The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1926, Page 1

— E insist that the workers have the right to quit their employment, either singly or, in unison, whenever the conditions of employment become irksome, or a change or + improvement is desired; that when any representative of the workers engaged is directed by them to perform any duty for the furtherance of the purpose for which the ces- sation of work [strike] was ittaugurated, that he shall have the right to perform that duty without judicial interference by injunction.—Declaration of the American Federation of Labor convention at Kansas City, Mo., December 12-20, 1896. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard ~ Workers’ and Farmer; eed SHAFER : NEw ‘FIGHT INJUNCTIO HE DAIL Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1£28, at ithe Post j , « In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. 1 Rates: duisiae, Chicaso, by’ wail, 48.00 per year. A. F. of L.’s Anti-Injunction Declarations ‘at Two Conventions Interborough Company Union Shattered By Final Blow As Power House Men Join Sirike (Pictures on Inside Pages) By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) } NEW YORK CITY, July 9.—Thomas Walsh, head of Local 1 | of the old ‘“Hedley-Connolly Brotherhood,” which is the com- pany union, at last night's meeting announced the motive power | workers would go out. Other power house and electrical work- | ers’ locals are now being canvassed and will join the strike. Besides the power house men, the board operators, switch- board repairmen and helpers, electro. mechanics, meter men, light men and generator tenders and cleaners will go out, ac- cording to Walsh. The heads of the defunct company union have prohibited further meetings of any of its locals for fear of their resolving into joining the real union and the strike movement. The com- cae een ee ee pany is bewildered and despe- te. ‘ Bite first serious accident occurred FIRST BLOOD ; : f OF 1. LG. W. — FLOWS INNLY. in the early hours of the morning tit Pickets Close when a Lexington avenue express, operated by a scab motorman (who, Scab Shops NEW YORK CITY, July 9. — The of course, had passed what the com- pany calls an “examination”), jumped the tracks, crashed ‘thru a concrete wall, ripped up 10 feet of heavily charged ‘third rail, and set a number of cars on fire. The light travel at that hour of night prevented serious loss of life. Passengens were safety by firemen and police, Thr ‘capitalist newspaper men who sought to get details of the accident were as- saulted by company thugs, first serious violence in the great gar- ment strike came yei Farmer, a business Breslau gang’s Local No. 17 of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was Operating a scab. shop un- der protection of leading gangsters, at 22 West 26th street, when Samuel Lendman, an |, L. G. W. picket, was approached by three gangsters, one ef whom shot him In the abdomen, Lendman was rushed to Bellevue hospital, and while the wounds are serious, recovery is expected. Valogers Guidice, another picket was stabbed by the gangsters and is under treat- ment, 1 Strike Cripples Principal Subway, By DANIEL TOWER, Federated Press Correspondent., NEW YORK — Service on the Inter- borough Rapid Transit subway here has been badly crippled by the strike of motormen and switchmen, Com- pany officials claim that service was 50% of normal on the afternoon of the first day, but strike leaders de- clared that only 10% of the usual num- ber of trains were running. Observa- tion of service in various stations late that day showed long waits between trains, sometimes 20 or 30 minutes. The |. R. T. is the principal one of three subways here. Scabs Run Trains. Strikebreakers were brot in ahead of the walkout, some recruited local- ly and others coming from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and points be- tween. It is said that those from Chi- cago were supplied by the Washing- ion Detective Agency. Slowly and awkwardly, with many sudden stops and starts, trains are being moved, with a uniformed policeman standing alongside the motorman’s cab in each head car. Most of the local scabs are ‘former company employes who | scab nest operated in Brooklyn under were discharged for drunkness, care-| the disguise of “Cohen and Turkewitz” lessness and causing collisions, ac-|4t 286 Fulton street, but acually run eording to Edward P, Lavin, one of | by Cohen and Weinberger whose Man- the strike leaders, Alexander Farlin- | hattan shop is cn strike. ger, age 23, of Montreal, who took] The shop chairmen held an enthus- out the first train during the strike, | astic meeting yesterday, adopting con- ‘was questioned by reporters about | structive plans for strike activity. his experience, “Sure,” he said, “I Bosses for Law and Order. used to run a scenic railway train in Henry H. Finder, president of the Buffalo,” Manufacturers’ Association, after a It is notable that the I. R, T. has| Meeting of the association issued the not attempted to run trains to Brook-| following “warning”: lyn. Frank Hedley, company presi- “The union hag no right to interfere dent ,explained that he thought it in-| with regular empleyes which remain ‘advisable to have inexperienced men |{n our shops. We serve public notice operate ‘trains® in’ the’ timnels under | On Louis Hyman and on all other un: the East River; But there is reason | ion officials that we intend to pro- to believe that thereis deeper reason} tect our property and our foremen for