The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
BIEDENKAPP IS
ARRESTED;TRY
TO ExTRAD|TE
Worker Relief Head to
Be Tried With Crouch,
Weisbord in Mass.
Conspiracy to Parade
rs in This Case; 662
Others Up Soon

Fred Biedenkapp, national secre-
tary of the Workers international
Relief, was arrested Friday night as
he was about to address a meeting
of the Council of Working Women
in the Bronx, New York. Although
George Mccartney, of the Tanmany
Bomb Squad, served the warrant be-
fore Biedenkapp before he spoke, he
insisted on staying and keeping his
speaking engagement, and was aft
erward taken to the Tombs.
Saturday morning he was taken
before Judge W. Simpson, first
magistrates court, and the case set
for hearing Feb. 1. The New York
District of the International Labor
Defense had been trying most of
Friday night to arrange bail, but
was not allowed to do so until after
his appearance before Simpson.
They then got him out on $1,000
bail.
Warrant For Three.
Warrants for the Arrest of Bieden-
kapp, Paul Crouch and Albert Weis-
bord, secretary of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, were issued by
Chief Magistrate McAdoo of the
New York municipal court for ex-
tradition to New Bedford, Mass,
where they are charged with % 9TH
ers on two accounts:
First-That they entered into a
conspiracy with others to parade
through New Bedford without per-
NIT, during November, last year.
Second-That they entered into a
conspiracy with others to commit
disturbance of the peace.
These charges are set forth in
detail in bench warrant issued in
the superior court of Massachusetts,,
returnable on the first Monday ir~
February, 1929.
Others Arrested.
The others charged by the textile
bosses courts with the conspiracy to
parade in the interests of the New
Bedford textile workers have al
ready been arraigned. They will be
defended by the l. L. D. They are:
Nathan G. Kay, Eli Keller, Elsie
Pultur, Marion Botelho, Bessie Kat
sikaros, Germaine J. Madeiros, Au-
gusto G. Puito, Manuel Pitts, Ellen
Dawson, Jack Rubenstein, Jos. M.
Louise Kitsakaros, Maria C.
Silva, Casimiro Lameiros, Elizabeth
Donnelly, John Pelcazar Jackson w.
Wales, Andrew Izyk, Alphonse I.
Lameiros, Mary Silva and Manuel
Machado.
/. L. D. viii Fight.
Rose Baron, secretary of the New
York branches of the I. L. D., stated
"The arrest of Bieden-
l;app is a first maneuver to try and
extradite him, along with Crouch
and Weisbord, to New Bedford. The
I. L. d. will fight against the extra
dition. The 1. L. D. has engaged
Jacques Bietenkapp as attorney in
this case"
Those who saw the procedure ssy
that the officers and attaches of the
building who heard of the
case snickered .audibly over the
flimsy and unusual charge, "con-
spiracy to parade"
662 to Be Tried.
In addition to the cases of the 25
raraders. New Bedford will have,
during the first part of March,
trial in the superior court of 662
New Bedford textile strike pickets,
already framed-up and convicted in
the district court there of every sort
of misdemeanor the police and mill
owners could think of to bring
against them: Picketing, traffic vio-
lations, breach of the peace, rioting
and melting to riot, resisting an Of
ficer, etc. Some of the charges
carry penalties up to three years.
Some of the nilitants were con-
victed as many as twelve times, so
that the cases total over a thousand
convictions.
The International Labor Defense
has the cases appealed, is furnishing
bail wherever possible, and will de-
fend them in the superior court.