Ben Holtszman

Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Ben Holtszman, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress Company labor dispute. The July 14, 1936 Daily Worker says the men were bound over for grand-jury action after a June 29 hearing in Brooklyn’s Ninth Magistrates Court. A hearing before Justice Leander R. Faber was due that morning. The union alleged a frame-up. No individual statutory count, exact initial arrest, physical release, final outcome or complete duration is supplied. The surname Holtszman is retained as printed. Daily Worker, July 14, 1936, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n168-NY-jul-14-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: Arrest in connection with the Intner mattress strike; individual statutory count unprinted.
Sentence: Ben Holtszman, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress Company labor dispute. The July 14, 1936 Daily Worker says the men were bound over for grand-jury action after a June 29 hearing in Brooklyn’s Ninth Magistrates Court. A hearing before Justice Leander R. Faber was due that morning. The union alleged a frame-up. No individual statutory count, exact initial arrest, physical release, final outcome or complete duration is supplied. The surname Holtszman is retained as printed. Daily Worker, July 14, 1936, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n168-NY-jul-14-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3
Indicted: Bound over for grand-jury action after the June 29, 1936 hearing; completed indictment not established.

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