this restraint than a general pre-| and designers at any cost. This is the caution. Brooklyn people have keen | United States and not Russia, and we and tragic memories of the Malbone| happen to be in a city where those tunnel wreck eight years ago. at the head of the government believe Wreak Before. in maintenance of law and order, We On Nov. 1, 1918, the motormen on] 47@ not going to lose any time in pres- the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, an ele-| °@ting our situation to the police d vated line, struck for the same wage | P@ttment. We are not going to be a the I. R. T. drivers were getting, that! Dit hesitant, either, about laying all having beensdenied them, Anthony |imformation of wrong doing or law- Lewis, train dispatcher, acted as a breaking. before the district attorney.” atrikebreaker. He was takin five-| Mr. Finder's fulminations are ignor- car wooden train to Coney Island. ed by the 40,000 striker Their fight- Near the Malone tunnel entran ing spirit is developing excellently and a sign: “Slow down to six miles an they are proving their determination hour.” Lewis drove his train around | ‘° drive out the terrorism of the gang- this curve at 40 miles an hour, It| 8t@rs and continue the struggle to vic. jumped the track. Diubty-aing pereone Sey: were killed and 300 injured. Next day the B, R, T. granted the strikers’ de-| Your nefghbor will appreciate 3 % sy the fa e him this copy of (Continued on page ay ‘he DAILY WORKER Arrest Gangsters. The “industrial squad” were forced io arrest the identified gangsters known as the “Little Augie” gang “Little Augie” and his. companion, Morris Gillman, of 88 and 92 Essex street, raspectively, Henry Stotz and Josephy Buchhalter, other gangsters, were arrested in the loft of Gold and Clott after a struggle. Striking cloakmakers. cleaned out the foremen and designers from eigh- teen shops, also cleaning out~a big ising violation of the injunction issued by “Czar” ¥ Office at Chicago, Wlinois, under the Act of Mareh 3, 1579. _ SUNDAY, JULY 11,4926 3 a” of this Md. Bublished Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, ll. OKESMEN PUBLISHING CO., i113 W. NS,’ SAY LABOR SP +, therefore recommend that any injunction dealing with the relationship of employer and empldye . . . be wholly and absolutely treated as usurpation and disr: let the consequences be what they may .. . Ki be and were disobeyed, and sometimes deposed. I kind judges must be disobeyed and should be im- peached.—Declaration of the 1916 convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, November 13-25 at Baltimore, Here are a group of membe¥s of the! lnternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union serving time in Cook County jail for Denis Sullivan during a garment strike two years ago. Hefeat of Injunctions, Major Task of Labor, Say i or gs Injunction Victims Behind Bars Trade Unionists and Labor Publicists The following statements are made especially for this anti-injunction*issue of The DAILY WORKER, By Barnett Soll, Chairman, Chicago Joint Board, I. L. GW. “RHE injunction situation in this city is most outrageous. Forty-siv of our members, most of them:women with chil- dren, husbands or aged parents dependent on them, were im- prisoned. a ’ These members were jailed in an attempt to break the or- ganization financially and morally. The judge issuing an in- junction acts as a strikebreaker and labor must fight injunc- tions to the last ditch because it means the-ewistence of our unions. If the labor movement were to manifest some unity in this respect we would accomplish something towards making anti- picketing edicts an ineffective weapon of the bosses against the unions.” Eugene Victor Debs. The outrage perpetrated by a suppliant tool of the master class in sending a large number of our comrades to jail for con- tempt Of court is contemptible. 7 When the word came that Judge Sullivanchad not only de- nied our comrades their constitutional rights but had insulted them besides, my blood burned with indignation and resentment, William J. Hedger, Rreqitves Chicago Typographical Union 0. 16. The use of injunctions by the employers in their attempt to smash strikes of their employes for better conditions is becom- ing more and more frequent. The power placed in-injunctions today is of such a character that it threatens the life of the un- ion leading the strike if it ix obeyed. To obey ‘these edicts against picketing would mean disruption of the organization in- volved. ‘ The 46 members of the Tutérnational ‘Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union who refused to follow out the command of Judge Sullivan to cease picketing and went to’ jail did a most valuable service for the labor movement. , a 4 If the labor movement of Chicago’ or of this country secks to end the injunction evil they can only do so thru an organized move against injunctions and the judges that issue them. Albert F, Coyle, Editor, Locomotive Engineers’ Journal. "HOUR hundred years ago the patriots who fought for political # © liberty in England against the tyranny of the Stuart kings demanded trial by jury as the one sure bulwark against the arbitrary despotism of the kings’ judges. During the interven- ing centuries this right has been one of the staunchest supports of human freedom. Yet in democratic America the worker no longer etijoys the protection of jury trial in case he dares to strike against industrial tyranny for a living wage. Today the captains and the kings of industry