The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
MONDAY OR
TUESDAY TO
SEE MARCH
Workers Will Demonstrate In
the Busy Loop District

Labor will apply to Mayor
Dever today for a permit to
hold one of the most spectacu-
lar labor parades ever held in
Chicago, which will demon
strate to the entire country
that organized labor in this
city is behind the striking gar
ment workers to the last ditch.
At last taking heed of the
| growing demand Of the rank
and file trade unionists that
active and aggressive support
be given the striking garment
workers, the Committee of
Is" has decided to issue a call
for the striking garment work
ers to march next week, prob
ably Monday or Tuesday.
Go Thru Market Street.
The parade will proceed thru the
loop district, and will twice march
past the "front line trenches" of the
Market street picket lines.
The marchers are to carry banners
declaring that Sullivan's injunction
against picketing is an affront to
every working man and woman in the
country.
Mass Meeting In Theatre.
Arrangements are being made to
hire large downtown theatre. The
historic parade, demonstrating the
solidarity of the strikers of Chicago
against an illegal injunction which
would enslave them to their jobs, af-
ter marching thru the downtown dis
trict, will enter the theatre in a body.
Prominent national labor leaders will
denounce the injunction against the
garment strikers and will offer any
aid from their respective unions de-
sired by the garment workers
But it will not be the music of the
bands nor the nationally known
speakers which will receive the most
honor at the hands of the rank and
file trade unionists of the city. The
places of honor will undoubtedly 90
to the striking garment workers, who
in spite of wholesale arrests, police
brutalities, and the injunction, have
kept the picket lines intact. The
garment strikers have patiently wait
j ed for the other unions to get into
the fight which they have been Bit
terly waging on the Injunction.
To know that at last the call which
men like Alex Howat, have been max
ing for twenty-five thousand union
men to get on the picket line, DEFY
the injunction, and fill up the tails il
necessary, is at last being answered,
Will hearten the strikers to carry thru
the slack season to victory.
Promised Financial Aid.
| Financial aid from the Chicago
Federation of Labor has also been Of
fered to the striking international
Ladies Garment Workers Union, and
the offer of an initial payment of
$4,000 accepted with thanks by
Meyer Perlstein in behalf of the
strikers, it was announced after a
meeting of the COMMITTEE of Is"
with Perlstein.
The striking garment workers are
at last promised the active help of
the Chicago Federation of Labor. for
which they have waited so long and
patiently, and which they so richly
deserve. A growing protest among
the garment strikers had been max
ing itself felt at the fact that many
Of the scabs were related to union
men. Nothing definite has yet been
done by the Chicago Federation 10
make the so-called union men take
their wives and sisters out of the
striking shops.
But now, the Federation has at
least promised action on this matter
also. Members Of the Committee of
10, said to the DAILY WORKER
that 1t has been decided to privately
call on the offending union families.
and If the scabs did not quit work at
once, the families would be publicly
exposed and all would be expelled
from the union. But strikers declare
that the scabs related to union men
have been prolonging the strike for
some time, and they would like to
see the Federation do something be.
sides make promises.
THE only thing that could stop
the parade and mass meeting now
would be that Mayor Dever might not
issue the permit" A Johannsen told
! Continued on page p