The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
SMASH FRAME-UP
ON WEISSBERG
Kaufman, Kissed By
Fur Cutters Ends Meet


NEW YORK. - Isidor Weissberg
organizer of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, was tried and
acquitted yesterday by jury before
Judge Mott of the General Sessions
Court, Part 8. Weissberg was de-
Tended by Jacques Buitenkant.
WeisSberg was arrested on June 2,
1880, by an agent of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union and
framed up on a charge of felonious
assault in the usual manner of
Schlessinger. All the witnesses were
Schlessinger's henchmen, but the
frame-up was so clumsy that all the
witnesses broke down under the cross
examination of Buitenkant; they
contradicted each other and proved
themselves liars. 1t was evident that
the whole case was built up as an at
tempt to jail Weissberg, because he
was an organizer of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union and
because he was engaged in organizing
the dressmakers for improvements in
their conditions.
The frame up was so thoroughly
exposed that the jury had to bring
a verdict Of mot guilty" after de-
iberating for only Is minutes.
Annfbar Trial
Tuesday, Jack Shneider, organizer
of the Industrial Union, is going to
be tried at the General Session
Court Part 8, also on framed UP
charges Of felonious assault.
Fur Cutters Revolt
The Fur Cutters of Local 1o4 of
the Furriers' International Company
union) met night at the Rand school.
The furriers at this meeting followed
the example set by the furriers at
the other Local meetings and Joined
the general revolt against the Kauf-
man cliqueS and Kaufmanism as a
whole.
From the very outset Of the meet
ing, the fur cutters let it be known
to the burocrats that they intended
to take things into their own hands.
AS soon as the secretary got through
reading the minutes of the Joint
Council, the cutters, almost unanim-
ously rejected all the minutes on the
ground that the meeting of the Joint
Council was illegal SO long as it re-
tanned in its membership, 1. Begun,
whom the workers voted to remove.
Kiss Kaufman
kaufman, president of the Union
and self appointed manager of the
Joint Council then arrived at the
meeting. He was at once met by
tremendous boos and Kisses. This
provoked the several gorillas who
were the only supporters of Kauf-
man at the meeting. They rushed
towards the workers and attempted
to assault them, but the situation
has gone far beyond any possibility
of gorillas terrorizing the furriers.
The whole meeting rose and chased
these gorillas back to their places.
Seeing that the workers were de-
termined to carry through what they
wanted and seeing that the workers
would select their own election and
objection committee to control the
elections, Kaufman jumped to the
platform and in historical manner
shrieked that he would not allow the
furriers to repeat the history of 1925
Gin 1925 the furriers placed the con-
troll of the Union IN the hands of
the left wing and he thereupon de-
clared the meeting adjourned, and
taking all his henchmen with him,
ran out of the hall. The cutters went
out with the determination to deve-
lope the fight of the rank and file
furriers and to bring this fight to the
shops for better conditions in spite
of kaufman and his cliques.