New-York tribune., 1910-01-20
BLAME FOR STRIKE
T4SS4R GIRLS HIT.
14Hack IN Court on Shrtwdist
Makers Sym pathizerS.

Counsel for the firm of schlang & Iiv-
iugston. shirtvaist manufacturers. Of No.
2l5 Greene street. argued before Justice
Gerard in the Supreme Court yesterday for
a permanent Injunction TO restrain tha
strikers in that trade and their sympathiz-
ers from interfering with the business OF
the petitioner
The defendants were Wsistmakers' Union
No. 25. the women's Trade Union League
Mary f. Dreier president of the union.
Elisabeth butcher. Elsie La Grand Cole.
Ida Rauh. Bertha MaiIIy and Mary Oppsn-
heimer. Miss butcher and Miss Cole are
Nassar College sympathizers of the strik-
ers
The Strike would have been called off
long ago" asserted Charles Dushkind '
who appeared for the petitioners. 'ff IT
had not been for the support Of women Of
society, given in order to demonstrate
woman's power to night for a cause and
thus strengthen the equal suffrage move
nnent
1t is exceedingly difhcult 10 understand
what other motives these women of affairs
refinement and education can have in sup
porting anarchy mob rule and lawbreak-
ing. In these DAYS Of uprisings against
trusts and n1onopoles II is difficult 70 IN
derstand why a monopoly Of labor should
be tolerated any more than any other
monopoly"
The attorney argued that the strike was
not for higher wages or shorter hours. but
ONLY TO compel recognition OF the union.
which. he said. would near the exclusion
from the shops OF thousands Of non-union
workers He told OF annoyance caused by
the pickets and of many arrests and con
victions, which. however have brought no
relief in the situation The firm applying
for the Injunction EMPLOYS two hundred
strike-hreakers and there havs been many
fights between these and the strikers
Mr. Dusbkind described what he called
the Indifference with which the pickets
treated the temporary Injunction issued BY
Justice Amend Because Of their great
number it was impossible TO serve the in
junction on all Of them, but one 10 whom
It was shown was alleged TO have said:
"lniunctions don't GO with us"
The affidavit accompanying the papers
quotes from the speeches made BY the
Tassar girls and by the union leaders con
den1nins the magistrates for furnishing
them and eza1ting the convicted strikers
as martyrs. while proclainning such convic-
tions as badges Of honor
Miss Inez Mtiholland, the Vassar grad
uate who was arrested on Monday after
neon for taking part in a demonstra ton of
girl pickAts for the striking shirtwaist max
ers. appeared in Jefferson Market court for
a rehearing of her case Yesterday She
was accompanied bv Martin v 1ittleton
as counsel He asked for further ad-
journment an1 Magistrate Herman post
poned the hearing until January =. The
case Of Lieutenant Torney. who was ar
rested on the same charge. will be heard
at the same time
Mr Littleton said that the case was
unique. and that it would be taken to the
highest court for final decision as
test case.
Section 2.ee2 Of the penal laws. under
which Miss Milholland and Lieutenant
Torney were arrested" he said, refers to
unlawful assemblage and has been in
geniously applied TO the shirtwaist makers
to cover picketing If this application
should hold. then the police might arrest
any one who was found standing talking IN
the street to three or four friends"
In the Harlem court Clara FsIk Of NO
26 Jefferson street. and Annie KastkiI of
No. 1ee Henry street two striking shirt
waist makers were fined SO each for dis
orderly conduct and interfering with non
union workers Patrolman Kelly. of the
Leonard street station, who arrested them,
said that Clara Falk struck non union
worker. and when he arrested her the
otner girl tried 10 have her rescued Three
girls were held in 500 Bail each for ex-
animation or the charge of annoying non
union workers
In the Essex Market court four strikers
two men and two women, were fined 81 each
for attacking non-unton waistn1akers and
three men were held in $50 each for Special
Sessions on the charge Of attacking
Abraham Veinzweig Of Nc AZ Sutter
avenue. Brooklyn. with a blunt instrument.
~ the strikers headquarters Yesterday
Miss I,eonora O'Reillv. of the Woman's
Trade Union League. said that meeting
OF the committee TO arrange for a CO.
operative waist factory to aid the strikers
will be held tomorrow to hear a repoS
Of a subcommittee on the probable cost