The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-04
AARON CROSS TO-
APPEAR AGAINST
GANGSTERS TODAY


Aaron Gross will appear in Jeffer-
son Market court this morning when
the case of the two gangsters who
attacked him on June 9th will be
heard.
The two killers, Benjamin Cohen
and Meyer Friedman, murderously
hit Gross with broken beer bottles
when he was leading a picket line at
the corner of Seventh Ave. and 9th
st. Isaac Walter, right wing chief
pointed him out to the two gangsters
few minutes before the assault, &C.
cording to Encouragement, Il
seemed. No police were on the scene,
two workers, H. Steinberg and A.
Teitelman had to hold the thugs UNI
til police were obtained
Long Jail Record.
Cohen has a long Jail record, haR-
ing been sentenced several times for
safe burglary. The two gangsters
are members of Frenchy's gang.
After the attack, Gross was at the
point of death for over a week and
is now only beginning to recover.
Five of the seven thugs who cut up
four fur piekets on June 21st win also
appear in Jefferson Market court this
morning. They admitted when they
were arrested that they were hired
by the right wing at $50 a week.
Their case was postponed from yes
terday.
Levinson As Stool Pigeon.
Max Levine, Solomon Malger and
Vincent Leatea, three workers ar
rested at Union Square July 7th when
the socialist party in close coopera-
ton with the police department broke
up the monster Sacco-Vanzetti DEM
onstration because the overwhelming
majority of the assembled workers
desired to have Ben Gold, militant
fur leader address them, was heard
in the 57th street police court yester-
day.
Magistrate Stern discharged Leatea
while the trial of Levine and Malger
will be continued today
The witnesses against the three
workers We're Edward Levinson, asso-
ciate editor of The New Leader, So
cialist weekly, and Solomon Levy,
right wing member of Local 2, Inter-
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
Communist Expert"
Levinson appeared as the expert"
on communism, He charged that the
Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency was COM
posed of small group of Commu-
1iufa - tFybila
GRAFTON Committee represented nil
lions of trade unionists of New
York" He also said that the Work
ers Party had planned to break up
the meeting, and that no representa-
tives of the socialist party had ever
spoken from the same platform as
the representative of the Sacco-
Vanzetti Emergency Committee.
Socialist Lies.
That Levinson was lying deliber-
ately, was proven by files of Sacco-
Vanzetti Emergency Committee. At
the monster Madison Square meeting
that the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency
Committee held November II, 1925,
Jacob Panken and Norman Thomas
spoke as the official representatives
of the socialist party. Also, at the
Union Square meeting held under the
auspices of the Emergency Committee
April 16, 1927, McAlister Coleman
and other socialist party members
spoke.
Winagradsky Arrested.
Joseph Winagradsky of the furriers
union was arrested yesterday at
Sixth Ave. and 30th ST., when he was
leaving taxi with bundle of leaf
lets advertising tonight's meeting at
Union Square. The leaflets were
confiscated and Winagradsky held in
$500 bond for trial this morning in
jefferson Market Court.