Biography
Albert Katzenbuch was a National Textile Workers Union defendant in the1931 Paterson silk-strike prosecution following mill owner MaxUrban’s death. The Daily Worker of March25 names him among five workers arraigned before Recorder HarryJoelson and held without bail after pleading not guilty. Union and International Labor Defense supporters disputed the accusation and organized a defense campaign. This report does not establish an individual arrest day or final release.
The March 23, 1931 Daily Worker, page 1, gives an earlier procedural stage of the Paterson silk-strike case: the five workers had been released on $1,000 bond each and were rearrested after Max Urban’s death, then held without bail for investigation. Its March 22 dispatch calls murder charges a likelihood rather than a completed indictment. It prints Albert Katzhuk for Katzenbuch. The article’s Saturday-night death chronology differs from the later defense account of midnight March 20 and a March 21 rearrest; that variance is retained without changing the existing arrest fields. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n071-NY-mar-23-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The March 26 Paterson defense appeal individually lists Helen Garshonowitz, Benjamin Lieb, Albert Katzhuk, Louis Harris and Louis Bart as the five textile-strike defendants accused in mill owner Max Urban’s death. It announces a March 27 Carpenters Hall meeting with Foster and urges support for the NTWU/ILD defense. The roster variants identify this existing Paterson case; it supplies no verdict, sentence or new physical release. The analogy to Sacco and Vanzetti is advocacy, not a prediction entered as an actual death sentence.
The May 25 Paterson dispatch reports Lieb and the defendant printed Kutzcbuck as actually released yesterday, May 24, on $3,500 bail each. Harris, Bart and Gershonawitz had already received a May 23 welcome. The five still faced the murder prosecution; bail was not acquittal. Kutzcbuck is retained as a same-cohort variant of the Albert Katzenbuch/Kalzenbuch records, which are possible preexisting duplicates and are not automatically merged.
