The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21
COMMITTEE of IS" In Strike Action
Girl PICKETS
PROMISED AID
AT NE TIN C
Federation Injunction
Committee Summoned

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Four girl garment strikers, right
from the picket line. attended the ex-
ecutive session of the Committee of
10" of the Chicago Federation of
Labor yesterday afternoon and made
blood-quickening appeal for action
by the labor movement in support of
the strike which they have been wag-
ing for more than three weeks
After listening to the recital of
numerous brutalities by police and
: rivate thugs, which eliminated last
Fr day in the beating unconscious of
Sophie Altschuler, and which have
continued without cessation ever
since, the committee ordered John
Fitzpatrick, president of tile Chicago
Federation f Labor, Wet .. Olandcr,
secretary Of The Illinois State FEEDER
alton, and Anton Johannsen, chair.
man of the Committee of Is" to
call on Mayor William E. Dever this
morning and demand that he curb
his thugs.
Takes Up Injunction Issue.
/ The committee also promised to-
take up the injunction issue with the
injunction committee Of the Chicago
Federation of Labor at a meeting
Monday. This injunction committee
also consists of Is members, and will
deal with the challenge presented by
the sentencing of Florence Corn.
Plans for action to arouse the peo-
pie of Chicago to the challenge Of the
liberties that the Judge Denis Sui
Ivan injunction, and the police thug
gerry present, are being made. Other
action is contemplated which the
committee for strategic reason does,
not wish to make public at this time.
I'VE win VIM Girls Cry.
eve are going to win this
strike" declared Miss Freda Reich
er, the spokesman for the girl
strikers.
"We are going to win this strike
in spite Of injunctions and police"
If the strikers submit to the man
dates of Judge Denis Sullivan, they
told the Committee of Is" the
strike is lost. If they maintain their
right to walk the streets in front of
the scab shops the strike will be
won.
"The strike will be won," they re-
peatedly declared.
Anton Johannsen, chairman of
the committee, declared that Miss
Reicher made splendid presenta-
ton of the strikers case.
Want Daily Strike Reports.
The tale which the militant girl
strikers told the committeeman
there on the sixth floor of the Fed.
Grafton building was so narrowing
that even the most lethargic could
not fail to have been aroused.
At the end the committee told
the girls and Vice-President Meyer
Perlstein, who was present that
daily reports Of police brutalities
and the progress of the strike
should be presented to them so that
they might take prompt action.
Freda Reicher was followed by
Margaret WEIGH, Mary Goorvitch
and Eugenia Schlacter-all of them
courageous and untiring pickets
and all of them mary-times pris-
oners of Mayor Deyer's and States
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The appeal for solidarity from the
rest of the trade union movement
here, for aid in this fight for union
life and for human liberty, aroused
q protracted discussion as To what
measures should be adopted in the
strikers support.
A minority Of the committee was
for mass action by the Federation on
the picket Inc in spite of Denis Sui
Ivan and his outrageous. injunction.
This minority urged that the most
effective support would be. given by
lining up on the picket line, side by
side with the girls, who were threat
sned with the S0-day sentences that
Sullivan had just handed out to Flo
renee Corn. They felt that II the
police were going to beat up on any
more piclsets that men from the trnde
union movement Of Chicago should
bear the brunt Of It as well as the
girls
Nelson Stayed Away.
Alderman Oscar Nelson, vice-presi-
dent of the Federation and member
Of the COMMITTEE Of is" stayed
away from the meeting but other
conservative voices were raised
against direct action Of this kind. II
was finally decided that the issue was
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