The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-07
GARMENT BOSSES
POST JOKE WRIT,
PICKETS LAUGH
Police Renew Their Vi
Olence, A Jailed

Greater spirit than ever was mani.
tested by the members Of the Anal
aamated Clothing Workers plcketine
the struck plant Of the international
Tailoring company at s47 West Jack
son Blvd, as a result Of the posting
Of the Injunction issued by Judge
Hugo Pam, which prohibits the
strikers from doing that which is
UNLAWFUL"
The International company's hired
thugs were passing out big bundles
of copies of the injunction, and twen-
ty-one copies were pasted on the
building. The strikers, and even the
policemen had great fun with the in
junction, which is treated as a huge
joke, for 1t plainly states that the
strikers may picket.
Police Begin Violence.
Four strikers were arrested yester-
day, the police evidently having been
given orders by the International to
recommence their violent tactics.
Those arrested were Mary De Spenza,
Joe Dumbrowski, Peter Korech and
John Lotus.
Mary De Spenza was walking the
picket line in peaceful manner when
she was seized by several police and
hustled to the station house. AT first
the police threatened to hold her for
contempt Of court" on $1,000 bond,
but later she was booked on q disor-
derby conduct charge and released UNI
der four hundred dollars bail.
Imposing PhraseoIosy.
The Injunction which the fnks Of
the garment bosses we're peddling be-
gins with imposing legal phraseology:
ITO the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America: Whereas, it hath been
presented to the Honorable Hugo Pam,
one of the judges of the superior court
of Cook county, in the state aforesaid,
on the part of the International Tai
loring company, a corporation, COM
plainant in its certain second amended
and supplemental bill of complaint
exhibited before said judge, and filed
in said court against you, among other
things that you are combining and
confederating with others to injure
the complainant, and that your acts
and doings in the premises are con-
trary to equity and good conscience.
Allowed TO Picket.
"We therefore do strictly command
you, the above named defendants and
all associations and firms and persons
assisting you or having knowledge
hereof, that you absolutely desist and
refrain :"
Then follows the command" to de-
sist from unlawful picketing." which
the Amalgamated never INDUCED in:
From following or calling upon the
employees of the complainant, and from
congregating and from picketing near
the premises of the complainant, in
manner that is intimidating or un-
lawful, but this does not, however,
restrain in any way or prevent the
defendants from maintaining plckets
or persuading employees Of the com
pIanant, or from following or calling
upon employees of said complainant,
or from congregating In a peaceful
or lawful manner, as provided In the
act of the state of Illinois, entitled,
AN act relating to disputes concern
ing terms or conditions Of employ
ment."
The employees are then ordered not
to picket in such a way as to obstruct
the sidewalks, not to call strikebreak-
ers "scbas" or "fnks," not to main
tain boycott, and not to interfere
with the free use of the streets or
with the scabs, nor to injure the COM
pahy's property.
The injunction is not considered
even legal, as it orders the defendants
not to commit acts which are already
declarde by law to be illegal.