Biography
Louis Bart 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
Page 1 reports Louis Bart and Louis Harris actually released yesterday, May 21, on $3,500 bail each, during staggered release of the five Paterson silk-strike murder defendants. The union and ILD continued seeking unconditional release; bail did not dismiss the murder charge.
