The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
These Women of Labor
Must Not Be Placed
Behind Prisons Bars
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THERE is grand jury sitting at Joliet Illinois, nvestigat-
ing the charge that thousands of pardons and paroles
have been granted criminals in this state within years.
The figures eloquent. Here of the statis-
tics for the year 1923: crimes against children released
four sentenced three rape released a. IL big
ANY, released sentenced three; burglary released SO
sentenced So larceny released g. sentenced &c. robbery
released 1os sentenced 1o5 In every the parole
board freed than sentenced In the of
der and mansIaughter SO sent to Joliet and
lesser number, AZ were released.
This condition help but make laughing stock
of injunction Judge" Denis E. Sullivan, the employers
ackey in the superior court who just refused exercise
the slightest enency In the of 40 women of them
mothers who unusty declared guilty of contempt of
this hengs because they dared picket Jobs dur
ing the strike of the international Ladies' Garment Workers
Union two years ago. Here is his honors judicial decara
ou want me take tn. sword out Of the hand. Of tn. Goodies.
the duty of the help people jail"
To be it is the duty of the put all
called criminals behind bars Under capitalism they operate
to keep the biggest offenders the criminals of jail
One Of Attorney Robert E. Groves assistants Nc
Swggen was assassinated while out automobing with
millionaire bootIegger He very evidently shot down
because he had secured the liberation of this boogger
charge of numbering another of his kind This only
sample among the many that turn in the daily grind of
crime It does touch the great crimes of capital
st ruling class against a subject working class.
The thousands pardons and paroles granted are
for innocent victims of capitalist law They granted to
his precinct legislative district help re-eIect
his benefacto political office This kind of criminal
part Of the political machinery of the capitalist parties He
Is nseparabe part of the capitalist social ORDER just
much the despicabe Judge "Dennie" Sullivan.
The crime of the 40 of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers Union that they challenged that social
order of the employers when they went strike for in
creased wages the shorter wokday and improved conditions
Judge Sullivan worries for the police for the thousands
of men, and children whose very lives dependent
upon the dress making industry Listen him weep when
he says in defense of his actions, the following:
"Why of these hghters
policeman tenfoot areaway eppne him
want people like that turned without punishment"
The chances that the policeman ant-strke duty,
under the heavy influence of poisonous moonshne fur
nshed the stebreakng contingent of police by the struck
employers Under the circumstances he lucky that he
still lives
The dressmaking industry produces human wrecks as
well Clothes 1t pointed out to Judge Sullivan that
two of the women he sentenced to jail santarms
suffering tuberculosis industrial disease which thew
no doubt became afflicted with the Job.
If these women permitted to go to Jail, the
gained trade union movement of Chicago and Illinois,
order of Judge Sullivan it will be another blot upon the
Every worker in the state organizer and unoganzed
unite in protest that will result in their spending
single hour behind prison bars