The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
FOE
OF LABOR, GETSN
|. ". ". CASE
Injunction Hearings Tie
Up Wobbly Defense

The Injunction case brought
by the Griffith Rowan-Bower-
man faction in the Industrial
Workers of the World against
the DoyIe-Fisher group was
placed on the books of Judge
Dennis E. Sullivan, noted labor
hater, yesterday, and hearing
will be held Friday morning.
Meanwhile John o. Ryan, one
Of the lawyers for the Doyle
Fisher group, charges that the
injunction proceedings are
handicapping the defense of the
four |. w. w. members who go
to trial this morning before
Judge Adam Cluff, in the federal
court building, on deportation
charges.
Face Federal Judge.
William Moran, Pietro Nigra,
Joseph Oates and Herbert Mailer,
who served terms in Leavenworth
prison after being arrested in the fam
Gus wartime 1. w. w. case, were
served with deportation proceedings
upon their release.
"The injunction proceedings have
tied up the l. w. W. defense fund.-"
Ryan told the DAILY WORKER.
"And so far the opposition faction has
shown no disposition to cooperate
with the defense of these l. w. w.
members"
Later, however lawyers for the
group responsible for the injunction,
asked for a conference with William
A. Guinea, chief lawyer for the Doyle
Fisher group, which is to take place
before the case comes before the ex-
pert on anti-labor injunctions, Dennis
Sullivan, Friday morning.
This conference, according to a
rank and file wobbly, altho it may
patch up peace during the deportation
proceedings in federal court, will not
bring about lasting harmony, as the
differences between the groups will
be thrashed out on the floor Of the
I. w. w. convention, specially called
for Oct. 10.
Faces Fascist Tyranny.
Pietri Nigra, who is in danger Of
being deported to Italy, was away
from the trial held in Chicago, in
1918, being seriously i'll in a hospital
as result of rough treatment in a
southern Illinois jail Nigra was ar
rested in the southern Illinois coal
field for activity in organizing for
the l. w. w. He was placed in the
same Jail with an insane man, who,
in fit of frenzy, hit him over the
head with an iron cup, breaking his
cheek bone. This injury the prison
cheek bone. This injury the prison au-
thorities refused to treat, with the re-
suit that during the trial Nigra was
seriously ill in the hospital in Chi
cago.
Herbert Mailer, Canadian, was
active in successfully securing a
united front of working class organ
izations to defend the I. w. w. mem
bers arrested in connection with the
Everett massacre in 1916 and 1917.
Mailer, who has served the most Of
a five-year sentence in Leavenworth,
took charge of the publicity, reveal
ing that the business men of Everett
shot down L. w. w. members who
were getting off boat at the dock
which had just brought them from
San Francisco. About 20 Of the I.
w. WIS were arrested, and no small
credit for their release goes to the
support secured by Mailer from many
working class organizations.
Moran An Australian.
William Moran is a native Of Aus
tralia and Joseph Oates an English
man. Four separate deportation pro-
ceedings have been consolidated in
to one case, and will be tried before
Judge Cliff this morning.
Whatever the outcome Of the con-
ference between the two I. w. w. fac
lions brings forth, the fact remains
that at the very moment when four
of the Oldest fighters in the organiEa-
ton need the defense money of the
organization, and when renewed
onslaught on the /. W. w. in the fed
eral courts calls for united organ
ization, the factional fighting has
landed before Judge Dennis e. Sulli-
van, worst labor hating judge in the
city, who is asked to act as referee.
Sullivan tNlIl Enjoy Job.
Certain It is that If Sullivan sees
a chance to serve his capitalist mas
tiers by further disrupting the |. w.
W., he will take it. Sullivan demon
strated by his severe sentences of the
girl garment strikers that he will
show no mercy to the cause of la
Dor. Sullivan has ever demonstrated
his willingness to serve the large en-