The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
GIRL PICKETS
ASSAILANT
GO OFF FORCE
Workers From Many Unions
Defy Injunction

Scores of Chicago workers
from all trades joined the
picket line of the garment,
girls yesterday in defiance Of
the Donnie" Sullivan iniunc.
ton.
Carpenters, printers. mem
6ers of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union. and
workers from numerous other
trade unions were seen "picket-
ing and patroling," as Dudley
Iayor calls it, side by side with
tne regular garment pickets
ana the 30 students from the
University Of Chicago Liberal
club. i al
Workers Party Influence.
Most of the recruits from trades
not affected by the strike come thrr
the influence of the Workers Partv
AT the same time came the cheer
ing word that Local %, of the Waist
MAKERS, New York City, had given
So'OV0 to the strike fund. and that
mayor Dever had promised to kiclr off
the force Officer S4Of who conon,; a 81
.ne brutal assault on Olga Levin.
willing Mass PicketinQ.
Ine appearance of members of or
canned labor in trades not affected !
Dy the strike was a complete sunrise
To the strikers. Many bricklavers,
carpenters, and other building trades
workers made their appearance and |
said that they were tired Of sea;no,
girls beaten up and hauled off ia iailI
without the Chicago Federation of
naDor making a protest They were
tnere TO show the Federation and the
COMMITTEE of Is that if they called
1or mass picketing in defiance Of
DENIES" injunction there were
plenty of workers who would be will
ing to express their contempt for the
old boys writ in practical way.
Students Discharged.
The two Liberal Club members
David and Eugene SisEind who were,
arrested Saturday and arraigned in S.
Clark st. police court yesterday morn
ing were discharged by Judge Trude.
Inc thirty-four strikers who were ar
raigned at the same time all de-
manded Jury trials and were released
on bonds.
Anton Johannsen and John Fitz-
patrick of the Committee of Is saw
Mayor Dever yesterday and told him
that organized labor held him person.
ally responsible for the brutality of
his police force to the strikers.
Promises to Can Brute. !
Johannsen read to the mayor the re-
port of the international Ladies' Car
ment Workers Union to Committee :
Of 10 on police brutality. He laid =
special stress on the assault commit
ted on Olga Levin Saturday by Sam 3
Golden in the presence of and assisted :
by officer. 3401. The stress was laid {
On this case, Johannsen explained. on !
y because it was recent case and
showed that the police are still brutal
IN spite OF the promises Of the Mayor
that it would stop. Y
The Mayor said that he would have '
The Chief of Police in his Office at 2 Q
?. m. and see to it that the Offending c
policeman was taken off the special :
strike detail and suspended. The 4
Mayor also said that If the Inter- n
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union was ready to furnish witnesses z
o the assault he would see that Of I
lcer a401 was taken to the police II
nal board and fired from the force.
What the Mayor will do to stop the
utality Of his police force remains a
" seen. liz
at part of the report which Jo- F
ian IN read to the Mayor dealing O
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