control the majority of the courts just as effectively as did the monarchs of old England. Their moncy buys the election of state judges friendly to their cause, and “puts over” the election of presi- dents who will “stay hitched” and appoint the corporation lawyers they want for federal judges. striking worker into court, act as legislator, judge, and jury combined, and then execute their own sentences upon the work- ers who dare to object to-this autocratic process. There is no authority in law authorizing judges to issue injunctions in labor disputes. It is a usurped power, first ap- plied by “Injunction Bill” Taft when he tried to chain the Ann Arbor railroad engineers to their locomotive cabs. petty judge in the country thinks he has power to crush strikes ‘by the abuse of judicial power, The menace of the injunction consists in this: It is being increasingly used by both federal and state judges in the most deapotic manner, and in the event of a really serious strike will readily become an instrument of brutal tyranny, tearing away _ the civil liberties of the workers, casting them in jail at the ~ will of the courts, tying up their strike funds and making any kind of strike relief illegal, as has already been done by the infamous Daugherty Injunction against the railroad shopmen, _ There is only one way for the workers to fight the injunc- tion menace successfully; they must achieve political power in both state and nation, pass laws prohibiting the use of injunc- tions in labor disputes, and impeach and remove from office judges who persist in this despotic practice. put in the White House a labor president, as the Mexican work- ers have done, who will appoint federal judges in sympathy with the aims and aspirations of the organized workers. Meanwhile, every candidate for public office ought to be pledged to oppose this evil, and if elected, held accountable for his pledge by the organized workers of his community. (Continued on page 2) rded, s could cases | This Issue Consists of Two Sections, SECTION ONE, Price 5 Cents History of the [LG.W. Fight on Injunctions Review of Bitter Fight of Garment Workers By VICTOR A. ZOKAITIS, Member Chicago Typographical No. T&. The 1924 strike of the Chicago In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, for which 46 members of that organization have either served or are serving 10 to 60-day Jall sentences In the Cook county Jjall, was one of the most bitter in that Industry. Union Deman The strike followed an Intense or- ganization drive that was carried on in the garment district affd was an at- These judges can haul a They must also tempt on the part of the workers to establish the 40-hour week, establish an unemployment insurance fund to be paid by the bosses, and retain the 44-hour week wage scale. Tho thruout the duration of the strike the rank and file of the union at no time wavered in their determi- nation to organize the dressmakers 100 per cent and to win all of their demands, the officials of the interna- tional who conducted the strike did. Crowe Strikebreaker. During this strike the entire force at the command of the union-s State's Attorney Robert used in an attempt to « ers back to work and union, Judge Denis E. Judge Foell were used /hy the bosses. in an attempt to stop picketing be- fore the struck garment shops.’ The rank and file fought to prepare the union for the struggle and de- manded the reinstatement of expelled left-wingers. A gesture was made by the Perlstein-Sigman machine towards acceding to the demands of the rank and file... Despite attempts of the bureaucracy to shove the left-wingers away, the left-wingers participated actively In the strike and aided the unton to carry on its struggle. Pa Strike Vote, ‘ At a meeting in Shoenhoffen Hall Monday, February 4, 1924, the unton authorized the Joint Board to call a strike if the bosses refused to | i the demands of the union. The com- — tracts were to expire February 1924. At another meeting a committee was elected. sat 7 Issue Ultimatum, ~~ “Seen, Sunday, February 17, 1924, thé sh © committee met and decided” te te the garment shop bosses until M night to reopen negotiations , they had broken off. A secret e was also set for the strike, BD, February 22, strike bulletins were pre- pared and the machinery of the or- ganization prepared for a bitter strug- gle. 3 Wednesday morning, February 27, 1924, the date set for the strike, the garment workers left their shops, Arrest 13 Pickets. Thirteen pickets were arrested on the first day of the strike, The mext morning police and gunmen hired -by : the bosses were stationed at the en- trances to every shop. aie Two thousand cloakmakers joined — the girl garment workers in a half- day sympathy etrike. The cloakmak- ers went out so as to protect the girls from assaults by uniformed and plain- clothes plug-uglies. “i During the strike about 3000 to workers were arrested. Arrests were made on “disorderly conduct” and “assault” charges. “Committee of Fifteen.” The assaults of State’s Al Crowe's men on the girls led the | cago Federation of Labor at its ing Sunday, March 2, to create a mittee to probe the misuse of ) funds by Crowe in his attempt to the garment shop bosses. John patrick, president of the Chicago cratton of Labor, appointed the mittee of Fifteen, Math 3, 1924, two groups of applied for an injunction p picketing ofthe struck sho; Graceline Dress Co., Singer delman, Inec., Goldrich University Frock, Inc, and E were one of the groups that 1 (Continued on page 8)