The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-08

he better in the attitude of the
organized workers of Chicago
would hold him to a strict ac-
countability.
The members Of the commit
tee that waited on the mayor,
besides John Fitzpatrick, were
Anton Johannsen, Victor Olan-
der, and John Clay.
Mayor Dever was informed that
the conduct Of his uniformed police-
men was no better than that of At
torney Groves plain clothes sluggers.
The mayor was informed that he
had 1T in his power to withdraw all
the states attorneys Office police as
signed to duty there and thus effec-
lively stop the activities of Grove in
attempting to break the strike. He
said that organized labor would de-
mand that the mayor do this unless
Grove at once recalled from strike
duty all police he has assigned to
such work.
The Manhandler.
The second point that Fitzpatrick
made was that Captain John H. AL
cock who has been put in charge of
the strike detail Of regular police was
such hard boiled person in handling
prisoners and other people that he
had been for years assigned to the
archives section of the record depart
ment Of the police. There he came
In contact with no one and he did
not have chance to be hardboiIed
Now he has been dragged from that
job and put in charge of the strike
detail presumably because of his
reputation as hard egg. Fitzpatrick
demanded that he be removed from
strike duty at once and put back in
the record department.
At present, Fitzpatrick said there
are hundreds of sluggers in the strike
area. They are there for no good.
Their job is to beat up workers and
make trouble. Unless the police AT
once chase them from the strike area
the labor movement of Chicago would
consider that it is privileged to do the
same as the bosses have done and
hire sluggers.
In order to make it impossible for
siuggers to beat up pickets and nose
as police Fitzpatrick demanded that
all plain clothes men on the strike
detail be ordered to wear their
badges on the outside of their coats.
He said that scores of sluggers have
beaten up hundreds of workers bv
posing as police officers.
Fitzpatrick also read the letter
to the mayor which he sent to Rob-
ert Z. Grove.
After Fitzpatrick had finished
Dever said that within an hour he
would confer with the chief of police
and # there was not a marked i'm
proyement in the way police handled
strikers within few hours the COM
mittee should come back and he
would see that something was done.
About a dozen of the boss dress
manufacturers have sent letters to
their former employees advising them
that they intended to open for bust.
ness on strictly open shop basis"
The workers were asked to let the
bosses know at once if they intended
to work.. The reply of the workers
has been to bring the letters offering
Jobs to the strike headquarters and
turn them over to the secretary of
the strike committee.
All the letters from the different
bosses are exactly the same. The
letters show that while the bosses
want the workers to come back to
work under the blessings of the
"open shop" they themselves under.
stand the value Of the united front.
The letters all have the same
sweet way of addressing the workers
as Dear Miss So and So" To work.
ers who are used in the shops to
having the foreman swear and curse
at them this seems to be a pretty
piece of hypocrisy.
The Invitation 70 Scab.
Here is what the letters say:
1--WE have decided TO begin TO op-
crate our factory on a strictly open
shop basis.
IF you wish to retain your posi-
ton it Is necessary that you should
advise US as soon as possible.