The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

Iy arrested at the headquarters of
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, where he was leading mob
to kill the leaders of the Union, John
Of Local PSI, Happy" of Local 261,
and other gangsters followed them"
Weinstock refused to leave the hall
wncn ordered to do so by the gang
sters. "Rosen got hold of my arm
to drag me out. To save the brothers
from a terrible beating, I said I
would go if they would tell me what
they wanted, suspecting that they
were going to take me for a ride"
Workers around Weinstock shout
ed, Don't let Weinstock out of the
hall with these gangsters." Outside
the hall the gangsters told Vein
stock that he and some Of his friends
are ION the spot" and ordered him
to clear out of town. I'VE will go
through with our plan even if we
have to start a city-wide shooting.
We h7ve the whole underworld be-
hind us. Don't forget, zausner Is not
Sh2pEc."
After the gangsters left Weinstock
outside the hall protesting loudly
against Zausner's railroading of the
settlement, the gangsters rushed in
side to the section Of the hall which
Weinstock left and without warning
dubbed workers on all sides. They
brutally beat up Joseph Levitt and
Paul Varga, who we're later taken to
the Roosevelt Hospital for medical
treatment.
Vargas eyes swelled, skull cut and
SUI me- from bruises over his en-
tire body, described the gangster at
tack Il was in the crowd of work
ers who came to the meeting early
I did not see Weinstock. I said moth
ing when I saw that Weinstock was
going out. A few minutes later Rosen
came back, jumped at me and with
the words you are Communist too,
he punched me in the right eye,
then I felt blow and was knocked
unconscious. Doctors at the hos
pital administered stitches for cut
near the eye and fractured skull.
Another worker reports that not
only gangsters but cop whose num-
Der was 4210, helped to beat up the
workers.
Levitt, another worker, was so sew
erely beaten, that he received LAGER
ations of the skull, eye and cheek
He is near collapse as a result of the
beating He told of how he grabbed
at a cops sleeve and asked protec-
ton against the gangsters, but was
answered with blow by the cop
which left him unconscious. Happy"
! Cohen was responsible for this beat
ing.
In the lobby" says Greenblatt,
another worker, II found Levitt I'M
conscious, his face bruised, and mouth
bleeding. I carried him out to the
nearest hospital"
All this occurred before the meet
ing. The meeting opened and closed
with praises for zausner by the other
officials of the Painters machine.
The settlement which is supposed to
provide SO a day and 35-hour-we
was railroaded through without dis
cussion. The announcement of a set
Element, however, is lie. No set
Element has been effected with the
bosses employing majority of the
painters.
The Washington Heights Associa-
ton, which represents rs per cent of
painter bosses employing union men,
refused to accept the Whalen agree
ment. No arrangements are being
made to continue the strike.
That the attack on Weinstock is
due to his leadership of the fight for
the unemployed in the union and for
unemployment insurance, is known to
all painters. On the eve of the rank
and file conference at the time Of
! the A. F. of L. convention, it is the
purpose of these racketeers to get
Weinstock out of the way to smother
the A. F. of L. rank and file strug-
gle for unemployment insurance.