The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29
26 STRIKERS IN
COURT SMILE AIT
DENIES EDICTS
Garment Strike Writ
Sentence Is Appealed
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be continued till April IL.
The three strikers had been ar
rested Thursday morning and the
union had their attorney take out
writ Of habeas corpus. Before
the writ was returnable the states
attorneys men came into court and
said that the men had been booked.
It was apparent yesterday that
the states attorneys Office did not
want to have a preliminary hearing
because the defendants in that way
might learn something of the
charges against them,
Bosses Want No Hearings.
The states attorney wants plenty
Of time in which to prepare case
against them without giving the
men a chance to defend themselves.
The states attorneys men may take
the case to grand jury and ask
indictments before April IL. In that
way the men who are charged with
conspiracy and assault would not
have a chance to prove their inno-
cence ali they were brought to trial.
Eight other strikers have been in
dicted, it was learned yesterday.
They were charged with malicious
mischief and conspiracy to do an
illegal act. According to the in
formation in the hands of the union
lawyers the men are charged with
having entered the plant of Blum
and Templer at ITS w. Adams st.
on the 9th Of February, the first
day Of the strike, and having called
the workers there out on strike.
The eight men who are reported
indicted are: Sam Ross, Adolph
Rodinowitz, Hyman Goldman, Bruno
Bontwisky, Joe Caller, Dan Glass
man. Harry Matin and Charles
Roof.
Trude Discharges Fourteen.
Fourteen strikers were discharged
in So. Clark st. police court yes
terday when their cases were called.
Judge Truds discharged them after
trial in which all of the cases were
massed.
The strikers discharged were:
Emma Goldberg, Sarah Zelinsly,
Lillian Junberg, Jennie Wosiak, Yet
ia Orenstein, Francis Lawan, Sarah
Shapiro, Bessie Eisenberg, Dora
Mailer, Clara Zozkon, Ellen Doren-
field, Ida Goldberg, Fredia Nitzberg
and Pearl Cohen.
Less Than Five Minutes.
The mass trial took little more
than five minutes. The police mere
ly said that the girls had been
picketing and the Judge discharged
them. The judge has repeatedly
told the police that arrests for pick
citing should be made under the in
junction issued by Judge Sullivan.
That has had no more effect on
the police who have continued to
try to arrest all pickets who came
anywhere near the strike district.
That the police are only trying to
accommodate the bosses is proven
by the fact that arrests are made
when they cannot prove to Judge
Trude that the girls should be
arrested.
Sullivan Frets Again.
In Judge Sullivan's court the
Judge got worried as to the method
he should use to prove to the strik-
ers that his injunction and the dig
nifty Of his court is not a joke He
asked Peter Sissman what method
he would use to impress on the
strikers the fact that he had issued
an injunction and that it should not
be violated.
Sissman told him that the strik-
ers believed that the law which per-
mitted him to issue an Injunction,
have persons brought before him
for violating it, and trying them for
that violation was wrong. He said
that as long as the strikers believed
that they would undoubtedly treat
his injunction as they have been
treating it.
"When the people who violate
the injunction of this court are
brought in here and tried by the
same man who issued the iniunc-
ton they very naturally resent the
operation of such a law" he con-
cluded.
Both the prosecution and the de-
Tense summed up the evidence
against the various strikers who
have been tried and on whom judg-
ment has not been passed.
Sullivan Is Bosses Judge.
Constantly during the summing
up Of the evidence in favor Of the
strikers which Sissman made the
Judge would interrupt and try to
make a point against them. The
Judge said that he had made care
full notes of all the testimony and
that he did not need Sissman to
refresh his memory. He seemed
from his remarks to have made
notes only Of the testimony Of the
bosses and their witnesses. He was
constantly reciting from his notes
and on one occasion very incorrectly.
Five more strikers were brought
into Sullivan's court to prove to
the honorable that they had no con-
tempt for him. They were: Anna
Caleb, Bessie Katz, Joseph Klav-
itz, Isadore Kreger, and Sam Dorf.
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