Biography
Ernest Schleifer was a New Haven railroad striker arrested after strikebreakers supplied affidavits alleging he had advised them to “muss things up” so the railroad would not run. The February 17, 1923 Worker places his arrest in the railroad strike and sabotage campaign; it supplies no verdict, sentence or release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/theworker/v04n262-feb-17-1923-Worker.pdf#page=1