The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
SULLIVAN IN
FAREWELL TO
The STRIKERS

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Smoke Him Out.

omoke him Out.
Gompers refused to state whether
or not he would take any interest in
the garment strike during the re-
mainder of his stay in Chicago.
When it was gently suggested to
Sammy that the garment strikers
picket line was good place to study
women in industry, and he was asked
whether or not he intended to side
with the strikers, Gompers only reply
was a denunciation Of the aid given
by the DAILY WORKER to the
strikers.
Gompers was pitiful object as he
sat, seemingly in the advance stages
of senility, in his hotel room, sur
rounded by half dozen of his fat
bellied henchmen. When asked what
he had done for the strikers since
coming to Chicago, Gompers could not
point to one definite act in their be-
half.
He kept mumbling in a way which
might be excused on the grounds that
his recent illness had affected him
mentally. 1.-THE DAILY WORKER is
trying to break up the garment strike.
have been standing by labor, and
will continue to defend it." But when
asked for particulars, Gompers was at
loss to name anything he had done
for the strike.
Minor Speaks to Strikers.
Bob" Minor, well-known cartoon
list and Workers Party member, told
the strikers at large meeting that
their demands were extremely Just
and should be granted at once by the
employers.
1.-THE garment workers Of this city
have not been getting enough pay"
said Minor. "Their demands for a
forty-hour week and the closed chop
are also very reasonable. One nun
dred years ago in England, they used
TO cut OFF the workers ears and brand
them with irons If they dared to join a
union or go on strike. This was be-
cause the bosses in those days wanted
to continue to exploit the labor of six
year-old children, making them work
twelve and fourteen hours a day.
Judge Sullivan, with his damnable
injunction, would drive you back to
those conditions If he could. He
would cut of your ears at the demand
Of the employers whose tool he is, if
he could. He does as much harm as
he can to labor by imposing large
fines and heavy Jail sentences. You
must laugh at the injunction and con-
tine to defy it. 1t is a necessary step
in the struggle of the workers for
emancipation.
Famous People Have Been in Jail.
you remember the drunken lout of
stool pigeon who met striking
mother who was supporting two chill
dren. The thug asked the striker if
she wouldn't be ashamed to tell her
children when they grew up that she
had been in jail.
"But every famous person has been
in jail. Jesus and Columbus were in
jail. The only reason George Wash
ington was not Jailed was that his
horse ran faster than the horse Of the
British sheriffs.
"You garment strikers have become
famous people. Everywhere thru
out the country the workers are talk
ing about your gallant fight against
the injunction. In New York and Cleve-
land and San Francisco and every
where labor is rallying to support you
in this fight when it is necessary.
They are doing this because they re-
alize that your fight for the right to
strike for a higher standard of living
is made in the interests of the entire
working class.
Part Of Labor Drive.
This strike is part of the drive OF
the workers of the entire world to
gain the political power. The work
ers are determined that they-who
produce all wealth--must decide who
shall go to jail and who shall stay
out, instead of the decision being left
to corrupt Judge who ticks the boots
of your employers.
"You must win the strike, for you
hold the strategic position in the
struggle of labor for world suprem-
acy. If you lose, then 1t will be a set
back, but If you win. the victory will
help all OF us. 1t will prove to the
bosses that they cannot keep down
wages by bribing the courts to issue
illegal injunctions. That is why the
workers in other trades are willing to
help you, and why you must win even
IL the strike is long one"
Does Not Sunday at Home.
Judge Sullivan was not at home
Sunday to enlarge on his vacation
plans. His wife, however, declared
that Sullivan was Just taking the in
junction cases out OF accommodation.
Sullivan has been very obliging to the
garment bosses in handing out sem
fences which are unparalleled in their
unjust severity. But even this has
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