The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-11

I gether, or with others with
the design, or purpose Of causing
strike and from ordering, rec
ommendlng or approving, or advls-
ing others to quit the service of the
receivers of the Northern Pacific
Railway on January I, 1894, or at
any other time.
THIS injunction was followed by an
4 other in 1894 which ordered the
trainmen to
Refrain and desist from ever
combining, federatlng, or eonspIr-
ing together with others with
the design, or for the purpose Of in
ducing, or causing strike by any
of the employees of said receivers.
The permanent injunction thus
came to be an established part of
American judicial procedure.
1t would seem that no further i'm
provements could be made in a legal
mandate which prohibits workers for
ever from organizing or striking, or
both, but the attorneys for the CAPT
talists, enamored of the broad vista
of restriction which the injunction
opened before them, discovered that
its possibilities had not as yet been
exploited fully.
90 we find in the Injunction issued
~ for the Thomas G. Plant Shoe
Company of Boston against the mem
oers Of the United Shoe Workers OF
America, clause prohibiting the
Union
From paying strike benefits to
any of the former employees of plain
tiff now on strike.
Then, in 1920, an Ohio Judge re-
strained striking molders
From publishing, advertising, or
circulating any statement, or deela-
ration that there is strike on, or
pending at the plant of the plaintiff
company, or that there Is a trade
dispute between the plaintiff and the
defendant.
DUT the bosses were not yet salts
II fed that every loophole thru
which the discomfort of workers could
express itself had been closed and
the lawyer tribe was called into con-
sultation once more. The result of
their efforts was the Injunction issued
against the Minneapolis Trades and
Labor Assembly in the Wonderland
Theater case.
This MASTERPIECE Of master class
legal trickery leaves nothing for strik-
| ing workers to do but surrender-un-
less they are ready and willing to
throw LEGALITY" to the winds and mo.
bilize their full mass strength against
these suppressive measures.
THE Wonderland Injunction prohib-
L tied members of the Minneapolis
trade union movement
From carrying, or In any manner,
| or In any wise, exhibiting any ban
! ner, sign, reading, printing, dodger,
card, or any notice OF any character
having upon the same any state
ment that THE PLAINTIFF is UN-
FAIR TO SAID DEFENDANT.
From conveying, directly or lndI-
rectly -. by means of any act,
or statement. or printing Of any
kind, In the Minneapolis Labor Re-
view or any other publication OF
said defendants ANY STATE
MENT OF THE FACTS, OR FROM
| WHICH SUCH FACT COULD BE
REASONABLY INFERRED, that
the plaintiff and his said theater
=. was, OR is UNFAIR TO Or
CANNED LABOR.
WORKERS organize unions in order
w to use their mass strength to
wrest higher wages, better working
conditions, control OF the job and
higher standard Of living generally,
from the capitalists who will surren-
der nothing that the workers have not
the power to take.
Injunctions such as we have quoted
make illegal union organizations,
strikes, picketing, publicity for
strike, payment of strike benefits, col
lections for strike relief, etc.-if the
unions obey the injunctions they cease
to be unions.
ENROM the cases cited to the injunc-
= tons oqtlawing the strikes OF hun
dreds OF thousands or workers like
the Anderson decree against the Unit
ed Mine Workers in 1919 and the Will
kerson injunction against the Fedora
ton of Railway Shop Crafts In 1922,
has been but step for the powerful,
centralized and brutal capitalism of
America thru its agency, the United
States government.
Whether they wish It or not the
unions, thru the use of the injunction
in the interest of the capitalists. are
brought into conflict with the rowan
ment.
They cannot say, as President Lewis
of the United Mine Workers Union
said in 1919. I'VE cannot fight our
government"
The existence OF the Injunction
process and its use against the work
oro brx that Aho