The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-07
CAN'T BREAK.
STRIKE WITH.
INJUNCTIONS.
Chicago Labor Delegates Told
II Won't Be Allowed

"The injunction against
picketing cannot under any
circumstances be permitted to
destroy the garment workers
strike, and it will be carried
thru to finish in the face of
continued police brutality"
Meyer Perlstein, vice presi-
dent of the international La
dies Garment Workers. Union,
told the Chicago Federation of
Labor yesterday.
Who's the Goat?
Mayor William E. Dever has
Informed the COMMITTEE of
Fifteen" that if they can pro-
duce eye witnesses to the police
brutality he will have any Off
Ger thus exposed dismissed
from the force, but meanwhile
the injunction is costing the
unions thousands of dollars
and the Committee of Fifteen"
reports it does not know what
further action it will take.
1--WE will. show Dudley Taylor and
Judge "Dennie" Sullivan that the
garment strike cannot be broken by
lnJunctions," said Perlstein. "In all
my long strike experience 1 never saw
such police brutality in any city as
! have in Chicago in this strike. This
IS not an ordinary strike; it is a very
bitter struggle "a war"
Fight Thru Season.
Before the week is out over $780,
600 will have been put up on appeal
cases alone, according to Perlstein.
The season ends in few weeks and
slack period of six weeks begins"
he said, "but we have decided to
carry the strike thru the slack season
If we have to. We cannot permit, I'M
der any circumstances, the Injunction
TO destroy the strike"
The mayor has been presented with
many instances of specific police
brutality, the Committee of is" re-
ports. tie has been confronted with
the names of strikers badly beaten
up, the names of the offending Off
GERS, the location and time of the
manhandling, and the committee has
many eye-witnesses to these inhuman
scenes. But the mayor, according to
the report, submitted to the Chicago
Federation of Labor by Chairman An
ton Johannsen, of the Committee of
TO-" has asked that these eye-wit-
nesses be produced and then he will
dismiss the officers involved.
Cut Out the Sabotage!
1t is not known what or who is back
of the fact that these eye witnesses,
who are very willing to testify to po-
lice cruelty, have not been produced.
The fact remains that the names of
the eye-witnesses demanded by the
mayor are in the hands of the "Com-
mittee of 15," by their own admis-
sion. 1t is also a known fact that
the police are daily breaking the law
at the instance of the garment bosses.
"We told the mayor that we had
the eye-witnesses," Johannsen re-
ported for the COMMITTEE of 49,"
when the rtorer time comes that that
kind Of witnesses are wanted we can
produce them. | don't know what
sction will be taken"
Mayor Dever admitted to the
COMMITTEE of 10" that he had very
little control over his force, and it
seems that the demand for the pro-
duction of eye-witnesses to police
brutality is just an excuse by the
mayor to stall the strikers off until
the strike is over. 1t seems that the
Committee of 10" has fallen, will
ingly or unwillingly, into the trap.
"You know it is not easy to en-
force police discipline" Mayor Dever
is reported by Johannsen to have
said. "The average cop has a peculiar
idea that my administration or any
other administration is sympathetic to
the employers"
"And you can appreciate if you
have ever been thru a strike" Jo-
hansen added to the mayors admis-
sion, "where the mayor got this idea
Of partiality to the employers"
Plenty Of Evidence.
''Go down on Market street." Jo-
hansen said, ''if you want to see the
police breaking the law. They do II
every day about 4:30, when the
pickets are herded into waiting pa
troll wagon so that the scabs can come
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