The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
sFoell aFool?

The DAILY WORKER has become the big issue in the
courtroom of Judge Charles M. Foe, Room eo7 County
Building.
1t is to this that much of the judicial strike
breaking hitherto carried in the courtroom of Denne"
Sullivan notorious injunction judge has been transferred
The DAILY WORKER is an issue because the lawyer of
the struck garment Bosses Mr. Charles Hyde does not like
to have the strikers read it.
Are you a reader of the DAILY WoRKER?" was the
pet question of Mr.. Hyde.
never, "Do you read the Tribune, the Herald
Examiner the News? any Of the other kept gutter
sheets of the big employers.
twouId of course be impossible for Mr. Hyde to visual
ze working class readers of the bosses press going
strike for the right to organize higher wages shorter
Workday, improved working conditions He could not, in
all the scope Of his imagination dream of worker defyng
judicial ukase not to picket unless he had committed the
terrible crime of reading the DAILY WORKER
The garment workers are strike, they
the picket Ine they not wagng their present heroic
struggle because the DAILY WORKER is being published in
Chicago. Their brilliant battles under the standards OF their
organization the direct result of the oppression they have
suffered under the brutal lash of the profhungry garment
bosses.
Greed drove the workers strike Greed forced the
strikers take their places the picket lines in the strug
police stations Greed summoned the pickets court And
greed thru its petty tool Lawyer Charles Hyde wants to
Know Of the pckets, do you read the DAILY WORKER?
Greed only wants to buy and control the physical
strength of labor to run its machines Greed also wants to
control the brain of labor to dictate what reads to impose
a censorship thru fear and intimidation.
Hence the question in the court of Judge Foel,
do you read the DAILY WORKER"
The asking of that question is tribute to the
service that the DAILY WORKER is rendering the of
the strikers. The DAILY WORKER did naugurate the
strike Greed did that But the DAILY WORKER is effec
lively aiding the workers carry their struggle and that
its task and that why Greed hates it and fights it.
When Judge FoeI allowed the lawyer of greed, Mr..
Hyde press his questions socaed justice became farce.
all capitalist Justice in its of the interests of
labor. JudeM FoeI allowed his courtroom to become the
stalking place for the inquisiton of the bosses.
The master class in all ages has tried to put straight
jacket upon the minds of the oppressed class Every dom
class has esorted all forms of censorship in order to
maintain itself in power
But one ruling class after another has gone its way
thru the centuries The courts constituted of the
last buwarks of chatte slavery in the United States But
did prevent the sweeping away of the
system of chatte slavery
Today the the staunchest defenders of wage
slavery Censorship in its vlest form stalks into the court
of Judge Foe and permitted to remain and carry
the work Of the blacklist reaction.
No excuse need be offered for the paid hreIng Mr..
Hyde of the garment bosses He gets his pieces of silver
Judge FoeII must be fool if he thinks that
sorspbuttressed edct against the right picket
settle this strike that will stay settled Or the Of
cas of labor fools when they endorsed Judge Foe for cleo
last fall? These things worth considering along
with question addressed to the strikers DO you read
the DAILY WORKER"