The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
TWO OF PATERSON WORKERS
INDICTED IN MURDER FRAMEUP
WEREN'T NEAR THE PICKET Line
Facts Prove Silk Bosses Are Trying to Kill
Five Because Of Their Militancy in
the Working Class Movement

spread and local conditions irsurs
that in the next few months there
will be more unemployed in Paterson
than there ever were. Moreover, in
a series Of strikes against individual
shops led by the National Textile
Workers Union in recent months the
workers we're almost always success
full. From the beginning of the strike
against Urban until February 10,
when he was attacked by underworld
enemies, picketing continued quietly
though none the less effectively. The
shop was small and the picket line
rarely contained more than a half
a dazen workers.
Attack Woman Picket.
On the morning Of February 18,
Urban's automobile drew up to the
curb in front of his mill. He leaped
out of the car, and after hurting the
fllthiest sort of abuse at the three
pickets, Lieb, Katzebuck and Mrs.
Gershonowitz, began, characteristic
ally again, to beat Mrs. GershonoWitz
with his closed fists. Mrs. Gershon-
oWitz, a victim of chronic heart
trouble, suffering from anenlia and
recovering from two recent operations,
covered her face with her hands to
ward OFF his blows. The blows sud
denly stopped, she raised her head
and saw Urban lying on the sidewalk
with blood streaming slowly from .
head wound. Several roughly dressed
men were running away from the
scene. Mrs. Gershonowitz turned to
Lieb and Katzebuck, both Of whom
we're standing about fifteen feet away.
Katzebuck was Keeling from a blow
inflicted by the men who attacked
Urban. They had raised lump on
his head that didn't disappear for
more than two weeks.
Lie, Katzebuck and the sickIy Mrs.
Gershonowitz were arrested immedi-
ately on felonious assault charges.
Harris and Bart were arrested, as an
afterthought, the next day even
though they were nowhere near the
scene of the attack. Liebs bail was
set at five times the amount of the
others bail. Why? AS has been said,
the mill owners of Paterson have long
wanted to get rid of Lieb. The attack
on Urban by his underworld enemies
has given them their excuse.
Urban Died of Meningitis
Five workers we're charged with
murder the day Urban died-of men,
nights, the papers aid. OF these five
two, Harris and Bart, were not at the
scene of the attack. A third, KatZe-
buck was Keeling from blow inflicted
by the same attackers who struck
Urban A fourth, Mrs. Gershonowitz,
is an invalid who has never before
picketed and who was being beaten
herself by Urban when the latter was
attacked, The fifth, Lieb, is a worker
of 46 who in almost two decades of
revolutionary activity in the American
in violence even during the most pro-
vocative days of the Passaic strike of
1927 and of the 1924 and 1928 strikes
in Paterson, in all of which he was
a leader. Not only has Lieb not en-
gagged in violence but he has never
even been accused of it by police who
have watched his activity among
workers for almost 20 years.
For Lieb is a revolutionary. He
knows that individual violence is
worse than useless as a means of rails
ing the working class from slavery.
He knows that the working class will
become free in al lcountries only
when they unite their forces, when
millions of workers, conscious of their
strength, will fight together for the
things which they have produced and
which have been stolen from them.
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