The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
GIRLS BEATEN IN
EARLY MORNING
RAIDS ON PICKETS
Young Workers League
Members Arrested
(contlnued iron Pare u

Them. he gave no lndlcaJlon Wnen
their cases would be called. They
were all charged with violating the
injunction of the Francine Dress Co.
Urges Injunction Be Dehed.
Garment strikers who filed the |
hall at 1870 w. Washington street yes
terday afternoon wildly applauded
when John J. tombstone, representa-
tive Of the painters union and the
Chicago Federation of Labor exhort- |
ed them to defy the infamous injun- |
ton which the notorious Judge Sui |
Ivan and the manufacturers were us
ing against the militant pickets of
the union.
tombstone urged mass picketing-
with all the forces Of the chicago
Federation Of Labor taking part in
the defiance-aud declared chat the
oficialdom of the federation and the
unions must throw themselves into
the picketing demonstrations.
The immense enthusiasm which
greeted Johnstone's militant declare
tisnS 81 owed the Sc ailments Of the
strikers towards the fighting issue
which Sullivan's inIunctions have
aroused
From Workers Party.
tombstone was summoned direct
from the Workers Party Office as the
result Of the mass picketing of MEM
bers Of the party yesterday morning
when Peter Herd, Abe Harris, Vic
tor Zokaitis and Jack Harvey were
arrested.
There was no mincing Of words as
the speaker took the platform. De-
claring that he had seen girls ar
rested for nothing at all, he cried:
Il want to tell you, brothers and
sisters, that if you should go back
now without continuing this big fight
that you would be in the same posi-
ton as the steel and textile strikers.
It is better to work seven days a
week on the picket line now than six
days under the conditions in the scab
shops"
tombstone emphasized that this
strike dare not be looked upon mere
ly as a garment workers strike, that
it was a strike that affected the en-
tire labor movement and that the
entire trade union movement must
back it.
Officials Must Picket.
The strikers who had been follow
ing his remarks intently cheered him
to the echo every time he pointed
out that it was the cooperation OF
all the forces Of labor that would win
the strike. He urged again that the
officials of the labor movement of
Chicago must go on the picket line
themselves.
Strikers, mindful of the promise of
the Chicago Federation of Labor to
give them the fullest support, are
watching the picket lines for recruits
from the Federation. They are
watching for the officials of the Fed
Grafton and the Committee of Is. To-
morrow's meeting of the Federation
will be well attended.
On Trial Before Judge Boyer.
Next Thursday at four o'clock,
twelve strikers will be tried for dis
orderly conduct before Judge Boyer,
in Evanston police court. They were
all arrested Thursday afternoon in
front of various dress shops in Evan
ston, because they picketed.
They are: Dave Fiedelson, Leah
Kadi, Nathan Bernstein, Sarah Sha-
piro, Therese Rhode, Ray Cogan,
Jack Eisenstein, Mary Wolinsky,
Peter Yatina, Sarah Broswell, George
Goldberg and Rose 0nofris.
Thursday afternoon when they
were arrested they were peacefully
picketing the shops Of the dress
bosses and the police merely grabbed
them and loaded them into all sorts
Of autos and took them to the police
station. There they were charged
with disorderly con Iuct and arraigned
before Judge Boyer and the date of
their trial set for next Thursday.
The arrests were made following
a long fight between the police of
Evanston and the union. For some
time the police grabbed all pickets
who came to the dress shops and de-
ported them out of Evanston. They
repeatedly said then that they could
not make any charge against them.
Last Tuesday the police suddenly
changed their tactics. They per-
mitted the strikers to picket the
shops and hauled the scabs to and
from work in the autos they had been
using to deport the workers.
The picketing was successful in
spite Of the aid rendered the bosses
by the police. Most of the shops
were working with less than half
their force Thursday. So the police
again changed their tactics and ar
rested the pickets for disorderly con-
duct, for doing the same things they
had formerly done and for which the
police said they could not make any
charges.
John Harvey and Peter Herd, mem
bers Of the Young Workers League
were thrown into the patrol wagon
from off the garment strike picket