The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
WEISBORD IS
INDICTED BY
GRAND Jury
cambridge Colby De-
tends Strike Leader
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with melting a riot, the fourth alleges
unlawful assembly. The fourth is di-
rected not only against Weisbord, but
against those notorious court phan-
toms, John Doe, Richard Roe and
against various other persons to the
number of about 1000 persons I'M
known to the grand jurors. This
mean that anyone known to be a par
ticipant in the so-called unlawful as
sembly may be arrested and held in
excessive bond. No names Of persons
are necessary as John Doe and Richard
Roe includes every male person in the
whole United States.
The imbecile indictment reads like
part of the ancient curses frequently
hurled at quaking sinners by the
RESTS of the medieval church. Each
# them refers to Weisbord as a
wicked, malicious, unlawful and evil
ly disposed person"
Called Police Names.
The second indictment charges that
Weisbord referred to the armed assail-
ants of defenseless men, women and
children as "gangsters and thugs in
uniform" 1t is supposed to be a crime
to call these craven poltroons by their
right names in Passaic and in Pater-
son courts.
The third indictment is based upon
plain lie sworn to by depraved stool
pigeons Of the mill owners and char
ges Weisbord with advocating the VOL
emit overthrow of the government of
the United States in his addresses to
the strikers.
viii Be Hot Fight.
The trial will be one of the most
holly contested legal battles in the
history of textile struggles in New
Jersey. No stone will be left unturned
to expose the contemplate nature OF
the administrations of the mill towns
affected and pillory them as the real
criminals who are guilty Of the most
ferocious assaults against citizens Of
the towns they infest.
Public opinion generally is with the
strikers in spite of the efforts of the
kept newspapers and the other hire
lings of the mill barons such as the
American Legion post of Passaic an
similar provocateurs who live off tn
crumbs thrown to them out of tn
enormous proceeds wrung from tn
sweat of the underpaid and overwork-
ed slaves in the wooden mills.
Silk Workers to Aid.
The Associated Silk Workers of Pa
terson, thru it's secretary and execu-
tive board, has taken stand against
the police assaults and the falling of
Weisbord and his associates and
pledges it's support to the fight Of the
textile workers in the wooden mills in
the following announcement:
"The executive board of the Broad
Silk Department of the Associated
Silk Workers, at its meeting on We'd
nesday evening, April 14th, voices its
protests against the brutalities Of the
police inflicted upon the strikers of
Passaic and vicinity. The arrest Of
Weisbord and all other leaders, and
placing them under heavy bail is suffi-
cient evidence to us that the author
tiles of Passaic and vicinity have TAX
en- upon themselves to crush the strike
and help the Passaic mill owners in
their pernicious task to subdue the
workers to the enslaved conditions
that they have been forced to work
under up to the time Of the strike.
I'VE call upon the strikers to stand
firm for their demands, as they have
the support, morally and financially,
Of the Broad Silk Department Of the
Associated Silk Workers.-Fred Hoel-
scher, secretary treasurer"
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