Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-12-11
Notorious Anti-Labor Judge
Holds Illinois Injunction
Limit Bill Unconstitutional
n, Jeeeph 4. Mise.
staff Correspondent. International Ia
eor News Service

Chicago. bee. Superior Judge
Dennis +. sullivan, Chloago's motor
lous antislabor injunction judge. has
broken loose again. Tie has declared
the injunction limitation act. passed
by the last sesSianA Of the Illinois
General Assembly, to be uneonstiiu.
nonal.
lla brands speaecful plekcting,"
provided for in the act, II he ean-
Trajectory phrase" and all pieketing
unconstitutional.
Case Hinges on clerks strike.
The case a, bar tcvolved around
strike af the lktail Clerks Union
against the osSey Bolhets' depart
ment store, nalsted and Maxwell
streets, Judge Sullivan also dished
cut the following fines and aenteneess
Tom MeGeeeb Sam Waller, sam kra
kow. Frank neskey, and Sam pessis,
ten days In jail and $50 fine. Morris
Sepai aud Sidney Goldhlat,. ten days
in jail and sfa fine; Harry Minnieh.
leader and organiser of the others In
the pickeline, 80 days Ia iail and
800 fine. nefa Eatin. the one woman
named In the picketing charges, $40
fine, suspended during eeod behavs
Tor.
This decision makes the seore stand
one for the injunction limitation act
and one against IL, Superior Judge
Chares NJ, foell having declared the
act TO b. constitutional Ia lengthy
decision handed down IN another case
a few weeks ago.
Labor TO Ignore Sullivan RAILING,
II In foregone conclusion that OF.
ganizod labor here will give little heed
to the Sullivan deeision, for IL Is nos
torious that Sullivan only reflects the
| viewpoint of the powerful financial In
teests which have been fighting or
| eanifcd labor In Chicago and 10 the
| state of Illinois 10 many years,
| Judge Sullivan Was elected on the
Democratic ticket, but was backed By
Charles q. Dawes, Republican Nics
President Of the United States. aud
the crowd that Dawes trims with him.
| II was Dawes aud his friends, with
their comic opera organization. the
Minute Men OF the Constitution, who
put Sullivan on the bench. There was
no secrecy about his support. Dawes
was out In the open and glofied In
what he was doing.
Labor Confident law win stand.
The Sullivan cdelsion will have the
effect of complicating and hecloud.
ling the issue | nthe minds Of the pub
lie. but there Is no lack Of confidence
aa 20 the eonstltutIonality Of the In.
j junction limitation act on the part Of
responsible trade officers In this state.
II WAS anticipated from the begin
Ming that some Judge of the caliher
Of Dennis y. sullivan would defy the
will Of the peopcl Of the state Of IL
inois, as expressed through the Gen
eral Assembly, and declare the act
invalid.
Highest Court 10 Pass ON Law
That was considered az foregone
conclusion and Il has been the taeit
understanding that In such AN event
"a case would b. carried up 10 the Su-
pfemc Court IL necessary. That Is,
organized labor would bide lis time
until rleaf-cut ease should present
ltself--~one where there could be no
ldoubt that the strikers were clearly
within the law and their constitution.
al riRhts--and then carry such case
up 10 the highest court 90 determine
whether the act Is a good law. Wcth-
er the present case involving the Re-
tail Clerks union ia TO b. the one 10
be carried up remains To be seen.