The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08

them postponed again until this morn
ing. None of these cases have had
more than the first hearing yet, while
the thirteen other cases had all been
heard several weeks ago.
Following the lead given him by the
bosses lawyer, Hyde, Judge Foell d.
rectly charged the strikers with ly-
ing. He said that he would not SEN
tence them for perjury, as Hyde at
tempted to influence him to do, but he
remarked:
Court Says Strikers Lie.
"They lie, but they are put UP to
it,"
Attorney Sissman objected to the
courts remarks, but to no effect.
FoelIs mind is like a piece of cast-iron,
once nodded never changed.
Judge Foell also wrongly assumed
that all OF the strikers before him
were not Americans but immigrants
to this "hospitable7 shore who are
nonetheless bound by the law, wheth-
er they understand it or not. -Foell
took an active role in cross-examining
Attorney Sissman, representing the
1strikers, and would not allow Siss-
man to proceed with his summary Of
the case.
| On the other hand when prosecu-
tor Hyde began his summary, Siss-
man had not yet arrived But the
court said Proceed" and Hyde did
proceed to make the most of his OPP
portunity and attempted to show that
the garment strikers not only violated
the Injunction but committed perjury,
thus showing mot only contempt of
court but contempt Of Che whole court
system" He deliberately misconstrued
the slight and easily accounted for
discrepancies between the answers
filed by the respondents and their
testimony on stand.
In replying to Hyde, attorney Siss-
man showed that the testimony Of
witnesses for the bosses was quite sus-
Iceptible to doubt but that he would not
prefer perjury charges against Patrick
Moran and Collins, who had been the
chief witnesses for the prosecution.
Moran got very red-faced and ner-
vous, flushed down his neck and fin
ally went up to whisper something to
HYDE. Sissman said that he couldn't
POSSIBLY remember serving all thirteen
of these strikers with writs on the
same day he had admitted serving
nearly two hundred writs in all and
that there were hundreds of people
passing constantly on Market street
where he is supposed to have served
them.
Foell pointed his finger at Sissman
in a weak gesture and attempted to
confuse the defense attorney.
Never before in my history on the
lbench." he said, has court order
been dragged in the dirt and an effort
made to stampede the court by people
not even American citizens. An in
junction was issued. 1t is the law
lit must be obeyed. They might as
we'll make up their minds now," he
concluded in a tight-mouthed, Cal
Coolidge fashion.
FoeIl Brother to Cal.
Foell bears a surprising resem-
blance to Coolidge, careful Cal'; a
lrat-like appearance. And he sits I'M
der the crossed American flags and
thinks himself little Coolidge in his
own domain of the court, when he
pronounces:
"They can't think the court impo-
tent to enforce it's own orders" and
Ilays on the sentences.
Whether Judge Foell will continue
to follow Judge Sullivan's precedent
and increase the severity Of his SEN
fences as the cases pile up on him and
, begin to bore him too greatly remains
to be seen. He already has shown
, himself to be the tool Of the bosses
: and willing to give them every adj
vantage the court can. The law is his
god. tho the bosses made it, and by
it he lives.
Fitzpatrick Stumps for Strikers.
Anton Johannsen reports that the
| suecial committee of the Committee of
} Fifteen are continuing their canvass
} of the local unions in an effort to get
! more funds for the striking dress
; makers.
When John Fitzpatrick, president of
the Chicago Fed. of Labor, got on
: the lob one night he succeeded in get
' ting generous donations for the gar.
, ment workers. The Ironworkers, Local
' No. 1. voted a 20 cent assessment on
5 all their 1000 members and the Hoist
ing Engineers voted an hours pay
} t.25, from each of their 700 members
The Jewish Painters local No. 52l
assessed their membership for the gar
ment workers. The report is that the
: assessment is 50 per member, but this
is not confirmed yet. The Elevator
Constructors voted an hours pay
e apiece for their 500 members.
: Five Capitalist Solons