The daily worker., 1925-08-15
The Attack on the AmaIgamqted

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Last Wednesday afternoon small police under the
leadership of the notorious Mike" Grady police lieutenant with
shady history radd the headquarters of the joint board the
Amagamated Clothing Workers and arrested sHwo members
the organization that present including
Later when Sidney Rman assistant and business
agent of the joint board appeared at the detective bureau to take
release the members of the union he seized by Leun
Grady thrown a cell.
This raid proo neededof the
between the manufacturers and the police department shows
clearly what have always pointed that the police department
is the tool of the employing class.
This Amagamated headquarters pur-
pose than break the strike of the against the millionaire
clothing Taorng~company police
acted directly thru the chamber of
1t also significant that the very day the raid place.
international News Service story over its wires that the
American Federation Labor threatening with
Chicago Federation Of Labor the ater attack the United
Garment Workers scabbng the Amalgmated Clothing
es The news service gave the name OF Tom Rckerts local scab
herder authority for the statement
Thus have in unhoy combination against the
gamaed bureaucracy the Federation
chamber of commerce representing the International Tailoring
pany the police department do the dirty This
front of the employers their sckeys challenge
trade union movement TO Chicago This latest outrage against mill
unonists go unanswered The working
show Mayor Dever the humble tool of big business that it the
power OF the working class to put representative Of labor in the
city hall and kick the handy of the chamber
and the combined capitalists of Chicago
The attack the Amagamaed teaches many lessons the
which this Any union that fights the
members what political the membership
represents class The Anal
gamaed rided sympathetic
Such charge could be directed against
fact many of them went out their way quite recently to convince the
But this did them Why? Because the particular
who stands to lose by being compelled better
his much about the distant
the here Thus, see
difference the employers whether compelled
of his profits to Communist worker worker who still
believes in the parties of capitalism.
Unions that adopt the policy of collaborating with the
police raids 1t significant
capitalist reports stated that all the cockoach that
planned Of being attacked by alleged agents Of the Amagamated
either shop had with the United
Workers The Amagamated members may also all
capitalist papers played the arrested they
of criminals The DAILY WORKER alone of all the daies
cago defended those workers.
is nothing have eactonary labor cooperating
with the police and the employers in bringing the
workers In Los Angeles reactonary officials carpenters
coOperated with the police in adng the offices the Trade
Union Educational League and the Workers Party John L. Lewis
head of the United Mine Workers. boastngly
helped hedepartment justice radicals
organization This attack the Amagamated by
novelty
The DAILY WORKER calls the entire trade
of Chicago give its united support Amagamated
Clothing Workers in this crisis Organized labor the
challenge the chamber of show the combined
of the that labor realizes the of solidarity.
One of the Chicago Tbunes paid liars who Riga