The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
LABOR PICKS
OF
SCAB GROVE
SIugg8T Of Girl Strikers is Ex-
posed by Committee

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States Attorney Robert E.
Grove, strike-buster and slug
ger of garment girls, is de-
nounced in a long statement
issued Sunday by the Commit
tee of Is" of the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
This statement, which the
DAILY WORKER is publishing
in full, will be scattered far
and wide thruout the city of
Chicago to warn workingmen
and women of the nature of
the employers reptile in the
states attorneys office, who has
turned the county prosecutors
Office over to Dudley Taylor,
attorney for the garment bosses
and the Illinois Employers As
sociation.
Told To Get Goods On Grove.
The facts which the committee has
gathered against the strike-breaking
states attorney since they began their
investigation four weeks ago at the
orders of the Chicago Federation of
Labor show that:
Grove has sold out to the gar
ment bosses and is seeking to break
the strike Of the sweatshop work.
ers by wholesale arrests and brut-
atty; and that:
Grove is the enemy of all union
labor and Is using the states atfor-
ney's Office against the entire Isbor
movement.
The committees statement follows:
TEXT OF GROVE REPORT.
To THE Chicago Federation Of La
L bor-Your Committee of Fifteen,
appointed to investigate the States
Attorneys activities in the Ladies'
Garment Workers strike, respect
fully submits the following report of
it's investigation:
Your committee has found:
ID That States Attorney Robert
E. Grove has openly and fiagrantly
permitted misuse of his Office in
the interests of the garment manu-
facturers Of this city;
CD That his record in the pres
ent Garment Workers strike is
only one instance among many
other instances of the misuse of his
Office in the interests of the manu-
facturer's and employers associa-
tiOns;
CD That in his adopting and fol-
lowing of a brazen and militant
policy against organized labor he
has gone so far as virtually to turn
over his Office to the Employers
Association and to Dudley E. Tay-
Tor, their attorney;
ca That he has been derelict in
the carrying out of his primary
duties and functions as the prose-
cutting officer of crime;
60 That in spite of the fact that
Cook County has appropriated
more money yearly for the states
attorneys Office in the past four
years than ever before, crimes of
a major nature, including murder,
have been committed and have gone
UNPUBLISHED to an appalling extent;
CD That the platform upon which
Mr.. Robert +. Grove stands for
reelection is an unveiled threat to
break the hack of organized labor
in Chicago, and that it is sup
ported by the interests represented
by the notorious wheat King"
James Patten, and by Dudley e.
Taylor, the injunction attorney
for the Garment Manufacturers
Association and for other employ
ers' associations.
Grove Found Guilty.
Mr.. Grove stands convicted in the
eyes Of labor as one of labors worst
foes. He is convicted, not only by
his own numberless utterances
against organized labor, but more
especially by his acts Of relentless
labor persecution.
In an election pamphlet entitled
"Law Enforcement" issued in jan
uary, 1924, by the states attorney, he
prints number of excerpts from let
tiers and press comments by a number
Of individuals, whose anti-labor poll
cies have become matters Of common
knowledge. Most of these letters re-
fer by inference to his work on labor
cases." The editorials which hel
quotes, and in which he seems to
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