The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-20


organizer, District 2 of the c
Magistrates Court, yesterday
morning, repeating this while
waiting to be taken to the
workhouse to serve a 30-day
sentence.
Lifshitz Sentenced.
Following Lifshitz's statement
Judge Henry M. Goodman, glancing
furtively at signs seized by the Tam
many police in their provocative raid
on the Workers Center Saturday
afternoon, especially at the frag-
ments of the huge slogan "Down
with Walkers Police Brutality
which covered the front of the build
ing within sight of 5000 fully armed
police parading up Broadway, SEN
fenced Ben Lifshitz to 80 days in
jail on the charges of 'inciting to
riot" and "disorderly conduct"
jacques Buitenkamp, attorney for
the New York District of the Inter-
national Labor Defense. defending
the IL workers and nine children
arrested on Saturday, brought evil
dence before Goodman's court show
ing that police brutality was a fact
which could be sworn to by hundreds
of cafeteria strikers and needle
trades workers and by the very ones
who were arrested for protesting
against the police brutality.
Party Will Speak.
What is there to prevent the
Communist Party from stating what
is known to thousands of workers
and protesting against it," he
wanted to know.
In his speech in court Lifshi-z
told how the police, without war
rants, entered the Workers Center
demanded that the sign be torn off
the building and then arrested him
and proceeded to tear down the sign
themselves.
Upon the filing of certificate of
reasonable doubt in Special Sessions,
Lifshitz will be released on bail and
the case will be appealed.
The International Labor Defense,
through Rose Baron, its district sec
retary, has announced that it will
call mass protest meeting against
the police brutality in the strikes,
and in its provocative raid on the
Workers Center.
Judge Open-Shopper.
During the course of the trial
yesterday morning, Judge Goodman,
who is related to many open-shop
bosses in the needle industry and
who is declared enemy of labor,
demonstrated his real character.
He said that he felt that he should
sneer at the defendant (Lifshitz)
and stated that the police of New
Yorw City are the "best and finest
and that he is proud" of them.
When Lifshitz declared that the
court was an agent of the capital
lists, Goodman stated that the "de-
fendant is defiant and real punish
nent should be meted out to him. "
Last night in the same court be-
fore Judge Louis Brodsky, Harry
Milton, Herbert Morten, Herman
Binder, Joe Slender, Jacob Tobb,
Lydia Oxen, Louis Baum, Edward
Shaffenburg, and Jack Brownstein
were sentenced to two days or $5
fine. They all served the Jail SEN
tence and were released at / p. m.
yesterday Nick Zicardo, Nathan
Strauss, Mack Cooperman and Lii
Iian Cramer were sentenced to one
! day in Jail or So fine. They also
served the prison sentence and were
released last night. Sylvia Goods
man and Anna Levy received sus-
pended sentences while Sara Eley
was dismissed.
Herman Abel, brutally beaten by
a plainclothes policeman Saturday
afternoon, is still in Bellevue Hos
pital, seriously sick.
Sergeant Patrick Hickey, who
brought charges against the work
ers, showed his profundity by de-
claring falsely that they all spoke
Russian as proof that they were
"Bolsheviks." When asked by the
defense attorney if he understood
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