The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
PASSAIC POLICE
SEEK TO FRAME
FRANK REMDICz
To Railroad Clubbing
F.. Victim to Prison

PASSAIC, N. j., July IS. = Pursued
into his own house, his right Of dom
icile violated, his child snatched from
his arms, Frank Rembicz, of $50
Eighth street, was terribly beaten
after he was forced down on to his
own bed. ~
Two drunken Passaic policemen,
John Noonan and Abram Geene, saw
Rembicz come out on his porch as a
bus load of scabs were passing. Peo-
pie in the street and children in
doorways booed as the scabs passed.
With his little four-year-old daughter
Josephine In his arms, he stood
watching the scene.
Assault Rembicz.
Suddenly the two policemen spot.
ted this striker. In their drunken an.
ger at the demonstration which they
could not quell, they ordered him
roughly to move on, and struck him
blow in the back to emphasize their
orders. Rembicz ran down the hall
way to his apartment, his little girl
still in his arms. The policemen fol
lowed.
Neighbors crowded down the hall
way and saw the officers begin to
batter at the door with their clubs,
They broke thru the thin panels and
reached inside for the lock. Little
Josephine screamed. The women
ran into the room and there, thru the
door to a bedroom they saw the po.
lice tear the child from her fathers
arms, and rush to attack him. When
the terrible struggle was over, and
Rembicz had been beaten to insensi-
bility they carried him unconscious
to the patrol wagon. His little girl
ran after him, sobbing, and insisted
on going with her father since her
mother was not at home. Altho the
police took her to the hospital they
later refused to tell the frantic moth
er what had become OF her.
Uses His Rights.
Frank Rembicz attacked in his own
home did all in his power to defend
himself but was finally overcome by
the two men. Both policemen were
cut and bruised by his blows. He is
in the Passaic General Hospital, suf-
fering from possible fracture of the
skull
After the outrage was committed,
leaders from strike headquarters
went to his home where they found
evidences of a terrible battle. Brok-
en- pieces of the door, and bloodstain-
ed sheets from the bed on which he
i was beaten were taken as evidence.
Seven witnesses have made affida-
Wits of the affair
The preliminaries for a frame up
are being arranged by the police. The
local press has been filled with a
wild tale az an attack upon the po-
lice by Rembicz several blocks from
his home; (2) an attack at his door
step upon the police with a railroad
car coupling; 90 an attack upon
the police with a hammer, and so
forth. All of these conflicting re-
ports have been handed out by the
police as a smoke screen under which
to charge this innocent man with
atrocious assault and frame him for
long term in jail.
Club Strikers.
Officer Edward Hogan of Passaic
attacked Joseph Meka, John Mohas-
ky and Joe Mohasky and their wives
and children as they were sitting on
bench on their porch.
A number of strikers returning
from their meeting were dragged in
to the Botany mill and beaten into
Inconsistencies by Herman Zober,
son of the Passaic chief of police.
They were later released without
charges being preferred against them.