dunn
witnessed the cleaning out" which
followed the sheriff's order In front of
the Observation-Disclosures mill. He saw
police and deputies beat women and
children to the ground and bestially
attack the splendid peaceful picket
line.
Practically all of the strike leaders
already have numerous charges
against them. Jack Rubenstin and
Lena Chernenko have sentences total
ing many months if their appeals are
not carried to the highest courts.
Nearly 300 strikers have various cases
against them.
zober Threatensl Strike Leader.
Weisbord stands in the greatest
danger from Jersey justice. In Jail at
Paterson, chief of police Richard 70
Der Of Passaic came daily to leer and
sneer into the cell. zober seemed
scarcely able to restrain himself from
carrying out the violent threats he
made against the young strike leader
Jersey justice is dictated by the
mill owners. The sheriffs make their
Offices and house their deputies in the
mills Local police officials telephone
the mills for their orders. More than
one city official of the mill towns has
financial connections with the mills.
Mayor Burke Of Garfield is employed
by Botany Mills. Commissioner OF
public safety Abram Preiskel Of Pas
sale gets mill remnants for his shop
and is local bank director.