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are seen sticking out their tongues at
scab, or holding their noses (their
own or splitting on the sidewalk
then they lay themselves open to an
injunction.
A picket-line, according to the
Springel bill, is to be sort of Low
ers Lane affair, with the strikers
strolling along, two by two, with each
couple paying no attention to any one
else but to each other respectively,
and with no side-glances at strangers
allowed. 4~le
However, no benches are provided
in this innocent stroiling. A gray
haired picket, who has been in every
union fight since the Amalgamated
was formed and who prides herself
that she is on the line every day
alongside the younger workers, was
poked in the ribs by a policeman's
club and Saturday and told to move
on" when she was caught resting on
box in a hidden corner
This Violence Never Unlawful.
She is only one of a hundred of
gray-haired, toil-worn women who
doggedly pace round the block, hour
in and hour out, every day in the
week, while the policemen lean
against the building or set in their
cars when they get tired of falling
workers
What particular form of force and
violence" the strikers win be accused
Of, is, Of course, known only to the
company gunner; but it is expected
that this legal trap will be set for
the striking defendants. The com
pany sieuths have nothing to do but
to manufacture false evidence and to
escort the scabs home at night. AS
there are usually no more than two or
three scabs, this means that most of
their time is spent Matching deviltry.
Besides their own dicks, the COM
pany has at it's disposal the regular
services of two city detectives besides
police sergeant and as many cops
as the sergeant wants to haul out,
the number ranging from % to 100,
daily and nightly.
1t is rumoured that this is the
sergeant's last year of active duty
before being retired on a $1,000 year
ly' pension. Fear lest he fail to please
the powers that grant pensions keeps
this fat politician ON the jump order
ing his men to make arrests. On Sa-
turday, it is reported that six arrests
were made of workers not on the
picket line, but employed by a neigh
boring firm. They were unceremoni
ously pounced upon and hauled into
the wagon because they happened to
be in the crowd attracted by the ar
rest of three Of the pickets
Cops ouehta's Strike, Too!
The rank and file police, however
have no such, cause for making a
showing as has the time brutalized
sergeant for their possible pension is
many years off; and they get no more
pay for gaping at the picket line thar
for gaping somewhere else. In fact
most of them get considerably less as
they are often forced to work as many
as two and three hours overtime,
with no overtime pay.
1t is a common illusion among the
strikers that the police are paid for
by the boss Many think that the
boss is forced to pay the city $1,000
daily, at least, for patrol service Such
is emphatically not the case, the cops
report, saying that their duty, as
policemen, consists in protecting
private property" and that when any
boss calls up over the phone and says
that his property is in danger then
the squad must turn out and must
stay on the job as long as there is
the danger"
$50 the city provides the tailoring
company with so or 100 police. it
matters not how many, for as long as
the strike lasts, and throws in a cou-
pie OF detectives, to boot, to help out
the company thugs when they are
hard up for ''frame-ups."
But the united front of boss, police
and injunction judges looks pretty
sick when compared ITO the united
front of the eight hundred clothing
workers, backed by hundreds of thous-